Let's hear it for Anthony Taylor...

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Klopp gets 1 or 2 duff decisions by a ref and the ref doesn't officiate against Liverpool for years. This cnut fecks us over in every single big match we play and they keep on assigning us him.
 

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Klopp gets 1 or 2 duff decisions by a ref and the ref doesn't officiate against Liverpool for years. This cnut fecks us over in every single big match we play and they keep on assigning us him.
It's just the same thing match after match at this point. The fans know he'll feck us over. The players know he'll feck us over. He knows he'll feck us over. Is that cnut Mike Dean on VAR for this one as well not wanting to send his mate over to embarrass him? The absolute state of this circus.
 

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Refereeing in the UK is a club. Anthony Taylor is part of it. He got demoted for a howler, made a howler in the championship, and now gets the biggest game of the weekend and makes a howler. Uniteds record with him is something like 2 wins in 11. This year is the first time in my rational, adult life, that i think there is corruption, rather than incompetence, at the heart of reffing. Its naive to think poorly paid people at the centre of a multi billion pound industry are not corruptible. They get 1500 quid for a match!
 

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Man that was some absolute bullshit :lol: and whoever was on VAR duties.
 

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He’s the guy who placed the 15 yard wall for villa against us that Digne scored from and refused to re-measure it when having it pointed out to him. The egg giveth and the egg taketh, Villa.
 

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Any person in any other profession, performing as bad as this guy is, (and Michael Oliver too), would be out of a job.
 

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He gives out cards… for all the wrong reasons.
 

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Referees are like politicians. It doesn’t seem to matter how terrible they are at their jobs there is just zero accountability
 

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Giving everything to Liverpool. VVD, Klopp and Diaz should all be off.
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Let's not be silly. Lot's of decisions went for Newcastle and how he didn't book that scum of a football player Joelinton nobody knows. Awful referee. Regarding Liverpool it is sad watching them play effortlessly and seeing how disorganized United is in comparison. Recognizable attacking gameplay generating chances galore and the press when they loose the ball high up the pitch is fantastically executed.
Salah you can't have anything but respect for him. Achieved way more than Rashford and it shows in his application and work rate why he got where he is. Also always looking to put another of his teammates through.
 

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Think he took reffing the occasion a bit too far today. Ignored at least 5 blatant yellows
 

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He ruined that game today. Some referees are trying to be a little more lenient with fouls at the moment but when there's a foul every 30 seconds you have to manage the game properly and give the appropriate punishment. I'm pretty sure there were 4/5 players who were on 3/4 fouls in the game and no yellow card.

When players know they can get away with it like they did today then you can see an argument for the blue card but referees should be disciplined enough to act in the moment and Anthony Taylor let so much go today that it was ridiculous.
 

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As shit as he was today, it was great to see City get a taste of their own medicine. They’ve been the masters of getting away with sneaky fouls without cards for years. Fernandinho come to mind. Glorious to see Arsenal snidy shithouse them back and get away with it
 

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He ruined that game today. Some referees are trying to be a little more lenient with fouls at the moment but when there's a foul every 30 seconds you have to manage the game properly and give the appropriate punishment. I'm pretty sure there were 4/5 players who were on 3/4 fouls in the game and no yellow card.

When players know they can get away with it like they did today then you can see an argument for the blue card but referees should be disciplined enough to act in the moment and Anthony Taylor let so much go today that it was ridiculous.
Agree. It's fine being a bit more lenient with tackles in derbys and big games, but letting every tactical foul go unpunished ruins the game as you say. A few early yellows for Arsenal would probably have made the game a lot more interesting.