There is one thing i have to love when Man Utd get a dodgy penalty its that almost every one ignores all of the other things that have happened in the same game! Aston Villas hand ball in the box with Man Utd denied a penalty in that case, and Shay Given handling the ball outside the box! Strange considering that almost all of the media are only focusing on the Manchester United cheat another game (yet they won 4 - 0! - which obviously must mean the other 3 were cheated too apparently? -
PS yes i do like Man Utd although I did think that it shouldn't have been a penalty although there could have been contact but then again Ashley Young made a complete meal of it! I just hate that if there is one decision against Man Utd it seems that they have bought the referee apparently!)
Ah Chatham! That famous area of Manchester, must be somewhere in between Chorlton and Cheetham? I mean, they sound quite the same....
Look at the history in the PL mate. The amount of decisions they get at crucial times is a joke (and I mean CRUCIAL decisions that change games) Man Utd fans sometimes moan that bad decisions go against them but it's usually when they are already 3-0 thanks to ref and makes no difference to the final result. It's not so much the quantity it's the timing, it's the game changers.
That is what gets people angry. It's also the way that if, heaven forbid, a decision does go against them, they barrack the ref into the submission. Who can forget Roy Keane and good old Paul Scholes along with David Beckham and Nicky Butt and their vein bulging heads charging a referee into the corner flag after he dared to give a penalty against them. Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Patrick Evra and Michael Carrick seem to have inherited this quality.
Another player that can wind people up is Paul Scholes. Without doubt one of the best players ever to play the game but a complete and utter cheat. Who remembers his Maradona esq hand ball into the net in the super cup final, who remembers his attempted punch on Jamie Carragher and his appalling and sickening homophobic remarks to a player in a champions league game? Most of these things are quickly forgotten because it's good old Paul Scholes! He can put in shocking tackle after shocking tackle and get away with it because he's good old Paul Scholes. We all know he can't tackle and it's hilarious watching him miss-time tackle after tackle, injuring players but avoiding yellow cards because it's good Paul Scholes. We all love good old Paul Scholes. Personally (and in agreement with Alan Green) I think he knows exactly what he is doing, he knows he can get away with it to a certain extent because of who he is. Yes he's seen red now and then but nowhere near as often as he should have done.
Now, alot of professional footballers dive. I hate it, i'm sure we all hate it but sadly it's part of the game. However, Manchester United seem to have perfected it. Rude Van Nistelrooy was suceeded by Cheatiano Ronaldo who has been followed by Nani and now our very own Ashley Young. Every club has someone that tries to cheat, at Leeds it's Luciano Becchio and I wish he'd stop but at Man Utd it's like an epidemic. What makes it worse is that it's Man Utd players that seem to get away it. When they dive, they get penalties as we have seen TWICE in TWO weeks from Ashley Young, disgraceful.