These are all in-match bad referee decisions, not the Premier League conspiring against us. Every team in the Premier League will have a similar list of fuck ups by referees because referees are bias useless cockwombles. Whilst we may fee we've been hard done by at Old Trafford, they no doubt feel like they've been hard done by at other grounds etc etc.
These scenario's are nothing like the West Ham game scenario, or suggesting that other teams have had favours in these Covid times that we won't get.
If we refused to play it would have been put down as a forfeit. That is what refusing to play is.
We tried to negotiate playing the game at another date, we even tried moving it to the evening but every option was met with a reason why it couldn't be done.
15.5 years later I have 2 opinions on the whole thing.
1) If it was an unfortunate accident, it was just that. Shit literally happens, we as a club may have learned from it and no longer risk eating food from places where that could happen.
2) If it wasn't an accident, I would have preferred to have spent more time investigating how it happened and who was responsible. IE, was it a chav west ham chef being a cunt, or did Woolwich the club actually set it up. If the latter, I would have wanted them docked so many points they'd have been nearer relegation than top 4.
But ultimately, the club ended up taking it on the chin in the end. To me, that suggests it was 1 and not 2 and they knew it.