Before people turn this into a post match discussion, please recognise this is related to the last few seasons. I genuinely wonder if this is a statistical outlier, or is there a top club in England with a comparatively bad record under a referee?
We have now won just 2 of our last 11 games with Taylor.
He has never shown an opposition player a red card, and has awarded United DOUBLE the number of yellows.
If you look to big calls, he has made some of the worst decisions in recent memory including the terrible handball by Middlesbrough at Old Trafford, the PGMOL apology forcing allowing of Villa free kick last season. Today, he had no hesitation awarding a penalty that was overturned.
If you look at small decisions, taking any 10 minute segment of his games shows the difference in the small calls that dictate the flow of a game. Today for example, Arsenal committed at least two fouls leading to their corner (not to mention a blatant foul on evans.) but look at the fouls he gave against our attackers in the minutes prior to it. I genuinely cant see any difference.
People often make too much of a fuss over big calls, which taylor almost always gets wrong against us, but for me the most impactful way a ref dictates a game is the 50/50s. The small calls, the players left playing on yellows for extended spells, the advantages given or not given.
It isn't normal for a club of Uniteds size to have such a terrible win percentage over that length of time. That run includes home games against southampton, middlesbrough, newcastle and forest so can't even be put down to being skewed by fixtures.
In light of Mike Dean confirming many people's suspicions that these guys are simply for too emotionally driven for the job they do, I don't think I've ever been more convinced of bias than Taylor against United. There is no wide conspiracy or tinfoil hat stuff- most refs in the league are crap for every team. But Taylor is so consistently poor against United I'm genuinely thinking of using his appointment of our games as a betting strategy.
We have now won just 2 of our last 11 games with Taylor.
He has never shown an opposition player a red card, and has awarded United DOUBLE the number of yellows.
If you look to big calls, he has made some of the worst decisions in recent memory including the terrible handball by Middlesbrough at Old Trafford, the PGMOL apology forcing allowing of Villa free kick last season. Today, he had no hesitation awarding a penalty that was overturned.
If you look at small decisions, taking any 10 minute segment of his games shows the difference in the small calls that dictate the flow of a game. Today for example, Arsenal committed at least two fouls leading to their corner (not to mention a blatant foul on evans.) but look at the fouls he gave against our attackers in the minutes prior to it. I genuinely cant see any difference.
People often make too much of a fuss over big calls, which taylor almost always gets wrong against us, but for me the most impactful way a ref dictates a game is the 50/50s. The small calls, the players left playing on yellows for extended spells, the advantages given or not given.
It isn't normal for a club of Uniteds size to have such a terrible win percentage over that length of time. That run includes home games against southampton, middlesbrough, newcastle and forest so can't even be put down to being skewed by fixtures.
In light of Mike Dean confirming many people's suspicions that these guys are simply for too emotionally driven for the job they do, I don't think I've ever been more convinced of bias than Taylor against United. There is no wide conspiracy or tinfoil hat stuff- most refs in the league are crap for every team. But Taylor is so consistently poor against United I'm genuinely thinking of using his appointment of our games as a betting strategy.
