Unless of course the other teams around the bottom had some luck or bad decision. Would you also deduct their points? And without decisions and Fergie time, maybe you wouldn't have won so many titles. Who knows? I seem to remember a goal that Spurs had ruled out that was at least a yard over the line.
That goal gets trotted out every time someone claims United have had so much luck over the years. It was 11 years ago and you won the league that season! Given we won most games thanks to refereeing decisions surely there are countless other examples you could use just to be original! The big teams get more favourable decisions than the smaller teams. Chelsea are still benefiting from that bias despite being in a relegation battle. The teams around them aren't being quite as fortunate.
Fair enough but I refuse to believe that other teams don't get decisions that go for them. Gary Nevilles foul at WBA is another btw. The point I'm making is all teams get decisons for and against them. Not just Chelsea.
All I know is that we can't be that lucky, otherwise we wouldn't be being stalked by no nothing muppets like DCG......
Any discussion about how lucky any one team has been is a dead end really. No one has accurately analysed every team in every game. It is one of those things viewed through fan spectacles. If you look for the evidence for your opinion you will find it, no matter what your opinion is. People who believe certain players have been replaced by robots will find something to suggest it. Fate has no memory or favourite, **** happens. How 'lucky' a team has been is merely an opportunity to wind others up.
I think you'll find that you make your own luck. If you create good opportunities and put yourself in a position to capitalise on them then the 'luck' will be there more often than not.
I don't think that necessarily true when it comes to refereeing decisions. It certainly helps that the top teams attack more so will get more questionable goals/penalties, just as they'll get more goals/penalties overall but referees are human and it makes sense for them to err on the side of a big club. Why risk the wrath of Ferguson/Wenger/Mourinho who might then object to you reffing their big games in future when the alternative is to piss off Eddie Howe/Pulis/Joe Bloggs who no one really listens to. I'm not blaming refs or the big teams, with the exception of serial cheaters. It's just people protecting their career prospects, as we all do. Just a theory anyway.
Who is this Joe bloggs fella? Surely there can't be a manager out there we haven't employed and sacked already....
I don't aim to wind up. Some people just get wound up by me. I could say the sky is blue today and some people would see that as me slagging Chelsea off.
