Comments on: Manchester United 0-0 Everton – F.A. Cup Semifinals – 19 April 2009 – Live Blog

By: Bud

Bud — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:45:37 +0000

Just watched the final good clean game, both side played good football
Chelsea deserved it

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:34:00 +0000

Put it this way. If the penalty situation had happened to Everton and Utd won the shoot-out we’d never hear the end of it.

FACKT!

By: Victor Li

Victor Li — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:51:29 +0000

It was a very poorly officiated match. I understand why David Moyes did what he did, but he should be fined. I understand Sir Alex does this kind of stuff all the time, and I hate it when he does it, too. Mike Riley was clearly afraid to call ANY penalty that wasn’t a clear-cut, obvious, no-doubt-about-it infraction. That’s why he didn’t give United the call on the Welbeck incident and that’s why he didn’t give one to Everton for Pienaar. It really compromised the quality of the match and cast a pall over what should have been a glorious day for Everton.

By: Omaha Bhoy

Omaha Bhoy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:51:21 +0000

From Toffeeweb.com, too (I only watched all of regulation b/c I neglected to tape the program after the game on Sunday unfortunately so I can’t comment myself):

“In the cold light of television replays, it appears as though they had a case — so too might Pienaar have done after 37 minutes when Rafael shoved him off the ball in the area with his arm — but what probably won’t be talked about much in the aftermath by those sympathetic to the Red Devils’ cause is the incident in extra time that canceled out that penalty controversy: having turned Vidic and left him for dead, Cahill was harshly pulled up for a foul he didn’t commit and denied a clear run on goal.”

By: Omaha Bhoy

Omaha Bhoy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:21:19 +0000

That “nudge” on Pienaar involved an elbow and Welbeck wasn’t “hauled down” as the BBC reported in a recap article. It’s good to see some of you Red Devil fans are doing more than just making excuses, though. Whom will you be rooting for on May 30th?

By: Jake the Mackem (Sunderland till i die)

Jake the Mackem (Sunderland till i die) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:52:14 +0000

haha who is erwf that cracked me up

By: Anti-Manu

Anti-Manu — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:15:11 +0000

Haha Man u lost. Man u should have won though. That should have been a penalty. I think i know why Riley didnt give it. Moyes was saying something about Riley supporting Man U and all, so if Riley gave that penalty, Moyes and the media could easily say Man u won cuz Riley was biased. Go home Man u… You wouldn’t have won the quintuple anyway.

By: RUHSHKA

RUHSHKA — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:13:12 +0000

MUFC WILL STILL BE THE BEST NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!!!!

By: BD Condell

BD Condell — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:00:06 +0000

Well, despite what I said beforehand I think the youngsters gave a very good account of themselves and overall Utd shaded the contest!
Not a great game with very few chances. Penalties are always a lottery. Not sure about the choice of penalty takers for Utd though.

As a Utd fan the PL and CL are the 2 big ones and if sacraficing the FA cup delivers them then I’ve no problem with that.

No guarantees of course!

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:56:39 +0000

we might have had a stonewall penalty but those are the breaks, and we had a few decisions going our way too (at least that’s what I’ve read, damned cable operators didn’t put the game on here). Was Riley influenced into NOT giving United a penalty? That would be a convenient reason, wouldn’t it?