Michael Oliver, Man City and the Questions That Won’t Go Away – Opinion

With the officials being allocated games for this weekend just gone, one name was very conspicuous by its absence. This was an official who has been touted as the best currently officiating in the PL, with a reported salary ranging from £180,000 to £250,000 per year.

The official who has shown so few red cards to City115 players, while seemingly refereeing their games completely differently to, for example, The Arsenal and Liverpool.

There’s no need to go into any specifics, as we all know this official ignored the rule book while protecting the spectacle of the game, then changed his mind completely when his decision was reversed and, in both cases, benefited City115.