Mathys Tel

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I think the single biggest issue we have is that there is no consistency, and that sides have to spend the first 5 minutes trying to get the measure of how a particular ref is going to ref the game that day. Some refs, however, do have bias. And some players attract bias thanks to whirlwinds in social media. I remember the amount of times a full-speed Bale was clipped and went flying, only for me (and others) to be told to stop protecting divers and cheats. There WERE times when Bale would go to ground, however in my view that was because there were many times when he simply was not protected. Maddison gets whacked all the time....I'll stop LOL!

I agree with both points (I said in another post that there's a definitely bias for and against certain players/certain types of players). But I just don't see how this online discourse leads anywhere good. It's the same phenomenon as incels, the manosphere and all those other awful online places. Echo chambers where nonsense isn't challenged, festers and then becomes the dominant narrative.