Wayne Rooney queries official John Flynn's decision Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson fears a linesman's dodgy decision will cost his team the title for the second time in three years. Ferguson was fuming after referee Mike Jones was persuaded by assistant John Flynn to award a penalty against Rio Ferdinand for what seemed a clean tackle on Hatem Ben Arfa. It helped Newcastle pinch a point from Old Trafford, despite having Jonas Gutierrez sent off, and Manchester City could stretch their Premier League lead to seven points by beating Liverpool on Sunday. Referee Jones allowed himself to be overruled by RA F flight-sergeant Flynn and Ferguson said: 'The problem is that referees are full-time and the linesmen are not. 'Whether he ever gets a game again (the assistant) is not for me to decide, but it was an absolutely shocking decision. Two years ago when the linesman gave the offside goal against Chelsea it cost us the League, so hopefully we're not saying that at the end of May.' Title tantrum: Ferguson has words with the linesman On MUTV, Ferguson added in an interview which was curiously spliced: 'It was everyone's view, including the referee's, that Ferdinand got a touch on the ball. He gave a corner kick, then he let the linesman overrule him.' Ferdinand said on Twitter: 'I don't want to go into the penalty decision or I'll get fined! Saying that, over a season decisions even themselves out I suppose.' Source:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Sir-Alex-Ferguson-groans-linesman.html:steam:
i know all managers complain when they get a bad decision but when its Ferguson do we actually care? All the s***e decisions manure get over the years they are due one.Didnt hear him complaining about the linesman when berbatov dived for a penalty against us last year. Perhaps he is starting to see the cracks appear with a couple of poor performances this week. Still although they got a bad one they managed to even it up with a huge stroke of fortune when Hernandez (the human rebound board) "scored"...does this guy ever score a good normal goal?
Fergie's the biggest hypocrite in football. How many times has a manc taken a tumble and won a penalty under little or no contact? Agree with Kph, i think this is the weakest Utd side in years. Fergie should have a long ban for his comments re the linesman, given his previous.
When another Manager moans about officials I don't see people calling for them to serve a ban. Hypocrites.
More than any other manager, Fergie is perceived as a bully who manages to influence the media and the authorities with his comments. He's your manager and he's undoubtedly a great one and I fully expect you to support him- but it wouldn't hurt for you to understand how he appears to everyone else.
Lets be clear, UNited had enough chances to finish te game off after the penalty, Hernandez was very poor eventhough he got a goal he could have had 3 or 4 awful decision though
Can't add much more to that, I am sure most of their fans agree. Considering this is what they were telling us in these situations.
And yet millions of football fans, have said similiar over the years about decisions at O/T that united have got. Get over it, it was a penalty end of story.
fergie seems to think a mistake by a linesman should be a career ender - this is the power he has and he uses it to make referees/linesmen afraid to give a decision against his team - the man is the biggest hypocrite in football - no mention of rooney kicking a player on the ground again
Rooney should have been sent off long before uet Ben Arfa got the caution bad refereeing, in fact the pen isprobably the only refereeing decision that went Newcastles way. Cabaye throws balls to ground in annoyance, yellow card. Da Silva throws ball to ground in annoyance, nothing. Da Silva should have seen red also for his consistebt fouls that were yellow worthy yet escaped getting a caution altogether Also no other managers, with their comfortable financial situation, use their post match interview as an opportunity to pressure the authorities to sack the official
Strange I could have sworn when Rooney drove the ball in from edge of the D, it was Steven Taylor who then struck the ball back into Hernández who was facing the goal. Taylor was about 2 yards closer to his goal line than Hernández was when Rooney hit the ball towards Krull. Please explain how Hernández was offside?
You can count on one hand how many of those have been given at united in 10 years, thats nearly 250 games. I can remember 1 When liverpool came second, there were a couple of deicisions that went against us and you could say cost us the title, but rafa said nothing of the sort. Our poor finishing let us down that season, and it was United's downfall against Newcastle.
And Berba was against Benfica, but hey lets not remember those eh mancs? Remember that peno against spurs, a gift that helped them on their way, no other teams are allowed that.
