Dodgy Decisions In Our Favour

[CJ]

Hutton got the ball when he demolished a West Brom player at Villa Park a couple of years back.  The ref actually gave a throw in but it should have been a red card.....

Shane Long IIRC. Won't see a clearer red-card tackle not given by the ref. Could have been career-ending for Long

What makes it even more curious is the ref was one P Dowd. Mind you he made up for it by wrongly sending Herd off in the same game.

[Ad@m]

There was a Stoke game at VP a couple of years back which we won 1-0 and they had a goal disallowed for absolutely nothing. I think it might have been the TSM season so any win was important that season.

[VillaAlways]

There was a Stoke game at VP a couple of years back which we won 1-0 and they had a goal disallowed for absolutely nothing. I think it might have been the TSM season so any win was important that season.

Didn't Sunderland in the same season have a goal ruled out against us ( Bendtner?) For an offside that wasn't.We drew 0-0 in the end

[avfc_1874]

I remember Lee Bowyer & Keiron Dyer deciding to try & have a fight on the pitch with each other which resulted in them both getting sent off.

[Dave]

I remember Lee Bowyer & Keiron Dyer deciding to try & have a fight on the pitch with each other which resulted in them both getting sent off.

That's not really a bad decision though. The referee applied the law completely correctly.

It certainly worked in our favour though.

[Ads]

The best sending off that day was Stephen Taylor, when he handled it in the box, stopping a certain goal. To cover up this error he decided to pretend he'd been shot.

[olaftab]

Dodgy decisions is our favour?  I have thought long and hard about it and I honestly can not remember any. Every debatable  decision has been earned and well deserved however dodgy it may appear at the time.

[curiousorange]

There was a Stoke game at VP a couple of years back which we won 1-0 and they had a goal disallowed for absolutely nothing. I think it might have been the TSM season so any win was important that season.

That was under O'Neill - the game under TSM was the one where Weimann scored that cracker from outside the area. It was either 0-0 or 1-1 under Houllier.

Talking Newcastle, and I can't remember if this was dodgy or not, but when Shearer was sent off wasn't that the famous Ian Taylor head-rub because he couldn't believe it happened?

[Edvard Remberg]

Am I the only one remembering the Barry incident? That is one of few (if the only one) where I felt we were lucky. Normally 98 out 100 times, it is against us

[Pat McMahon]

Am I the only one remembering the Barry incident? That is one of few (if the only one) where I felt we were lucky. Normally 98 out 100 times, it is against us

Edward, I think it was the 2-1 defeat at Portsmouth in 2003 on the opening day of the season.

[SoccerHQ]

Wasn't it a really soft penalty when we beat the noses 1-0 at Villa Park the season before they were relegated last ?They were playing  better than us and Johnson actually got the ball when tackling Gabby IIRC.Milner scored the penalty.I remember feeling that we were really lucky to have won that game

They played okay but I don't remember them being better than us. Plus the defender took Gabby's legs away even though he got the slightest touch of the ball. Any other part of the pitch it would have been an immediate free kick without anyone even batting an eyelid.

Nah they played really well and had 2-3 off the line and hit the post in the second half while we created little.

MON had incredible fortune in the derby games aside from the 5-1.

[SoccerHQ]

Big one for me was that Hutton handball on the line at WBA in 11/12. Finished 0-0 and I reckon that point kept us up physiologically, a certain defeat if it was given.

[curiousorange]

Wasn't it a really soft penalty when we beat the noses 1-0 at Villa Park the season before they were relegated last ?They were playing  better than us and Johnson actually got the ball when tackling Gabby IIRC.Milner scored the penalty.I remember feeling that we were really lucky to have won that game

They played okay but I don't remember them being better than us. Plus the defender took Gabby's legs away even though he got the slightest touch of the ball. Any other part of the pitch it would have been an immediate free kick without anyone even batting an eyelid.

Nah they played really well and had 2-3 off the line and hit the post in the second half while we created little.

MON had incredible fortune in the derby games aside from the 5-1.

Stewart Downing should have put the game to bed well before anyway. Clean through and smashed his shot straight at Joe Hart, who was their best player on the day by a country mile.

[rob_bridge]

Wasn't it a really soft penalty when we beat the noses 1-0 at Villa Park the season before they were relegated last ?They were playing  better than us and Johnson actually got the ball when tackling Gabby IIRC.Milner scored the penalty.I remember feeling that we were really lucky to have won that game

They played okay but I don't remember them being better than us. Plus the defender took Gabby's legs away even though he got the slightest touch of the ball. Any other part of the pitch it would have been an immediate free kick without anyone even batting an eyelid.

Nah they played really well and had 2-3 off the line and hit the post in the second half while we created little.

MON had incredible fortune in the derby games aside from the 5-1.

Stewart Downing should have put the game to bed well before anyway. Clean through and smashed his shot straight at Joe Hart, who was their best player on the day by a country mile.

I think first half we bossed most it without creating all that much and inevitably looked like running out of steam around about 'Heskey' time. Then they did have a really good spell and should have scored from a couple of clear cut chances.

Also MON had some fortune in the 5-1 as 2 or 3  of the goals were offside / borderline. That said we still murdered the Neanderthals.

[PeterWithesShin]

Shearer getting sent off and Tayls rubbing his own head in disbelief when he saw the red. Might have been first match of the season?