I mean, I’m not saying that there was any corruption or explicit instruction to give them a penalty, but even the minor thought that a certain club’s state-owners might pay me/hire me more often can be incredibly enticing.
I mean, I’m not saying that there was any corruption or explicit instruction to give them a penalty, but even the minor thought that a certain club’s state-owners might pay me/hire me more often can be incredibly enticing.
Firstly it was michael Oliver and Last year it was the same Michael Oliver who checked and let the goal allow on Old Trafford.
“However, VAR Michael Oliver quickly checked the goal and adjudged Rashford had not interfered in play enough to disallow the goal, allowing it to stand”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fernandes-goal-rashford-manchester-derby-25978692.amp
You didn’t think of conflict of interest when it benefitted you last year?
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Oliver making a stunning error last season doesn’t balance out any perceived error this.
Wrong is wrong, no matter for whom.
Everyone’s salty only when VAR’s against them. They will never think about this incident from last year because they were favoured.
Nope doesn’t count since that doesn’t fit the narrative.
How are some united fans holding on so dearly to that decision after that abysmal performance. I guess both sides must’ve paid the ref because that was a clear red on Antony
This is always the way which is why I just ignore all this rubbish now. I see so many silly posts about refs being dodgy etc but only when it impacts their own team. As soon as it’s another team, well things just balance out, refereeing though is not a black and white simple system and var doesn’t change that either. It’s still people just using more angles and cameras and people make mistakes or have different views.
Looking at any one or two decisions in a vacuum is never helpful. There’s a clear conflict of interest in allowing referees to officiate games of clubs owned by the people who hire them on all-expenses paid trips to that region. At a minimum, officials wouldn’t want to risk upsetting the apple cart & losing what is a very lucrative & frequently cushy gig. At a maximum, who knows who insidious those trips can be in terms of swaying an official one way or the other in order to provide favourable outcomes?
I think anybody jumping on this with the venom & misunderstanding I’ve seen in this thread must honestly have very little experience of adult life & believe everything is separated and contextless.
And if Oliver had been paid to referee “The Glazers Annual Soccer Bonanza” a few weeks before that decision, how would you have felt about that?
Don’t care to be honest, firstly referees are paid less and if they are doing work in any other league then it’s fine , they have to think about their welfare too.
The fact that they have worked on the other league shows that they can do it and it’s in their contract. If there was any discrepancy then pgmol would have not allowed it.
Read the below article pgmol had already given permission to Oliver to officiate a SPL match in April.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2018/oct/31/mark-clattenburg-mission-saudi-arabia-referees-ends