You’re bemoaning the past - we had it in our hands before we played the mancs and the wheels have royally come off, we lost it, refs didn’t take it from us.
No one is denying that the refs have had a woeful season for getting key decisions wrong, but that wasn’t just us, they’ve been shite across the board.
We fucked it up. No argument there.
But certain teams across the decades have fucked up and that's normally allowed. It's been unusual how unreally good we and teams we compete against have been. One slip and the whole season has gone.
What separates this from 'normal' seasons is that there have been several key decisions in several key matches that have had dubious decisions.
I can think of 8 or 9 off the top of my head that directly affected the result of the game. All went against us. I'm struggling to remember any that went for us - though there must be the odd one surely?
I don't watch much other football these days as my heart isn't in it. But from friends I have that still do, the discussion the last few times we met up was that the decisions that have been dodgy have largely gone for our competitors. The nature of the modern game is that all the teams are ultra fit, very well trained and very schooled in tactics and the ability of players doesn't differ that much. It's the small differences that allow one team to win or lose the game - all small pieces of brilliance or mistakes or luck.
When that is adjusted slightly so that you can clearly see what appears to be bias (For such a number of decisions routinely to go against you every season, it's hard to say they are mistakes if they keep happening) then that has an impact.
You don't see any bias. You see 'mistakes'. From the same refs. In many games. Repeated.
But you'd have to be nuts to see the refs as bent in your world. Not sure if you went to the match yesterday, but after the game, there was a dejected feel - even though we'd won - because despite the win, the officials still fucked us over. That's mad, we've won a game against a very good team and most people were dejected and pissed off with the officials.
We're all probably just bellends though.
