The ref crumbled to player pressure there. Man Utd and especially Fernandes get away with hounding referees all the time.
But you have to say, if City can only manage one shot on target in 2 entire games, they have a problem.
Three of the games down. Just one point gained. West Ham v Everton next weekend will be massive for Lampard (assuming he isn't sacked first). But suddenly it's getting quite big for Moyes too.
Appropriate penalty is that he's suspended at some point after the match against Leeds, and before the match against us.
Without spending a single second to look into it (ie I could be horribly wrong), I would guess that their recent transfer ban might have helped in this regard. A whole year of not buying players would presumably have left them with huge future room to do deals. Albeit for a very different reason, it's not too dissimilar to Newcastle. Mike Ashley's way of running them for years resulted in the building up huge spending capacity. Their new owners wouldn't have been able to spend £100m last January, to save them from relegation, if for example they had been run like Everton.
Part of it is the very long contracts reducing the accounting cost per year. This one is apparently going to be a 7 and half year contract through to summer 2030. That saves close to 5m per year compared to a 5.5 year contract Another reason for all these 6 year deals they are doing
