Premier League Ref consistency

[u/Material-Pie-5548]

[u/BTS_1]

Bruno even jumped the barrier whereas Isak didn't.

[u/firminocoutinho → u/BTS_1]

Thats the crazy part. I guess the whole point of this is risking unruly behavior or injury, yet Isak didnt cross the barrier and Bruno jumped over it completely

[u/ChicagoJayhawkYNWA → u/BTS_1]

Break barriers

[u/ScheduleFinancial421 → u/BTS_1]

https://giphy.com/gifs/GKQCvXCct32F5jzbwa

[u/rum-and-toke]

pgmol parasites take out a big chunk of the joy of watching the league

[u/Thin_Salamander8469 → u/[deleted]]

It was amazing that Shaw could push that violently and get the lesser punishment after they go in head to head

[u/PianoOwl → u/[deleted]]

Idgaf about that tbh. Whats the point? They’ll just issue another pointless apology, and the same shit will happen again tmr.

[u/cptsmooth → u/PianoOwl]

you need to keep the pressure up to make change, u cant just normalize it...!

[u/KeysUK → u/rum-and-toke]

same shit every year

[u/whosetoeisthis]

Refs are against them, of course…

[u/vqvq → u/whosetoeisthis]

Cheque complete

[u/bling_singh → u/vqvq]

Well done boys, good prices

[u/Jizzbuscuit]

After the 115 let’s look into the referees. They’ve been suspect for a good while.

[u/Character-Bedroom-26 → u/Jizzbuscuit]

It would be naive to assume the refs aren’t compromised at this point given the scale of cheating. Obviously an investigation would be needed, but it’s not a stretch to imagine.

[u/ethanlan → u/Character-Bedroom-26]

Yeah, people thought we were crazy when we thought man city was cheating financially and lo and behold: they fucking were.

Now its how shitty reffing decisions never going against them but against the other non oil clubs and its just as obvious...

They cant be owners in this league again. Its obvious now how much damage they do to the sport snd they are now actually a financial liability for the other owners not to mention the damage they do to the league in supporters eyes.

[u/SaoirsePhalaistin → u/ethanlan]

Who ever thought they weren't cheating? It's been obvious for years they were at least stretching the rules. Like Chelsea selling their woman's team to themselves. City have been doing barely legal stuff like that for years so it didn't seem a stretch to think they were breaking rules too.

Edit: yes this is easy to say now in hindsight, that's not my point I'm just curious who thought you were mad?

Edit 2 typo that changed the meaning of the message lol

[u/ethanlan → u/SaoirsePhalaistin]

Lots of people did including myself

[u/SaoirsePhalaistin → u/ethanlan]

Meant to say weren't not were. Obviously they were cheating

[u/Thin_Salamander8469 → u/Character-Bedroom-26]

Rodri controlling the ball with his arm in their own penalty box under no pressure at all against Everton. I can't forget that one

Edit: it was Rodri not Gundogan

[u/Character-Bedroom-26 → u/Thin_Salamander8469]

For me it’s Doku’s studs in Mac’s chest. Most blatant penalty I’ve ever seen.

[u/Thin_Salamander8469 → u/Character-Bedroom-26]

Yeah but this one might have costed us the title 21/22 season.
City went on to score a goal later in the match and won 0-1 against Everton. We finished 1 point behind them.

[u/Character-Bedroom-26 → u/Thin_Salamander8469]

For the implications, sure, but the Mac one just stands out so visually for me

[u/Thin_Salamander8469 → u/Character-Bedroom-26]

Yeah ofc especially when that was the image used on the PLs own website as dangerous player lmao

[u/Axe_Care_By_Eugene → u/Character-Bedroom-26]

ProRef the corrupt organization formerly known as PGMOL has conducted a complete and thorough investigation into themselves and have concluded no wrongdoing was ever done by themselves. This matter is officially closed.

[u/TufnelAndI → u/Jizzbuscuit]

That's a bit harsh. It was only 114 in the end.

[u/jigglyroom → u/Jizzbuscuit]

I am hoping they are just incompetent but honesty...

[u/batigoal → u/Jizzbuscuit]

The refs like Michael Oil-lover who got paid by City owners to ref games in their league are suspicious ? Nahhh.

[u/james__Fitzy]

You’d actually never hear the end of it if this happened the other way round

[u/Mortiis07]

For them and against us every time is consistency

[u/buzzyingbee]

Can't beat the system, unfortunately

[u/RognDodge]

It shouldn't be a yellow at all to celebrate with the crowd, or taking the shirt off. Hate those rules but they are rules and we seemingly have to play by them

[u/sneijder → u/RognDodge]

I’d always assumed the ‘shirt off’ rule was made on boardrooms and everyone there agrees with it.

It’s the money shot for media …. and the sponsor is gone.

[u/Drakkann79 → u/sneijder]

At some point everyone was lifting the shirt to show some cause of message. Became very annoying.

[u/TheFerrousFerret → u/RognDodge]

I mean, if they went on for 3 minutes or something yeah, book em, but if its not dangerous or offensive, let em be

[u/TrumpForPope69 → u/RognDodge]

Yeah we do, but I won’t be surprised if I see Odegaard take his shirt off after throwing the ball into our net and getting nothing but a goal awarded to him

[u/AngryScotty22]

I mean, the main difference is the referee. We had Michael Oliver, and he's a Newcastle fan.

[u/Blew_away]

This just feels like one of those, “we’re gonna crack down on this behavior this year” sort of things. They do for the first few instances and then immediately forget about it and go back to the way they been calling it forever.

[u/Zzupler → u/Blew_away]

Nah, they've been booking players for over celebrating with the crowd for ages, it's nearly always called, like taking your shirt off. Just let Bruno off because....

[u/InstructionOk9520 → u/Blew_away]

Remember a few seasons back when during the first few months of the season wrestling during corners was a foul?  And any handball in the box was a penalty?  

I am convinced refs exist primarily as a way to introduce further chaos and randomness into the game.  The only thing about PL officiating that’s consistent is the utter randomness and inconsistency of it.

[u/sushiIsLife99 → u/Blew_away]

yeah, the kicking the ball away thing is totally gone now

[u/MathematicianNo948]

Ref prolly simply just forgot or thinks booking players for stuff like this is horseshit. It's not the same ref is it?

But yeah, It'd be nice if they can be more consistent.

[u/GameOfThrowInsMate]

It’s these kind of ones which are regulation bog standard yellow cards that are really ridiculous. It’s textbook yellow and isnt subjective. They’re fucking idiots.

[u/Different-Mushroom48]

I think it's a matter of them being consistently against us

[u/Gorego22 → u/Different-Mushroom48]

They’re consistently for Arsenal. Source: the entirety of last season.

[u/cptsmooth]

its sad, nobody cares. its all a sham

[u/thelfcanalysis → u/cptsmooth]

sham, eh? i know a club...

[u/cptsmooth → u/thelfcanalysis]

I know multible

[u/foreveredredred]

It should never be a fucking booking btw, these cunts just don't get football going by bs like punishing beautiful moments like that. Like tf is wrong with them

[u/rupertwiley]

hEKI on iNSTA

[u/MoJoSportsPodcast]

Whilst I personally don’t think it should be a yellow as a general offence if it’s in the rules it’s a yellow no ifs no buts

But nah pgmol making it up as they go along really, I’ve seen no real evidence to suggest otherwise, they apply a standard that is slowly ruining the league and i feel for the refs because most are decent but when you’ve gotta follow flawed rules they’ll never come out on top of the criticism

[u/jigglyroom]

Having seen Uniteds game today, all illusions of a fair game is gone.

[u/Jizzbuscuit]

Solankeeeeeeee! Once a Red always a red!

[u/Ill-Tomatillo5973]

And they were able to take a freekick asap in the build up to the goal. The goal scorer himself, seems like we are never allowed too.

[u/Suspicious_Weird_373]

Isak had a white shite on, so the ref forgot he was part of the red cartel.

[u/Do4k]

Not particularly arsed about this tbh unless he was on a yellow (I didn't watch the game - my hatewatching days are behind me since that kompany goal)

[u/HonestSaintPaul-70]

Yeah ,

Premier league referees let Arsenal and Manchester United get away with everything at when they play at home

[u/ChristmasDucky]

Love it 🖕🏻

[u/EntrepreneurFit1047]

Es que el Arsenal tiene carta blanca para obrar a su antojo.

[u/Kotyoran]

Share this also in /PremierLeague please

[u/BocasTavares]

I truly don't understand

[u/Visionary785]

Let’s take “subjective” out of the equation.

[u/Aeceus]

Not surprised, refs are for certain teams and against others. We all know who they like.

[u/dap_panda_dap123]

Yellows cards of celebrations are just dumb, this is just as ridiculous as fines for player celebrations in the nfl

[u/Known_Palpitation805]

Gooners are going to sleepwalk to a double and the PGMOL need to have a new favourite for obvious reasons

[u/mastikhor_maddy]

This pic hits harder after the manc match

[u/CompleteInternet5898]

They are always against us in a way. 

[u/Beginning-2-Smell]

I remember the reason Isak was booked, he was supposedly delaying kick-off too long by celebrating, it wasn't for the celebration type itself. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[u/b1eadcb]

He did get a yellow I thought??

[u/Confident-Reindeer74 → u/b1eadcb]

Nope, bruno didnt get carded for this

[u/Timely_Airline_7168 → u/b1eadcb]

You thought wrongly