Sorry, bad phrasing. I meant like the west ham / Sheffield utd case. But that would be game changing, the fa can sort the rules to stop a re-occurrence of the third party ownership debacle but what could they do if a team were relegated through an offside goal if they decided to seek compensation?
If we did, I don't remember it - but then it is even I guess if we both have a penalty shout turned down. Rather crudely, I guessed we'd lost 4 points to poor decisions and I added that onto our total. Chelsea are unlikely to have benefited from enough poor decisions to be on less than 44 points, so we'd be unlikely higher than 7th, but the immediately. teams below that (Including Everton) haven't been victim of injustice enough as much as Norwich. As I shall say in the next point, teams right at the bottom probably have had even worse but not enough that would of seen them be in 7th if this was accounted for. Indeed it could! But by saying this you have just agreed with my point; that smaller teams get bigger decisions going against them and that these DO NOT even out at the end of the season! In fact, both Chelsea goals were offside I think, but if it's a travesty when it happens to Wigan, why is it self-pity when it happens to my team?
The ref today KNEW he'd ****ed up. He was ****ing attrocious, seeing is believing so I urge everyone to see the Pienarr "Sitting on it" incident in a minute on MOTD. Great day today though!
Just seen highlights from Chelsea v Wigan game, more terrible ref/linesman decisions. Punishment? Demote them to championship, sorry but why do championship teams deserve a bad ref? Shambles.
Well as they even up we'll try it against spurs tommorrow, sure the ref will be more than happy to oblige
Got to admit, I can't understand why players don't play to the whistle. When I was refereeing, I would tell both teams beforehand, that unless I blew the whistle, they should carry on playing and not ask for things as refusal would likely get them upset and then possibly booked. It really does get on my tits when you see so called grown men asking for things, when if they had played the bloody game, half of the problems would disappear. Yes, it could be seen as obstruction yesterday, and maybe we should have had a free kick. But if our lot had played the whistle instead of standing there waving, then Everton MIGHT NOT have got their second goal. The same could be said in the Stoke match, when the throw in was awarded to them. If we'd have faced up instead of leaving gaps, then Stoke might not have scored. Yes I am a City fan, but it does annoy me when our team don't or won't do the bloody basics. Play the whistle guys. When play has stopped, then see the ref.
Im with you on this, i thought it was our fault we conceded, the ref should have given a free kick but didn't we can't refuse to move until we feel justice is done. Also DM was calling it bad sportsmanship on another thread to play on, but what should everton do, if we hadn't played on if the situations were reversed i would be livid.
It's not Everton playing on, it's that Pienaar then goes and celebrates in front of our fans afterwards...
And Fergie insists that decisions even out of the season! First Fullham and now this... I don't remember anything like this going against Man United...
