johnny crossan wrote:Unlike his colleagues on that tabloid & others + BBC, SKY, TS etc who can always be relied on to tell it is as it isn't.Harry Dowd scored wrote:Martin Samuel wrote this. -:
One look at the team sheet at Atletico Madrid on Wednesday and it was obvious there would be trouble.
Fourth official: Felix Zwayer. This was the referee who completely failed to get to grips with Lyon’s play-acting and time-wasting at West Ham last week. So UEFA sent him to help officiate the most volatile club in the Champions League.
Zwayer spent most of the game cajoling Diego Simeone, who ignored him. Pep Guardiola did the right thing: won the match, kept his counsel, beat Atletico at their own game by organising his defence magnificently.
There probably isn’t a team in Europe who would have kept the clean sheet City did. But they got no protection from UEFA who continue to promote officials who are weak on foul play."
Not all of them hate us, Martin not scared to tell it like it is
Samuel is a good sports writer who researches the facts, one of the few who opposed FFP, saw it for what it is a cartel protection racket