Who's said they're anti-Arsenal.Originally Posted by Letters
Only you've said that.
Who's said they're anti-Arsenal.
Only you've said that.
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Corruption's not the same thing as weakness and bias, so no.
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Also, why do we never hear talk of officials in other sports (that use technology to help make their decisions) getting things wrong on a regular basis?
Are tennis matches talked about because of how well the competitors played or about how the umpire called a game wrong?
Rugby?
Cricket?
Yes sometimes, there have been cases where a player might question a decision, but after a replay or technological evidence is used, the matter is cleared up instantly one way or another. But accurately and most importantly, correctly.
You cannot say the same about football.
Weakness, no I agree.
But bias?
Of course it is. Not necessarily for financial gain but in some sense it is still corruption.
Weakness is often a symptom of corruption and bias is one of the purest forms of corruption because you don't even need to be paid to undermine a system or principle.
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You only get 3 challenges a set in tennis, so yes there's plenty of mistakes, people don't go on about it because unlike football fans they don't believe corruption exists.
Again with Cricket they have limited use of technology and there's plenty of mistakes and there's been corruption in Cricket yet people don't point the finger at official calling them corrupt.
NQ said it better than me
Of course there are.
That's all I ever hear from tennis, cricket and rugby fans. Every game it's the same thing 'the umpires/refs are shite', 'that was never a.....' etc, etc.
That's nonsense sorry, I watch a lot of tennis and noone ever claims the officials are corrupt (well other than Jeff Tarango when he wasn't happy about a decision).Of course there are.
That's all I ever hear from tennis, cricket and rugby fans. Every game it's the same thing 'the umpires/refs are shite', 'that was never a.....' etc, etc.
Fans seem obsessed with it in football, I guess football fans like to play the victims more than tennis fans, if it doesn't go your way it's because the officials are corrupt or biased against you.
I was being sarcastic.
The reason fans don't call them corrupt is because mistakes are few and far between. There are some yes, but they don't happen with the frequent regularity that they do in football.
There's also only so much they can get wrong in sports where technology is used to its full extent.
There is fuck all in football, and so we just have to trust in shit like 'the refs interpretation' and 'judgement'.
You know, the same sort of amateur crap that used to happen in playground football.
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