The People's Forum: Have to be honest, wouldn't argue with any of our yellows

Tarkovski and JOB both got caught wrong side of the ball and dragged their man down. Beto had two very similar clumsy late mibbles on both centre-halfs, and Keane was of course a yellow at bare minimum. City players made the most of each challenge but you'd expect that.

Not sure where that stat about our opponents came from btw but Donnarumma was booked last night and I remember a handful for West Ham?

The smaller things like throw-ins I did notice. At one stage he was telling Nunes to move back repeatedly and then just allowed him to steal the yards anyway.

Oliver did okay last night imho but Kavanagh in the derby was abysmal. Regardless of what the refs do on the pitch, we had two stonewall penalties in last two games that were easily seen on video playback. We do seem to get fucked over by VAR more than most.

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...especially as - in my experience - both he and Anthony Taylor seem untouchable and unable to be challenged by VAR, and you can maybe argue that the Keane tackle and overruling the linesman's offside flag for our first goal worked for us, but for me it was the overall bias when it came to the smaller decisions - yellow cards galore for us, zero for them (I just saw a stat that in our last 4 games, our opponents have received ZERO yellow cards despite 32 fouls against us!) but for me there were 2 incidents yesterday that highlighted this perfectly.

Incident 1) was when James Garner took a quick throw-in that caught them out - it went to one of our players in the box with no City players reacting, but Oliver pulled him back. Having watched it back, yes Garner had stolen a few yards, but they had been doing that all night with both throw-ins and free-kicks without any correction whatsoever, which leads nicely on to the 2nd incident...

Barry had (harshly) conceded a free kick right down by the corner flag...

Firstly Guehi, moved it across loads then (in my opinion) he actually TOOK the free-kick and kicked it back to his keeper, who wasn't expecting it, and Barry intercepted it, but the referee blew to indicate that the kick hadn't actually been taken yet...

They then ended up taking the free kick from HERE with not a word said by the referee or linesman when the free kick was awarded literally right in front of him!

It might seem like a little thing, but when it's consistenly happening with ALL the little things then for me it's a clear indication of bias towards one team - and there were loads of examples of that for me last night.