Here are some memorable ones
- Matteo Kovacic somehow not getting sent over against us on Sunday
- Christian Norgaard being offside during the buildup during Brentford’s equaliser against us at home last season somehow not being taken into account
- Martinelli’s disallowed goal at Old Trafford away last season (even PGMOL admits Odegaard did not foul Eriksen in the buildup)
- Dan Burn’s foul on Gabriel denying us a penalty (Newcastle at home last season)
- Son somehow avoiding a booking for elbowing Rob Holding during our 3-0 to Sp*rs in the 21/22 season
- Several penalty shouts not given
Xhaka interfering with Schmeichel from behind him and being called offside was pretty bad.
Chambers against palace, David luiz against wolves, or the Brentford offside fiasco. Take your pick
Huge one not being mentioned here is when Tomiyasu had his face trampled on along the touchline, forget what game that was… Everton maybe? Not sure
Robin Van Persie being sent off against Barcelona for taking a shot when he was winding up as the whistle was blown in a sold out and raucous camp nou
Ederson foul vs Odegaard 21/22
tbf we’ve had some dodgy decisions made in our favour too
-Our opening goal vs Liverpool at home last season (Saka was potentially offside but lines were never drawn due to some technical error)
-Same game, we could’ve (and probably should’ve) had a penalty given against us from that Gabriel handball
There’s probably some more, but those are two that stand out to me. VAR badly needs reform
The one where sokratis scored the late winner but it was disallowed for a foul by chambers.
I hope I have the right players there. But it would have given us a late winner.
All good shouts.
Bernardo Silva drawing a penalty against Granit Xhaka in a game we were absolutely dominating. I believe it was their first touch in the box. The call on the field was no foul.
VAR reviewed it and conveniently for City, only showed the view of Granit’s shirt pull, but not Bernardo’s dive that led to Granit pulling his shirt to keep his balance.
It completely changed the game, and then they gave Gabriel a yellow for crowding the ref which happens every time there’s a penalty shout.
Players are correct. Chambers won the ball and got fouled as Sokratis scored it, but somehow they called an absolutely imaginary foul from Chambers.
Mateo is a single T
What makes that situation feel so unfair is that if he had attempted an actual tackle where he tried going for the ball, he wouldnt have been sent off. Making a tackle and failing it would have him stay on. But making no tackle whatsoever and just accidentally slightly brushing the studs of his opponent shoe with his knee while running sends him off.
I agree, by the letter of the law it was correct. But its insanity than a minimal accidental contact is punished harder than if he had made a slide tackle and taking out his opponent.
The Brighton one where they decided to give an offside call Martinelli after 3 minutes trying to draw the lines. It was basically impossible since there was a lot players close to each other making the call just a guess.
Yeah I mean I’m like pretty sure Martinelli was offside but the fact that it took them that long to look at it and couldn’t decide only to give an offside was ridiculous
What I wonder is how many times Man City have been on the wrong end of these decisions?
I can’t remember any and they’ve never had to receive an apology from PGMOL.
I’ve seen them get a fair few soft penalties though.
Jorginho (Chelsea away 2/3 seasons ago) We were 1-0 up (Auba) he should’ve got the red card and later on Tammy and J20 bagged goals and we lost.
Pre VAR, but the Rooney dive in Game 50 still makes me mad nearly 20 years later
Don’t know if it was a VAR decision but the Martinelli double booking against Wolves. Guess who was the referee in that game…