SPURS vs MAN UTD - Clattenburg Courts Controversy
Sunday 4th February 2007
This match saw a number of controversies, including the award of the first penalty after Ronaldo went down in the area. It is impossible to discern whether contact was made so we give Clattenburg (and Ronaldo) the benefit of the doubt. However two penalties were not seen by the official - Henrik Larsson was brought down in the box by Anthony Gardner and Gary Neville practically rugby tackled Pascal Chimbonda to stop him getting his head to a cross!
The Right Result is a 5-1 away victory to Manchester United.
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1. Buda (Team - Arsenal) | March 20th, 2007 at 11:39 am
I’m loathe to ever give anything to Spurs but looking at this there’s no contact for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6MmuOxCE7Y
2. footyman (Team - Man U) | March 23rd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
I think that in this case he got slightly clipped and so it wasa penalty. In this game there were two earlier shouts denied as well by Clattenburg and so he was under pressure to give one. I think we can safely say though that considering the overall scoreline it didn’t matter one little bit!!
3. castaneda | April 24th, 2007 at 9:32 am
the benefit of the doubt in a case of a penalty is given to the defending team… not the attacking team
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