Premier League

Basically, players go down after a foul so often now that an advantage is so rare the ref has forgotten what to do about it

Cheque must've bounced back

Grealish looked offside anyway, no?

Oh booohoo. If Arsenal and Liverpool slip up next week they could be top again. It’s not that bad! Geez.

UAE stopped paying PL referees. Oh no...

100%. Shoulda let play continue. Maybe the refs are in Spurs' pocket for these big matches?

Ah well - couldn't have happened to a better squad.

Edit: Clearly the sarcasm in the last sentence didn't come through, ahaha.

I wanted Spurs to win that but that was an appalling decision.

He even played Grealish on. If he was concerned for Haaland, then why didn’t he stop the game immediately?

Always rated Premier League refrees.

crazy how referees get away with it too

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Almost every team has been robbed this season. It's gonna happen

Maybe, just maybe the "pl corrupt, fixing it for city" whining will stop. Aaaaaahahaha, never going to happen. Next time a decision goes against Liverpool or Arsenal the conspiracy nut jobs will conveniently forget about this game.

I guess the oil money didn't make it to Simon's account in time?

Can i say i dont give a fk if man city messed up their chances? As an arsenal supporter i was so glad they messed sm shit up.

But seriously its not right for such horrendous calls to be made in the EPL ffs. And theres 0 humility from the refs. Maybe grealish will miss or score, who knows. The fked up part is we wld nvr know cos of the poor decisions

That actually was pretty shocking. Especially considering how long after the foul he blew the whistle

Simon Hooper IS directly responsible for Spurs + points this season.

Ah well. What ya gonna do, hey ho.

This is why it's pointless to try to argue over who has suffered the most from these decisions, and who benefits from it. There is no referee conspiracy, it's just incompetence. The quality of refereeing is apalling, and every club has had their turn getting screwed by it. This narrative of such and such coach making excuses or needing to move on is just getting the refs off the hook week after week for some god awful calls.

Very odd decision from the ref, now we join the club of being robbed

Unlucky lads it happens. It’s football. City will try to pin it on that one moment but they had plenty of time to win it and plenty of chances.

First time?

It looks like he blew because he thought city had lost the ball, i e no advantage. But who knows.

Grealish looked offside so it might not have worked in City's favour. Happy with the result though. They shouldn't moan about the ref when they concede 3 goals like that. Haaland missed a sitter early on.

It was a horrible call that much is clear but to call it a robbeery is just laughable. There is absolutely no guarantee that Grealish takes it down, doesnt get tackled and manages to score. I know that reddit is a cess pool for bad opinions but jesus christ, take breath and have a think about what you are posting before you post it.

Grealish is trash anyways, he would have never scored

Maybe Man City shouldn’t have conceded a late sloppy goal. I’d be more upset about that.

This is ridiculous doesn’t matter if you’re a spurs fan a city fan anything. Constant robbery this season in the league by officials, by VAR, and by pure unprofessionalism. This is just sad to see.

ref was a wanker period.

Fuck Man Sheikhy

bro its been 2 minutes apologies don't come out this quickly

Utterly shit call though, how is that even possible?

That is one of the worst calls I have ever seen. You either blow for the foul, or play the advantage. Grealish was in, there. I don't blame Haaland one bit for losing his rag at the end.

Wouldn’t Grealish have been called for offside anyways? I swear I saw and heard the assistant referee’s flag go up for offside, and Grealish received the ball past all of spurs

Colour me shocked that an Arsenal fan doesn't like a Spurs result.

Terrible decision but hilarious

I mean, to put things into wider context, remember Man City have just won a treble and continue to win most titles PL these days due to their never ending financial resources, which enable them to dominate the league (to the point it’s now boring because only one team really wins it.) So… I’m sure they can afford to not too bothered by one bad decision in one game.

Hairband Willy would've fluffed it anyway

You say robbed, and it was an odd decision, but he probably wouldn't have scored. There was s defender on his shoulder and a very good goalkeeper to beat.

I missed like the last 20, you’d best summarise it for me so I don’t look silly at the water-cooler tomorrow.

You conceded three

How does it feel?

Oh well, what goes around...

Hope they're rattled.

Ref was stupid to blow on the Grealish chance, but did Grealish not look offside anyway?

Seems to be happening to every team, let's be honest. Not sure how Spurs got a point but there you go. In a strange way it makes the whole EPL season more compelling. Brighton received 3 apologies from the PGMOL last season, we just have to 'suck it up' as they say.

Played advantage then called it back. Was Grealish offside? It made no sense and just a horrendous decision.

Could anyone tell me what happened in this game? Did not catch it live.

We should have put the game to bed in the first half , but that call was ridiculous .

My only thought is he assumed Grealish was off so blew the whistle as the advantage was gone?

Still in this technology era I don’t see the harm in letting something that close roll to its conclusion and then sorting the potential offside after?

Spurs have been gifted by VAR and poor referring a few times this season. Lol

I thought Man City “pay the refs” ?

Robbed of a chance, not the game. There was no guarantee Grealish was going to score from that.

It was a bad call, but there’s been so many this season so it’s not like it’s only impacted City.