When Riyad Mahrez's penalty kick was saved by Lukasz Fabianski towards the end of the game against Manchester City, it seemed to all and sundry that the referee Anthony Taylor was going to ask for the kick to be retaken and that if that kick was missed that he would take the next one himself, such was his bias towards City.
This is not a westhamaphobic observation, fans from other clubs have got in touch to ridicule the referee's supposed neutrality, every single occasion there was a 50/50 decision the award went the way of the visitors. Michail Antonio was 'hacked down' on two definite instances, neither were punished by Taylor who MUST have Blue Moon as the ring tone on his phone!
If you were at the Stadium, watching on Sky or watch this evening on the BBC, nothing will deter from the fact that Taylor was myopically biased to the Sky Blues who huffed and puffed but needed the woodwork and the Ref in order to exit the Stratford Stadium with a point. Racing into a two goal lead with a Jarrod Bowen brace was dreamsville, unfortunately Jack Grealish scored early doors 2nd half and Vladimir Coufal headed in to his own net to give the visitors the goal they needed to level things up.
In a game of could haves and would haves, Hammers had their chances t win the game, as did the visitors, but with a different referee City would have been left pointless. The away team DID applaud Mark Noble onto the pitch as part of his 'going away' ceremony and Pep Guardiola ALSO SHOWED full respect.
They don't make 'em like Marky anymore, there was a tremendous atmosphere generated this afternoon in a Stadium that might not be fully fit for purpose, but didn't half get close to the real deal today! - Ed
PS: And you know where Taylor can stick HIS blue flag!
Comments
Anthony(Blue moon)Taylor
Whenever i see his name and he takes charge of one of our games you are just waiting for him to make bias decisions in the oppositions favour.
I would love to hear the reason why Refs make there decisions but thats not allowed why? its because they make mstakes they are only human but comeon on such a regular basis it borders on incompetence.
Im convinced this bias is
Im convinced this bias is comming from higher up ,he seemed to be in ore of them ,especially the male model when ever he went down Taylor was straight over to him making sure he was ok ,its the same with the Scousers and the scum ,the big money big names get things their way .
Burkie
We all know the games are rigged in the so called big teams favour just like the 5 subs for next season suits the minority not the majority but it is getting silly and until you get refs to come out and explain there decisions nothing will change.
Its getting ridiculous at the
Its getting ridiculous at the moment bike never mind 5 subs ,imagine the time waisting in the last 10 minutes
Terrible Ref
Taylor is from the Mike Dean mould! Knew as soon as he was announced as ref,that there would be dodgy decisions.As said some of the challenges on Ants were ridiculous,but the twat actually gave us a foul when Ants was hardly touched!! Talk about make a decision to try & even things up!! Laughable