DaveT

I haven’t even got the sound on! I was talking about the massive captions that obscure large sections of the screen, the long close ups of pigeons, managers, back of player’s head…..whilst the ball is in play!!!!

BT’s coverage is as awful as Oliver’s refereeing

Oliver is clearly auditioning for another lucrative pay day in the UAE.

This is Taylor/Tierney levels of bias here

How many months? 120?

He’s gone from being the best of a bad bunch to utterly fucking awful

Surprised we haven’t gone with Joe G at RB for the extra height at the inevitable aerial onslaught, as well as his pace for their counter attacks.

Well, yeah. Apart from Taylor not sending off Gross at Brighton (managed to give a penalty for the wrong challenge), blatant handball penalty not given vs Arsenal, 2 perfectly good goals disallowed at Burnley, scandalous red card for Ibou a week ago. We got away with the Nkunku one against Chelsea and 2 pens in our favour against Newcastle (both a little soft, but technically correct decisions). I'd say that we were 50/50 at best since Spurs. Still right to kick up a fuss, and keep raising it until the end of the season.

How the fuck does he not get booked for that?

Stuttgart vs Mainz it is, then.

No VAR check on the little bump by White on the goalie as he started to go for the cross? There would have been a 5 minute check if we’d scored that.

Yeah, he gave the penalty after Gusto wiped him out. Certain yellow anywhere else on the pitch.

How come Gusto didn’t get a (2nd) yellow for that penalty? Even in games I don’t care much about, the inconsistency is infuriating. He should have had straight red a few weeks ago against Fulham too.

This is how I saw it. At the point of the Virgil/Ali fuck up I thought we were looking good for a point at the very least. Arsenal at that point were defending deep and playing on the break. I was amazed to see those xG and big chance stats, can’t remember Ali having that much to worry about.

Nailed it, Dave. Shit first half performance, somehow got back into it, started second half well and looking increasingly dominant. At that point I was starting to feel comfortable and confident of at least a point. The Virgil/Ali fuckup changed everything, played completely into their hands and allowed them to manage the game out. The Trent situation is tricky - Bradley's defensive performances have highlighted Trent's barely adequate defending. Bradley just loves the dirty work of harrying, chasing, getting a foot in. Trent plays like it's beneath him. Trent's vision and passing range are world class, but I think we'd have to radically change our shape to accommodate him, if we were to have a conventional (Bradley-type) RB in the team, as I don't see Trent as having the energy or work-rate to thrive as one of our 8s in a 4-3-3. Finally, Taylor. He became more Taylor-like as the game wore on. Blatant (Yellow-worthy) fouls on Jota and Nunez ignored late on, probably denied us easily 6 clear fouls over the course of the game. The first yellow for Konate was bollocks - 2 players being physical, Konate simply outmuscles him. And anyway, what were the grounds for a yellow in that instance? Sure, he wasn't the reason we lost, but he helped make sure we couldn't salvage something out of it.

Taylor well and truly nailing his colours to the mast . Cunt

Again

Nah, I think we'd have been embarrassed if we'd got a pen for the Gallagher one. The Nkunku one, on the other hand, was clear cut. It's really suspicious the way Tierney is suddenly not taking an opportunity to shaft us, something's amiss! Chelsea were looking to hit the deck at the first opportunity all night.

Quite. Including Arsenal,Taylor and Tierney will have been ref for 4 of our past 5 league games - and Tierney was VAR for the other one (when the red card challenge on Diaz was ignored as well as a stonewall penalty on Jota).

I heard that too. The unbelievable irony of City fans singing that to Tierney of all people.

Cheers, Lee. Wouldn't it be funny if Kane, having gone to the serial BL winners, scored a shed load of goals....and still didn't get a title winners medal.

Without the weird, insecure, hypocritical twat thing going on.

And an intimate little moment between Guardiola and occasional UAE employee Darren England…

I see they’ve taken their own ref down south with them tonight

I said earlier that having to compete with the cheats would grind anyone down. But also trying to compete knowing that at least 2 refs have an agenda against us, and that their boss is ex-SWP….. Can’t be a coincidence that, now that it looks like we might mount a serious title challenge, Agent Tierney is involved in every other game we play.