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examples of dodgy goal decisions in favour of the underdog

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dholliday

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In light of Tiote's disallowed goal vs Man City, and this comment from a Guardian reader:

Can anyone offer up a single occasion from the Premier League era when one of these utterly bizarre, cut-and-dry wrong decisions – ones which erroneously supplies or denies one side a goal – has gone in favour of the underdog?


Can anyone here offer any examples?

Think Don Hutchison's back-goal vs the Shyte, but in reverse. These examples also seem to favour the more 'glamorous' side.
 

No, cause there isn't a huge outrage about it when it happens that way round.

You just get a few "well its about time" comments and thats it.
 

There'll be loads and loads.

Man U should have had a pen in the semi against us, for a start.

not talking about pens that weren't given, they're subjective anyway...talking about disallowed goals, and so "cut-n-dry" that it leaves no room for debate.

See also Lampard's 'goal' vs Germany.
 
Remember that spurs goal at old trafford?? A yard over the line at least. Think roy carroll was in goal.

It almost touched the back of the net before he clawed it out. Wasnt given

Amazing decision
 
Remember that spurs goal at old trafford?? A yard over the line at least. Think roy carroll was in goal.

It almost touched the back of the net before he clawed it out. Wasnt given

Amazing decision


aye, but there's tons of those kind of examples...we're looking for ones which favoured the underdog.
 

decent example, tho' the scoreline suggests it wasn't significant.

Surely that's the point? Underdogs spend less time attacking so dubious decisions against them mean more.

A dominant team gets a goal ruled out and it doesn't matter.

I remember when wigan lost 7-1 to spurs, wigans goals was handball and shouldn't have counted. But it didn't matter so there was no headlines about it.
 
Plus anything against MU doesn't count. They seem to be the beneficiary of most of the dubious decisions.

When Lord Ferg was in full-on Sauron mode, yeah...hoping that's a thing of the past now.


Surely that's the point? Underdogs spend less time attacking so dubious decisions against them mean more.

A dominant team gets a goal ruled out and it doesn't matter.

There's some logic in that which might explain the apparent anomaly.

*strokes chin and ponders*
 

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