Hope the twat is out of a job. An absolute disgrace. Matic's red card was deserved but f**king hell!!!!!
Missing the horror tackle on Matic was a bad mistake but no great surprise. Atkinson's incompetence has helped Chelsea out in the past. Yesterday it went against you for once.
Perhaps Atkinson would have given one off 50-50 decision to us in the past. Missing 2 Red card tackles, 2 Penalties and sending off our player. That is crooked, incompetent and biased.
Nothing wrong with the tackle imo. Matic went in as barnes was passing the ball away and his leg merely scraped barnes' boot. Tell matic to stop being a soft ****
You have just posted your football ignorance to the world. This is as dumb, ignorant, and biased as Martin Atkinson.
You missed the kick in the back on Brana, and the two penalty shouts even the biased plonkers at Sky called. You're as bad a judge as the referee you are defending.
So calling the decision a mistake, that it was a horror tackle, that the ref is a repeat offender, and (in another thread) saying the Burnley player was out of order and that Matic was harshly done by is classified as "defending" the ref? Or have you simply taken offence to the suggestion that Atkinson has given a dodgy decision in Chelsea's favour in the past? Comes across as more than a bit paranoid.
It was studs to the inner thigh (watch it again), if you thought it was a kick in the back you are as bad as than Atkinson
Neither paranoid nor offended, it takes a lot more than comments like that to cause offence. Simply stating the obvious, that Atkinson is an incompetent , biased and arrogant referee who gave the worst refereeing performance of this and many other seasons. A performance that certainly cost us 2 points, our best player for 3 games, and could be the difference at seasons end. If you can't see that, there's not a lot of credibility for you on this site.
You're not making any sense. I said it was a shocking tackle, a terrible decision and that Matic has been harshly treated. Yet you think I've defended the ref. OK!
Don't accuse a referee of bias. That's ludicrous. By all means say he's incompetent, ****, shouldn't be refereeing in the PL etc but to call a referee biased just because they had a **** day is petty. Not to mention completely unfounded. Are you Mourinho in disguise?
My comments are restricted to your statement that Atkinson has "helped" us in the past. He has never helped anyone except Utd in his whole career, except by making blunders. My complaint about Atkinson covers a series of blunders in this game, not one tackle. At least we can agree he totally bottled / stuffed up the Matic incident, and the punishment for our team is way OTT for the crime.
