Bad VAR calls have come from Refs linked with Manchester City – Journalist claims

Whoever ends up winning the Premier league this season or gets relegated, it will be the most controversial it ever gets.

There is a lot of corruption going on between UAE owned Manchester City and premier league referees, journalist Francois Plateau alleges as he unearths conspiracies tying the United Arab Emirates with Premier League referees who have been responsible for many controversial calls this season.

Controversy seems the only consistent thing when it comes to Premier League officiating and VAR calls, and this season, it has become even more frustrating as certain calls by match day officials have been brought into question – particularly those relating to Manchester City and Liverpool.

It has even gone on the social media space that should the premier league title be won come end of the season, crucial moments where decisions went in favor of Manchester City and against Liverpool during the season would be picked on as the contributing factor for whoever ends up winning the league between Manchester City or Arsenal.

According to Francois Plateau, Michael Oliver; the match day official for the game between Liverpool and Manchester City at Anfield whose on field call in the Sunday clash led to the Reds being denied a penalty in the late stages of the game, has previously received payment for ‘freelancing’ as a referee in the United Arab Emirates, who stand linked to premier league champions, Manchester City.

Alleging the controversies plaguing VAR and refereeing decisions this season that have gone in favor of and against Manchester City and Liverpool respectively, aren’t far behind connecting the dots linking Michael Oliver, the UAE and Manchester City together.

According to the journalist, the consistent calls made by Oliver since his association with the United Arab Emirates who Sheikh Mansour coincidentally stands the Vice President of, shouldn’t be seen as much the head scratcher many now see it as,

Francois Plateau in his post on X, goes on to claim that the call in the crucial tie between Tottenham and Liverpool in North London, which had VAR referee Darren England making a controversial call to deny Liverpool of a lead after going down to 10-men, seems even more suspicious as England had been in the UAE less than 24 hours before the match.

The referee in the game between Liverpool and Manchester City, Michael Oliver, has previously received payment for ‘freelancing’ as a referee in the United Arab Emirates. Since then, he has been involved in multiple head-scratching decisions favoring Manchester City, a club owned… pic.twitter.com/japCLWEcEl

— François Plateau (@francoisplateau) March 11, 2024

Plateau also stresses that the assistant VAR referee, Dan Cook was also present in the UAE with Darren England prior to making the infamous call to rule out Luis Diaz’s goal for offside over what the PGMOL eventually defended as ‘significant human error’.

With premier league referees receiving payment from the United Arab Emirates, the owners of Manchester City – a club currently facing 115 counts of FFP breeches, decisions consistently going in favor of the Cityzens, now begs to the integrity of the English Premier League.

Should fans start rolling eyes when ‘UAE linked referees’ start making ‘human errors’ when it coincidentally affects Liverpool and Manchester City or should the media keep treating them as ‘human errors’?

Manchester City’s directors supposedly working for free.

They’re messing with the books in all departments of the club. We’re witnessing cheating on a level that we’ve never seen before. https://t.co/Z0L852FOId

— François Plateau (@francoisplateau) March 11, 2024