Taylor and Gillett, ffs.
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Taylor and Gillett, ffs.
Oh yeah, victory can produce some choice language as well :-)
I was politely ejected from Healy Mac's (Kuala Lumpur's premier Irish pub) at the conclusion of the Cup Final win over Hull. Among the incriminating comments was 'have some of that, you Chelsea c**t', to some Chelsea fan who had been giving me some stick at 2-0 down. To be fair, the Chelsea fan took it pretty well and thought it was funny. The owners, less so :-)
And we're not winning :-(
It might be the slow accumulation. 5 or 6 obvious yellow cards ignored, two yellows for one of ours on the 'letter of the law'.
Remember Rodri escaping 3 or 4 times at the Emirates and eventually getting booked for taking his shirt off after scoring the injury time winner. And the travesty of ignoring that second yellow for Kovacic this season.
That's how a ref influences a game. Not with the big decisions that VAR can overturn, but by stealth. At Anfield, Rodri was booked for a poor challenge. On three subsequent occasions he had to avoid dragging someone down and preventing a break because he was on a yellow. Against us he can do it all day. Slowly, it makes a huge difference in a game.
and just so we're clear, Anthony Taylor, was awful. How no City players were booked in that 1st half was a joke.
They are the masters of doing it and avoiding yellow cards. It is another area where they can see we are catching up. No wonder it irritates them.
I thought Taylor refereed the game fairly well. His unfussy approach did benefit us a little in the first half but he showed the same approach to both sides. That is all I expect from a ref.