🗣️ When United announced they would be filing a formal complaint to PGMOL after the Bournmouth game last season, Telegraph journalist Matt Law responded on social media with: "Manchester United complaining about penalties 🤣🤣"   A winger was wrestled to the ground with no attempt to play the ball. VAR failed to intervene. Minutes later, a near identical incident at the other end resulted in a red card and a penalty that earned the opposition a draw. A club raised a formal complaint about the inconsistency. A journalist responded with laughing emojis.   And after the VAR fiasco against City, Darren Bent, now working for TalkShite, chimed in with “This is football,  United are angry today because of the goal and the offside interference and against ipswich they got away with a handball”. I mean, never mind that the rules of the game were actually correctly applied against Ipswich so we didn’t “Getaway” with anything! And in this instance the rules weren’t applied correctly and we lost out. The implicit message is basically “because it's Manchester United, the error doesn't matter. So a formal complaint is worthy of ridicule rather than scrutiny.”   For us United supporters, this is the usual exhausting double standard that gets applied when our club is on the wrong end of a bad decision. Other clubs' grievances are treated as legitimate. United's grievances are treated as moaning. Never mind that the complaint has merit. Among supporters of rival clubs, this kind of mockery is entirely human. It's tribal, it's what people do. Nobody expects objectivity from a lifelong fan of another club. But for those who are paid to report and analyse the sport, to use a legitimate officiating complaint as material for social media engagement is a failure of basic professional responsibility.