Some examples of how biased someone like Michael Oliver has been the last seasons. 

And even if everyone can see it on the pitch and statistically he is absurdly biased — the worst part — is that he during this period accepted very well paid side gigs for City and Newcastle’s owners. Which he, as far as I can tell at least, clearly shouldn’t be allowed to do. Still, PGMOL isn’t doing anything about it. 

If your job is to cover the PL — the right thing to do is to raise questions about it. These reporters aren’t. 

Anyway, Oliver’s track record, he doesn’t even have to try to hide it: 
🔺The last two seasons, he has been the VAR on 34 occasions. In those 34 games, he has on -- four (4) -- occasions sent the on-field referee to the screen, resulting in a penalty that wasn't called on the pitch. On 3 of those 4 occasions, it was done against Manchester United, and of those 3 at least 2 were clearly blatantly incorrect decisions but Webb defended him buying the excuse that he accidentally got “hyper focused”. 

Statistically, United should account for 1/20 of 4 VAR penalty interventions, i.e. 0.2 of themes The fact that the club accounts for 3 means that its a statistical deviation of no less than 1,500%. 

If we look at the broader picture, in fact, it looks much much worse. If we look at the average the last 3 years in the PL: 

🔺About 25% of all penalties Oliver has awarded (including on VAR) over this period has been against Manchester United -- which is a statistical deviation of 500% (benchmark should be 1/20 or 5%). 

No penalty has been awarded for United. This is not entirely a coincidence, Oliver is the ref that basically gives the fewest penalties in the PL the last two years. He has only given one in 6% of the games this season. 

🔺About 14.3% of the red cards Oliver has given, has been given to players of Manchester United, which is a statistical deviation of app. 285.7%., no red card given to the opponent. 

🔺He has given 57% more yellow cards to Utd than its opponent, and Utd (2.63) is the team he has given the 3rd highest amount of yellow cards per game behind Chelesa (2.65) and Sheffield Utd (3 in 1 game, so very small sample size). United is not a team that takes an unusual amount of yellow cards when reffed by other referees, ranking 6th this season and 8th last season.

🔺From start of 23/24 to February 2024 -- 70% of all cards he gave for "dissent" was given to United players, which is a statistical deviation of app. 3,500%. During all of 22/23 and 23/24 about 33% of all yellow cards for dissent was given to United players, which is a statistical deviation of about 600%.

This is a big sample size. And against tough opponents — many many pts will be lost for Amorim’s team with a ref like that.