TheGapInspector
Player Valuation: £25k
Will be the upturn in our fortunes with refereeing decisions.
I've always said the effect of benefitting from dodgy decisions is worth at least 10 points a season to each of the big clubs.
Ferguson's Man Utd, Wenger's Arsenal and the likes of Carragher and Gerrard at Anfield have made constant haranguing of the referee into an artform and it has definitely boosted their share of favourable dodgy decisions over the years. Latterly Man City and Chelsea becoming media darlings has also meant not just better players but a bigger share of the dodgy decisions too.
Everton probably too benefit more than the likes of Hull, Bournemouth and Watford from this, purely down to our historic context in the game, but we haven't really been masters at the art of ref baiting since Graeme Sharp and Peter Reid were strutting their stuff in Royal Blue.
So to now have onboard a player who not only has been well versed in this fine art over a 13 year career at Man Utd (most of it under Ferguson), but is also a natural born on the pitch nark and still has the profile of being England captain and its highest profile player can only be a good thing for the blues.
I expect it to be worth at least an extra 5-6 points next season and if we are really lucky maybe a couple of them might even result in a victory at Anfield ?
I've always said the effect of benefitting from dodgy decisions is worth at least 10 points a season to each of the big clubs.
Ferguson's Man Utd, Wenger's Arsenal and the likes of Carragher and Gerrard at Anfield have made constant haranguing of the referee into an artform and it has definitely boosted their share of favourable dodgy decisions over the years. Latterly Man City and Chelsea becoming media darlings has also meant not just better players but a bigger share of the dodgy decisions too.
Everton probably too benefit more than the likes of Hull, Bournemouth and Watford from this, purely down to our historic context in the game, but we haven't really been masters at the art of ref baiting since Graeme Sharp and Peter Reid were strutting their stuff in Royal Blue.
So to now have onboard a player who not only has been well versed in this fine art over a 13 year career at Man Utd (most of it under Ferguson), but is also a natural born on the pitch nark and still has the profile of being England captain and its highest profile player can only be a good thing for the blues.
I expect it to be worth at least an extra 5-6 points next season and if we are really lucky maybe a couple of them might even result in a victory at Anfield ?
