The notion that "these things even themselves out over the course of the season" has never looked so full of **** as right now. Never mind, the BBC conveniently ignored the controversy of last nights phantom red card, the match report makes no mention what so ever about the player getting the ball first and the Liverpool player being one showing his studs! Referees have cost us points in the league and a place in the cup, absolutely disgraceful.
You have to admire Monk for devotion to his cause. this is a tricky subject to navigate to say the least - too many agencies involved with different agendas and motives ... and they have the power of sanction.
Hopefully Monk nor Swansea get punished. I'd say a small victory for Monk then! A bit like when David Nielsen recently came out and said he feared for Ãdegaards career, cos his brilliance made opponents lose their temper
"The notion that "these things even themselves out over the course of the season" has never looked so full of **** as right now." I've argued this for years, Project. It's a throwaway line used by fans and pundits alike and it's crap. For that statement to be true you'd have say 500 decisions in a season that favour you and 500 that don't. Fact is some seasons you might get more good ones than bad and vice versa (as in our case right now), but never would they 'even out'. It's almost an impossibility if you think about it. The ref last night should be sanctioned and made to sit it out for a month.
If it were "only" the case that these decisions go against us when we play the (so-called) big teams, then it could be argued that we are in the same boat as all "smaller" clubs. However, we also don't get the rub of the green when we play against other smaller clubs - Stoke have received 2 very doubtful penalties against us in consecutive seasons; we didn't get a penalty against West Ham last season when Joe Cole (?) handled in the box late on at the Liberty; etc. http://www.itv.com/news/wales/2013-10-28/laudrup-emotional-at-swans-being-denied-a-penalty/
To say that bad decisions even themselves out during the season is a load of codswallop. Many so called smaller clubs have proved time and time again that refs psychologically will give the bigger club more leeway and decisions for than the smaller clubs. The term that everything evens itself out is one of the biggest cop outs that is used to sweep everything under the carpet. There are more bad and dubious decisions today than there have ever been due to the game being a lot faster and the refs are not up to speed by quite some way, Football refereeing needs a big change and one of the changes would be that the refs decision is final and not accurate anymore and TV replays that take seconds to do should now be introduced like in other sports. Football should have been the first sport to use playback anyway due to the amount of money that is involved not just in a season but individual matches. Teams are losing millions on bad decisions and its the smaller clubs that lose out the most....
What amazes me is the focus put on the dive , we all know he dived .Should have got a yellow card for diving . But it doesnt take away from the fact that Rangel had his hand on the Stoke player running threw the box from open play.You might get away with that from a set piece but not from open play.Monk will receive something on Friday ....
monk deserves a medal not punishment for sticking to his guns and challenging the association. Other managers especially the so called unfancied teams need to publicly come out in support and not just the two or three that have. Afine to the big club managers is peanuts to the clubs and thats why they dont say anything but to us it's a lot of money we can ill afford to squander...
Very sorry Dai (if it is you). Monk has really started the ball rolling regarding 'bad' decisions, and I think it could lead to something pretty significant.
