The ABU's and bitters are talking about it, i'll get straight to the point, for me its a penalty and a booking at least not a sending off offence, Neil Warnock and Steve Mcmanananaman, said the referee couldn't see the incident, he had a perfect view of it, he asked help from his assistant but could'nt give any and he pointed to the spot.
I haven't seen it but since it's Young, I guess it wasn't a penalty. But then again, ABUs are almost always wrong, so maybe it was a penalty.
Well if we taking that its a foul just outside the box as fact, then surely he still gets a red for stopping a clear scoring chance? Young was still clean through. Of course it wouldn't have been certain, but we're pretty likely to win from there. With the benefit of hindsight and slo motion replays it's obvious that it wasn't a penalty, but it was an understandable mistake from the ref.
Which match are we talking about? Couldn't be the Palace match as it would be in the match thread, surely?
Oh no United wins at OT. Via a dodgy penalty because without it there was no way United would have beaten mighty Palace .
Technically and with hindsight and freeze frame camera views - no clearly it wasn't a penalty. Can I see why the ref gave it? Yes, absolutely - the contact was the smallest fraction of a second before both players ended up clearly in the box. In terms of the red card - very very tough call. Personally I would have said not, but I can definitely see why others would argue it was, and I would say that was entirely down to your opinion on split second timings and how quickly defenders can cover. Again, well within reasonable tolerance of referees calling something differently. In short - Palace can definitely feel hard done by, but the referee didn't call a howler by any stretch of the imagination. Every element of his call was entirely understandable in the circumstance. For a howler see Martin Atkinson denying a Sunderland player an advantage then deemin it was not a goalscoring opportunity when the attacker in question had just scored...
Martin Atkinson is a very poor referee, he proved that again today. The guy who officiated the United v Palace game today was a joke. He's paid around 60k a year to oversee professional sport and yet he's a fat **** who can't keep up with play. Clown.
Didn't think it was an outrageous mistake from the ref but thought the red was harsh. TBH palace would be better off making sure they don't give the ball away like they did for the penalty...it was this that ultimately gave the ref the decision to make
Was it even a foul? Seemed like Young managed to go down from the sort of 'contact' that wouldn't knock over a toddler. Again. The one he was booked for was laughable too. Serial divers, of all clubs, need stronger punishments.
I think clubs themselves need to punish the players for diving. There's a grey area when it comes to what is actually diving in the eyes of the refs. I honestly hope Young gets benched for a few games after his antics today.
No it wasn't a penalty but the referee got a bit bored and felt like enraging the ABUs, because he knows they love watching United.
'1970s?! You mean in 2011...' It was a lot worse in the 70's at Anfield. But you prove the point, big clubs get the decisions. Shame it can't be fair.
