Saddened! wrote:I'm no United fan but Clattenberg has got to be stood down over that penalty decision there. Vardy shoves Rafael about twelve feet through the air and he ignores it. Vardy runs into the box and throws himself to the floor at the feet of Rafael with almost no contact and he gives a penalty. Now I have seen them given for that previously, but it just invalidates the decision to not give United the free kick for the blatant shove in the back initially. Bizarre.
It was terrible reffing.
I think there is a possibility that it was a fair shoulder charge initially. I'd have to watch it again but it is possible. But having shown his strength with the first challenge he simply fell to the floor when he felt Rafael close. I'd have booked him for diving for that. But Clattenburg renounced his Man United club membership and gave the pen.
I'm glad that United got screwed by Clattenburg, but there is no doubt he screwed them.
No doubt the genius that is LVG predicted everything that happened in the game like he's predicted all the preceding games. But if he's predicting they are going to be so bad, why doesn't he do anything to change it?
