Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
City game you can't judge anything because the official were bent. Score could have been the other way with legit officials. Maybe not, we'll never know. but that game can't be used as a demo of anything because it was too random.

Didn't say we were unlucky, I said the fuck-up chavs were lucky, different thing. I think 7/10 we get a result against them even playing as shit as we did. And again, 10 vs 11 is not a good game to use to judge anything.

So I picked the games where is was 11 vs 11 and the dice seemed to roll evenly. Couple of games against Everton, one against pool - who we also beat a couple of times btw. Concluded from those games we have some serious issues. Which is exactly what you are saying but you don't like it when people criticise the chavs and gypos - you are way too defensive of them btw.
I don't care if people Criticise City or Chelsea, what I don't like is people playing down the results against them as if they don't really matter that much. Since these teams are what we're competing against it does matter, the refs thing is bias IMO, there are some bad decisions but they don't win you or lose you games by the margins we lost them, that's just down to poor play of some sort.

As I said before in the past we rarely saw these results, ref or no ref, the reason we're seeing quite a few now is we're not that competitive against the big boys, the amount of games where we haven't turned up in the 1st half is ridiculous, the only reason we haven't lost all those games is that the smaller teams couldn't take advantage.