Seems harsh- a lot of players ended up protecting him during Mitro meltdown
United charged by FA for surrounding Ref vs Fulham
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They'll charge us for anything
10 game ban for Casemiro
They’re a parody of themselves at this point
What a joke.
I think it is the minute before the var when they harangued him for the non handball decision
fecking match fixing FA and refs. Scum.
As long as it affects the in game outcome, in favor of United, players should continue doing this.
The fine is probably cost only an hour of Martial's anyway.
The fine is probably cost only an hour of Martial's anyway.
Looks pretty fair. It will be a fine, these things happen every week.
The FA try too hard to make themselves appear impartial.
If this was something that was consistently applied, then no problem for me. My issue is this seems to be on the back off of a lot of noise around Bruno and the linesman thing, so they've found an excuse to show they are not biased towards United. When this happens pretty much every week and we don't see anything done about it.
Just be consistent and make it a charge all the time so it stops the surrounding all the time but, for goodness sake stop using it at random to "balance" other decisions.
Just be consistent and make it a charge all the time so it stops the surrounding all the time but, for goodness sake stop using it at random to "balance" other decisions.
It'll happen a dozen times in every single match next gameweek and there'll be no charges. FA are a parody
Also this
The only thing is Harry could've made more of an effort to pull people away, otherwise it looks pretty common? Let's see if they enforce this with other teams when a controversial decision comes up
Just protecting the ref from Mitrovic 
It really doesn’t look pretty fair, firstly it’s handball on the goal line and the ref hasn’t given it. The response to it would be no different from 100% of all other clubs….so why aren’t they charging 100% of these situations. Secondly to further make this call more ridiculous you’ve got our players physically protecting the same referee moments later.
Next time leave him to get tw@ed
So another useless ref who can't call a fecking game ends up giving it after VAR, Utd gets charged for asking that guy for the right call. Bullshit
Next time our players should just stand and let the thuggery against the ref happen.
Kiss my Arse FA
Shameful from the ref. Look where he is when the ball blatantly hits Willian's hand and he points for a corner. They deserve to be get shit from players. They are beholden to nobody. Feck them.
Tell them to get fecked. Dont even appeal it, just flat out blank it. Get an intern to go through top flight matches from that weekend and make a collection of the 40 other examples of other teams doing the same fecking thing and tell them to charge them too or eat shit.
Were constantly held to a different standard than every other team in the league. Tell them to cop on or stop cooperating with them. No interviews from any staff outside of MUTV, call shit refs out every weekend and ignore their fines. See how that goes for them.
Were constantly held to a different standard than every other team in the league. Tell them to cop on or stop cooperating with them. No interviews from any staff outside of MUTV, call shit refs out every weekend and ignore their fines. See how that goes for them.
This was inevitable. I called it at the time. (My wife didn’t give a crap)
March, PL teams: United, Fulham, Wolves, Everton, Leeds.
Non-PL: Aston Villa Women, Luton, Swansea, Accrington Stanley.
This.
Will the FA charge their England players for surrounding the ref in the international match against Italy?
Howard! Wtf are you doing, mate?
Apart from City when they spoke calmly with the ref after Bruno's goal and had Jack Grealish follow the ref down the tunnel after the game to calmly speak to him.
That's a joke of a decision to fine United. I know people who were 90 yards away who saw that hit Willian's hand so I'm not buying that the ref didn't see it, he just wanted to delegate the decision making process to VAR instead of making a mistake and having to go back on that decision if VAR said it wasn't a handball.
If he'd have just give the decision when he saw it he wouldn't have got crowded and he wouldn't have then had to send 3 people off after checking what was a blatant handball. Talk about making work for yourself.
The PUGMOL crowd can get to feck on this one, and the FA.
If he'd have just give the decision when he saw it he wouldn't have got crowded and he wouldn't have then had to send 3 people off after checking what was a blatant handball. Talk about making work for yourself.
The PUGMOL crowd can get to feck on this one, and the FA.
What about (add incident of a team we're obsessed about).
This is a conspiracy against (add your team name here)
This is a conspiracy against (add your team name here)
Yeah, it's been a whole month since the last time City got charged for the same thing.
The FA can feck off
I agree that this is behavior unbecoming of gentlemen but if you're going to enforce such a rule, FFS enforce it from the beginning of the season and apply it to all clubs in the league and not only to United 2/3 of the way through the season. We literally see this every match.
13 out of 20 PL clubs have been charged this season, and they started in August.
Touché. How many total PL games have been played so far this season? I can’t do the math in my head or know where to look it up but it has to be around 200 I would think. I see ref mobbing like this almost every game, sometimes 2-3 times in the same game. Rarely ever punished, except for the 13 times you’ve identified.
13 teams, more than 13 times.
It's not super consistent, but it's also not some anti-United plot.
I actually thought some on here calling the refs and media anti United where just biased but after the handball not given against Southampton when your man practically picked up the ball and stupid charges for something all teams do is ridiculous
Yep, refs have properly shirked away from making big decisions knowing VAR will intervene for the exact reasons you say. It's one of the more annoying things about football that only gesticulating wildly seems to result in action.