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Saturdays Spurs free kick at the death was yet another bad one but over the years what have been the worst you can remember?
Mine are.1 Alfie Craigs dissalowed free kick against Tranmere Rovers in the FA Cup.
2 The penalty not given at Wembley against Scarborough.
3 Shaun Goaters Hand ball goal in the play offs.Come on everybody lets here them! Must be at least ten in the league of greed days.
This season alone, my top 5 (that are still fresh in the memory) would be:
1. Welbeck penalty at Old Trafford (clear dive), unbelievable decision.
2. Maloney penalty at Goodison. Cost us a point. No idea how he missed it.
3. Maloney penalty at Aston Villa. Blatant. Luckily we scored from the resulting corner.
4. Figueroa red card at Newcastle. Crazy decision.
5. The free kick at the weekend. Cost us 2 vital points.In fairness to the ref for Saturday when I first saw the footage of the incident that led to the free kick that led to Spurs equaliser I thought that Beausejour clearly pulls back the Spurs player early on, then they’re both at it, then they both fall over, so the assistant got it right. However when i saw it from a camera angle behind both players it didn’t look so clear
As for other injustices, the one that always sticks in my mind is when Latics were 2-1 up at Anfield & in complete control. Liverpool get a free kick not that far outside Latics box & the ref has to have words about encroachment to a couple of Latcis players as Liverpool are getting ready to take it. The ref then blows his whistle, Liverpool take it & immediately it is taken Valencia comes tearing out & blocks the shot. Steven Gerrard complains to the ref, who blows his whistle, brings play back & books Valencia for encroachment. Replays clearly show Valencia didn’t move till the kick was taken & even benitez said there was nowt wrong with it.
5 minutes later Valencia goes into a challenge, gets a deserved caution, gets sent off & within 10 minutes Liverpool are 3-2 up
A good few years ago against Arsenal, Valencia (i think) through on goal, Arsenal defender chops him down with only goalie to beat, and the defender only got a yellow.
A good few years ago against Arsenal, Valencia (i think) through on goal, Arsenal defender chops him down with only goalie to beat, and the defender only got a yellow.Yeah I remember that one. If I remember rightly, the argument used by the ref in only issuing a caution was that the ball was somewhere between Valencia & Arsenal’s keeper and that there was no guarantee that Valencia would have got to the ball first. Therefore there was no obvious goal scoring opportunity, therefore the ref couldn’t send him off as it wasn’t a dangerous challenge.
In law he was right even if in reality Valencia was nearer the ball & quicker than the Arsenal keeper but as he didn’t have possession of the ball, the foul didn’t deny an obvious goal scoring opportunity3 Shaun Goaters Hand ball goal in the play offs.The handball wasn’t even the biggest injustice in that game!! I can understand why it wasn’t given coz even 14 years on & after having watched it countless times I can’t say which part of his body he put it in with – Shaun Goater still insists it cam off his chest even in private conversations
Anyway, the biggest injustice in that game was early on when Kevin Sharp exchanged passes with someone on the edge of the box, had knocked it past the last line of City defence & Gerard “The Iceman” Wiekens took his legs out & sent him flying. Absolutely nailed on penalty that the ref wasn’t 10 yards away from & was looking straight at it. You can even see some City fans in the Platt Lane End put their heads in their hands in anticipation of it being given
3 Shaun Goaters Hand ball goal in the play offs.
The handball wasn’t even the biggest injustice in that game!! I can understand why it wasn’t given coz even 14 years on & after having watched it countless times I can’t say which part of his body he put it in with – Shaun Goater still insists it cam off his chest even in private conversations
Anyway, the biggest injustice in that game was early on when Kevin Sharp exchanged passes with someone on the edge of the box, had knocked it past the last line of City defence & Gerard “The Iceman” Wiekens took his legs out & sent him flying. Absolutely nailed on penalty that the ref wasn’t 10 yards away from & was looking straight at it. You can even see some City fans in the Platt Lane End put their heads in their hands in anticipation of it being given[/quote]
Yes, definitely the most blatant penalty not given that I ever seen.
If officials were ever corrupt, it was that night. I just got the feeling they’d been, ahem, ‘instructed’ to get them through.
Not on the same critical level as some of the bad decisions mentioned in this topic, but there’s one that has done my head in for nigh on ten years and I bring it up at nearly every game at some point.
It involved our Arry who had just fouled a player literally about 20 yards from were I was sitting. He held his hands up gesturing it wasn’t a foul turned round and tapped the ball at max, 5 yards back towards were the incident had taken place. The ref bombed over to him and booked him for kicking the ball away. the ball landed literally a yard away to were the player was standing ready to take the free kick.How many times on Saturday did spurs players get caught off side but still carried on at half pace, after clocking the linesman’s flag and blasted the ball at the goals and into the stand. :angry:
From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!The 2 offsides at chelski for there 2 goals
The semi final at highbury,there 2 centre halfs should have walked
Rooneys assault on mccarthy……..i am sure more will come to me :woohoo:
What about Defoe’s blatent dive at the end of the spurs game? knocked it past Scharner followed by a triple salchow.. Scharner got a yellow and they nearly scored.
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