And that's where the refs get it wrong, every single time. It was a dive. It was also a foul. He has punished Hernandez (correctly) for diving. He has also let the Newcastle defender off with what was a very obvious, clear foul. A foul and a dive are not mutually exclusive and yet the referee never punishes both offenders (and they are both offenders). I'm not calling foul play here as I'm sure there is not a team in the league (including us) who haven't benefitted through a ref booking an opponent for simulation whilst ignoring the foul committed on them. I just think it's stupid and when I finally see a ref book both offenders, I will applaud, no matter who the participants are, and what the circumstances are, as it's long overdue. As for the game, we didn't do enough to win and Newcastle were also denied a pen. A draw was a fair result. Hope it isn't 2 costly dropped points.
I didn't see any contact. The ref was spot on, and had to endure a torrent of abuse from Rooney as usual.
If you didn't see any contact then you clearly weren't watching the game . Although I'd be willing to bet that you did see contact but wouldn't want to admit it. Definite foul. Ref got it wrong.
There is no contact there that I can see, it looks just like he has jumped over the leg of the defender. A calculated attempt at cheating. How Ferguson can come out this morning and condone it by saying he is not a cheat is regrettable.
I always had you down for a sensible level headed lad but you have made yourself look a bit of a twat on this Stevie. If the referee books him for diving which he did, how the **** can it clearly be a foul?? if its clearly a foul, its a penalty and no booking. It can't be both FFS take your bleeding red tinted glasses off
I don't know how people can keep saying they didn't see any contact. It was pretty clear from every replay angle. He definitely caught him. Then Hernandez dived after being caught.
Give it a rest? Why because two of your players were caught red handed cheating, I noticed you all jumped on Torres the other week and you were correct in doing so. Cheats must be outed and on this occasion you have two!
s-p-e-c-s-a-v-e-r-s If its a clear foul (which it wasn't or else the referee would have given it) he is duty bound to give the first offence i.e. in this case a penalty. As no penalty was awarded there was no foul E.O.S
The ref may be dutybound to give the penalty but you and I both know that the ref always gives one or the other REF: my original post on this issue. Go on then, find a link to the incident and post it here if you're so sure there was no contact. Unfortunately I can't as I'm in work and all streaming is blocked.
About the same length of time as Drogba, Torres and Ashley Cole at SB. And I don't think you'd be overly hard pressed to find a link to the penalty incident last night.
The only link on you tube is already on this thread and it clearly shows no contact, why do you persist in defending the cheating little ****? Also off the United board by a United supporter; comment by Dobby_1979_ (U14056849) posted 14 Minutes Ago I swear people are blind! The Newcastle claim was a soft one but there WAS contact (agreed minimal) With Hernandez there was NO contact! If Hernandez had stayed on his feet rather than jumping for the dive then this could have been pen. Basically he dived too early! A few more seconds and the leg would have been there to go over! Get over yourself
Disagree. I believe the footage shows contact and it was technically a foul but understandable why the referee reacted the way in which he did.
I believe he dived with no contact but its immaterial as the cheat got booked. Right decision, Lesson learned?
Nice to see some honesty on here There was contact, and if he'd not made a meal of it it would have gone against the Toon. I cannot understand how Anderson got away with it on Loevenkrands. Shame Hernandez tarnished his performance with that because up until then I thought he'd had a pretty good game, in terms of movement anyway...Kamran were you watching???
