One that still pisses me off, and possibly because I had several discussions about this with a brummie red in the weeks after, is Gerrard diving to win the free kick against us on the first day of the season a few years ago. Blatant dive, punished by an outstanding free kick in all fairness, but such a feeling of being cheated out of a credible point. (they were a good side then)
Not sending off Vidic in the Cup Final. Was the worst decision I've ever seen by any ref. Dowd couldn't blame being unsighted, unsure or anything else like that. He based his decision purely on not wanting to upset their manager, then lied about it not being a goal-scoring opportunity in a pathetic attempt to cover himself.
We played Bolton, I think, in the MON era and just before half time we won a corner that was cleared with a punch by one of their defenders. The only person in the whole ground to miss it was the ref. It was laughable how it wasn't a penalty. Fortunately, for the ref at least, we thrashed them in the second half and we won by three or four.
But the worst piece of refereeing, by some distance, has to be Halsey's assist for Henry's free kick. The most blatant piece of favouritism I've seen on a football pitch. Watching that clip still boils my piss. The cnut actually encourages Henry to take it.
Worst ref for me was always Elleray - any number of bad decision against us (Enckelman, penalty at Sunderland after a Sunderland player handled it), closely followed by Gunner Halsey and Dowd.
I've mentioned this bloke on here before, Pat Partridge. He gave so many bad decisions against us you couldn't fucking count them!
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