Sweatsock wrote:That's two referees you've accused of being cheats now in this thread, when are you going to grow up?

The biggets mistake the ref made today was not sending of Denilson, should be a hefty ban for that idiot IMO, abosultely no justification for putting your hands on the ref although I noticed you left that out of your unbelievably ignorant post above.

MarkFromGoldenplec wrote:We're finishing fourth!!

IOV wrote:

Garibaldi wrote:IOV, you mean the same Riley who repeatedly denied Everton blatant corners and who booked Cahill for turning his defender just because one arm was out as he did it? I only watched the last 1/2 hour because I didn't want to sit through two hours of biased commentary and bad decisions but I got bored.

I didnt see any other referees named Reily on the pitch so yes it must be the same one. He completely bottled it with the penalty decision which the commentators and pundits and everyone at home could see was a penalty. I know we have the benefit of action replays but common sense would have told him it was a penalty why would Wellbeck dive after getting to the ball ahead of Jagielaka and Howard and taking it past both of them?

After that decision he did have a period of strange decisions probably from the realisation that he fucked up. There was really only one blatant corner not given and that was the one that came off Vidic I dont know what Reily was thinking about but im sure it wasnt "HA HA because im a United fan I shall deny Everton this corner!"

I actually find your comment on him never officiating a United game again extremely silly, do you think that if and when Sweatsock gets to the SPL he should never be allowed to referee in a game involving Celtic because he grew up supporting them? Maybe he should never be allowed to referee a game involving Rangers as they are usually Celtics major rivals and he could go extra hard on them to help Celtics chances of winning the title.

Every referee has ties to a club they were football fans growing up like everyone else although some horrible chemicle imbalance made them want to be a referee instead of a striker. If the FA thought his supporting of Manchester United was affecting his ability to be impartial do you really think he would still be employed?

Well done to Everton for keeping their nerve and winning in the shoot out but it never should have gotten that far

JK wrote:

Sweatsock wrote:That's two referees you've accused of being cheats now in this thread, when are you going to grow up?

The biggets mistake the ref made today was not sending of Denilson, should be a hefty ban for that idiot IMO, abosultely no justification for putting your hands on the ref although I noticed you left that out of your unbelievably ignorant post above.

What about Lampard's dive and Terry's dive? I see you missed them out of your unbelievably ignorant post. I've got supporter bias and a bad day for my team to excuse mine, what's yours Mr Neutral?

Anyway I didn't accuse the ref of cheating. There was just a string of Chelsea free kicks close together and I got caught up in the moment. I didn't mention the Denilson incident because it followed right after a blatant bit of cheating from Lampard and he was getting all my bile but agreed, shocking conduct even if he had a right to be pissed off.

As for Mike Riley, his Man Utd bias has been well documented down the years and I'm certainly not in small company when I say that.

IOV wrote:

Garibaldi wrote:IOV, you mean the same Riley who repeatedly denied Everton blatant corners and who booked Cahill for turning his defender just because one arm was out as he did it? I only watched the last 1/2 hour because I didn't want to sit through two hours of biased commentary and bad decisions but I got bored.

I didnt see any other referees named Reily on the pitch so yes it must be the same one. He completely bottled it with the penalty decision which the commentators and pundits and everyone at home could see was a penalty. I know we have the benefit of action replays but common sense would have told him it was a penalty why would Wellbeck dive after getting to the ball ahead of Jagielaka and Howard and taking it past both of them?

After that decision he did have a period of strange decisions probably from the realisation that he fucked up. There was really only one blatant corner not given and that was the one that came off Vidic I dont know what Reily was thinking about but im sure it wasnt "HA HA because im a United fan I shall deny Everton this corner!"

I actually find your comment on him never officiating a United game again extremely silly, do you think that if and when Sweatsock gets to the SPL he should never be allowed to referee in a game involving Celtic because he grew up supporting them? Maybe he should never be allowed to referee a game involving Rangers as they are usually Celtics major rivals and he could go extra hard on them to help Celtics chances of winning the title.

Every referee has ties to a club they were football fans growing up like everyone else although some horrible chemicle imbalance made them want to be a referee instead of a striker. If the FA thought his supporting of Manchester United was affecting his ability to be impartial do you really think he would still be employed?

Well done to Everton for keeping their nerve and winning in the shoot out but it never should have gotten that far

Garibaldi wrote:

IOV wrote:

Garibaldi wrote:IOV, you mean the same Riley who repeatedly denied Everton blatant corners and who booked Cahill for turning his defender just because one arm was out as he did it? I only watched the last 1/2 hour because I didn't want to sit through two hours of biased commentary and bad decisions but I got bored.

I didnt see any other referees named Reily on the pitch so yes it must be the same one. He completely bottled it with the penalty decision which the commentators and pundits and everyone at home could see was a penalty. I know we have the benefit of action replays but common sense would have told him it was a penalty why would Wellbeck dive after getting to the ball ahead of Jagielaka and Howard and taking it past both of them?

After that decision he did have a period of strange decisions probably from the realisation that he fucked up. There was really only one blatant corner not given and that was the one that came off Vidic I dont know what Reily was thinking about but im sure it wasnt "HA HA because im a United fan I shall deny Everton this corner!"

I actually find your comment on him never officiating a United game again extremely silly, do you think that if and when Sweatsock gets to the SPL he should never be allowed to referee in a game involving Celtic because he grew up supporting them? Maybe he should never be allowed to referee a game involving Rangers as they are usually Celtics major rivals and he could go extra hard on them to help Celtics chances of winning the title.

Every referee has ties to a club they were football fans growing up like everyone else although some horrible chemicle imbalance made them want to be a referee instead of a striker. If the FA thought his supporting of Manchester United was affecting his ability to be impartial do you really think he would still be employed?

Well done to Everton for keeping their nerve and winning in the shoot out but it never should have gotten that far

With the penalty, the pundit comment I heard was "I didn't think so at first, but now I've seen it again..." implying that without the right angle and repeat views it was less than obvious, so the ref could be understood not being certain. But I will agree that it did look highly suspect.

Fair enough, every referee will have a certain bias, but when they've even admitted to being a fan of a specific club then to give them a high profile game featuring them to ref is a bit of a stretch. I'm sure, end of the day, that much as he'd like to referee Celtic one day, Sweatsock would understand if he was told league policy meant he couldn't because of his support for the club.

And I know Reily was a back-up choice, but he can't have been the only one, surely. If nothing else, there's been so much irrational and incorrect criticism of the FA over the PFA nominations being United-centric that you'd think they'd try to avoid something like this that just invites criticism.