The corruption this year of PGMOL (FA ref association) and the EPL is off the charts. There have ben dozens of shit calls that only go to certain, favoured team (Man U is the biggest beneficiary, they were flat out given/stole close to 18 to 20 points this season via some of the worst, strangest, most corrupt calls, pens, pens not given, play allowed to go on for a pen that was VAR ordained AFTER final whistle had ended game and the ref had said no pen, etc etc etc).
now to this game:
The ref in the West Bom v Scouser game, Mike Dean, is a Merseysider who was banned for years from refereeing Pool games due to his Pool connections and some dodgy calls at the start of his career. We still have no idea how and why he was allowed to start officiating their games again. It is outrageous, as evidenced by what he did today.
The first Pool goal never should have counted/happened:
1 Mike Dean blocked off the West Brom players at midfield when they would have instantly had the ball
2 West Brom got the ball back anyway, so play should have went on (advantage played, OR at worst a dropped ball)
3 Instead of that, Mike Dean blows the whistle and insanely, incorrectly gives POOL a free kick
4 He also allowed Liverpool to do a quick kick within a a couple seconds or so of his bizarre call, with the West Brom defenders not remotely ready and all scattered, which the directly led to the Liverpool goal.
Even Carragher and Souness, massive Pool backers and ex Pool players, said it was madness.
THEN
West Brom's 2nd goal was criminally chalked off by VAR for offside on a player not even involved IN THE PLAY.
Every presenter, Carragher and Souness included, said THAT TOO was robbery, and they are viscous Liverpool partisans, so it really shows how shit it was.
Even with 95th header by Pool, the final score should have been West Brom 2, Liverpool 1.
The corruption with PGMOL and the EPL is madness. It is getting to be as bad as the old late 1990's to mid 2000's Serie A ref match-fixing scandals (at least there, teams were docked points, demoted, refs and players banned, and a few people went to prison.)
The EPL has a massive vested interest in making sure that their 2 biggest of the big brands, team-wise, ie. Man U and Pool, get into the CL.
The same two teams, who with their shit American owners (the Glazers for Man U and FSG for Pool), along with JP Morgan Chase (of course it was, ffs, they were the moneybags behind this attempted bollocksing), Florentino Perez (of Real Madrid), then Barca, plus another yank owner (Kroenke of Arsenal), and finally the criminal scum Angelli clan (Juve) were the ringleaders of the disastrous (and far from finished) European Super League nightmare of a few weeks back.
The English football game is close to being wrecked, the systemic corruption is off the charts. This West Brom v Scouser game is a perfect example. It literally was criminally (yes, I mean that legally) stolen from West Brom, and given to Pool, who now likely will make the CL, and probably would NOT have if they had lost.
That is around a 150 million total net USD swing straight given (certainly not earned as this was far from the first dodgy shit going their way from PGMOL shenanigans, but it was the most blatant) TO the Scousers and stolen away from either Leicester or Chelsea, and will, almost certainly, be closer to a 200 million or more USD net swing now, as UEFA is likely to increase CL prize money in a desperate bid to stave of that fucking ESL dross.
It is sickening, and it is destroying the integrity of the sport.
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