Have you noticed? 24 Oct PSV away 29 Man C Wembley (away?) 31 West Ham (away?) Nov4 Wolves away 6 PSV home 10 Crystal Palace away Hooray! A bloody break!!!! 24 Chelsea home 28 Inter home Holy blooming smoke! Our treatment room will be busy!!!!!
So, James Milner is allowed to control the ball with his hand and Pool fan Michael Oliver lets the reds off with conceding a certain penalty, I make that an extra 7 points the Mousers have already trousered through `benefit of doubt` refereeing in just 9 games played so far this season.
The commentators on BT were insistent that it wasn't a penalty because it 'wasnt deliberate' Milner was 3 or 4 metres away and put his hand out. It diverted the ball away from the Huddersfield forward. It was a penalty..... Citeh also got the benefit of some crazy decisions against Burnley. They should have been down to 10 in the first minute for the assault on Azza and their second goal went out of play. (The Company incident was more dangerous than the Lucas incident IMO) Might have been a different outcome if those decisions had gone the other way. *Edit: Having seen the highlights, Sane is also lucky not to have seen red for the blatant hack at the Huddersfield defender.
Liverpool have played 9 games so far this season, Michael Oliver has refereed 3 of them and they have won all 3. Away at Palace when he gifted Liverpool a penalty for Salah`s dive with the game evenly poised at 0-0, away at Wembley when he failed to give Spurs a last minute penalty for a foul on Son, and away at Huddersfield when he failed to give an equalizing penalty against Milner for handball. All game changing decisions that massively favour Pool, you could argue that in just these 3 games alone, Oliver has helped the Mousers gain an extra 6 points.
3 out of 9 games!! WTF is that all about? And key questionable decisions in all of them. You would hope that the powers that be would remove Oliver's seat from the Mousers dressing room
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is hoping to meet Manchester United owners the Glazer family in the next few weeks to present a £4bn bid to buy the club. I give it three months before Steptonho bumps into fifteen blokes, one carrying a bonesaw, in the tunnel...
Poch is second favourite for the Madrid job. Surely Madrid would go for Conte or Wenger before going for Poch?
The offside decision to disallow Huddersfields goal was iffy. Yes the guy who was offside was running towards the goal, but he didn't touch it and the ball went in anyway.
MOTD (in what may be the first time for them) were actually discussing all the nasty Citeh challenges that were going in during a game. I'll know the world is just when KDB gets sent off for getting two yellows for the number of tackles he usually puts in during a game.
I have just watched the extended highlights of the mousers v huddersfield, I saw the full match yesterday. The Huddersfield 'offside' goal wasn't even included. Premier League cover-up? Perhaps they don't want the world to see how corrupt or incompetent their officials are?
Remember also last season when Citeh were on their winning run (which apparently was going to last to the end of the season but I digress), they played Leicester and Kompany brought down Vardy near the start of the game as the last defender, and was clearly a red, but lo and behold it wasn't given. Citeh went on to win the game. But don't worry, as all the pundits say "these things even themselves out over the course of a season..." Yeah, right.
In just about every game I watch involving Pool, there are key game changing decisions that go in their favour, gifted penalties for dives and offside goals etc, then letting them get away with red cards and conceding penalties etc, no other club enjoys such a high level of `benefit of doubt refereeing`. It really is staggering, that`s right.... the club that was once given 3 spot kicks in a single game at Old Toilet, and 2 of them for first class dives.
I saw the highlights of Real Madrid's defeat yesterday. Without VAR they'd have won that game. Maybe it will even things up in England? However, listening to referee pundits like Chris Foy, probably not. What a twat that bloke is!