Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal - October 2004.

The most blatant example of cheating these shores have ever seen.

It's been 10 years FFS let it go

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The article asks for the biggest cheats of all time not the last week, Arab

Henry World cup play off

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"comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 4 minutes ago
Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal - October 2004.

The most blatant example of cheating these shores have ever seen."

Really? What, ever? From memory, you are referring to the penalty incident. A single incident in a game you lost 2-0 by a side that dominated the game from start to finish. Is that the game you are picking??

Ok, if we are sticking with that fixture, how about the time we trounced you (no, not the 6-2, or the 6-1, or the 8-2) in the FA Cup 4-0.

Your players kicked lumps out of ours, and the ref just turned a blind eye. It was unbelievable. Getting a decision is one thing, but what your "mob" (as SAF rightly referred to them) did was actual cheating.

Really? What, ever? From memory, you are referring to the penalty incident. A single incident in a game you lost 2-0 by a side that dominated the game from start to finish. Is that the game you are picking??

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A single incident

Well as I suggested, give examples. Or even a link. I am happy to take a look. I am purely going from memory, and remember the penalty incident.

The reason it stuck out was because it ended the unbeaten run, which (Gooners often forget) started with a Pires dive in 2003.

Suarez vs Ghana. That was the biggest cheat I've seen in my life. That's why i will never respect that man. His antics later tells you all you need to know.

comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 12 minutes ago
Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal - October 2004.

The most blatant example of cheating these shores have ever seen.
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Who? Hatchet man sol?

Examples? Van Nistelrooys knee high, studs up, late challenge on Cole that went unpunished.
The Neville brothers doubling up to kick Reyes out of the game, again largely unpunished.
Ferdinand bringing Ljungberg down as Freddie went clear on goal. Again unpunished.
The dive.


Our players kicked lumps out of the Mancs in that cup game? Was nothing compared to what the Mancs did that day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM747L9Wf8M

And now Mike Riley is in charge of refs Corrupt caant, no wonder refs are so awful.

D'Jeezus is referring to Gary Neville giving Reyes a lesson in English league football. Yes, Neville battered the lad, he hit him hard time and time again, and maybe 65-70% were fouls. But at least 50% of the tackles were given as fouls, and Gary did get books for repeated fouling. I'm sure you'd celebrate Sagna roughing up a young superstar left winger who's new to the English game, Januzaj say, if it stopped him being effective, so please, for everyone's sake, get over it and stop being so soft. That Arsenal side had moments where it completely disgraced itself in much worse ways than Gary beating up your young Spanish lad. The Ruud van Nistlerooy event was an utter embarrassment for Arsenal FC, but I'll bet that's something you find funny. Hypocrite.

Pizza gate
The all out attack on RVN
Campbell elbowing ole square in the face
Appalling amount of red cards during wengers reign
Vieira spitting
Bergkamps elbows and late challenges

Pot, kettle

What Gary Neville did was far beyond the rules, and the ref let him smash Reyes 4 or 5 times before he booked him. 3 were awful tackles that should have been yellow.
The horseface one was absolutely disgraceful show of cowardness.

As for the event you mention, Arsenal players suffered a mass of bans for pushing. United players got off scot free for trying to injure opponents.

Anyway, to the article. Barcelona under Guardiola is the one that stands out for me. Not necessarily because they're the worst cheats ever, though I do place them up there. But because this was a team that you can compare with any in the history of football at their best, acting in a manner I found painfully embarrassing to watch. Soured me on him, and spoiled some of the great things they could do for me.

HAHAHAHA!!! Definitely remembering why you want to there son. Bless, I'm not even gonna bother. You go ahead and play make believe :'

"comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 54 seconds ago
Examples? Van Nistelrooys knee high, studs up, late challenge on Cole that went unpunished.
The Neville brothers doubling up to kick Reyes out of the game, again largely unpunished.
Ferdinand bringing Ljungberg down as Freddie went clear on goal. Again unpunished.
The dive.


Our players kicked lumps out of the Mancs in that cup game? Was nothing compared to what the Mancs did that day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM747L9Wf8M"

A lot of this is to do with positioning. Ashley Cole's yellow card compared to RVNs for example is harsh. But the ref is right behind the incident and sees Cole "tackle" from behind.

On one of the incidents at the beginning, the ref waves play on as Arsenal were on the attack. I think the problem is that Arsenal were a soft team who didn't like not being extended the space to play, and they had a team of divers, meaning that it referees were more reluctant to penalise opposing players when Arsenal players sprawled on the deck.

That said, all the fouls that United made were spotted by the ref, and free kicks consequently awarded.

Sending Rio off early for a slight brush could, admittedly, have been justified, but that is a big call, and I would hardly classify it as "cheating".

Gary Neville made a rash challenge and was booked. Did you want him fined as well??

Phil Neville ran into Reyes and was booked. How is this "Mike Riley ending Arsenal's unbeaten run"? It was a foul. It was awarded. Player was booked. You'll find that yellow card tackles get made quite a lot in the PL.

As for the pen, Campbell stuck his leg out. Hard to tell how much contact there was, but the ref bought it either way. So was the ref cheating (as the link suggests) or Rooney?

I'm afraid after the way you conducted yourselves over those years, you deserved everything you got.

Still makes me laugh when gooners claim Rooney dived. Such desperation.

The Arsenal of the early Wenger years were hardly shrinking violets.

It probably isn't coincidence that since the departure of one of them, Vieira, Arsenal have not won a trophy.

You need steel as well as silk in football.

As for the Suarez incident at the World Cup I have to say that I would have done the same. I would think that if Gerrard/Rooney/Cahill etc does that this summer to benefit England no-one here (England fans) would complain too much. His celebration afterwards was a bt much but he was punished for his actions.

There are many things to hate Suarez for but for me this isn't one of them.

Porto v Celtic. UEFA Cup final.

Wonder where Jose would be today had his team played in the spirit of the game.

From what I have read and been told United v Estudiantes in 1968 was pretty bad as well.

United were lucky to get out of there alive. That's Argentinians for you though.

Getting back to the article, Henry v Ireland was pretty despicable, what made it doubly worse was his faux consoling of Richard dunne at the end, talk about adding insult to injury, at least maradona celebrated his handball