Yesterday's match at Old Trafford was a matchfixing event with significant insider trading on a Manchester United victory versus Nottingham Forest.
No great surprise about either of those realities as Varchester United seem joined at the hip to the PGMOL while the club has been a trading room since Ten Hag arrived with his array of associates.
Manchester United club agent John Colquhoun oversses the Guardian football output so it is interesting to look at the distortion of news and reality in this comic compared to other newspapers.
Commenting on the appalling decisions by referee Stuart Attwell, 4th Official Michael Salisbury and VAR Official Robert Jones, the Guardian commented in the penultimate paragraph of Jamie Jackson's report:
Steve Cooper was unhappy with Worrall's sending off and United's penalty award: "I'm not going to talk too much as I don't want to get into trouble," he said.
Compare that abridged version of reality to the Telegraph:
Cooper said: "I just think in games like these you just - I don't even want to say good luck to go your way - you just want things to go as they should.
"I'm not going to talk too much as I don't want to get into trouble, but the only thing I was surprised about was how quickly the decisions were made at that moment in time.
"You see now, on decisions that can define a game - which maybe, amongst other things, did today - you tend to see referees take a bit more time, particularly at the top, top level. So I was really surprised, looking at it, how quickly it all happened.
"You just need things to go your way. I'm just biting my tongue, in terms of what I really feel."
Elsewhere the Telegraph described how furious the Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis was at the PGMOL's performance and gave details of the array of seemingly biased decisions including the fact that Worrall wasn't the last man and so should only have received a yellow card.
From the Guardian, nothing.
Two other related points...
Both Simon Hooper and Michael Salisbury were suspended after failing to award Wolverhampton Wanderers an injury time penalty in United's other home game this season.
That decision denied Wolves a point and presented Man Utd with two.
PGMOL manager Jon Moss apologised to Wolves post match and said the decision was incorrect and that a penalty should have been given.
Both Hooper and Salisbury were stood down for last weekend's round of games in response.
And this weekend?
Salisbury is 4th Official at Old Trafford...
... and Hooper is VAR Official for Manchester City's trip to Sheffield United.
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