Reality - refs are human Further - there has always been a bias towards the big teams - remember us getting a pen at Old Trafford in the Martin O'Neil era and the commentator saying how many matches it had been since an away team had last been awarded one there ... it was seasons ... but the refs were definitely intimidated by SAF... not on the same level perhaps but Klopp, Wenger and Mourinho would all have had refs thinking they were ****s... ... but do I think any top refs start a match with intentional bias ... no I don't.
I'm not saying there's no chance of a referee making a decision one way or another based on biased, I'm just saying I don't believe it's anywhere near the deal that some try and make it out. The big club bias thing makes sense: they are the games referees will feel the most pressure in (so more likely to make mistakes and there'll be more of a light shone on the mistakes they do make), the big clubs tend to create more chances so are asking more questions of the referee to get penalties and free-kicks whilst the opposition are likely making more tackles and defending so more questions will be being asked around yellow and red cards, add to all of that the screaming crowds being larger and the post-match analysis being more done to death (if a club like Leyton Orent got a freakish amount of decisions in their favour then do you think anyone would notice?). As far as I can tell most people who complain about PGMOL and referee bias are just trying to rationalise their club not doing as well as they think it should. They're a convenient scape-goat.
In what world has this not always been the case? Salah could knife a player to death and the liverpool fans would be yelling for the other guy get sent off for bleeding.
didn't you finish off a million points behind last year? I'd probably blame your fans for forcing klopp to annouce he was leaving so the players downed tools at the end of the season
Daft **** should have just cracked on with it we all know the MO he had to bleet it out idiot Prolly find him dead Harvey Weinstein style now
Read he claimed it was an AI fake and has since said it’s real but he doesn’t remember it from several years ago. He won’t have to buy a pint in Manchester or Turin again at least. A welcome addition to the Championship referee list.
