The Premier League Thread

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The worst part of that whole incident is that Rooney and Ibrahimovic were allowed to talk to Friend for about 2 minutes before he decided to give Surman his red. I know you won't like this Tom, but that isn't just poor refereeing, it shows all the appearance of bias.
No he booked Surman straight away he just forgot to show the red card. One of the officials told him about Surman that's why he sent him off in the end.
 
I can't understand why the vast majority are assuming the stamp was intentional. There's an enormous element of doubt.
I'm a simple soul, and I can't understand why someone would do something as horrible as that deliberately, in full view of the referee, linesmen, and millions of TV viewers. Mings himself has just said he didn't mean it, and nor did he see Zlatan elbow him.
 
No he booked Surman straight away he just forgot to show the red card. One of the officials told him about Surman that's why he sent him off in the end.
No I understand that, it was the fact that he spent so long talking to Rooney and Ibrahimovic with no card in sight that I didn't like.
 
I'm a simple soul, and I can't understand why someone would do something as horrible as that deliberately, in full view of the referee, linesmen, and millions of TV viewers. Mings himself has just said he didn't mean it, and nor did he see Zlatan elbow him.
Of course Mings would say that. IMO it was a disgusting and cowardly stamp.
 
I can't understand why the vast majority are assuming the stamp was intentional. There's an enormous element of doubt.

Hmm...Not much doubt to me. I think he had a big look just before he went into the jump. Plus the previous incident one minute before would make it a very big coincidence.
 
He had obviously forgotten he had booked Surman before. No bias just incompetent refereeing.
I'm not talking about the Surman thing, I mean the fact that he clearly saw Zlatan elbow Mings, but took no action other than have a cosy chat to him and Rooney. As I said earlier, I know you hate accusations of bias, and I'm not accusing Friend of bias. My point is that referees shouldn't leave themselves open to those accusations by doing things like that. That's even more stupid than his complete inability to referee a game of football.
 
Mourinho such a don "I don't want to talk about it, I don't care if Mings gets a 4/5 match ban, but I don't want to talk about it". He is actually making Man Utd likeable, well him and Ibrahimovic
 
Hmm...Not much doubt to me. I think he had a big look just before he went into the jump. Plus the previous incident one minute before would make it a very big coincidence.
I dunno about big look personally, maybe in slow motion but I think it was just a glance really and then he's gone into a big awkward leap over two players with Rooney getting up making it hard for him to set off from his right leg and looked back towards the ball as he takes off. Maybe it's because I didn't catch the game and am just viewing it in isolation, but to me it looks actively difficult for him to do that deliberately so I can only give him the benefit of the doubt.