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Match Fixing

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Ignore the shape of the football. You know how this game works. You know how this game ends. Yet you come back. Again and again.

It won't stop until we walk away. Wise up. Break your addiction. Live as free men and women.

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I'm seriously considering walking away myself
 
I wonder will the Football League fine Frank fit his comments in his post match interviews. Now that is a dilemma, if they don't it looks like they agree with him and accept what he said was true, if they do fine him they will be seen to be trying to defend the indefensible. I would love to be at the meeting were they decide what they are going to do.

Same as they did with Moyes and Clattenburg. Kavanagh will be nowhere near any of our games for a year or two, and there is no way he will be reffing at Goodison.

However Frank has publicly called him out as useless or a cheat, so expect some heavy punishment coming Franks way.
 

For me the offside call that was given was very telling as there was no offside anywhere in the build up or through to the end of the play being stopped by the whistle. I personally think they were hoping they could hang their incompetence on the supposed offside but were completely knackered when it was shown to have not been offside. Corruption is a strong word complete and utter incompetence is the most likely reason and neither ref nor the VAR ref shouldn't be officiating ever again because of that. Let's not have a go at VAR as that did its job it's the officials administering it that are at fault.
 
I don't know if I would go as far as to say match fixing / rigging; but the standard of referees is at the lowest I can remember.

The only decent ones out there are Michael Oliver and Anthony Taylor. The rest are just useless. Some of them aren't even got enough to keep up with play (Jon Moss).

Sadly we can't have Oliver or Taylor every week, so something needs to be done to being the rest up to their standard; it's no coincidence that they were the two English refs at the last Euros.
 
Let’s call it for what it is.

You could watch that 1000 times. It‘s a clear hand ball by every metric.
He clearly moves his arm towards the ball.
His arm is in an unnatural position, outside his body.
The ball clearly strikes him barely an inch above the fold of the elbow.
His face tells you he knew it was hand ball FFS!!!

And why didn’t Kavanagh send it to the Ref for his opinion?

Sadly, history tells us that Luvvy Bill & his little Everton won’t kick off about this. We need the Cult involved. Seriously, that 2 points could cost them the title! Not that I’d want them to win it, but I’d rather that than accept the game is a corrupt pantomime.


Kavanagh shouldn’t be the sole target in this. If he’s taken a bung, then I’d say it’s obvious who from.
If that was our player handling the ball at the Etihad, it would have been a pen, it's corrupt, plain and simple.
 
What I find strange is why refs from the Greater Manchester area get given games that involve teams from Manchester, Mike Dean should not be doing any games involving Merseyside teams as well.

They could be family/friend influence and unwanted pressure going into those games that skews their performances and thinking seeing things clearly without bias.

Tierney and Kavanagh seems to be a defacto combination Mike Riley goes with, remember the penalty City got when the ball hit the side of the Wolves player, Kavanagh never saw it, Tierney deemed it a penalty on VAR even though it never touched any part of the arm on every angle.

Spurs game recently that Tierney reffed and Kavanagh did VAR, game of bizarre decisions, Kane with a challenge high with studs no where near the ball, VAR cleared it, player clearly taken down in the eyeline of Tierney yards away, goes to VAR, Kavanagh says no, doesn't even recommend Tierney to watch that penalty incident or the Kane studs high, just like the Penalty last night,that was a game that impacted City without playing, Two point swing for them.

Kavanagh did VAR In the Newcastle City game Ederson wiped out a Player, stonewall penalty and Kavanagh deems it a non penalty and goal kick,city win the game 1-0.

Kavanagh ( Ashton Under Lyme) Tierney (Wigan) are both from Greater Manchester and are always involved together coincidentally in games that impact City in any way.

Some Tweets last night when the penalty incident was trending that Kavanagh's younger brother in Stalybridge is a season ticket holder at City, if it's true then he shouldn't be doing City games.
This is yet another issue, there are plenty of people on the Wirral, who may support Tranmere, but also like us or the RS. Also people of Irish heritage may have a soft spot for Celtic. You'll have Stockport fans who like City or United, same with Rochdale and Oldham. But it's mainly about money, the big clubs bring in big money so it makes sense that they need to do well. Arsenal were able to scrape through along with the RS to stay in the top 4 for ages, until things changed and they couldn't do anything to help them.
 

They have a vested interest in saying that, so I'd say it does matter.
Of course they have a vested interest in it. But a fact is a fact. I could have just said. I've just heard a rumour that he supports city and nobody would be any the wiser. But as I say, a fact is a fact. If it's not true. It's not true. It doesn't matter if the man in the moon told me.
 
Of course they have a vested interest in it. But a fact is a fact. I could have just said. I've just heard a rumour that he supports city and nobody would be any the wiser. But as I say, a fact is a fact. If it's not true. It's not true. It doesn't matter if the man in the moon told me.
Liverpool fans will say anything to gain an advantage and claim their victimhood status.
 
Well hang on…. any bias is corruption. Any deviation from the rules is corrupt.


I absolutely do not believe that was anything other than match fixing. There’s no other explanation.
If its bias or took some some money. Not much difference in the two it should mean the sack.

If its incompetence. Such incompetence that he can't tell thats a handball with multiple replays and angles. Then he isn't fit to ref. We all know no one that incompetent especially if they have worked thier way to such a high level.

Whatever way you paint it. He shouldn't have a job.
 

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