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By Walter Broeckx, also in cup games your untold ref

We had ref Foy today. And as I said before the game even with 3 wins in the league a ref with some serious low scores with always the same problems coming back. Let us see if they also came back this match?

Min	Type	Text	C/NC	PTS	weight	on
1	OFFSIDE	Offside against MU	C	1	1	1
5	OTHER	Foul on Wilshre from Rooney	C	1	1	1
6	OTHER	Foul on Diaby advantage given	C	1	1	1
7	OFFSIDE	Ofsside from MU but as Almunia has the ball ref plays on	C	1	1	1
10	OTHER	Some 3 fouls (kicks and pushes) on Nasri in a defensive position not given.	NC	0	0	1
12	OFFSIDE	Ofside against Arshavin	C	1	1	1
14	OTHER	Foul on Gibbs from Brown who didn’t touch the bal	NC	0	0	1
14	OTHER	Nasri then commits a foul which is given	NC	0	0	1
16	OTHER	Tackle from behind on Nasri advantage given which is lost. Should come back to this	NC	0	0	1
18	OTHER	Foul from Diaby	C	1	1	1
20	OTHER	Foul from Sagna not given	NC	0	0	1
20	OTHER	Foul on Nasri not given	NC	0	0	1
25	OFFSIDE	Offisede against MU	C	1	1	1
26	OTHER	Foul from Gibbs not given	NC	0	0	1
27	OTHER	Foul on Van Persie not given	NC	0	0	1
28	GOAL	Apart from the fact that the player who gave the pass should have been banned from this game by the Fa but for the rest nothging wrong with this goal.	C	1	3	3
32	OTHER	Foul from Diaby	C	1	1	1
34	OTHER	Corner given go Utd which is wrong	NC	0	0	1
35	OTHER	Foul from Rooney not given	NC	0	0	1
36	OFFSIDE	Ofside against Diaby	C	1	1	1
40	OTHER	Foul on Wilshere	C	1	1	1
41	OTHER	Foul from Denilons not given	NC	0	0	1
42	OTHER	Foul on Gibbs advantage given	C	1	1	1
43	OFFSIDE	Offside against MU	C	1	1	1
48	GOAL	Apart from the fact that the player who scored should have been banned by the Fa for his elbow at Wigan nothing wrong with the goal	C	1	3	3
51	OFFSIDE	Ofsside against MU	C	1	1	1
56	OTHER	Foul from Sagna advantage given	C	1	1	1
62	OTHER	Foul on Van Persie	C	1	1	1
63	OTHER	Foul from Djourou not given	NC	0	0	1
75	OFFSIDE	Offside against MU	C	1	1	1
78	OTHER	Foul from Chamakh	C	1	1	1
90	OTHER	Offside Arsenal	C	1	1	1
90	OTHER	Hands from Wilsere advantage given	C	1	1	1
90	OFFSIDE	A MU player is in a clear offside position but not signalled. But when he comes chasing at the Arsenal player the assistant gives the offside. Great work!	C	1	1	1
90	OTHER	Crazy tackle from Scholes on Chamakh from behind	C	1	1	1
90	CARD	A very well deserved yellow card	C	1	2	2
90	OTHER	Handball from Wilshere not given	NC	0	0	1
90	OTHER	Two footed tackle on Nasri not give	NC	0	0	1
90	OTHER	Then Scholes comes flying in with two feet like a madman.	C	1	1	1
90	CARD	This tackle was close to a red card itsel but the ref doesn’t even gif a yellow? Poor ref Foy, you are destroying you game here	NC	0	0	2
90	CARD	As Scholes is frustrated (maybe because he couldn’t kick an Arsenal player off the field he gives a push against Chamakh on his chest. Another card if Graham Poll would have been an ref and still Scholes can stay on the field?	NC	0	0	3
90	CARD	In the incident Nasri also reacted and is also let off the hook	NC	0	0	2
				25	30	51
		%		71,43%	58,82%
	CARDS		1	4	25,00
	PENALTY		0	0	0,00
	GOAL		2	2	100,00
	OTHER		2	5	40,00
	TOTAL		5	11	45,45

So a very low score for the ref. But I must say it doesn’t tell the whole story this time. Until the 90^th minute his score was and this is in order with the decisions he made in total.  Just see below.

CARDS		1	1	100,00
PENALTY		0	0	0,00
GOAL		2	2	100,00
OTHER		2	4	50,00
TOTAL		5	7	71,42

But then he went on to spoil his game completely.  The way he wrongly handled the Scholes situation is the problem I pointed at, at the beginning of my article. If he would have given Scholes his second yellow card his score would have been around 70% and very satisfying for me. But the way Scholes was flying around was somewhat bizarre.  He also pushed Chamakh on the chest so I really is unbelievable that he was allowed to stay on the field.  But this is somewhat typical for Foy. It is as if he is afraid to hand out cards at times.

Because in all I thought he had a good game in a game between two teams that looked to be trying to play the game in a fair way. Until Sholes came on.  Was he ordered to try and kick a few Arsenal players off the field?  If not then he just is a poor human being to feel the need to throw tackles in like that in a game that after Djourou got injured had lost its intensity somewhat. So why start those wild tackles?  I really wonder if he is on some kind of drugs or is he just a bit… well  a problem in his head or something like that?  [Walter, I think in English we might say, “he’s just a nutter” – Tony]

But anyway I think Foy mishandled this situation completely. And this is a shame as he had a good game. But I can only give my points on what he ref has done in this game.

OH AND PLEASE FOR NEW READERS I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT IN NO WAY I THINK THE REF WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR CUP EXIT! Okay I think I have made that clear so no need to say anything about sour grapes.

The only sour grapes are that Rooney was on the field and in a way was very much involved in both goals. So my sour grapes are aimed at the FA and their failure to do what they should have done after the Wigan game and that which Fifa told them they had every right to do.

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