Simple, when Gabby when through on 5 minutes on goal and was tripped only two results were possible
1) a penalty – scored brilliantly by Milner
2) Vidic to be sent off
Phil Dowd BOTTLED the vital decision and from then on Man Utd had all the fates in front of them and Villa were doomed to lose.
It was not even a difficult call to make, it was crystal clear as to what should happen and yet somehow Dowd never even booked Vidic yet even sent him off and we knew what would happen then. Yep Vidic goes off and a forward would have had to make way, because Dowd was scared to make the correct decision a few minutes later the inevitable happened.
Owen scored when in all probability he would have been the player to make way for Vidic and from then we knew Rooney would have been the player to score.
Because lets be clear we would have gone on to win that game and my contempt for Dowd can not be emphasied in any stronger terms that this
HE CHEATED US OUT OF THE FINAL
Bet nothing happens to him though, imagine roles reversed eh ?
I am very very angry tonight because we did not deserve that ref and that call we deserved far more.
BTW NOT EVEN a YELLOW CARD
CHEAT !
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I agree once againg shocking ref desision .. maby they not richest club in world any more ther bribe list to high … but on a seriouse note was one of the worst 2009/2010 ref desisions not even a card ( a yellow and hed have gone later)
Crying villa fans are hear.hell u guys are such a cry babies u guys were rewarded a penalty if the penalty wasnt given then u all guys can cry .anyways u never defeated us also with 10 men in ur own ground hell we kicked ur ass then.yesterday ur own captian himself said that we wouldnt have been able to defeat them even with them being 10 men.so stop crying and be proud that u played in the final.
LOL crazy to see a loverfool fan commenting here.man u guys are so jealous that u guys cant win a shit but cant withstand how come united are winning trophies.u guys are no way even close to us hell even aston villa are a better side than u loserpools.
loverfool fan? typical glory hunter where u from mark wales or somewhere else apart from manchester ay
support your local team
Judging by his grammar I’d say “Mark” came from small heath
disgraceful decision that certainly changed the game… all brought about because he was pandering to fergusons previous attacks on him… even ferguson admitted that vidic was unlucky not to go!
i am not saying that we would have won had they been down to ten, however, considering before yesterday they hadnt beaten us this season, (despite the ridiculous claims from people watching motd highlights from devon of us being battered), and not forgetting that had owen or berbatov been replaced with brown to cover vidic dismissal, then they wouldnt have scored the first (berbatov closing down dunne, owen scoring)…
all i want to see is the same rules applied to both teams.. some of the yellows we recieved were deserved, however, when manure players did it, they were ignored…
shocking officiating from manures man of the match, phil dowd…
Why do Man utd get away with so much? Sometimes, it just seems like the refs are intimidated to give calls against Man utd because of how big the club is. I totally agree Pablo, It would be nice to see the same rules applied to both sides. There are rules in the game, if these are not followed, then a player is to be punished. It’s as simple as that. Goalscoring oppertunity, last man. Red card. I believe Villa could have won yesterday against ten men. They played very well, with 54% possession over the course of the game. It was quite an even game.
Mark are you going to be so arrogant to say that Vidic didn’t deserve to leave the pitch? The fact is that you had twelve men on the pitch throughout that first half.
If it went the other way and owen was fouled in the box by the last man. and collins or dunne got sent off, then what would fergie’s reaction be? I can tell you now that he wouldn’t be on the sideline for the next few matches.