Manchester United Boss Blasts Ref Again: This Time He is Correct
by Mr Neutral on November 9th, 2009 441 words | 12 commentsSir Alex is rightfully miffed!
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Sir Alex Ferguson hit out at referee Martin Atkinson after watching his side lose 1-0 to rivals Chelsea on Sunday.
The Manchester United boss criticised the official for awarding the free-kick from which John Terry scored, and said Wes Brown was fouled as it went in.
“The referee’s position to make the decision [for the goal] was absolutely ridiculous, said the Scot.
“He can’t see anything. It was a bad decision. You lose faith in refereeing, that’s the way the players see it.”
Atkinson awarded a foul when Darren Fletcher challenged Ashley Cole outside the box late on at Stamford Bridge, prompting protests from the United players, who felt the Scot had got the ball.
Ferguson also felt Didier Drogba pulled Brown’s shirt as Terry’s glanced header flew into the corner.“That goal should never have been allowed,” added Ferguson. “We’ve dominated the game. We’ve had great chances to win the match and not taken them – and that’s our fault.
“We had great opportunities to get to the edge of the box and some really good chances in and around the box, but we should be finishing it off.
“We’ve only ourselves to blame in that respect. But you do need a break – and we never got the break we needed.” (BBC Sport)
Now we all know that Sir Alex likes to lay into referees but in my view this particular attack was totally warranted. Not only did Man United have a goal wrongly ruled out for offside but there is no way that the free-kick that Chelsea scored from was a just one and to add insult to injury it is clear that Didier Drogba is in an offside position when John Terry connects with the free-kick, the Ivorian may not have touched the ball but clearly he is interfering with the play as Edwin Van der Sar is having to react to the failed attempt by the Chelsea striker to hit the ball.
Personally I can understand when manager’s are censored and punished for making personal attacks at officials but these comments from the Scot just seem like totally correct observations so I am not sure how the FA can really attempt to punish Ferguson on this occasion.
You can’t blame a boss for losing his temper when such crucial decisions in such crucial games are given incorrectly. In the same way as we are asked to accept the likelihood that mistakes will be made then referee’s should accept the barracking they will get for getting things so horribly wrong.
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anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 10:47 am
ferguson needed this….
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 11:43 am
hahaha fk fergie. who cares? chelsea won.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
hahaha fk fergie. who cares? chelsea won.
Hey you who wrote this i am sure that you did not see the match because this was absolutely offside and MANCHESTER UNITED deserved to win
MANCHESTER UNITEED CHAMIPON 4 EVEEERRR
Retryboy - November 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
It was a free kick. Drogba didn’t foul the defender not anything worse than what goes on at every corner. Drogba was offside but would van der saar have got near it if he hadn’t had a swing at it? No way! Everybody accepts that marginal decisions go either way in games especially offsides utd get 90% of the dodgy decisions its about time one went the other way.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Calvo…
Of course Fergie is right , however decisions have worked in Utds favour in the past and will do again.
On the whole the ref was poor on many decisions and not only for Utd.
The tackle on Drogba, the offside against Rooney, the decision against Fletcher etc etc.
As a Utd supporter I was happy to see us “turn up” as opposed to the Lpool game. Utd contained Chelsea for vast periods of the game and created some decent opportunities.
Also considering that Utd didnt have either Rio o Vidic aswell as Berba n Nani-only jokin!!!-I thought they deserved something out of the game, but the final ball was always played with less care-Utd in this case needed to be a bit Arsenal like in that respect,and if they had it would not have mattered what dodgy decisions went against them.
And if Fergie needs any more evidence that NOW is the time to start playing Obertan from the off yesterday -even if it was for a few minits-should be enuff.
The guy has alot more precision and purpose than Nani and will contribute alot more as the season progresses.
nanaghlfc - November 9th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
1st: ref is unfit,
2nd: ref is inexperiensed
and now ridiculous, i blame noone but the biased FA for the lack of respect players have for the refs. cuz managers like Sir Alex who are old enough to know better are always allowed to say whatever they like about these refs.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
drogba wasnt offside. even off the second touch he was still level.
united have waived the right to debate any refereeing decisions for a long time anyway.
and how the fcuk has evans not been cited for that challenge? that was a pussys challenge. a coward.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
C -1 U- 0
End of story
anonymous - November 10th, 2009 at 3:26 am
Drogba was not interfering with play, Edwin didn’t get anywhere near it.
There was no guarantee that Rooney would have scored the goal where he was called offside
Evans should have been sent off and a penalty awarded to Chelsea. This goes a long way to balancing up the refereeing decisions
Man U’s attacking frailties are there for everyone to see.
anonymous - November 11th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Ferguson should stop laying claim on what is not . He never sees anything wrong when united ‘ve to win at all cost. Well the issue is chelsea won the game but united did the playing, thanks to terry.
anonymous - November 11th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
How many awful dodgy penalties have ManUre got at Old Trafford ? He never complained about the refereeing when Rude Van Nostril boy was diving around like a tart to win free kicks and penalties. Over the past 15 years we have seen some of the most one-sided refereeing in the History of the English game at Old Trafford…and Fatboy has the nerve to mouth “twelve men” into the camera….?….
anonymous - November 28th, 2009 at 11:23 am
chelsea is just a bunch of losers