Yeah, but subjectivity enters into that equation. Those were decisions based around different individuals. For a number of weeks, Young's diving became accentuated and a significant number of comical and important penalties were awarded as a result. In any other industry, where information is exchanged between people within that sphere, such a course of events would never have happened, unless it was bent.
united were getting decision after decision which related to a player who had been exposed as a cheat. That extends beyond subjective interpretation, into the realms of the farcical.
GDM - sorry, but you're talking unadulterated bollocks. Young won several penalties which were dubious. Some highly dubious. None were anything that the FA deemed worthy of retrospective action against the ref (and yes, I can hear the retort, the FA are colluding, etc, etc). None were worse than the one we got from Johnson wrapping his foot around the Fulham defender in the snow, to set us on our way to an important victory.
Young was/is an expert at getting decisions in the box. Refs buy it. But they're not bent. They're influenced by the crowd. And much as we might want to malign the followers of that lot, they'll have more influence on decisions through sheer numbers alone. No mafia-style underhand stuff, simple human nature. Rise above it. We get our fair share of decisions. Not lately, but we get them.
