Alex Ferguson charged by the FA for improper conduct

Scott wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Scott wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Scott wrote:What I find funny about all this is the blatant hypocrisy demonstrated by Ferguson and the Man United supporters on here.

If any team in the League gets obvious preferential treatment, it's Man United. No one can dispute that. Over the years, Man United have had dodgy decisions in their favour. So many, that it's actually impossible to list them off the top of my head. I mean, this season alone they already should have had Neville sent off twice, Rooney sent off once. They've had a penalty given for a Berbatov dive in a very important match. They saw Gerrard send off in the same match that Rafael Da Silva received no punishment for doing the same thing.

That's just this season. And believe you me, there will be more to come this season. There will be more dodgy decisions to help Man United on their way. Book-mark this post if you want. It happens every season, without fail.

Every other set of fans in the League can see how glaringly obvious it is. The only set of supporters who deny this are the Man United fans, blinded by their love for the team.

Anyway, the point of this post was, Man United get dodgy decisions going their way MORE than enough. So quit whining and bitching when a couple FINALLY go against you. It's actually a rarity that bad decisions go against Man United, so be grateful for goodness' sake.

I remember clearly how most of the Mancs on here laughed about getting that penalty against Liverpool in the FA Cup. You saw the funny side then didn't you?

It's not true though, unless you've actually sat down and watched every game with the critical, cooly unbiased eye of a man dedicated to finding out if any teams holds an advantage from the FA. You're just basing it on your own silly perceptions, what you read in the media, and what you hear in the pub. The reason United seem to get more decisions is that we are the biggest team in the country by far, and every decision relating to our club is magnified a thousand times.

Then again, maybe I've got it wrong, I certainly haven't looked at all the evidence. If you're making this claim that United are favoured by the authorities, I think that is a pretty extraordinary claim, and you shouldn't be making it without having some pretty substantial evidence. More than just 'everyone thinks it'.

If the FA truly favoured United though, I feel the following things would not have happened

• Ferguson being pulled up here
  
• Rio Ferdinand's 8 month ban
  
• Patrice Evra's 4 game ban for an incident taking place in a warm-down
  
• Rio Ferdinand's 3 game ban for an off the ball incident, and an additional ban for a 'frivolous appeal'
  
• Roy Keane being punished twice for the same offence - an overly aggressive tackle on Haaland where he thought the ball was there
  
• Ferguson receiving touch line bans and fines for criticising referees

Among other things. There really is no reason for the FA to favour United, other than paranoia from football fans with low IQs.

That's because they actually deserved those bans. If no punishment was given for those events, it would've been atrocious. FA aren't going to embarrass themselves like that.

I wasn't even talking about the FA anyway, I was talking about decisions that happen during the match.

Give me one team in this League that has had more dodgy decisions than Man United this season, go on.

Man United list of Dodgy decisions in 2010/11

Neville should have been sent off. Twice.
Rooney should have been sent off against Wigan.
Penalty via a Berbatov dive given in important FA Cup match vs Liverpool.
Gerrard sent off in the same match that Rafael Da Silva received no punishment for the same kind of incident.

+ more that I can't remember right now.

Seriously, give me a team that has had more than that this season ...

Neville should have been sent off one against West Brom, against Stoke he committed only one bookable offence, admittedly he was booked for the wrong incident.
The referee was happy with his decision in the Wigan game, we can't dispute that
The Berbatov penalty was a penalty
Gerrard was rightly sent off

So that's 1 decision that's wrongly been given against United, maybe two. In the very same WBA game United should have had a penalty and didn't get one. Chelsea on Tuesday had a fortuitous penalty, should have had a man sent off, and Terry could easily have given away a penalty, that's 3 in one game. The reality is that every team gets some favourable decisions, if you've got an agenda against a particular club (which you clearly have) and when you're talking with people who hate Man Utd (likely given your location) you're bound to get a distorted view of it.

You're just wrong and too biased to realise it. If you're actually right, prove it, not with stupid little anecdotes and debatable decisions, with hard facts and statistics. I think though, if there really was a systemic bias towards United, someone would have noticed it other than people who hate Man Utd.

Stopped reading there. I'm not going to debate with someone wearing rose-tinted specs.

Danny wrote:I don't care if people think the FA give us special treatment tbh. You're not gonna be able to prove it

luke. wrote:You're not gonna be able to prove them wrong.

So you look like a prick now.

Tom wrote:Weak defence danny, I'm disappointed

Tom wrote:It was just weak, have a nap

Fine Shagger wrote:He's refusing to talk to MUTV now

kyro7 wrote:

Sean wrote:I find it funny how after the Wigan game Mike Phelan said you can't dispute a referees decision

And then Fergie goes mad the next game

Mike Phelan and Sir Alex Ferguson are two different people.

luke. wrote:

Sean wrote:I find it funny how after the Wigan game Mike Phelan said you can't dispute a referees decision

And then Fergie goes mad the next game

inb4 someones says 'but phelan said it not Fergie '

even though Phelan said 'we'..

Fine Shagger wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/mar/03/alex-ferguson-mutv-fa-charge

Classic Fergie.

Scott wrote:I can't wait to see his face when Liverpool beat them on Sunday.

Scott wrote:I can't wait to see his face if Liverpool beat them on Sunday.

Spoiler:

grenade187 wrote:Here I was thinking us Arsenal fans were the most bitter fans and always make escuses :S

Utd fans have gotten soo used to seeing bad decisions going their way that they have an eye for an eye mentality.
Its fucking rediculous you guys always clutch at straw for example alot of you were tring to justify Rooney's scum behaviour by saying Luiz got away with it so its okay.

Just like your manager you delude yourselves with your own bullshit and cannot accept it when your wrong.

The-Reporter wrote:I think the F.A. are a joke. Fergie says his opinions after a game where the referee was absolutely shocking.. why should he get charged? The ref needs to be examined not the manager.

The-Reporter wrote:I think the F.A. are a joke. Fergie says his opinions after a game where the referee was absolutely shocking.. why should he get charged? The ref needs to be examined not the manager.

Luxz0rz wrote:Why would any manager criticise a ref when it suits them?

Maybe if the FA weren't pushing such a stupid respect rule that means you didn't get punished for speaking your honest opinion he would say "Ok we won the game but the ref gifted us that last minute penalty, poor decision".....but why risk a ban when you've just won the game?

100% agree with what Harry Redknapp said on SSN. FA can shuv their respect campaign up the shitter until refs make the right decisions. Managers, players and football clubs deserve respect too and it's a disgrace that in this day and age with so much technology we still have shit refs making bad decisions and ruining important, big money football games.