Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Corruption doesn't have to involve money directly changing hands. Corruption is any deliberate abuse of the rules in order to influence the outcome. What if a ref hates a player because he copped a load of abuse from him last time out? If he shows bias towards that player, which would be a human thing to do but still a knowing abuse of the rules, that's dishonest and it's cheating. And the other way around, like overlooking the blatant cheating of certain, notorious players. Cheating. Corruption. The whole point of professional refs was to train them up and compensate them for being able to cope with these stresses. Cunts like Dean can't even cope with being out of the spotlight for more than 30 seconds. The majority of those they have found to ref the games are not up to the task. Look at the shithead they have in charge of the refs. Is it any wonder things are so fucked up?

Last night I suspect that lino took a few quid though. And the likes of Poll suspect the same, which is why he was so fast to come out in support. Like the JFK assassination and the magic bullet. When authority lies blatantly there's always a crowd of morons eager to lap it up and swallow every word. It introduces enough doubt into blatant reality to make you question the evidence of your own senses. That's why the have Poll and other "expert" refs "advising" the papers and the TV pundits. Not to help the fans understand the game more, but to smooth over and snowjob the terrible standard of reffing and to steer all talk away from the darker stuff that, like last night, is a bit too obvious.
Indeed.

It's mass brainwashing by the 'experts in charge' that do their best to mislead and misdirect us into excusing the obvious.