Within the space of 4 hours, I have completely lost all faith in football officials.
1. Suarez scores a perfectly good goal in the 94 minute against Everton, and it's ruled offside.
Gary Nevillie: "The linesman has bottled it"
"The Chosen One": "It was a goal - we were lucky"
2. Ivanovich trying to get out of the way of the attacking man utd striker, is deemed to have fouled him, and gets sent off.
Everyone thinks it's an extremely tough sending off - perhaps because it wasn't. Still with the keeper to beat, yellow was more appropriate. The letter of the law has to be applied of course, because otherwise referees would have to actually think about their decisions now and then. As said, there was no intent from Ivanovich, and Young knows exactly what he's doing when he moves into the path of Ivanovich. Harsh.
3. Evans brings down Torres, and Torres gets sent off for diving EDIT: Watch it, once again, Evans has gone in with both feet off the ground. What's the poor lad got to do to get sent off!? Apart from signing for Liverpool I mean.
Cue disbelief from the commentators
4. Against 9 men, Utd score and it's clearly offiside'.
Nial Quinn 'He (Hernandez) is offside
Officials are either corrupt or inept beyond belief, and absolutely nothing will be done about it.
But someone should do something about this, becuase at the end of the day/season, we're talking about millions of pounds, and peoples' jobs are at stake (but not the officials who KEEP SCREWING UP you'll notice).
The spineless FA of course will do absolutely nothing about it.
Meanwhile, supporters will spend their money, only to be slapped in the face week in week out.
Pretty embarrassed by my above initial post. What an idiot. Thankfully I think I've mellowed these last four years (hopefully).
Just to clarify, I don't think officials are corrupt or the FA are spineless, but I do think they get things wrong now and again.
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