"Pundit Robbie Savage on Vincent Kompany's dismissal at the Etihad Stadium: "He's won the ball. It was not malicious and he's not touched Nani. For me that is not a red card. The referee has got to use common sense. Should have been a yellow card at best." Not even a foul by Kompany - he got the ball (be it two footed), no injury, no-one complained except Rooney. Savage defended Barton too. Referees are having a tremendous influence on game outcomes with decisions like this (although it worked in our favour with Chris Foy against Chelsea) -and Fernandes sponsors these guys through TUNE!
Is Foy doing Sir Arselick a few favours? First Chelsea, then Man City. Look out for him when he next refs a match the includes a team that MU would prefer to see beaten.
On a related note, that cheat of a ref for the Norwich game comes from Lancashire. What 3 teams below us would benefit from us not winning that game?
Have to say the Manc derby is a fix and should be investigated by the FA. If that's a red card, then every game would be abandoned.
Worst part was that c*nt Rooney running after the ref waving his imaginary card, shows how pathetically desperate United are becoming...
Its funny with all the stupid clampdowns that they have, FIFA and the FA manage to exclude the 2 things that ruin the game, diving/play acting and whining to the ref for cards. They wont be happy until its a non contact sport.
Doesn't matter what players say to the refs! The refs are simply incompetent. I don't join in with the Rooney bashing....fantastic goal....fantastic player!
Who cheated exactly? Rooney asked Foy if that was a reckless challenge.....Foy should have told him to **** off and got on with the game...end of!!
Blackburn striker and BBC pundit Jason Roberts on Twitter: "We ALL know the rules NO two-footed challenges allowed..even with no connection. By the way...it does not matter if it was a good tackle five years ago!" Agree with this. Refs are not robots, they don't see things the same way, just as we on this board doesn't see things the same way. If players/teams took consideration and precaution as to who referees a game, then they would now that Chris Foy brandishes cards without taking the proper amount of time to think the decission through. = Kompany should have known better than to leave the floor with both feet like that IMO.
I think it needs a bit of common sense. The rules say deliberate handball is a red card offence and only deliberate handballs can be penalised but not every handball is therefore automatically given a red card. If the referee takes a couple of seconds to think about a challenge it wouldn't do them any harm. As it is, certain refs seem intent on dramatically pulling a red card out which doesn't help anyone. Whatever the rules now say, a half-decent ref should be able to look at tackles like Kompany's, Rodwell's or Milijas's and realise that you'll get far more stick for giving a red than not.
Agree with everything you say Watford. I WISH football was more like it was 5-10-15-20 years ago. Fact is, the rules/interpretation is up to evaluation every year, and sad to say they get strickter year by year. That was not the point by this thread though, at least not reading the headline. Can't see that Foy ruined the game, he referees the game the way the FA wants him to, even how ridiculous the decision might be.
I guess you're right. I doubt Chris Foy honestly thought it was a red card challenge but he has to apply the rules or risks demotion. The fault lies with the FA for making it a virtual non-contact sport. Hilariously, Jason Cundy is currently on Talksport adamant it was a stonewall red. No mention of Lampard's far, far worse tackle.
We're getting closer to basketball year on. Well, Cundy is way off. A stonewall red it wasn't. If you look at the tackle, for me, it's brilliant! Nani didn't even react, and that says a lot! Not defending Rooney, but after being on the receiving end of those cards in the past, just think he thought, "what's goes around, comes around".
