David Moyes reckons luck went against Everton today but I can only assume he hasn’t seen a replay of the penalty decision.
“We were playing against a good team and you need a bit of luck and I think it might have gone against us in the penalty decision,” said Moyes. “I can sometimes see them given but thought it was quite light.”
The first contact on Carrick is made outside the area, but Michael passes him. It is when Arteta then turns and kicks out a leg that Carrick trips. He is in the area, he is tripped and he is denied a great goalscoring opportunity. The times when they’re not given, as Moyes refers to, are times when the referee makes a wrong decision. That is not to say Arteta had been malicious or even intentional, but you don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt when you foul someone in the area, on purpose or otherwise. And that was just one of the two penalties we deserved! Carrick was fouled by Lescott in front of the Stretford End in the second half, only for the ref to wave play on.
Nail on penalty, deserved win, TOP OF THE LEAGUE!
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Spot on scotty
i hope the shity blues and dippers draw tommorrow!
There was a foul on lescott too which should have been a penalty so it evened up in the end
“Even with our poor recent form we are still eight points better off than we were at this stage last term and right now we are just two points behind the leaders this time. So despite everything this is still the best chance we’ve had for many a long year and we are still very much in with a shout. People said they wanted to see us challenging for the title, well guess what? We’re challenging. So get off the managers back, stop whining and support the team.”
Written before todays game obviously.
Source: main blog writer Gerry (some fat dipper with a tash) at thisisanfield.com blogs dollox.
How deluded?
no need to justify to people that it was a fair decision, etc. united does not need to defend its penalties, its injuries, its issues, its suspensions, …
united haters don’t give a shit with justifications … just skip and enjoy united spit shit on all all of the scouse faces at the end of the season. the dippers will never dare to challenge for the title. i hope they fight for eufa cup at the end.
Stu- The Lescott decision was spot on and was nowhere near a peno even Moyes admitted so as did Hansen!!
stu i dont give a shit if its evened up at the end. united was far better and everton could have been hammered if you have common sense, good eyes and tevez was not selfish on the night. keep your energies for the liverpool game, you guys might need it to beat a team that is at “beatable” level for everton.
Rio had his arm on Lescott’s shoulder. He didn’t push him to the ground. Ol square head did that of his own accord. Wasn’t a pen and the pundits agreed.
The quality of football today, esp in the first 30 minutes was probably the best so far this season. Ron looks up for it. Passing and movement of the team was much much better compared to some of the other games. 5 points clear, 12 clean sheets in a row and we havent even hit top gear yet!!
Carrick has turned into a real quality United player. Different class to convict thug and fat frank. We are in a very strong position now and getting better every game.
A win is 3 pts, period. We have quality all over & teams are getting better at organizing their defence. Let’s enjoy it the rest of the weekend where L’pool & Chelsea will cancel each other out, if I may also wish for, a couple of straight reds, say Alonso or Mascherano and crybaby-Terry or Mikel. Glory, glory ManUtd!
i like everton….. actually they are my second fav team after united…
so am quite pleased with the result…
dippers 0 rent boys 0……
champions of england
champions of europe
champions of the world
now for a jamie carragher and gerrard own goal, nullified by john terry and lampard own goals. 2-2. United lead by 4 (with game in hand)
please god!
Hitting the post and also getting only one of two deserved penalties is lucky… unlucky for United and lucky for Everton!
2-2 is my prefered choice of draw’s today coz of fantasy football, lol. i wont put any scousers in my team yet am top of my league:)
Any of you guys come across this article yet?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/jan/31/liverpool-chelsea-benitex-ferguson
quite class.
The comments by scouse fans is an added bonus!
deserved 3 points. Carrick man of the match!
That penalty was pretty soft to be honest. But who cares? We won and are on our way to a 3rd successful title!
Just got Rafa’s starting line up against Chelsea
Ken Dodd
Cilla Black
Alexei Sayle
Ringo Starr
The Ginger one from Girls Aloud
Jimmy Corkhill
The 3 Scousers on Harry Enfield
Me
and of course Lucas!!!!!!!!!!
hello my name is “gotta hate tiny tears”
you may remember me from writing the same comment after almost every manchester united game
IS THERE ANYONE IN ENGLISH FOOTBALL MORE UNDERATED THAN CARRICK
spot on redrooney! if tevez was’nt selfish we could have got 2 more goals . i like his way of playing, especially when he tracks back recovers but sometimes he seems to hold on to the ball for too long! maybe i’m mistaken!
what about the second penalty on carrick? I was above it and he seemed to get caught pretty obviously but maybe did a bit of a flick of his body after which made the referee think twice about giving it…I haven’t seen replays yet…old fella turned to me and said, ‘that was more of a penalty than first one but they don’t give two do they?’…How fuckin true, what a lack of bottle these refs have, they give one and then defenders have carte blanche to do what they want from then on in the area because Halsey is worried about media reaction…pathetic, as I recall the ball was nowhere near the challenge so I was shouting for him to give Carrick a card if he didn’t think it was a foul because it had to be a dive then…The fact he didn’t give either is a cop out, ‘let’s forget all about it, your 1-0 up and we’ll carry on with the game’….my 2-0 with Ronaldo to score the first was nicely scuppered by this moron
Moyes is a deluded idiot who thinks his team are top 4 challengers. He also thought that his team were cheated against Villa when they lost 3-2 at home. They were never going to score against us yesterday. Although I am never keen on seeing us win through a penalty, a win is a win, and we deserved nothing less. Both challenges on Carrick were penalties, although the ref bottled the second one. Fuck off Moyes.
Kings – don’t go slagging David Moyes. He’s a bloody good manager.
Moyes has somehow been able to keep the people’s club afloat when all around him, managers are throwing ludicrous amounts of money at journeymen players WITHOUT GETTING comparable results. Have a sense of proportion here:
How much has RafaBeneathus spent on non-entities like Voronin, Kuyt, and Aurelio ?
How much have the RentBoyz spent on Malouda, Kalou, Belletti, Shevchenko, Del Horno, Ferreira and so on and on ?
If you consider his real opposition – the middleweights of the ELP:
What about Keane-o at Sunderland ?
Keegan and his predecessors at Newcastle ?
Curbishley at West Ham ?
Hughes at ManShitty ?
Really, the only other mid-table managers who have consistently spend little and spent well are Sam Allardyce, Martin O’Neil and Steve Bruce,who has done a terrific job at Wigan with a modicum of support.
David Moyes has operated on a shoestring – what did he pay for Joleon Lescott, Phil Jagielka, Phil Neville, Mikel Arteta, Tim Cahill, and Leighton Baines ? Less than he pocketed from selling Wayne Rooney ! That’s a bloody canny Scot.
Moyes has kept his team afloat during a terrible spell of injuries that have stripped him of his first-choice forwards; and he has kept the RedScousers doing hissy-fits.
He might say silly things but he’s the joint, second-best manager in the EPL.