Featured Image Credit: That's Football on YouTube
Topics: Premier League, Football
Alex Brotherton
Mark Goldbridge rage quit his own livestream after launching into an extraordinary rant during Manchester City's demolition of Brighton & Hove Albion.
City gave their Premier League title hopes a huge boost on Thursday with a thumping 4-0 win away at Brighton.
The win moved City up to second in the table, one point behind leaders Arsenal but with one game in hand still to play.
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As brilliant as Pep Guardiola's side were, they were aided by a few questionable decisions from the officiating team.
After Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring with a superb diving header, referee Jarred Gillett awarded City a free-kick at the edge of the penalty area when Foden appeared to slip under minimal contact from the defender.
The England star scored - via a deflection - to double City's lead, before he pounced on a defensive error to put the game beyond doubt before half-time.
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Julian Alvarez scored City's fourth after the break, but Brighton were denied a potential lifeline when Gillett didn't award a penalty.
Josko Gvardiol appeared to foul Joao Pedro, but the VAR did not overturn the on-field decision.
Before that had happened though, YouTuber Mark Goldbridge has stopped watching the match.
"I don't think I've ever stopped a watch-a-long at half-time, but I'm not going to watch the second half because the Premier League is boring," Goldbridge told viewers of his watch-a-long stream on That's Football.
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"It's fundamentally boring, and we need to wake up to the fact that this is not the best league in the world.
"We've got a team who is going to win it for a sixth time out of the last seven [seasons] and we've got three newly promoted teams that are going to get relegated. If relegation is boring and the title is boring then you've got a broken brand.
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"On top of that, I'm watching a game that's 1-0 and at a pivotal moment Man City are given a free-kick that's not a free-kick and they score from it.
"I'm tired of it, I'm bored of it. I'm bored of watching a league that is boring and has officiating that belongs on a local park. It's absolutely abhorrent.
"This game is meant to be an interesting game, and I'm turning it off at half-time. So that's a message to the Premier League and PGMOL. You are destroying football in this country with your inefficient officiating and your inability to create a level playing field where one team isn't boringly dominated this league year after year after year.
"I'm out, goodnight."