It’s definitely on purpose though. You see Merson going apocalyptic against Mike Dean on Sly Sports, Talkshite going on and on against VAR, even individual youtubers like Goldbridge constantly coming out with vids against the PGMOL but absolutely NO ONE has dared to bring up the clear conflict of interest with these refs having part time jobs working for City’s owners and then coming back and officiating games for City and their immediate rivals in the league.

If you owned your own company, you wouldn’t allow your employees to moonlight after their daily 9-5s, let alone for a direct rival, openly at that and have no legitimate questions asked because apparently if you do ask, you either get a “cry more” or it’s just verging on conspiratorial to question the upstanding organisation that is the PGMOL.