I don't think there is such a stage where "everything" you do gets' you criticised. It's more that being a highly paid failure gets you criticised. Not doing the job you are highly paid to do. Whose paying whose wages here? Fans owe him nothing.
I'd quite like Spurs to win so they can snatch the last CL place from Villa! Out of the Big 6, Spurs tend to be least Big. Possibly the only one of them that could drop down and become a normal club.
Playing out from the back is such a copycat fad. Most teams don't have the players to do it. Soon, some manager is going to break the fad and stop doing it, with the result that his team will concede 10+ fewer goals a season and he'll be regarded as a genius!
Have you seen the studies on bias? There was one a few seasons ago that showed certain clubs (eg Arsenal & Liverpool) got twice as much injury time when they were losing, compared to when they winning. Seen one this season looking at fouls per yellow card. Liverpool have by far the lowest rate...
Though for some people, it's always been the opposite. Whatever he doesn't do, it's always someone elses fault. The players for not passing to him. Or passing to him at the wrong height. Or the fans for saying he's played badly when he's played badly. Some still seem to believe he's a latent...
As long as by "incompetence" you mean officials who are too weak to risk giving anything against the biggest clubs. I think that is pretty much how it operates and in the past, refs have virtually admitted it. When a Man City player is tussling one of ours and they both go down, in a 50/50 the...
It's just big club bias. Human nature to try and not upset those with power over us, especially when our salary depends on it.
There was a link here recently to a YT including some in depth analysis of decisions in the Scottish League over a few seasons. The argument was about whether Rangers...
Same here. As soon as their player fell in the penalty area, I don't even know why they bother with VAR. The ref had already made clear that every time a City player fell over, he was giving them a free kick. He was going to give it as sure as if the identical incident happened at the other end...
Agree. As this season has progressed, I've noticed our passing seems way poorer than most other teams, especially going forward. Now the "Pass Percentage" hides this, as we do a lot of safe, slow knocking the ball around the back line. So I hunted out some detailed stats and sure enough, when it...
Yep. Today was blatant. Scottish football is a good comparison. Also Spain. Watched matches where Barca/Real are playing A.N.Other and every time a Barca/Real their player falls over, gets a free kick. Today was just like that. Several replays showed that City player was going down even before...
Yet the 2 teams above us have conceded more than us. They just scored more. We are still not good at goal scoring, when you look at the league table and compare to other teams.
Agree that defence is easier and should be a lot cheaper to fix. And resetting this teams needs to start at the...
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