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I’ve looked at this eg the work of ESPN with LSE. What was true, was that across sport refs are homers. But Friend, Atkinson et al are widely hated by fans of the big 6 for shocking decisions in vital games that cost them. I just think EPL refs are mainly incompetent these days. Look at the...

So true about greasy football clubs, agents etc. Look at the lengths that Derby, Massive, Citeh, PSG, Real Madrid have gone to, to circumvent finances laws they signed up to.

Not easy to find online, but in the past OPTA with some academics looked at each EPL season, with a view to establishing points should’ve earned without key officiating decision errors. They explain the methods in the articles. It wasn’t a case of the top 6 always gained, instead all pretty...

Hordes at games and on nsc spent the first 4 EPL seasons obsessed with refs being anti Albion / biased towards every opponent. My view was that many of these refs were simply error strewn (shit) against everyone. The same characters were disliked on other club fora.

We’ve finally ditched the “all refs are biased against us” mindset. For now.

As Covid variants (hopefully) diminish further still in terms of the severity of illness, I hope soon that we see the end of this being a factor in squad availability. And the milking of the situation by clubs. Is Omicron a threat to the life of a 25 year old athlete? We’ve already come...