Here we go again.
It seems each time we lose the man to blame is the ref.
True he made some questionable decisions (they all do) but do you blame him for their goal/our almost complete lack of attacking flair/all the balls in the air/that they had at least two, often three marking Zaha?
We have had the benefit of dubious decisions in our favour in the last half dozen games.
Take the rough with the smooth, it usually balances out over a season.

Did you not watch the game?? Questionable decisions??? Like telling Kane to get Wanyama subbed so he didnt get sent off? He was on a yellow, another bad foul right in front of the ref and.....nothing?? Dembele 4 fouls, 2 on attacking plyers in the spurs end, 2 foul mothed rants at the ref and.....nothing?? Thta is bent refereeing at its worst....no one as far as I can see is blaming him for the goal (that was Hennessey) but by not sending off Wanyama, possiby Sissoko too and not booking Walker he certainly made spurs night much
easier. If you think decisions even themselves up, maybe you can point me to when one of our players was given the chance to be subbed before being sent off. FFs he even pointed out Dembeles 4 fouls, where they happened and still didnt book him. Wilf kicks the ball away instant booking....Walker does same thing...nothing?? The man is/was a CHEAT and a hopeless referee.

My view is, and this may be naive (though I don't think it is), that refs in this country do not make decisions deliberately (i.e. Corruptly). Further, by accusing refs of that or going down that road to some extent at least, weakens any valid argument a football fan might have about bias because you look like a foil-hatted conspiracy theorist.

What I do think though, is that officiating like Moss today is an example of a more subtle, underlying bias. The analogy I employ, and it's an analogy I use purely for illustrative purposes and in no way compare the two - clearly - as equally important, is the difference between overt racism or sexism (such as an explicit slur); and the more subtle, insidious discrimination that certain groups will experience (such as not getting an interview because of your name or not being taken seriously in a meeting because of your sex).

I do not think that officials deliberately do not give us the decisions that they should. But I do think there is a subconscious / inherent bias that makes them instinctively too scared or too slow to make the big decisions against an opposition club who are bigger than us.

The different standards applied to bookings is something that I have really noticed this season. Did Moss cost us the game? Not really. Would it have been different if Spurs had ten men and other players were on a yellow? Inevitably.

When people like Mourinho moan about the odd offside goal (say) decision that goes against them, what they do not realise is how pervasive and constant the little decisions that go against the smaller clubs are.

... none of this makes it any easier to swallow of course ...

A sort of institutional bias? Yes, I think that you're probably right.

Where's Willo? Surely he cannot agree that Moss was absolute s****! How can you count to 4 fouls that a player has racked up (Dembele) and not book him.
Does anyone else think Sky have some influence in this? A lot of this type of decisions happen on live matches.