Chris Kavanagh

[GoldenToffee]

Its an utter farce that this lad can just ref another top flight game like nothing happened. Zero accountability.

Let's be fair, it's only little old Everton that suffered. It's not like one of the big boys had to feel hard done by. Imagine it was Liverpool on the receiving end of the decision, he'd have been demoted, forced to come out with a public apology and they'd have been awarded about 5 penalties in their next 3 games.

 

[bring back the catt]

We have to take this on the chin, as blatant as it was. If VAR had been around in 97/98 we would have been relegated then.
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Only just caught up with this. What a load of Friars Balsam!

Number 1; There wasn't technology then.
Number 2; This not a referee error as no referee could have seen theat.
Number 3; Today goal-line technology (not invented at the time) would have rectified that. A technology which works because there is NO involvement of humans to put their' interpretation' on the outcome.
Number 4; The miscarriage against Citee 'not seen ', was actually 'not seen' by the referee, his assistant, the fourth official, the
VAR controller, his assistant, the head of the entire VAR set-up. Scrutinised for over two minutes. With slo-mo and replay
from many different angles. That is the massive difference as the notloB one was in REAL TIME.
Number 5; Everton have had ONE piece of good fortune over the last 20 plus years by your reckoning, and you think this is reason enough for your justification.

The Citee incident is one of numerous officiating louse-ups. This season alone. How many over the last 20 plus years have we had obvious bad decisions go against us, and decisions many other teams get favourably? If you have had to go back all these years to find a clip which favours us, I think the answer is very very many.

"Things even themselves out over the course of a season", is a phrase trotted out by those who are not affected by utterly ridiculous decisions. They do NOT and never can do in any situation which happens in rea-time.
Football is a universal multi billion dollar industry, and what is being said is 'two wrongs make a right'. Jeez!
This maxim would mean that for the next Lord knows how many years, Everton will begin to benefit from all the rubbish decision we have had to endure in the past. My, I feel the quadruple is within our grasp next season.

Cease trying to be the voice of justice and bring some perspective into the situation.

 

[Johnny Barton]

I know it's a different set of circumstances because one was not intentional but the other appears to have been a corrupt decision. But we can't really moan if we do go down by a point. Because if anyone remembers our last relegation scrap a disallowed goal for Nathan Blake would have changed everything and sent us down instead of Bolton..

I am fed up with listening to this rubbish since 1998.
That Bolton game was one incident, and as someone pointed out Southall was fouled in the build up.
Dave Prentice, from the echo did an article at the end of that season, which showed five other incidents that season were we were robbed of points.
For example, a Barmby goal wrongly disallowed against Villa for offside that would have won us the game.
If all the wrongs had been put right, we would have stayed up, 8 points clear of the relegation zone.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I’ve been slowly falling out of love with football for a while now. When Everton are doing well it naturally increases again, but there’s far too many examples of ‘poor’ officiating and questionable decisions for it to be a coincidence.

Ten years ago you would have been labelled a conspiracy theorist for even suggesting there was corruption in football. Then there was the whole FIFA/Blatter fiasco, but if anything the level of corruption has increased since then.

 

[bring back the catt]

I am fed up with listening to this rubbish since 1998.
That Bolton game was one incident, and as someone pointed out Southall was fouled in the build up.
Dave Prentice, from the echo did an article at the end of that season, which showed five other incidents that season were we were robbed of points.
For example, a Barmby goal wrongly disallowed against Villa for offside that would have won us the game.
If all the wrongs had been put right, we would have stayed up, 8 points clear of the relegation zone.

I do not post too frequently, but every so often something comes up noteworthy. This is one of them.
Well in @Johnny Barton, for you put into context in three paragraphs a far better response than the one I did in ninety three paragraphs in my response to this guff in the post above yours.
Trust this puts this particular theory to bed right now.

 

[gazzaa2]

Let's be fair, it's only little old Everton that suffered. It's not like one of the big boys had to feel hard done by. Imagine it was Liverpool on the receiving end of the decision, he'd have been demoted, forced to come out with a public apology and they'd have been awarded about 5 penalties in their next 3 games.

He's probably cost them the league tbf. Can't see City dropping points anywhere else.

A disaster for us if we go down by a point but we should hopefully be well clear if we can keep that level up.

 

[HumbleWedbetters]

Don't be surprised to see us get a few correctional decisions starting tonight. fingers crossed. 3 points tonight and I think we will be fine, the fans will drag the players to get the points we need at Goodison.

 

[Carloblues]

Well and truly been swept under the carpet by the fa this.

As an example,.players get carded and banned for cheating these days. This little freak has been left to get on with it.

Scumbags

 

[Raino85]

We have to take this on the chin, as blatant as it was. If VAR had been around in 97/98 we would have been relegated then.
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Foul on Southall got given there

 

[MACCA75]

Foul on Southall got given there

Plus it’s absolutely ludicrous to suggest a decision halfway through like the 3rd game of the season would have relegated us.

We wouldn’t have been clinging to the draw v Coventry last day for a start.

 

[MACCA75]

Funny actually - I remember watching that game at Bolton in the pub with a mate (a neutral). Everton dominated but it was essentially a dour start of season 0-0. I remember feeling bad dragging my mate to the pub to watch such a forgettable spectacle.

Yet here we are 25 years later talking about it.

 

[arch stanton]

Don't be surprised to see us get a few correctional decisions starting tonight. fingers crossed. 3 points tonight and I think we will be fine, the fans will drag the players to get the points we need at Goodison.

are you new to Everton and how things work brother? No chance are we getting any favourable decisions against spuds or anyone

 

[ToffeeDan]

I know it's a different set of circumstances because one was not intentional but the other appears to have been a corrupt decision. But we can't really moan if we do go down by a point. Because if anyone remembers our last relegation scrap a disallowed goal for Nathan Blake would have changed everything and sent us down instead of Bolton..

Its up to us to get out of this there's enough games left to climb out of it

I hate to disagree but the Bolton incident was right at the start of September. So a lot of things might well have changed if we had needed more points in the final games. You can't rewrite history in this way.

 

[Jeff Jones]

I hate to disagree but the Bolton incident was right at the start of September. So a lot of things might well have changed if we had needed more points in the final games. You can't rewrite history in this way.

Yes, and you'd have to look at every other controversial decision made in games played in with the teams in the relegation
battle that season.

 

[Marius57]

I hate to disagree but the Bolton incident was right at the start of September. So a lot of things might well have changed if we had needed more points in the final games. You can't rewrite history in this way.

If we can rewrite history, my view is that by not awarding the goal, they cost us the title. The not given foul on Southall leading to the goal being given and us losing would have motivated us so much that we would have gone on such a long winning streak that we would have won the league.

The ref screwed us over by disallowing it in my view.

Can't prove I'm wrong.