That decision by the ref in the city game was the clearest evidence of corruption there’s ever been.

Refs can and do make shit and wrong calls all the time, they can hide behind plenty of things to justify shit decisions though or just flat out claim human error if it’s particularly bad and nobody can really question it.

That one at city though there’s literally no valid reason however suspect and unlikely that can be given for doing what he did other than corruption. He can be seen waving play on as city had the advantage, They then play the ball forward, Grealish is clean through and he then blows and brings it back for a city freekick. The only reason you can bring it back at that point is if there’s no advantage, I’d say grealish being played clean through is a pretty fucking big advantage.

So far nobody can even begin to offer an explanation for it, there’s a reason for that. There isn’t one. It’s clear as day there’s something very suspect occurred there but it looks like it will get brushed under the carpet because pep hasn’t in his words “done an arteta” and made a scene about it.

He really should have tbh its worth the pathetic FA fine he would have got to see how they explain this one.

No, this is a popular clueless internet fan thought. Any armchair fan willing to turn away from the game because of var is no loss to the sport anyway.

Yet you’d be back the second united became relevant again. City and Chelsea have nothing whatsoever to do with evertons punishment, they’re not remotely yhe same thing. As it happens the only club who has anything even approaching a similar situation is united.

If you display your allegiance to the away side whilst being in the home end, expect to get ejected and take a few smacks on the way out if you’re being especially obnoxious. If you sit down, shut up and don’t raise any attention you’ll be able to watch the game just fine.

Their catastrophic failure last season isn’t talked about enough. Plenty of talk about Chelsea’s implosion but they at least had excuses.

It’s not caffeine in those “special inhalers”

This depends on how good you think they are. They’re a europa league side riding slightly higher at the minute due to decent form and other teams poor form.

Spurs had most of their squad unavailable for that game. I expected them to get battered by villa yet villa were second best and unimpressive for most of the game. Only took hold of the game when they could make subs and spurs’ injury list and lack of bench became even more of a factor.

They’re just ahead of spurs who are having an injury crisis. Ahead of newcastle who have had a substantial injury crisis, ahead of chelsea who have had a substantial injury crisis and ahead of united who are just plain shit. Other than that, They’re where you would expect.

Motm is more a scathing assessment of how shit the rest of the team is. The lad did well, looks a talent but was nothing more than just neat and tidy.

rico lewis for city, similar age and is putting in those performances on a bad day. He isn’t getting motm awards for that level of performance because he isn’t surrounded by utter trash that make average look better than it is.

City are notoriously slow starters. After playing into June last season and winning the treble they were always going to have a slow start. The fact they’re so close to the top should scream danger for the wannabes.

They’ve been without the best midfielder on the planet all season, he’s due back in the new year and will be fresh, their new signings haven’t really settled yet, and given they made about £150 million profit in the summer window again, they’re probably going to have a war chest to spend in Jan if they need to.

Anybody who has lived on this planet for the last half a decade would put city as the heavy favourites right now. apart from the centurions season, this is probably the best position city have been in at this point in the season. Unless they get absolutely decimated with more injuries, they’ll stroll it, liverpool and arsenal are miles away from city.

Don’t point out obvious gigantic flaws in internet narratives. You’re supposed to go along with it like all the other braindead morons until it’s seen as fact.

So presume foul play despite nothing to support it? Another apt description of a conspiracy theory.

Not denying they’ve reffed in the UAE, The fa and premier league have sanctioned it and declared it fine. There’s absolutely nothing out there for anybody to believe it isn’t yet we get mental suggests suggesting otherwise. Literal definition of a conspiracy theory.

There is no doubt to be had, there’s literally nothing in reality to suggest any problem, it’s purely fuelled by wild conspiracies.

Having a conspiracy theory be slightly more believable than the more batshit crazy ones doesn’t make it any more likely to be true or give it any substance. A complete and utter lack of any supporting evidence for any of the conspiracies thrown around gives them all zero credibility.

Pretty much yeah. It’s infested with “fans” from a certain few clubs that have almost certainly been cast out other places so they all congregate here en-masse to express those shit opinions that put them here in the first place and back each other up for a sense of acknowledgement.

It’s fucking weird, but if you recognise it’s no place for normal opinions it can be a fascinating place to read the levels of delusions some go to.

Ake and gomez have been out for weeks, why would they miss games to fake an injury to miss internationals? That’s a beyond stupid suggestion.

Rodri and haaland both reported for international duty, both picked up knocks on international duty and both played for their national sides. The complete opposite of your suggestion.

Ederson, nunes and kovacic all pulled out of international duty injured, 2 of those are currently still unavailable and unlikely to be involved this weekend.

So there’s literally one player, a goalkeeper no less who doesn’t really need rest, who got injured during the chelsea game with a minor knock who missed international duty and looks to be available.

You might want to come up with more solid examples if you’re going to come up with tin foil hat conspiracies.

Found the next Stalin…

They refused to co-operate as they didnt feel they were getting a fair hearing, they did exactly the same with uefa and guess what, when given a fair unbiased ruling by CAS, they were cleared and therefore completely justified in their reasonijg fir not co-operating.

With the threat of an independent regulator looming over the premier league its clear to everybody and their dog what their intentions are with the city, chelsea and everton charges.

“City beat uefa charges with their army of lawyers”

Erm no they didn’t, they went to CAS the highest sporting court in the land and entirely independent, they and they alone ruled on the charges, clearing city of everything bar failure to co-operate.

If that were remotely true, then they don’t charge city in the first place.

Why do you think football owners are complete cretins that cannot manage to stay within their set budget? Theres a handful of owners that want to invest for sporting success, the vast majority of football owners now, namely the Americans all want to do the exact opposite of spending beyond their means, they want to siphon out as much money from the club as possible and spend as little of their own money as possible.

Ffp was brought in to protect the biggest and wealthiest clubs, nothing else.