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Do English referees give England players favourable decisions ?
Paul Scholes’s non-sending off in the title climax on Sunday has confirmed a suspicion I’ve held for a while - Premiership referees are biased in favour of England (or just plain English) players over their foreign counterparts. As Sunday’s match official Steve Bennett blew his whistle to indicate a foul had been committed when Scholes clashed with Wilson Palacios, you wondered what went ...
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