[John]

The Chelsea game highlighted how bad decisions can affect a game. The problem is, every team gets them, every team wins and loses games because of them. Offside goals run rife throughout every league in every country, with goals being given when clearly offside or goals being disallowed for offside when replays show they were onside. Apart from just offside decisions, we all remember the Reading vs Watford goal where the assistant ref gave the goal without the ball having gone into the goal at all!

The same can be said for sending off players, we've all see tackles that deserved a straight red get nothing and then tackles that deserve a yellow get a straight red. Every team is affected by these.The Torres sending off could have gone either way. It looks like there was a slight touch on Torres but he over egged his dive. The Man Utd defender looked guilty as sin so a red card either way could probably be justified.

What I don't like is the after match hounding of the referee by Chelsea players which continued, apparently, into the dressing room. Nor do I like the Chelsea allegation against the ref for the use of "words that could be interpreted to have a racial implication". If it happened, then fine, the official must be held to account but it seems strangely coincidental that these allegations are made after losing a fractious game of football (and as mentioned within the current climate!)

Even worse, I don't like Di Matteo's comments last night after beating Utd in the Capital Crap Cup that they "would have done the same three days ago if it hadn't been for refereeing decisions"

It really starts looking like bad sportsmanship, no one like losing, especially when incorrect decisions are involved but to rip out the kitchen sink, throw a strop, attempt to get the official banned for life and start crying about "unfairness" every time a camera is put in front of your face is starting to grate the nerves of many I suspect, me included.