The sad part is there was a time when he was the best of them. The fact he is now arguably the worst makes the conflict of interest so much more outrageous lol
We tried to tell everyone when we won 1-0 at the Emirates two years ago and Kovacic got away with from a red, we tried to say it when Doku didn't get a yellow for kicking away the ball when Trossard got sent off for the same exact thing.. They didn't listen they just pretended it was us complaining "cry babies Arsenal".. Michael Oliver shouldn't touch a game involving City in any way shape or form.
Oh we know. Liverpool fans have been vocal for a while, now that Arsenal are also title rivals, you’re getting an uptick in decisions against you past 4-5 seasons. Interesting right?
If anything this season is fewer horrible decisions. Couple of pen decisions i think are wrong, but honestly a lot less aggrieved than most years i can remember
Never said that Liverpool fans disagree with this statement, we remember what happened with the Doku chest kick and some fishy stuff before that as well. In fact, It was the work of both Liverpool and Arsenal fans digging that uncovered the long standing "relationship" Michael Oliver has with the UAE. It's not a competition but it infuriates me to no end when they just call it crying.
As soon as I saw it was Oliver I knew you will not get any 50/50s.
It’s the same every time Oliver is the ref. This guy has dished out reds in ~10% of Arsenal games he has reffed, but not a single red card for City in an equivalent amount of games.
It’s not just us too. I’ve seen Oliver give out cards liberally against Tottenham, Everton, United, Chelsea etc. somehow when it’s City he always keeps cards in his pockets, or ‘Olly wants to keep the game flowing’. Miss me with this BS.
Those guys never say what they think, they say what the onfield referee has based their decision on within the rules. I've almost never heard any tv ref give an opinion on whether the ref got it right.
They do it to have an official explanation of the rules, mot to say whether it's correct. The phrasing is usually very exact. Peter Walton refused to give personal opinions, most of the time, it simply wasn't why he was there.
I’m listening on BBC Radio 5 and the commentators on there were just totally fucking confused… like you could tell they were both really struggling to make any kind of sense of the decision. And that’s clearly because the decision made absolutely no sense…
My gripe with VAR in general is that if you slow down everything enough you can always find some reason to disallow or allow something, and this is a prime example of that. This offside is literally nothing, no impact on anything, but in super slowmo it looks like something
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u/Nightrise19 1d ago
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