Two weights, two measures.

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The Man. Utd – Spurs match revealed the horrendously clear unparalleled favouritisms enjoyed by Utd. I won’t be delving into the legitimacy of Nani’s goal per se (although many critics believe Nani handled the ball so a free kick should have been awarded). I will focus on the events that took place while match referee Mark Clattenburg summoned his linesman, or assistant referee, to explain how matters turned out from his perspective. Here’s the video clip of the whole incident:

Nani’s Controversial Goal

I’d like to point the reader to 0:45 when Mr Clattenburg walks towards the linesman in an effort to clarify matters. Just as the referee reaches his assistant, a raging Rio Ferdinand enters the scene and stays rooted by the two officials shouting out hell knows what in an attempt to influence both into allowing the controversial goal.

Now isn’t that unsporting behaviour? Should the discussion of such an important incident (the result of which effectively destroyed any motivation left for Spurs to find an equaliser) be carried out in the presence of players? I’m no referee and I cannot comment on what the rules say (maybe some of our readers can shine some light), but by logic alone, it is highly unadvisable to have players involved in the decision-making of such matters as this inevitably leads to bias. I was utterly disgusted by Ferdinand’s behaviour and even more troubled by Mr Clattenburg’s laissez-faire attitude. Rio Ferdinand should have been warned to step a few metres back. Failure to obey would then have led to a yellow card shown. None of this happened and the outcome of the farce was that Nani’s goal was allowed to stand. Unbelievable. We’ve seen this sort of abuse countless times at Old Trafford and yet the Premiership and referees turn a blind eye. Respect campaign anyone? As the heading of this brief message reads, to me it’s more a case of two weights, two measures.

7 Comments

  1. Its fuckin united what do u expect we’ve seen it before with fergie time until that scottish cunt drops dead we aint going to see and end to it

  2. You don’t really expect a decision to go against ManU at Old Trafford, do you? Does an obvious wrong decision get reversed against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium? No it does not. At Old Trafford you have to beat the team, the crowd, and the officials.

  3. Just another example of the total inneptitude of the so called professional referee, and also the total lack of respect that players show them. As for this incident it doesn’t surprise me, remember the ball going past Carroll by at least three foot over the line in another Scum V Spurs Game? and wasn’t spotted by any of the officials. Old Trafford the theatre of cheats. All that said the ref should have blew for handball, but Gomez should have just cleared the ball from his hands, there was no whistle so what was he thinking of? YNWA JFT96.

  4. you know all referees sole desire is to keep Ferguson happy..he has won the psychological battle years ago..give him the right decisions and he wont castigate you after the game and you have a chance of staying refereeing in the premiership..they probably get three to four wins a season at least with this approach and have won five or six premierships because referees fear him..

  5. Oh yeah you are so right since 1992 those Mancs have won 11 titles, 4 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, 2 European cups and 2 World Club Cups all because of biased referees.

    If it wasn’t for those dam refs we would of won all of them and the Macs would of been relegated every season and be playing pub teams by now.

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