Curious call by Martin Atkinson... 50-50 aerial ball and Drogba and Evans collide in the ManU penalty area. Ref indicate foul on Drogba... and at first blush seemed the correct call. On replay Evans clearly come thru with a flying jumpkick that ketch Drogba right under the right pec, Drogba writhing on the ground in apparent ( ) agony. Looked like a straight red on Evans to be fair... ref instead show Drogba a yellow.
All's well that ends well I suppose... Drogba fouls Brown and Terry scores.
1-0 Chelsea in the 76'
Rooney booked for dissent.
cheap foul by Drogba on Brown in the box. Ref having a poor game on both sides
All the fans of football does really ask for from these officials is consistency. The KINDS of things I does see manu and the manager and players does get away with: the tantrums, the posturing and gesticulating, directly at the officials and hardly ever any yellow cards issued.......then plays like the Cantona-esque stamp that Drogba now get a yellow card for.....at Stamford Bridge, no less (because we know a manu player would never get a yellow card for takin' a stamp in he chest @ old trafford eh)...it does really amaze me at how poor the officiating is on football, especially for the league that is arguably the widest marketed league in all of football. Ah could only shake meh head at the lack of consistency.
So is only Man.U deserve yellow cards in this game? F@ck Chelsea, that's a bitch goal, I guess yuh did not see the foul Drogba made on Brown in the box resulting in that weak arse goal.
Calm yuh f**kin nerves, jed. manu does get MORE.....much, much more that their fair of distorted calls and decisions. That so-called foul by Drogba on brown is standard play in football when man jostling in the box. Sometimes the refs see and call it, sometimes they don't. (they didn't call the handful of Drogba's shirt I saw o'shea had in the the first half) but how in the
WORLD a man could jump high and drop-kick a man in he chest and NEITHER ONE of the officials see dat?! Come on man, get to fack outta here wit yuh alex ferguson reasoning!
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Besides.....even if yuh want to call it a "bitch goal" that Chelsea score, what does it say about manu for conceding it?