Ref Watch

[Peter Doherty (AGAIG)]

Fucking useless ref, utterly fucking useless.

[johnny crossan]

Ref called the two-touch penalty correct by the rules of the game. (Why is there even any controversy about that decision?) However Shearer thinks the rule should be scrapped as it is a "stupid rule" and not meant for instances like yesterday's. Suck it up you cunt.

Shearer was in full flow, jaundiced, anti-City mode last night.

Lineker had already mentioned that the penalty rule was there to stop players dribbling the ball close to the goal before shooting, but the Geordie loudmouth just denounced the rule as stupid without saying why that was the case, or offering some other idea as to what could 'replace' it.

As a supposedly expert footballing analyst on that programme, Shearer is, apart from being just a mouth on legs, stealing money. It's just a pity Lineker didn't have the gumption to take him to task.

100% MC. It actually amused me when he singled us out as an unmitigated failure while it was still possible for us finish ahead of Spurs, meanwhile praising all the old guard, none of which are guaranteed anything either.

[johnny crossan]

Ref called the two-touch penalty correct by the rules of the game. (Why is there even any controversy about that decision?) However Shearer thinks the rule should be scrapped as it is a "stupid rule" and not meant for instances like yesterday's. Suck it up you cunt.

Shearer was in full flow, jaundiced, anti-City mode last night.

Lineker had already mentioned that the penalty rule was there to stop players dribbling the ball close to the goal before shooting, but the Geordie loudmouth just denounced the rule as stupid without saying why that was the case, or offering some other idea as to what could 'replace' it.

As a supposedly expert footballing analyst on that programme, Shearer is, apart from being just a mouth on legs, stealing money. It's just a pity Lineker didn't have the gumption to take him to task.

- from another place

"I hate MOTD, bunch of arrogant bastards and when we have the "nerve" to call them out on their bullshit, they will try and say it's us with the problem.

Two things:

The Sterling offside was marginal enough to be forgiven, you wouldn't think so with the way Shearer went on about it(surprised they left in the commentators remarks about how little there was in it... someone on the editing team probably got a bollocking for that), secondly neither the defender or the keeper would have got near that and they knew it, they weren't ready for it and looked immediately for an easy out. Having said that he was offside, if it was a decision that went against City I know the tone they would have used would have been all about taking pressure off the ref and the defensive errors that led to that shot that was going in anyway would have been magnified, finishing off with it being an example for the need for video referees in the game. The thing they don't realise is we would rather have video referees because for every one "lucky" decision we've had there have been 3-4 bigger(not marginal) decisions gone against us, we'd be in a much better position(if not challenging for the title, then 2nd place).

The skysports replay angles showed(more than one) the initial contact for their penalty came outside the box, so it should have been a freekick(commentary both agreed on this, did the post match team agree too?) yet they find an angle for Shearer that looks as though was on the line just about(or they paused it at a place where their was contact while he was already going down?). Next Shearer says we were lucky to have it disallowed and it's a stupid rule even though the ball ended up going in a different direction thus completely fooling the keeper, which was the reason why Willy was so quick to point it out. That's just as much reason for the rule, obviously when you are able to look at things objectively you would have thought of that as another reason for the rule(as well as to stop them passing it around the keeper) but when you're a biased idiot stealing a living as a pundit, totally up his own ass you may have difficulty seeing sense in it.

We were also the better team, the stats make it look as though we battered them and we probably should have had we been more clinical and decisive up front.

Oh and Shearer reckons Arsenal would rather have an FA cup with than finish in the top 4 so we've had the worst season out of anyone in the top 6 even if we finish 3rd(which is in our hands to do). Is that much different to Spurs when you really think about it, since they only have their finishing position and no silverware to be happy about? I'm not even sure I'd swap positions with the rags being in the Europa League final, it may be silverware but the league is a bigger indication of how good or bad your season has been(they haven't even been impressive in the Europa, performance wise against teams they should beating comfortably)."

[Foreverinbluedreams]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

[bigblue]

Neither the keeper or the defender were anywhere close to the ball. They didn't even attempt to go for it because the were both wrong footed and on the other side of the goal.

I can see the Leicester players trying to blame the goal on Sterling being offsides, but then again, they're supposed to be the least partial observers on the field. Having said that, Schmeichel's rant after the game about Raheem being "triple offsides" is over the top nonsense. And for Shearer & Co. to agree with his is ridiculously biased.

[Mase]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Case closed. Fuck off Shearer!

[nottsblue]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Case closed. Fuck off Shearer!

Hate him. I hope it turns out Newcastle fielded an ineligible player last season and they get docked points meaning they don't get promoted. Failing that I hope they get relegated in the manner Sunderland did this year just to see Shearer cry.

As a pundit he brings nothing to the conversation. A shithouse.

[City64]

Was a beautifully taken goal by little dave almost messi like but yet again no credit for the football genius . The BBC and Shearer look for and concentrate on a non existent negative instead ???? Fucking biased cunts !!!

[Mikhail Chigorin]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Case closed. Fuck off Shearer!

Hate him. I hope it turns out Newcastle fielded an ineligible player last season and they get docked points meaning they don't get promoted. Failing that I hope they get relegated in the manner Sunderland did this year just to see Shearer cry.

As a pundit he brings nothing to the conversation. A shithouse.

He also is so devoid of personality, he makes the family man appear to be the quintessence of charisma........well perhaps not.

However, as a former footballer, he's completely lacking in technical and tactical knowledge to be an analyst, as a presenter (of sorts) he has no redeeming features to render him interesting, as a human being he has no warmth or sense of humour and, as a representative of 'homo sapiens', he is more akin to homo neanderthalensis.

All in all, his shortcomings in the brain cell department result in him being overwhelmingly, abjectly boring....and that's probably the kindest thing anyone could say about him.

[City64]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Case closed. Fuck off Shearer!

Hate him. I hope it turns out Newcastle fielded an ineligible player last season and they get docked points meaning they don't get promoted. Failing that I hope they get relegated in the manner Sunderland did this year just to see Shearer cry.

As a pundit he brings nothing to the conversation. A shithouse.

He also is so devoid of personality, he makes the family man appear to be the quintessence of charisma........well perhaps not.

However, as a former footballer, he's completely lacking in technical and tactical knowledge to be an analyst, as a presenter (of sorts) he has no redeeming features to render him interesting, as a human being he has no warmth or sense of humour and, as a representative of 'homo sapiens', he is more akin to homo neanderthalensis.

All in all, his shortcomings in the brain cell department result in him being overwhelmingly, abjectly boring....and that's probably the kindest thing anyone could say about him.

And a bald ugly cunt ......

[Mikhail Chigorin]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Case closed. Fuck off Shearer!

Hate him. I hope it turns out Newcastle fielded an ineligible player last season and they get docked points meaning they don't get promoted. Failing that I hope they get relegated in the manner Sunderland did this year just to see Shearer cry.

As a pundit he brings nothing to the conversation. A shithouse.

He also is so devoid of personality, he makes the family man appear to be the quintessence of charisma........well perhaps not.

However, as a former footballer, he's completely lacking in technical and tactical knowledge to be an analyst, as a presenter (of sorts) he has no redeeming features to render him interesting, as a human being he has no warmth or sense of humour and, as a representative of 'homo sapiens', he is more akin to homo neanderthalensis.

All in all, his shortcomings in the brain cell department result in him being overwhelmingly, abjectly boring....and that's probably the kindest thing anyone could say about him.

And a bald ugly cunt ......

Hey, steady on 64.

Stop defending him.......

[Wonderwall]

That's the key for me JC, it was marginal enough to be forgiven.

Here's Dermot Gallagher's take

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... -gallagher

And here's proof that Sterling's position didn't obstruct Schmeichel's view

Kaspers interview was laughable

"Definitely, the first goal is offside. Anybody who has played football, especially in goal, will know it’s offside."

"First of all he’s blocking my view when the ball comes across him, he blocks Christian Fuchs from making an attempt to get the ball."

"So it’s offside and it’s one of these debates we’d love to get involved in and, as players, we’re not allowed to.

"That’s what makes it very frustrating that they’re not willing to listen. They come in and tell us the rule but they won’t listen."

"He’s offside three times. It’s frustrating as we did well up to then and then we lost our composure and then they get the second one."

On their penalty he says:

Riya

Riyad Mahrez touched the ball twice as he steps up for second-half penalty on a bad afternoon for the Foxes
And while he conceded it was tricky with the Mahrez slipping, he slammed the consistency given Antoine Griezmann did a similar thing the other week for Atletico Madrid, which stood.

He added: "The incident with Riyad is a freak one. We saw the incident with Griezmann in the semi-final and it stood."

"You talk about consistency, it’s very difficult to take. There was something not right with the spin on the ball, but you’ve seen it given in the Champions League."

England winger Sterling claimed innocence with the offisde, saying: "I knew if I touched it I would be offside so I swung a foot at it and then left it.

"I wasn’t worried it would be ruled out as I didn’t touch it. It definitely served to stand."

[london blue 2]

Ref called the two-touch penalty correct by the rules of the game. (Why is there even any controversy about that decision?) However Shearer thinks the rule should be scrapped as it is a "stupid rule" and not meant for instances like yesterday's. Suck it up you cunt.

Shearer was in full flow, jaundiced, anti-City mode last night.

Lineker had already mentioned that the penalty rule was there to stop players dribbling the ball close to the goal before shooting, but the Geordie loudmouth just denounced the rule as stupid without saying why that was the case, or offering some other idea as to what could 'replace' it.

As a supposedly expert footballing analyst on that programme, Shearer is, apart from being just a mouth on legs, stealing money. It's just a pity Lineker didn't have the gumption to take him to task.

- from another place

"I hate MOTD, bunch of arrogant bastards and when we have the "nerve" to call them out on their bullshit, they will try and say it's us with the problem.

Two things:

The Sterling offside was marginal enough to be forgiven, you wouldn't think so with the way Shearer went on about it(surprised they left in the commentators remarks about how little there was in it... someone on the editing team probably got a bollocking for that), secondly neither the defender or the keeper would have got near that and they knew it, they weren't ready for it and looked immediately for an easy out. Having said that he was offside, if it was a decision that went against City I know the tone they would have used would have been all about taking pressure off the ref and the defensive errors that led to that shot that was going in anyway would have been magnified, finishing off with it being an example for the need for video referees in the game. The thing they don't realise is we would rather have video referees because for every one "lucky" decision we've had there have been 3-4 bigger(not marginal) decisions gone against us, we'd be in a much better position(if not challenging for the title, then 2nd place).

The skysports replay angles showed(more than one) the initial contact for their penalty came outside the box, so it should have been a freekick(commentary both agreed on this, did the post match team agree too?) yet they find an angle for Shearer that looks as though was on the line just about(or they paused it at a place where their was contact while he was already going down?). Next Shearer says we were lucky to have it disallowed and it's a stupid rule even though the ball ended up going in a different direction thus completely fooling the keeper, which was the reason why Willy was so quick to point it out. That's just as much reason for the rule, obviously when you are able to look at things objectively you would have thought of that as another reason for the rule(as well as to stop them passing it around the keeper) but when you're a biased idiot stealing a living as a pundit, totally up his own ass you may have difficulty seeing sense in it.

We were also the better team, the stats make it look as though we battered them and we probably should have had we been more clinical and decisive up front.

Oh and Shearer reckons Arsenal would rather have an FA cup with than finish in the top 4 so we've had the worst season out of anyone in the top 6 even if we finish 3rd(which is in our hands to do). Is that much different to Spurs when you really think about it, since they only have their finishing position and no silverware to be happy about? I'm not even sure I'd swap positions with the rags being in the Europa League final, it may be silverware but the league is a bigger indication of how good or bad your season has been(they haven't even been impressive in the Europa, performance wise against teams they should beating comfortably)."

Perfectly summed up JC

[Scatman]

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- from another place

"I hate MOTD, bunch of arrogant bastards and when we have the "nerve" to call them out on their bullshit, they will try and say it's us with the problem.

The skysports replay angles showed(more than one) the initial contact for their penalty came outside the box, so it should have been a freekick(commentary both agreed on this, did the post match team agree too?) yet they find an angle for Shearer that looks as though was on the line just about(or they paused it at a place where their was contact while he was already going down?). Next Shearer says we were lucky to have it disallowed and it's a stupid rule even though the ball ended up going in a different direction thus completely fooling the keeper, which was the reason why Willy was so quick to point it out. That's just as much reason for the rule, obviously when you are able to look at things objectively you would have thought of that as another reason for the rule(as well as to stop them passing it around the keeper) but when you're a biased idiot stealing a living as a pundit, totally up his own ass you may have difficulty seeing sense in it.

"

Anyone remember this:

But City were back in the derby when Tevez equalised in controversial fashion three minutes before half-time. Rafael da Silva clearly fouled Craig Bellamy outside the area, but referee Mike Dean waited until the pair were inside the box before pointing to the spot.

[Wonderwall]

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- from another place

"I hate MOTD, bunch of arrogant bastards and when we have the "nerve" to call them out on their bullshit, they will try and say it's us with the problem.

The skysports replay angles showed(more than one) the initial contact for their penalty came outside the box, so it should have been a freekick(commentary both agreed on this, did the post match team agree too?) yet they find an angle for Shearer that looks as though was on the line just about(or they paused it at a place where their was contact while he was already going down?). Next Shearer says we were lucky to have it disallowed and it's a stupid rule even though the ball ended up going in a different direction thus completely fooling the keeper, which was the reason why Willy was so quick to point it out. That's just as much reason for the rule, obviously when you are able to look at things objectively you would have thought of that as another reason for the rule(as well as to stop them passing it around the keeper) but when you're a biased idiot stealing a living as a pundit, totally up his own ass you may have difficulty seeing sense in it.

"

Anyone remember this:

But City were back in the derby when Tevez equalised in controversial fashion three minutes before half-time. Rafael da Silva clearly fouled Craig Bellamy outside the area, but referee Mike Dean waited until the pair were inside the box before pointing to the spot.

This particular debate isn't that the ref clearly got it wrong. It's that the pundits are trying to justify the wrong decision

[Dameerto]

Someone should print out a giant copy of that photo of schmeichel's view as Silva scores - and make both schmeichel and Shearer eat it.

(And I know I capitalised one surname and not the other - just call me a rebel).

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Moss at the controls against Watford, if he can remove himself from his rolling stone that is.

I see the Alty fan has the rags again, this will be his sixth PL game reffing the rags. Interestingly, despite his close proximity to the Etihad, he hasn't been selected to do any more of our PL games since he sodomised us against Chelsea. Pressure on PiGMOL from the club perhaps?

[carl_feedthegoat]

For those of us who wanted to know if City were doing anything about these bent Refs...then here you go.

When Pep Guardiola met with referees’ boss Mike Riley in January, the Manchester City boss hoped it would give him a better grasp of English football.

His conclusion afterwards was that it was a waste of time.

Guardiola was looking to understand how a team dominating possession stats and committing fewer fouls than most teams in the Premier League could be near the bottom of the Fair Play table.

He also wanted to know why his players were being denied so many game-changing decisions in season-defining matches.

So when PGMOL chief Riley accepted a request from the Catalan to meet at City’s Eihad campus, Guardiola asked his club’s technical department to compile a DVD of contentious incidents so that he could gauge the former FIFA referee’s opinion.

In the words of a high-level City source: “Mike Riley just sat there just nodding his head in agreement with what Pep was saying.

“But he offered no kind of explanation as to how so many elite referees could get so many big decisions wrong.

“By the end of the meeting, Pep was none the wiser.

[phips]

well thats it then. no point in watching next season. off to find another sport.

[john68]

ROTTEN TO THE FUKKIN CORE.