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So its Kopite behaviour to suggest it was a fix? Hm.
One bad bell that fella, always thought he was one of the few good ones. Would like to put him and Clattenburg in the hunger games and see what one survives
Either way, it was TERRIBLE!!Let's be honest, it wasn't a Fix, just a horrendous decision
Well that's mature. Moyes is a Kopite then as well?
So you're saying I'm "deluded" for suggesting that the decision to call the world's best referee to come and do a random Champions League qualifier is a bit odd (especially given his subsequent immediate retirement). A referee who was hand-picked by FIFA for the world's biggest games to the extent that he became a celebrity in his own right. A referee who maybe wouldn't mind doing a favour for his benevolent bosses.
Coincidentally, he comes back for a game which, if Everton won, would see a disproportionate amount of English teams potentially qualify for the Champions League due to an embarrassing FIFA loophole.
Then he makes a call which made zero sense (after horrible refereeing throughout, biased against Everton - watch it back again, that's not my bias, it's simply having a pair of eyes), which prevents Everton qualifying, the "correct" amount of English teams qualify and then he quietly retires. At the start of a new season. Months before he had to retire.
It's not like I'm saying Bigfoot exists here FFS.
I don't get why anyone who wished to perpertrate a fix in a high profile game (our first Champs league game certainly was) would draw so much attention to it by appointing Collina when surely they could way more easily have got some unknown ref from Lithuania to do it instead.
And the disallowed goal would not have sent us through, wish people would stop saying that, it simply would have took us to extra time where they would have won if we didn't score again.
Have you considered the fact that one team had to draw Villareal and that referees make mistakes? There's just as much proof that that is what happened as there is that it was a fix.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. But what i think what Cena is saying is that people who act like it definatly was are doing the same thing as we accuse some kopites of doing.
And the disallowed goal would not have sent us through, wish people would stop saying that, it simply would have took us to extra time where they would have won if we didn't score again.

And the disallowed goal would not have sent us through, wish people would stop saying that, it simply would have took us to extra time where they would have won if we didn't score again.
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