| Pink 'Un conspiracists 23:54 - Apr 22 with 1854 views | andyblue231 |
The Pink 'Un absolutely losing their minds that there is a conspiracy to see us promoted this season.
It's frightening how quickly people in society are willing to believe conspiracy theories to explain away things that are psychological stressful for them. And to not understand confirmation bias and strong priors.
We are to believe there is an orchestrated conspiracy, that if true would send everyone involved to prison, result in billions of pounds of law suits and bring the English game to its knees in order to make sure Ipswich are promoted. Ipswich. With all that structural power we wield in the game.
And it's also a coincidence that this grand conspiracy just happens to benefit their local rivals. How unlucky for them.
Quite why the powers that be are so desperate to see us promoted is unclear. They seem to have survived well enough without us.
The stretch seems to be that the PL don't want Millwall because they'd be difficult to police? Give me strength.
The Man City forum is similarly full of people who think that the entire establishment is working to undermine the club.
I think it's an internet phenomenon. Things spiral and gain a sort of gravitational pull, pulling in other people willing to believe.
It's frightening to me.
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 00:07 - Apr 23 with 1735 views | gainsboroughblue |
If there was such a conspiracy, we'd have been awarded a pen v Leicester and Stoke denied one i consecutive games.
The scary thing is people then become so blind to when you get a decision that there is absolutely no doubt about, instead using it as further weight to the argument. |  |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 00:39 - Apr 23 with 1638 views | armchaircritic59 |
They have minds to lose? |  | | |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 02:36 - Apr 23 with 1516 views | Minneapolis_ITFC |
Pink Un can be worth a view sometimes. Only glance in to see what Town related items there are, some are honest enough to wish us well but it's a small minority as one would imagine.
We've been awarded penalty decisions twice as much as the nearest other this season. Some rival fans would question it or suppose we've done a deal someplace. They're entitled to an opinion particularly as so much is at stake right now but no-one is going out of their way to ensure we're a promoted team once again. If we've benefitted from these decisions it's because any one match official has been inadequate during an instance of gameplay, there's nothing overly sinister underway.
At the other end of the spectrum you got Leicester City for example who from Champs of England in recent years will now play out third league "football" next season. Did someone want them there, were someone out to destroy the club name etc. Guess we'll never know. |  | | |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 03:57 - Apr 23 with 1460 views | Illinoisblue |
Just spent an hour scrolling Twitter and it’s awash with Milwall fans convinced there’s an FA conspiracy to give us penalties and get us promoted (because, famously, the top flight is struggling for attention and money, and needs ITFC to give them a boost. Yes, that must be it .
People have lost their fking minds. |  |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 04:10 - Apr 23 with 1432 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
When it comes to Norwich, it’s not conspiracy, it’s called “cope”. |  |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 08:46 - Apr 23 with 716 views | NthQldITFC |
That place does seem to have a very high percentage of rabid, delusional anti-Ipswich conspiracy nutters on it. It's a pretty small community though - I don't think there are many more than about twenty regular posters are there?
Obviously all clubs have 'em, but - genuinely and all rivalry aside - that place seems a little nutty to say the least. There are one or two sane ones who try to pull the others up (one used to post a lot of reasonable stuff on here, I think, if it's the same guy called yellow_rider). Maybe it's role-play as much as anything and self-mockery, I don't know, but it comes across as raving loony to me.
I'm certain that in our little blip (between Royle and McKenna) when they may have had the upper hand for the first time in the history of East Anglia (note self-mockery) we didn't have a constant majority of nutters on here doing the same. The consensus on here was, through gritted teeth, that they were way ahead of us for a while and very well run.
That La Di Da Gunner Graham chappie from their sickly podcast epitomises the sort of up-tight, anally retentive attitude that seems to prevail. Maybe it takes a few more years of the natural order being restored for them to loosen up a little and re-accept reality.
Good luck to 'em. |  |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 08:58 - Apr 23 with 665 views | OldFart71 |
To be honest there have been times this season when I felt the exact opposite and that whether arranged or just as things happened we seemed to be the ones who they didn't want in the Prem.
Dodgy refereeing decision, a team that was struggling with injuries and should we have played them on either occasion maybe we would have won rather than losing 2-0.
Consequently giving us a horrendous run in of games either three or four days apart and always playing our games after our nearest rivals.
So no, there's no conspiracy. Yes we may have had a few dodgy penalties given for us, but have had stonewall ones not given and dodgy ones against. | | | |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:03 - Apr 23 with 634 views | NthQldITFC |
I just had a look through that 'Unbelievable' thread, and someone has clipped out the part of the video after the defender ankle taps Furlong, which causes Furlong's feet to cross and trip him. They've clipped out the bit of the defender falling as well from his own contact with Furlong who was goal-side of him and they've clipped out the complete and telling lack of protest from Charlton players.
On the basis of that utterly manipulated clip, a whole family of loons are claiming that we've bought off the referees and the league!
As someone implies above, it's worrying that a whole community* of Nodgers are so insecure and desperate that they'd all go along with that rubbish.
* One or two exceptions trying to restore sanity. | |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:22 - Apr 23 with 519 views | NthQldITFC |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:03 - Apr 23 by NthQldITFC |
I just had a look through that 'Unbelievable' thread, and someone has clipped out the part of the video after the defender ankle taps Furlong, which causes Furlong's feet to cross and trip him. They've clipped out the bit of the defender falling as well from his own contact with Furlong who was goal-side of him and they've clipped out the complete and telling lack of protest from Charlton players.
On the basis of that utterly manipulated clip, a whole family of loons are claiming that we've bought off the referees and the league!
As someone implies above, it's worrying that a whole community* of Nodgers are so insecure and desperate that they'd all go along with that rubbish.
* One or two exceptions trying to restore sanity. |
Also, any visiting Oinkers, note Nathan Jones complete acceptance and lack of any kind of dissent whatsoever that it's a penalty:
"And then we give a cheap foul away for the penalty. You can't afford to do that to good teams because they punish you. It's a cheap one and that's what's costing us at the minute."
I feel for the sanity of most of that board. | |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:23 - Apr 23 with 507 views | giant_stow |
Oh blimey, have you lot been cheating again? Brutes. |  |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:26 - Apr 23 with 490 views | Cafe_Newman |
Footballing bodies have a reputation for being corrupt because there's a ridiculous amount of money in the game. If you reject the fact that there's corruption in the game because you "don't believe in conspiracies" then you live in La La Land.
You have a point though, in this case it's highly implausible but to theorise that it might be going on with certain bigger clubs is as natural as individuals and groups wanting to make money out of the game by fixing outcomes.
People do actually conspire to make money illegally. Speculating or theorising that it might be happening is a normal reaction and is probably healthy sometimes. [Post edited 23 Apr 10:49]
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:27 - Apr 23 with 476 views | positivity |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 08:58 - Apr 23 by OldFart71 |
To be honest there have been times this season when I felt the exact opposite and that whether arranged or just as things happened we seemed to be the ones who they didn't want in the Prem.
Dodgy refereeing decision, a team that was struggling with injuries and should we have played them on either occasion maybe we would have won rather than losing 2-0.
Consequently giving us a horrendous run in of games either three or four days apart and always playing our games after our nearest rivals.
So no, there's no conspiracy. Yes we may have had a few dodgy penalties given for us, but have had stonewall ones not given and dodgy ones against. |
leeds fans always thought that the efl were biased against them and wanted to keep them down as they were one of the biggest clubs in the championship. their rivals were convinced they always got the rub of the green and had a massive structural advantage.
same with us (though i don't think we're that hated yet!) | |
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| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 09:35 - Apr 23 with 428 views | Ryorry |
| Pink 'Un conspiracists on 03:57 - Apr 23 by Illinoisblue |
Just spent an hour scrolling Twitter and it’s awash with Milwall fans convinced there’s an FA conspiracy to give us penalties and get us promoted (because, famously, the top flight is struggling for attention and money, and needs ITFC to give them a boost. Yes, that must be it .
People have lost their fking minds. |
So how do they explain our key regular starter being given, post-match, by a ref who only decided to review the “incident” on video because he’d been stung by other unrelated criticism of him - a 3-game ban for an alleged “hair-pull” that didn’t happen?
Something that’s not happened to any other team in the league as far as I’m aware. |  |
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