Sir Alex Ferguson has slammed the red card that could have cost Manchester United yesterday’s match against Tottenham Hotspur and will now mean a one-match ban Paul Scholes. The United midfielder saw red after a second booking in the 59th minute following a clash with Spurs’ Tom Huddlestone.
“I think he got sent off because his name is Paul Scholes,” said Ferguson in his post match interview.
“It was a terrible sending-off. The referee has got it wrong. He went in with his leg above their player. If anything, I think the Tottenham player has done him. He should have been punished.
“I’ve seen it twice and it was a bad decision. I didn’t see any sending-off in that at all.”
Scholes two yellow cards means that there is no possibility of appeal for the midfielder who has made over 600 appearances for United.
Scholes will now miss next weekend’s derby clash with Manchester City at Old Trafford. If face-stamping, crowd-inciting Emmanuel Adebayor doesn’t join him in the stands, there is no justice.
Justice will prevail. English F.A. Referees should be proud of their heritage and not bow down to hanky-panky side businesses and playing as the twelfth player literally of one of the sides. They should mete out justice fairly.
Right, you must be talking of Liverpool, whose opponents saw more red cards than any last season.
Scholes’ second booking was a bad decision by the ref.
But I’ve just seen a replay of his first booking on Sky Sports News. Very bad challenge. Jumped in late on Defoe, from behind. Got nowhere near the ball. Could have resulted in a nasty injury for the Spurs player. The ref could easily have shown Scholesy a red card for that challenge alone.
He will never learn to tackle, will he?!!!
View of a Spus fan: in every recent Spurs/United clash I have been left fuming by the fact that Paul Scholes has been allowed to commit 4 or five blatant yellow card offences without being booked even once (4 or 5, and two yellows = red). My United fanatic friends have agreed with me on this.
The fact is, yesterday, the second yellow may have been ‘a bit harsh’ – but from the Spurs end it would be seen as a bit of belated cosmic carma.
It didn’t make much difference.
You were the better team – fair play, hats off and the otehr clichés 😀
I’d hate to let facts get in the way of a good whinge but Scholes wasn’t even in the top 50 most fouling players (not even the top 50 midfielders either) in the Premier League last season. Palacious and Jenas were. Official PL stats.