Man City v Everton. 5th Oct @ 12.45.

[Big Fat Sam]

Well at first I was pissed off that there is no an international break after that gutting defeat, but I am made up as it gives players such as Pienaar to get fit and back in the team, and for the non-internationals to rest up and get ready for Hull, who we should absolutely hammer at home.

If Osman f'in gets in the XI for Hull I am gona fume more than ever before.

 

[paulbefc]

Grasping at straws.

I hate moaning about these ref decisions.

We lost because they were better.

Not a pen for me, sorry.

Lol, whether or not we deserved to get beat is a completely seperate issue. It was a penalty. Lukaku had the ball in play and was barged over by an opposition player, from behind, who had no intention of playing the ball.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Why have we only been playing for a hour in our last 3 matches?

Also as a side note should it be written as 'a hour' or 'an hour'?

 

[Brennan]

Why have we only been playing for a hour in our last 3 matches?

Also as a side note should it be written as 'a hour' or 'an hour'?

An hour.

 

[JordanianEmbassy]

Not going to be popular this, but i dont think the Lukaku push was a pen.

The ball / Lukaku / Evertns play was going nowere, so what Nastasic did was irrelevant.

Zabaleta was going in on goal, clear pen.

Sorry mate you are a little bit confused about the rules.

A foul in the box is a penalty. Whether someone is "in on goal" or not is totally irrelevant.

And btw - there is no way in the world that the Zabaleta incident was a foul - inside the box, outside the box, wherever.

 

[toffeejack]

Not going to be popular this, but i dont think the Lukaku push was a pen.

The ball / Lukaku / Evertns play was going nowere, so what Nastasic did was irrelevant.

Zabaleta was going in on goal, clear pen.

not everyone is saying lukaku's was definately a pen, they're just saying it was definately more of a pen than the one that was given against us. I don't see how a two handed push from the back is less of a foul than, well, i'm not really sure what coleman did, touch zabaleta's arm with his hand. It was clear as day that zabaleta had gone down so so easily.

It's nothing to do with the ref being biased, he was incompetent for both teams, he just gave every big decision in their favour probably because he lacks a spine and gets pressured by a more vocal home crowd, hence why he gave that pen at old trafford and when he gave that shocking red card to pienaar at QPR.

Your views seem to support that your okay with football being a non-contact sport if you genuinly feel their penalty was a deserved one.

 

[Toffeelover]

Still fuming about the performance of the refereee, never mind the penalty questions but how many times did Da Silva have to foul before getting a card, add to that there were a number of cynical fouls by City players to thwart or stop our attacks.

Okay ultimately City did play very well but not surprising when we were now under pressure to get something from the game but nevertheless the refereeing decisions were a feature of the game.

 

[potato]

Grasping at straws.

I hate moaning about these ref decisions.

We lost because they were better.

Not a pen for me, sorry.

no we lost because we couldn't defend for 2 seconds after we scored. that was the game changer.

 

[ToffeesAndDynamo]

no we lost because we couldn't defend for 2 seconds after we scored. that was the game changer.

Yeah. That was the moment I knew we were going to lose. It was a total momentum shift.

 

[deipnosophist]

Not to delve into conspiracy theory avenues, but how vetted/audited ARE referees. With so many pounds/dollars at stake regarding a CL spot, and with so many billionaires populating ownership structures of clubs, an easy 5 million pound 'palm grease' is certainly a corruptive element that cannot be dismissed too readily. And, if you were a ref offered that sort of inducement to 'find a penalty', what would YOU do?
Apologies if this subject is too repulsive but...

 

[Khalekan]

Did our defenders have their palms greased as well?

Because for all the ref's incompetence, a bit of competent defending on our behalf would have stopped the two first half goals going in.

 

[barkleys splinter]

Not going to be popular this, but i dont think the Lukaku push was a pen.

The ball / Lukaku / Evertns play was going nowere, so what Nastasic did was irrelevant.

Zabaleta was going in on goal, clear pen.

Tell me you're taking the piss...

 

[The Hibbert Agenda]

The amount of times I've heard someone say
"That wasn't a penalty he wasn't in on goal"
or beg for a red card because of an innocuous foul in the box
... rules huh?

 

[dead_soft]

What do people think of the ref's performance on Saturday?

 

[ToffeesAndDynamo]

What do people think of the ref's performance on Saturday?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm. I'm going to assume it is. If not, just read a few of many comments before yours talking about the refs performance.