Martin Atkinson

He refereed that like he it was the annual Chelsea v United at the Bridge back in the day.
 
As I keep saying - an admitted Leeds fan should not be allowed to referee our games.
 
If it was a red both players should have been off, they both put their head forward. Atkinson fell for Kunt play acting.

Nah, Aguero didn't make the butting action; he moved close enough to Fellaini to instigate a reaction and the latter was stupid enough to oblige.

Atkinson was truly awful though, overall.
 
Do I have red tinted glasses on? The bbc pundits have all said it was a red

They both put their heads together with fellaini doing it quicker - then aguero went down like he has been shot

How the feck is that a headbutt?
 
Nah, Aguero didn't make the butting action; he moved close enough to Fellaini to instigate a reaction and the latter was stupid enough to oblige.

Atkinson was truly awful though, overall.
Watch it again. Aguero clearly moves his head for contact then rolls around like a little girl.
 
Ah ffs... Atkinson should have booked Otamendi early days but he allowed both teams to cynically foul and pull shirts all game which was stupid of him but he was poor for both teams.
It was cowardly by Aguero but Fellaini only has himself to blame for being stupid, it was a red and saying it was 6 of one and half dozen of the other is pure and utter rubbish.
 
Nah, Aguero didn't make the butting action; he moved close enough to Fellaini to instigate a reaction and the latter was stupid enough to oblige.

Atkinson was truly awful though, overall.

Watch any of the replays, both players moved their head in. I think Fellaini thought he was going to rest his forehead against Aguero's. But Mr. Aguero had already made plans to flop. Aguero 1 - Fellaini 0. Red or yellow to both players would have been fair.
 
Had a poor game, but perhaps didn't decide the game. Was bad when we broke on the left wing and Fellaini had the ball and he blew up right away for nothing. Fellaini's a bit dumb there but obviously Aguero has sold it. Thought we should have got a lot more free kicks especially in the first half.
 
Remember all those games where there were 20 mins each half of the away team wasting time and at the end of the first half there was 2 mins added and the second there were 3?

A game where the referee was intentionally minimising the breaks in play and 6 minutes added at the end.. what the feck

Did you miss the five minutes of stoppage due to bravo? I mean the guy is a cnut who massively favored city but the time added on was fair. Could have added more on.
 
Ah ffs... Atkinson should have booked Otamendi early days but he allowed both teams to cynically foul and pull shirts all game which was stupid of him but he was poor for both teams.
It was cowardly by Aguero but Fellaini only has himself to blame for being stupid, it was a red and saying it was 6 of one and half dozen of the other is pure and utter rubbish.
What fouls by United were cynical besides the Fellaini yellow?

Rashford got kicked around worse than Hazard did the other day.
 
Did you miss the five minutes of stoppage due to bravo? I mean the guy is a cnut who massively favored city but the time added on was fair. Could have added more on.

watch the draws at OT again. That was nothing compared to some of the matches.
 
What fouls by United were cynical besides the Fellaini yellow?

Rashford got kicked around worse than Hazard did the other day.

Herrera dragging down Sterling when beaten on the left wing (your right first half) could have been a yellow. Pretty sure Martial did it too at one stage when we were breaking. The ref was poor no doubt. As I said had be booked Otamendi early on like he should have neither team would have been able to turn the game into what it was.
 
Thought he had a poor game but he was right to send off Fellaini. Pure stupidity by the player.
 
Minutes before the Fellaini card Otamendi stopped a United counter by fouling Mkhi and Atkinson didn't give a yellow for that. Not sure how these rules work anymore
 
If it is a red for Fellaini, then why didnt Augero get one? They both moved their heads. Anyone say Atkinson is a good referee make me laugh.
 
The only reason Fellaini got a red there is because he is Fellaini, I have seen the replay so many times and I still can't see a headbutt from him
 
Another either terrible or biased game. Either way he shouldn't be refereeing at the top level or even worse he shouldn't be refereeing our games because he is biased.
 
The only reason Fellaini got a red there is because he is Fellaini, I have seen the replay so many times and I still can't see a headbutt from him

He got a yellow for something that City players got away with all night, and a red for something that the 'victim' was just as guilty of in the incident
 
Worst I've seen from a ref in quite some time, and that takes some doing in the PL.

Wonder how this performance fits in with the Bluemoon ref-ragspiracy they had going before the match.
 
Whats nuts is I'd genuinely consider that a decent Atkinson performance compared to usual because he resisted the urge to give a soft penalty.
 
In the epic words of our friend Didier Drogba: it's a fecking disgrace!
 
people are being biased here ..i hate the guy but he did a decent job tonight ..

And on the plus side for a ref he seemed determined to not make himself the centre if attention and keep the game going..

Had no option but to send Fellaini off anyone who isn't biased is saying he had a good game because he did
 
Did someone at our club shit in hismum's mouth in front of him when he was younger?

He's always a complete and utter shithouse when he referees us.