Howard Webb better not tell Howard Webb about Howard Webb secretly being on our payroll otherwise we're proper fecked.
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I think he originally gave a corner. Then when VAR intervened, he changed it to a goal kick. Of that is indeed the case, VAR must have told him that it did not make contact with Grealish.
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It’s actually shameful how obvious it is. Multiple direct interventions which aren’t subjective/close calls all in favour of the team whose owners pay him directly.
You can go further back than this Joe Hart pretty much headbutted him years ago and he did feck all
Compromised.
It'll never happen in the Premier League because it would show large parts of football officiating is just entertainment based, for exciting narratives and controversy based to give football media like Sky, Talksport, podcasts etc talking points for the week.
It's becoming akin to WWE's tagline; sports-entertainment.
Bent feck
Genuinely an awful referee.
I thought it was. Add that to the four games mentioned above…that penalty was the biggest joke of the season.
I don't think it's that deep for most of the refs. It's just them covering for each other's feck ups. What are we going to do? Get the lot of them fired? Apes together, strong.
This guy is the Boris Johnson of referees. A corrupt, shameless and incompetent clown.
He can't do the final. Referees can only ref 1 FA Cup Final and he did the 2018 final. Anthony Taylor did 2 but his 2nd one was the final with no spectators in 2020 to avoid a ref doing their one and only final with no spectators at Wembley.
It’s clear, I think. Unbelievable
Oh it isn't about it being statistically impossible. It's that the calls were SO SO SO BAD AND OBVIOUS that there's just no way it could be simple incompetence
That's interesting, never knew that rule! So we can't get Oliver or Taylor.
Thank god we can't have Taylor should we get there. We'd have been subjected to hysterical whinging from the media in the run up. Same media that quite willingly continue to overlook Oliver reffing in the UAE and still being allowed to ref Citys matches and who's also openly a Newcastle fan but can ref games involving League position rivals.
There will be more to it than the money he gets from the games he referees in the UAE.
I agree 100%. Been saying this for a long time now.
Almost too predictable we would get a VAR handball penalty against us after his antics yesterday.
How the hell can someone viewing those replays come to the conclusion that was a goal kick???
It reeks of corruption or incompetence, perhaps both. Stuff like that gives fuel to conspiracy drivel.
VAR is so bad, the difference between that Young penalty and almost all the penalties against us for Chelsea are ours actually had less contact.
Going to the Euros along with Taylor and Atwell 
Who says incompentency doesn't pay
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UAE to be crowned European champions thenGoing to the Euros along with Taylor and Atwell
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fecking hell that’s literally the four referees who have the most questionable integrity. The conspiracy theories write themselvesGoing to the Euros along with Taylor and Atwell
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This little ABU shit really needs to be investigated. Never books any non United player for dissent. Sends off United players for breathing.
How blind is he? Looking straight at some bloke getting his balls shattered but no pen 
He's so bad.
Neville: "I'm surprised Oliver missed this"
Neville: "I'm surprised Oliver missed this"
Only ref who really, really needs VAR because he never makes proper calls, only some petty shit calls on a whim.
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^ he has given that
Edit - right he needed VAR to give it despite seeing it
Edit - right he needed VAR to give it despite seeing it
No idea why he has the reputation of being a top ref. He's dreadful. Should be dropped for missing that stonewall pen.
It’s obviously not a great picture but it looks like he’s cringing and saying ooh, like you would seeing someone get wellied in the balls (autocorrect on the car is a bigot; changes knac kers to travellers 
) To then not give it is a disgrace. Not his usual brand of leniency/short-sightedness at least since if he gives the decision it benefits City
) To then not give it is a disgrace. Not his usual brand of leniency/short-sightedness at least since if he gives the decision it benefits CityOne of the most contemptible people in football. An arrogant prick who thinks of every decision in the context of how he will come across, and throwing it out there once again, that he has been genuinely compromised by City, even if just subconsciously. Nobody can make that many arguable big calls in favour of one team
Not adding much, but it's always nice to post he's a shit ref.
A very poor ref
He's crap and arrogant AF.
The standard of refereeing in the PL is laughably bad
And he's "the best the league has to offer"
I dont know what measure they're going off but hes pretty much the worst isn't he. I think he might be the worst referee i've seen in 40 years.