"Maybe it's in the referees contract to give them penalties" - Avram Grant

Originally Posted by The Watcher

I thought I must have heard this wrong on Saturday, but I just looked on the Sky Sports website and that's more or less what he's said.

45 seconds in:

http://www.skysports.com/video/inlin...729039,00.html

So where the £#%&! is the outrage? Where are those @#%&!s 'Prospect', the hypocritical journalists demanding respect for officials, retired £#%&!ers like that that utter turd from Middlesborough? I've seen nothing so far. Jabba The Hut can imply that the refs a cheat, liar and taking back handers, that's fine. Fergie calls a fat referee fat and he gets a touchline ban and fine

I don't know why United take so much shite from the @#%&!s at the FA. £#%&!ing shower of @#%&!s

I take it the assembled crowd of journos gasped in dismay at how outrageous Avram's comment was, considering how vociferous the media have been in their support of the 'respect the ref' campaign?

No? Or was it just glossed over and treated as a matter of course like most of the %@#$&!s we have to put up with the moment something even slightly debateable goes our way?

Yes, that's what I thought. It's practically a sub-culture of football now isn't it, the monthly "man united disgrace/crisis/outrage" all fuelled by the media. Shovelling the same tired old cliche filled shite down the public's always eager throats.

Maybe once a season, IF that, we score a goal after the 93rd minute (which let's face it virtually every match lasts 93/94 mins these days) and they go £#%&!ing ballistic.

"you see there you go again!! man united getting loads of injury time AGAIN! It happens with stunning regularity....look here's a clip from 16 years ago of it happening against Sheffield Wednesday!"

Originally Posted by TravellingRed81

£#%&!ing danger mouse should of finished the @#%&! off when he had the chance. #@&%!.

Looking at Grant's face there,it wouldn't surprise me if he did a Jock Stein.

I normally laugh this sort of thing off, but it's particularly annoying considering last season United were given fewer penalties than quite a few other teams.

Let's get Scouse and write to the FA

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

I loved his series of interviews with David Frost.

Its £#%&!ing uncanny

Happy Avram

Originally Posted by TravellingRed81

£#%&!ing danger mouse should of finished the @#%&! off when he had the chance. #@&%!.

Sad Avram

Originally Posted by thatsfuctit

All he's missing is that little white caterpillar thing he has

Originally Posted by The Watcher

That's because most of the great british public are thick as £#%&!.

Correct. Sadly though I get otherwise intelligent people simply regurgitating what football365 / sky / the Sun says is bad this week, which is the same as last week: 'Man United outrage'. It's utterly laughable.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

"you see there you go again!! man united getting loads of injury time AGAIN! It happens with stunning regularity....look here's a clip from 16 years ago of it happening against Sheffield Wednesday!"

Brilliant Sparky.

I was so glad we beat them comfortably after I saw his pre-match interview saying we're not such a good team anymore the @#%&!!

To imply that referees are biased is surely to insult their professional standards and this is simply not on. I await the referee's union's demands for him to be banned from football all togther.

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...and then all then email all the papers if they refuse to make any comment about it.