Match Thread Everton v Manchester City, Preview, Match Report and MotM Poll

[MisterJ]

They dont see that as a major trophy do they.

Who knows, but it's not stopping either side from going all out to win it.

Which is something I'm sure all of us on here want for ourselves. Who cares whether it's seen as a major trophy or not, it's one of the 3 domestic trophies available to win, so go out there and win it.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

A financial audit of the officials?
Jesus, I've heard it all now!
Incompetence yes, corruption and match fixing not even close .

It was a very poor decision and nothing more.

How do you know for sure that there is no corruption going on? Only by doing a forensic financial audit of the officials,.... to rule it out.

 

[Annaboll]

How do you know for sure that there is no corruption going on? Only by doing a forensic financial audit of the officials,.... to rule it out.

Ok, so let's begin. So we are talking about the most powerful and lucrative sporting league in the world.

Manchester City who are arguably the best club side in the world versus Everton who are currently 4th from bottom.
So Manchester City paid off half a dozen match officials to ensure that they didn't come away without a win. They were so fearful of Everton that they made sure they got 3 points. That is what you are saying

In the glaring eye of the media and football watchers in this country and around the world. They sought to blatantly buy a victory with the world watching.
They didn't want to subtly cheat, they wanted to blatantly cheat hoping that nobody would cotton on to their underhand and deceitful shenanigans.

The officials blindly and desperately needed the money so badly that they put their careers, reputation and freedom on the line for a bit of cash. Manchester City were so desperate for 3 points that they put their reputation and very existence as a world leading football club at risk.

Is Park Lane hospital still up and running?

 

[JohnRoss23]

Ok, so let's begin. So we are talking about the most powerful and lucrative sporting league in the world.

Manchester City who are arguably the best club side in the world versus Everton who are currently 4th from bottom.
So Manchester City paid off half a dozen match officials to ensure that they didn't come away without a win. They were so fearful of Everton that they made sure they got 3 points. That is what you are saying

In the glaring eye of the media and football watchers in this country and around the world. They sought to blatantly buy a victory with the world watching.
They didn't want to subtly cheat, they wanted to blatantly cheat hoping that nobody would cotton on to their underhand and deceitful shenanigans.

The officials blindly and desperately needed the money so badly that they put their careers, reputation and freedom on the line for a bit of cash. Manchester City were so desperate for 3 points that they put their reputation and very existence as a world leading football club at risk.

Is Park Lane hospital still up and running?

Leagues can easily manipulate the refs in many different ways. Call 'x' and 'y' more frequent but if you see 'z' lay off. That kind of stuff is known to have happened in all of the major sports leagues in the US. So when you say "We are talking about the most powerful and lucrative sporting league in the world." I instantly think it is much more likely the refs are being influenced one way or another. You are very naive if you think otherwise.

 

[Bluerover]

How do you know for sure that there is no corruption going on? Only by doing a forensic financial audit of the officials,.... to rule it out.

They will have covered the trail. Absolutely sickened.

 

[Bluerover]

Yes

After the match yesterday there was some talk that the penno had been ruled out because of an “offside” earlier in the move.

Has that notion now been debunked for the nonsense that it sounded like?

After the match yesterday there was some talk that the penno had been ruled out because of an “offside” earlier in the move.

Has that notion now been debunked for the nonsense that it sounded like?

I think the only person pushing that is Guardiola.

We were simply robbed

 

[Bluerover]

City in peace ! Would just like to say your club did you and the footballing community proud. Your choice of song was spot on. Very moving.

As for the handball I would be will pissed off if City weren't awarded that !

Enjoy the rest of the season

Cheers mate. Just fed up with horrendous refereeing. Make sure that cult doesn't win the league.

Btw a lovely Dublin Man City fan died last month. A complete gent, who remained loyal through the bad years. RIP John Leane.

 

[ElGato]

Cruel loss. Michael Keane will cost us us so many points this year. And that's such a handball. Chris Cavannah clearly free hitted in fantasy this week and lumped on City defenders.

Super performance though. Best team on the park first half. We ran out of gas second half but deserved to nick something on the break. If we draw that it's a proper signal to the teams around us down the bottom. It still can be, but the point would've been nice.

What will keep us up this year is our ability to defend away from home. We will give anyone a run at Goodison, a lesser team crumbles and get's beat 4-0, City are just a different gear. But we need to stop shipping away from home. Don't know how we do that with MK in the side.

MOM went for Doucs on his first game back, but could have been anyone in that midfield. Thought Allan and DVDB were immense as well. Also shouts out to JJK at left back, looks very solid in there.

 

[ElGato]

Ok, so let's begin. So we are talking about the most powerful and lucrative sporting league in the world.

Manchester City who are arguably the best club side in the world versus Everton who are currently 4th from bottom.
So Manchester City paid off half a dozen match officials to ensure that they didn't come away without a win. They were so fearful of Everton that they made sure they got 3 points. That is what you are saying

In the glaring eye of the media and football watchers in this country and around the world. They sought to blatantly buy a victory with the world watching.
They didn't want to subtly cheat, they wanted to blatantly cheat hoping that nobody would cotton on to their underhand and deceitful shenanigans.

The officials blindly and desperately needed the money so badly that they put their careers, reputation and freedom on the line for a bit of cash. Manchester City were so desperate for 3 points that they put their reputation and very existence as a world leading football club at risk.

Is Park Lane hospital still up and running?

Perhaps not, but there's always a chance that Cavannah put a bet on himself. Not that I'm saying that he did. But corruption doesn't have to be direct bungs from City. Just has to be a wilful error for personal gain.

Maybe he needed the fantasy points

 

[JAYMULL]

Ok, so let's begin. So we are talking about the most powerful and lucrative sporting league in the world.

Manchester City who are arguably the best club side in the world versus Everton who are currently 4th from bottom.
So Manchester City paid off half a dozen match officials to ensure that they didn't come away without a win. They were so fearful of Everton that they made sure they got 3 points. That is what you are saying

In the glaring eye of the media and football watchers in this country and around the world. They sought to blatantly buy a victory with the world watching.
They didn't want to subtly cheat, they wanted to blatantly cheat hoping that nobody would cotton on to their underhand and deceitful shenanigans.

The officials blindly and desperately needed the money so badly that they put their careers, reputation and freedom on the line for a bit of cash. Manchester City were so desperate for 3 points that they put their reputation and very existence as a world leading football club at risk.

Is Park Lane hospital still up and running?

There is corruption in sport its called micro betting.

 

[allen]

The big sides get the big decisions. I don't think it's nefarious, it's just lazy.

It's always been that way, even before VAR. Between 1993 and 2004, three penalties were awarded to opposition sides at Old Trafford. That felt absolutely criminal at the time.

There's an (I think unconscious) bias towards the teams that are expected to win any given match. I'm 100% sure that colours the decisions officials make.

I think it's that unconscious bias that needs to be tackled by the FA. It needs to be expressed and understood by the referees, that just because it seems like a team ought to get a decision based on their dominance in that moment of the ebb or flow of a game, it doesn't mean they should. Nothing but the cool interpretation of what they see, devoid of context, should be considered by the officials.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

SSN .
Everton have written to FA asking for answers.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

After the match yesterday there was some talk that the penno had been ruled out because of an “offside” earlier in the move.

Has that notion now been debunked for the nonsense that it sounded like?

VAR only looked at the handball incident, which would have included the build-up to that, so would have ruled that there was no offside. There was an offside decision after the handball which is why City were awarded a free-kick, unless he was awarding a free-kick to City for a handball by a City player (which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to be honest).

 

[Ring master]

 

[Toffeelover]

I am still bleeding furious about this, one point can make a hell of a difference.