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.
He clearly looks down to see where his boot is going and puts force into it
The Man City game two seasons ago when Ederson fouled Odegaard inside the box.
clear pen.
TBF, it’s up to the defender to avoid contact with the attacker, not the other way around
That logic is kinda easy to exploit
The inverse is in even worse.
Mateo is a single T
Sure it was correct by the letter of the law, the problem is that we’re the only team that gets reffed to the letter of the law.
I remember just a couple weeks later there was the pen against Liverpool where someone tripped over TAA while he was lying on the ground. I don’t really agree that it’s a penalty but by the same logic you have to give a red there, but they didn’t ofc. Just like they haven’t done it any other time since the double jeopardy rule except for blatant shirt pulls (and even then most of them get away with it).
Something can be correct by the letter of the law but still be wrong due to inconsistency. At the end of the day the most important thing is that reffing is fair between teams and games, rather than the rules being followed to a tee at one specific moment (but not all the previous times for some reason). That’s why precedent is such an important factor in judicial decisions
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.
Don’t know if it was a VAR decision but the Martinelli double booking against Wolves. Guess who was the referee in that game…
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
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
Ederson foul vs Odegaard 21/22
Pre VAR, but the Rooney dive in Game 50 still makes me mad nearly 20 years later
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.
Players are correct. Chambers won the ball and got fouled as Sokratis scored it, but somehow they called an absolutely imaginary foul from Chambers.