Fergie crying!!

Let's all celebrate bad refereeing - hooray!

The Geordies on this thread are seemingly consumed with hate.

 

Fergie: Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in fa' me.

 

It's not hatred, it's cause of the double standards Manure seem to always get. And don't even try to compare last nights events to last Saturday.
Rooney assaulted Mcarthy for all to see and still got away with it.

Jog On.

 

I agree with you. Rooney should have been sent off against Wigan - no question. An incompetent referee means he didn't and it taints the victory.

The referee makes a mistake and Man United get the blame

The irony is that the same people who moaned about bad refereeing are now celebrating it. Go figure.

I'm off for that jog you recommended

 

It's more to do with it being poetic justice that people are pleased with this actually! And what happened last night was no where near as nailed on as Rooneys!

Personally i think someone should get n touch with the people at Oxford Dictionary, we have a new definition of Hypocrisy:

 

what angers me is that for the first half of the game last night the descisive player was the one that shouldnt have been there, rooney, i think karma has paid them back.

 

I'd hardly say we are celebrating or consumed with hate, it's more a case of when you see something as dirty and horrible as what Rooney did and not get punished it is poetic justice to see him get some of it back. Rooney has made himself a target for people to wind up now and deserves everything he get's.
What comes around goes around, and to then hear Fergie have the nerve to bitch about the ref makes the guy a hypocrite.

If Barton had done the same thing he would have been hung,drawn and quartered for it.

 

Ferguson did not want to FA to set a precedence and take retrospcetive action because they are not allowed to if a referee deals with the incident and puts it in his match report. Clattenburg got it wrong but everyone is angry at Man United.

Ferdinand received a 5-match ban for something similar last year - except the FA could act because the referee didn't see it. Clattenburg makes a howler and Ferguson admitted (yesterday) to being surprised that no further action was taken.

Apparently all this makes it proper and just that several more poor refereeing decisions cost us a game. You couldn't make it up. I read some posts by Chelsea fans who say that Atkinson did an awful job refereeing their last game against Fulham too. I certainly dont blame Chelsea FC or their fans for the referee last night.

 

Whats all that stuff above your avatar and Tuckerslaw, where's that username come from?

 

****!! Whats all that stuff above my avatar......

 

Tuckers Law:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe3Ou9xBAlI

I'm a big fan of The Thick Of It

 

Funny how the officials seem to get it wrong in man u's favour more often than not

 

Beatski

No doubt you can back that up? A modest Chelsea fan was quick to point out that Atkinson made a mess of the Chelsea v Fulham game this season.

I dont blame the ref. I dont blame Chelsea or their manager. Its football. These things happen.

 

"These things happen"

What an assault on a football pitch which goes unpunished!!!!!!

 

SirBR

You wont find a sensible Man Utd fan that disagrees with you. I think he should have been sent off. I think the FA should have acted. But Clattenburg incompetence in seeing it (albeit not directly) and writing it in his match report means the FA cannot act, as FIFA rules prevent them from doing so.

Even Ferguson said he was surprised that there was no punishment.

For some reason all this seems to make it okay that another ref gets another decision wrong. Strange logic.

 

In the pre-match interview Ferguson said (paraphrashing slightly here) that he thought that what Rooney had done was not that bad and that the referee dealt with the whole situation correctly. That statement was so completely in opposition to both the facts and the opinion of every right minded football fan.

However, after the game he slates the ref for making, or not, decisions that are nowhere near as clear cut. The guy is a world class hypocrite and the "Cult of Ferguson" means that loads of man U fans follow him and talk the same level of hypocritical **** all the time. That is why so many neutrals hate Man Utd.

 

what a twat the saggy ball-sack is. Bring on retirement!

 

Surely it's just common knowledge, you cant possibly think that Man U don't get away with things more than the next club.

The two Neville sendings off that weren't, the Vidic and Brown sendings off at Villa that weren't, the Bebatov penalty against Liverpool, Giggs when he should have been sent off for kicking Doyle at Wolves, the Rafael foul in the box at Blackpool...

Compare that to Newcastle this season; 3 sendings off, one retrospevtive even though the ref saw it and waved play on, one unjust - a tiote tackle that everyone agreed was one footed and he got the ball and not the player, yet the FA still didnt overturn the decision, and one Barton, totally fair - no complaints (although they were contemplating banning him for an 'obscene gesture').

 

Donkey Toon

I can understand that

Most of Ferguson post-match comments were regarding the potential 'trial by media', which i'm sure you guys appreciate as Joey Barton is no stranger to bad publicity. Fergie later admitted that he was surprised that Rooney 'got away with it', as we all were.

I'm sure he is aware that decisions go for and against us but it has happened in the last 4 league games against Chelsea so i'm not surprised he was irate and as our manager, I would be concerned if he took it lying down

 

Beatski

Its not common knowledge. That is your perception. We have our share of howlers too but it seems we are never allowed to complain about them and they certainly don't receive as much publicity. I read a match report by the Telegraph yesterday and he doesn't even mention that Luiz escaped a red or that Smalling's only crime was not being a shape-shifter. Not a mention.

PS) You missed out the Pedro Mendes 'goal' which is one of the worst decisions of all time