It doesn't need to be bias. I would want referees to be aware that a diving, cheating so and so has a reputation for doing a Tom Daley, so he can be on the lookout for it, so he doesn't win a free kick every time he falls over. The ref can still...
Agree with the first part, and I would fully expect that lots of individual players from a variety of clubs would be the subject of ProRef briefings, including ours.
And if the club itself genuinely think we are being 'wronged' on a regular...
I don't think so. He calls it as he sees it and there is no defence of what Yarmo did. Both Keith and Yarmo's words after the game make that crystal clear, even though you and a few others maintain he shouldn't have seen red.
Keith will...
Again, it's difficult to defend. We can do all the whataboutery describing other players that gob off and don't get booked. Of course there's truth in that, but the facts are these:
The majority of his yellows this season are for dissent.
If he...
Just watched MotD.
Keith Andrews on the first red card:
"We need to be better there...we need to look at ourselves and not the officials."
Always speaks well. And he is spot on.
It's possible to have both. No relevance of a whataboutery comment. This is about Thiago's performances. And they've been nowhere near most of last year's. That's the point.
People can dress it up and put a positive spin on it as much as they like. Working hard. Great holding up play. Brings others into it, etc,etc. no one is questioning his effort
But your no. 9 is there to score goals. And he isn't. Nor does he...
We can blame Brooks and Liverpool play acting and whinging all we want.
Yarmo gave Brooks and VAR a decision to make. How little contact made is irrelevant. 100% if that happened to us and we would all want a red. And it is a red. This is on...
Nothing funny about it.
The only difference is that 5 months on, just about all Bees' fans on here agree it was sh*t, but at the time the number that defended him was much higher in number.
Glad he's gone. He's not missed. And I doubt he'll be...