FA Cup Rivals Chelsea, Liverpool And City All Use One Tactic To Stop Palace

The last time Palace played at Wembley, referee Mark Clattenburg made “errors”. Act now to stop this happening again!

What’s going on? Well, when the same circumstances produce the same outcome 6 times out of 6, the conclusion is 100% reliable, and it qualifies as a fact.

Fact: When Palace play against Chelsea, Liverpool and City, we hardly get the ball at all, yet our opponents do all the fouling

In 6 match-ups this season with the “Big 3” clubs who all appointed themselves ready to be founding members of the so-called European Super League, the post-match stats for all 6 games tell the same story. Possession is dominated by our opponents, and they’re occasionally fouled by Palace players. But, out of possession, those same famous and highly skilled opponents very frequently queue up to foul Palace players.

Proof That Dirty Play Stops The Palace

Here is the actual data for matches played this season:

1. Chelsea away (referee – Jon Moss). Foul by Palace every 5.15 minutes that Chelsea had the ball. Foul by Chelsea every 2.22 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession: Chelsea 63% Palace 37%. Fouls: Chelsea 15 Palace 11. Yellow cards: Chelsea 0 Palace 0

2. Liverpool away (referee – Andy Madley). Foul by Palace every 4.90 minutes that Liverpool had the ball. Foul by Liverpool every 2.12 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession: Liverpool 60% Palace 40%. Fouls: Liverpool 17 Palace 11. Yellow cards: Liverpool 3 Palace 1

3. City away (referee – Andre Marriner). Foul by Palace every 5.56 minutes that City had the ball. Foul by City every 2.61 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession: City 68% Palace 32%. Fouls: City 11 Palace 11. Yellow cards: City 2 Palace 3. Red Cards: City 1 Palace 0

4. Liverpool home (referee – Liverpool’s Friend). Foul by Palace every 4.27 minutes that Liverpool had the ball. Foul by Liverpool every 3.22 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession: Palace 43% Liverpool 57%. Fouls: Palace 12 Liverpool 10. Yellow cards: Palace 4 Liverpool 1

5. Chelsea home (referee – David Coote). Foul by Palace every 13.05 minutes that Chelsea had the ball. Foul by Chelsea every 1.99 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession Palace 42% Chelsea 58%. Fouls: Palace 4 Chelsea 19. Yellow cards: Palace 1 Chelsea 3

6. City home (referee – Martin Atkinson). Foul by Palace every 11.10 minutes that City had the ball. Foul by City every 2.13 minutes Palace had the ball. Possession: Palace 26% City 74%. Fouls: Palace 6 City 11. Yellow cards: Palace 3 City 1

Okay. Well, not okay actually. If it happened with one ref, one game – it could be one of those things, bad luck, a freak even ….. But not with six matches, not with six different referees. This is a system, and it works for Chelsea, Liverpool and City – and against Palace.

The Facts In Summary

Here’s the average across all six matches.

Foul by Palace every 6.18 minutes when opponents had the ball. Foul by Chelsea, Liverpool and City every 2.41 minutes when Palace had the ball.

Possession for Palace: 37%. Possession for Chelsea, Liverpool and City: 63%. Fouls per game by Palace: 9.17. Fouls by Chelsea, Liverpool and City: 13.83

And yellow cards? Clearly, not all fouls are equal, but the lop-sided nature of the refereeing is laid bare by the statistics! Fouls: Palace 55 Chelsea, Liverpool and City 83. Yellow cards: Palace 12 Chelsea, Liverpool and City 10. So Palace got one yellow card for every 4.58 fouls while Chelsea, Liverpool and City in these 6 matches only got one yellow card for 8.30 fouls!

This could hardly be more blatant, more obvious, more uneven, more unfair. Palace players in possession get chopped down more than twice as often as our famous opponents’ players!! And Palace players get yellow carded almost twice as often as opponents for their fouls.

For a Wembley Cup semi-final against Chelsea, let’s try to make sure the match officials pay attention and above all, ensure fair play!

Make no mistake, Chelsea, Liverpool and City all have great teams with wondrously good players who sometimes display amazingly clever skills during games, but …. if defending against inferior opponents means fouling and fouling and fouling – as the statistics prove beyond doubt – how good are these teams really? And, if they’re not much better than our team, why should their foul play combined with referee “errors” be allowed to prevent Palace from at last winning the Cup we so richly deserve to crown a club history that’s longer than the history of the FA Cup itself.

If you want this changed, get a fair shake from the ref, shine the light on what these star players do to Palace…..you need to take action NOW to alert the authorities. They already know about this bias, but they assume you don’t. In fact, they assume you do know, but you just don’t care.

HERE’S WHAT TO DO NOW!

To stop the cheating, to help the Palace, to see fair treatment at Wembley …. take action now.

Contact the FA today – go to https://help.thefa.com/support/tickets/new

Tell them what you think

Use the subject line “Stop Cheating the Palace Now”

There’s no time to waste! Wembley is only days away!

P.S. Remember how “Referee Errors” in 2016 cost Palace a first FA Cup Final win in the club’s long history?

1. Months after the match, in the Evening Standard (30.12.16), referee Mark Clattenburg admitted: “I should have played advantage” instead of disallowing Connor Wickham’s great 17th minute opening goal. Waaaay too late, mate. Pundit Alan Shearer called the decision “shocking“.

2. In the 35th minute, Clattenburg gave Rooney “the benefit of the doubt” when he missed the ball completely and brought Wilfried Zaha down in the penalty area

3. Nine minutes later, Clattenburg blew his whistle to stop play when Joel Ward was through on goal – again, he failed to play the advantage rule

4. Clattenburg failed to reduce United to 9 men when he decided not to give Rooney a second yellow card after fouling Puncheon

5. Although Clattenburg later conceded his errors, he failed to even apologise. “I remember coming off the FA Cup Final disappointed“, he said. Not half as disappointed as us Palace fans

By disallowing Wickham’s early FA Cup Final goal, ref Mark Clattenburg irrevocably changed the course of the match. Palace hopes of winning the Cup were then buried by his further “errors“. Yet Clattenburg showed zero remorse and moved on to an obscenely lucrative deal with the Saudis teaching them about fair play (I can hardly breathe for laughing at the irony).

DON’T LET PALACE GET SHAFTED AGAIN!