Q. What exactly happened here?
A. Darren Fletcher won the ball and Ashley Cole jumped up into the air. Martin Atkinson promptly scurried across and awarded Chelsea the ‘foul’. The rest, as they say, is the rest of this post.
Q. Was Sir Alex wrong in criticizing the referee?
A. Absolutely. Considering it was the FINA World Aquatic Championships, and both Drogba and Cole were on the pitch, it’s absolutely unfair to blame the referee.
Q. Whose goal was it anyway?
A. That’s beside the point. Let’s talk about Drogba.
Q. What about him?
A. Determining whether a player is in “active play” can be complex. FIFA issued new guidelines for interpreting the offside law in 2003 and these were incorporated in law 11 in July 2005. The new wording seeks to more precisely define the three cases as follows (let’s foget the other two):
- Interfering with an opponent means preventing an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball by clearly obstructing the opponent’s line of vision or movements or maintaining a position which, in the opinion of the referee, deceives or distracts an opponent in any way.
Note this point your honour. I think there is a slight case of interfering with play when you have hauled down the opposing defender, and then stuck your boot out 2 inches from the ball and 3 inches from the opposing keeper. Of course, in all of the above sentence, the only 6 words that matter are in the opinion of the referee. And we know that it’s not a great opinion when he gave the free kick in the first place.
Q. Was that why Johny Judo-kicked Drogba?
A. No. As much as some Chelshits would have you think, revenge is not the only thing on a footballer’s mind all the time. Besides, the Judo kick happened before the goal.
Q. After the above incident, what the heck was Drogba doing?
A. Apart from Capello, a few other notable members in the stand included John Crickson, the owner of the Eastham theater in London, and Gary Pulishe, the talent scout for the ‘Travelling Triads of Trent Birdge’. They both were looking for an actor to play a fish out of water (literally, not figuratively) for their next play and next comic routine respectively.
Q. Why were United so poor going forward?
A. Because without Scholes or Berbatov, Rooney had to play Left Striker, Right Striker and Central Attacking Midfielder all by himself. And Carrick can’t shoot for nuts from 30 yards.
Q. But what about Giggs and Valencia and Anderson?
A. If you all noticed, they actually were anti-Ivanovic, anti-Cole and anti-Essien respectively. Fergie went with nature’s laws. Every matter, has an equal and destructive anti-matter. In the process, leaving out anything that might be constructive.
Q. Is that the title?
A. If you mean, is that the title for Chelsea, I would say NO. If you mean is that the title gone for United, I would say no.
Q. Was that guy actually brushing his teeth?!?!
A. I believe so, yes. God knows with what though.
Some more FAQs….
1. Have Man Utd won games through contentious free kicks?
Yes – remember the one which led to Diaby’s famous own goal at Old Trafford or the one which led to Owen’ goal at Man City (and the consensus on whether it was dubious varies, so it was by no means a glaring mistake by the ref)
2. Was Drogba offside and did he foul wes brown?
Maybe/ Maybe not, it goes either way, United have had iffy decisions go in their favor way more times than this, remember rooney vs arsenal at old trafford (and according to the commentary team at ESPN it wasn’t an offside or a foul)
3. Should johnny evans have been sent off?
Yes
4. Should united have had a penalty?
Yes, but so should Arshavin at Old Trafford
5. Are Manchester United a whiny team who blame everybody from the referee to Arsene wenger for their defeat?
Yes
6. Did some Manc’s on this forum say after the Arsenal-united game to stop whining about the referee and get on with it?
Yes
7. Did man united come out with a negative outlook and play like Stoke city on a bad day, with just 2 shots on target and lose because they weren’t strong enough or creative enough at the end?
Yes
applauding….Diaby and voronin supporter at his best there. Just like the result. Pretty much shit.
Bravo…what a response….it would have been really staid had you come up with some ‘broken record’ of a response which had no substance whatsoever…
But no..you came up with an ingenious response…I can only but marvel at the creativity it took to come up with such a mind boggling response
hehe..thanks and nice try. now, piss off.
One more…
Q: What is the world record for high jump?
A: Ashley Cole (over a 1.83m Darren Fletcher) – But Martin Atkinson miscalculated due to parallax.
Actual height is in the proportion ball:cole=earth:sun – Ancelotti’s car driver who happens to be a manu fan.
May be the offside law doesn’t apply to a manu-chelshit encounter. In that case the home side gets the advantage. Hope the toilet cleaners will be properly paid when they come to clean up the mess in the old Trafford.
hey duck,
couldn’t u come out with something lamer ??
You only have to look at the Chelsea side of this blog for all things lame
as i said in my post, u guys have 2 weeks to whine and moan. so i’ll just sit back and have a good laugh at the 1 million excuses given by mancs…
Ahh.. It will be nice next year when, after the season, we can bring these comments back up, gift wrap them and present them to the EPL NON-champions we fondly call Chelshit. You ladies better celebrate all you can now.