It just makes up for all the home decisions that Refs have given Man Utd at Old Trafford in the past.
That's just one of those myths that non-Man Utd fans bang on about so much that eventually they believe their own BS, but in actual fact have little foundation in truth. It's just that fan's have selective memories. In the same vein as "Utd always do better in the second half of the season" (they don't).
Roy Keane was talking out of his arse and just trying to be provocative in my opinion. Does he honestly believe that any attempt to play the ball at height is dangerous play and deserving of a red card? That would mean any attempted overhead/bicycle kick would be deemed to be dangerous. It was an accident, Nani had every right to try to play that and there was a collision. Maybe a yellow as he did foul the guy, surely can't be any more.
I say that as a football fan who really doesn't like Man Utd, or Nani. I just hate what the game is being reduced to.
Agreed. Also amazed that I've only seen the one journalist that mentioned how I feel about the incident:
Namely, that it was a 60/40 ball in Nani's favour, and it was reckless for Arbeloa to go storming in like he did. If you're gonna throw yourself around like that, and run into challenges where you are unfavoured, there's an element of risk. There was zero intent. The studs-up argument is unrealistic. Studs are present on football boots > football involves running, jumping, kicking, sliding. Clamping down on "studs-up", which is inevitability going to happen from time to time, will be detrimental to the game. It's need to be taken into context.
Keane is just trolling. I actually think Keane resents being on that punditry panel. The look he gives Chiles sometimes, you can tell he proper loathes him. And we of course know of the history between he & Southgate.
Other than Keane, nobody involved with the game considers this to be a sending-off. Refereeing is as much about using your common-sense as it is living by the rule book.
In regards to Rooney, on his day he is still Utd's best all-round player by a country mile. Fergie's selection was justified because of the performance and workrate of Wellbeck.
Again, I'm not a Utd fan. But as has already been mentioned it's a shame when an otherwise cracking, entertaining game of football has been marred by an incident that has been blown out of all proportion and had a big hand in the result.
