I actually feel a bit sorry for Clattenburg as I think he got the decisions correct.
- Ivanovic was the last man and although contact was minimal he had to go.
* As an aside, I think BaconFace would have gone mental at Young, he was through 1 on 1 with a glorious chance to score but he took the foul. Chelsea are a tough team to break down at the bridge and with 10 men behind the ball United would not have won.
- Torres could and should have stayed on his feet. In real time the contact from Evans is fleeting and Torres thinks about it and then takes the dive. Clattenburg has clearly not seen the contact and only sees him take a step and then fall with nobody near him, Torres has given Clattenburg a decision to make. And I think the majority of neautrals when watching it in real time thought it was the correct decision.
- The Rags 3rd was the linesmans call, and he got it wrong.
The one thing I'll fault Clattenburg for in this game was for not showing Rooney a second yellow after shoving a Chelsea player off the ball. That was a bookable offence and he should have walked.
I don't particularly like the man and I think that generally he is a naff ref but he's being made a scapegoat here and he needs the FA and/or Referess Association to come out and back his decisions.
It's only my opinion but I doubt he made any kind of 'racist' comment. This just smells of a poor PR stunt by Chelsea to deflect from their own shortcomings with racism.
- Ivanovic was the last man and although contact was minimal he had to go.
* As an aside, I think BaconFace would have gone mental at Young, he was through 1 on 1 with a glorious chance to score but he took the foul. Chelsea are a tough team to break down at the bridge and with 10 men behind the ball United would not have won.
- Torres could and should have stayed on his feet. In real time the contact from Evans is fleeting and Torres thinks about it and then takes the dive. Clattenburg has clearly not seen the contact and only sees him take a step and then fall with nobody near him, Torres has given Clattenburg a decision to make. And I think the majority of neautrals when watching it in real time thought it was the correct decision.
- The Rags 3rd was the linesmans call, and he got it wrong.
The one thing I'll fault Clattenburg for in this game was for not showing Rooney a second yellow after shoving a Chelsea player off the ball. That was a bookable offence and he should have walked.
I don't particularly like the man and I think that generally he is a naff ref but he's being made a scapegoat here and he needs the FA and/or Referess Association to come out and back his decisions.
It's only my opinion but I doubt he made any kind of 'racist' comment. This just smells of a poor PR stunt by Chelsea to deflect from their own shortcomings with racism.