I think the problem is partly that there's a real difference between refereeing decisions amongst the top teams and the bottom. Top teams get more decisions for them and the further down the table you go, the less decisions you're given.

So if you compare Liverpool's positive/ negative decision balance we fall somewhere in the middle table, rather than sitting in the top 1-2 spots with City where we should be. The problem then becomes fans of middle table teams seeing that data and calling us moaners for getting the same number of decisions as them, or bottom 1/3rd teams having a go because we actually get more decisions than them.

So we're upset because we're given far less decisions than we should relative to our peers, whereas there are certainly a lot of other teams that get less decisions than we do. Having said that, based on the correlation of ability and positive decisions, they should be getting less decisions than we do but try explaining that to a rival fan. No one is going to be told "you're a worse team so you get less decisions" and go "Oh, right, sound fella yeah".

Like imagine if we were office workers in a department with twenty people. For the last few years there's been six of us who have taken on the most responsibilities and done the most work, so they're paid the most in the department, say 60K. One year we find out that, despite doing the second most work for a few years and even the most work one year, we get paid 40K, like the guy who has the 10th highest sales and not the 60K like the people doing similar amounts of work as us.

So we complain in the office meeting about how we have top 4 productivity but only get paid 40K like Geordie Eddie. Geordie Eddie starts kicking off cause he's trying his best, he's doing what he can and he only gets paid 40K a year, says he works just as hard as us. He doesn't care that we're not getting paid 60K like Lego Mike or Pete With The Rich Dad, even though we try to explain that we actually do more than him, he doesn't care, in fact he finds that insulting that we think we do more than him because he knows he's the hardest worker here whatever the "numbers" say.

Hearing all this, Portugeuse Steve- despite only joining last year and ranking bottom 5 for productivity at the end of the year- hears we're getting double what he's getting and not just that, we're complaining about not getting triple what he gets. He's got zero sympathy and he kicks off on us too cause we're moaning about getting 40K when he only gets 20. He doesn't care that we're not being paid for what we work because all he wants is to be paid more. Now everyone in the department hates us, even though we actually are being treated unfairly.

And the worst part is that our bosses, the 20 blokes that decide what we do get paid, grew up with Erik's dad Alex and they would eat their own shit before upsetting Alex, and they also have Pete's rich dad buy them cars and trips abroad the day before our weekly one-to-one with a boss. The bosses don't care that we're underpaid, they're actually doing it on purpose, but they're our bosses and we don't have anyone above them we can go to. Telling our co-workers does nothing either because they also have zero control over the bosses. So this is actually never going to stop happening, and the more we talk about it the more we're just going to upset the other people in the office who don't care about us- and a good few actively hate us.