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Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier says Manolo Gabbiadini's disallowed goal in the EFL Cup final would not have been chalked off had he been a Manchester United player. Speaking to talkSHITE about the decision, Le Tissier said: "The history of football shows you the bigger clubs get a lot more decisions in their favour than the small ones. "[If United had scored] it wouldn't have been given offside, I genuinely think that. The flag wouldn't have gone up in the first place".

Pint of bitter perhaps or does he have a point?
 
Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier says Manolo Gabbiadini's disallowed goal in the EFL Cup final would not have been chalked off had he been a Manchester United player. Speaking to talkSHITE about the decision, Le Tissier said: "The history of football shows you the bigger clubs get a lot more decisions in their favour than the small ones. "[If United had scored] it wouldn't have been given offside, I genuinely think that. The flag wouldn't have gone up in the first place".

Pint of bitter perhaps or does he have a point?
Given the amount of offside goals Man Utd have had this season, a statistic which Diego appears to be saltier than a peanut at the bottom of the packet over, there's certainly merit.
 
Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier says Manolo Gabbiadini's disallowed goal in the EFL Cup final would not have been chalked off had he been a Manchester United player. Speaking to talkSHITE about the decision, Le Tissier said: "The history of football shows you the bigger clubs get a lot more decisions in their favour than the small ones. "[If United had scored] it wouldn't have been given offside, I genuinely think that. The flag wouldn't have gone up in the first place".

Pint of bitter perhaps or does he have a point?
Bit of both? He's probably right, but there's no way to prove it.
 
Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier says Manolo Gabbiadini's disallowed goal in the EFL Cup final would not have been chalked off had he been a Manchester United player. Speaking to talkSHITE about the decision, Le Tissier said: "The history of football shows you the bigger clubs get a lot more decisions in their favour than the small ones. "[If United had scored] it wouldn't have been given offside, I genuinely think that. The flag wouldn't have gone up in the first place".

Pint of bitter perhaps or does he have a point?

I think that he's definitely on the bitter personally. Yes the decision was wrong yesterday, but I think that the Lino would have made the same (wrong) decision if it was at the other end.

He is probably right that the bigger teams get more decisions, but not for the reasons that he is alluding to. The big clubs generally have better players and more of the ball which will both increase the likelihood of them getting more game changing decisions in their favour.
 
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Gareth McAuley has scored more league goals for Spurs in this calendar year than Leicester's whole team have managed for them.
They've caused Liverpool quite a bit of bother in the first half of the half, though.
Ranieri must be pissed off watching this, if he is.
 
He is probably right that the bigger teams get more decisions, but not for the reasons that he is alluding to. The big clubs generally have better players and more of the ball which will both increase the likelihood of them getting more game changing decisions in their favour.

I can see the logic in that argument but not sure if it's true. Certainly there's been a few recent examples - like the offside yesterday that was during a Southampton attack, the pen that Burnley didn't get at Chelski while they were attacking and the pen Swansea didn't get at Chelski when they were attacking. Regardless of the "reasons" the fact remains that wrong decisions are bad enough, but they disproportionately favour certain teams ... for whatever reason they happen.
 
Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier says Manolo Gabbiadini's disallowed goal in the EFL Cup final would not have been chalked off had he been a Manchester United player. Speaking to talkSHITE about the decision, Le Tissier said: "The history of football shows you the bigger clubs get a lot more decisions in their favour than the small ones. "[If United had scored] it wouldn't have been given offside, I genuinely think that. The flag wouldn't have gone up in the first place".

Pint of bitter perhaps or does he have a point?
Le Tissier is a knob with more chips on his shoulder than Pinocchio with dandruff, but on this one he's right.
 
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