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FA Cup - Moyes concerned by Riley appointment

 

Eurosport - Thu, 16 Apr 17:10:00 2009

 

Everton manager David Moyes admits he is concerned by the Football Association's decision to appoint Mike Riley as referee for Sunday's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United at Wembley.

 

Riley is a late replacement for Steve Bennett, who has withdrawn due to illness, but Moyes has had several disagreements with Riley over his decisions in Everton matches and raised the suggestion that the official could be a United fan.

 

Riley upset Moyes in 2003 when he awarded a controversial penalty to United in the final game of the season that cost Everton a place in the UEFA Cup. He also sent off Tim Cahill in the 2-0 league defeat against Liverpool in September (pictured).

 

"A member of the press asked me if Mike Riley is a Manchester United supporter - I think that is something you would need to bring up with the FA," Moyes told Everton's website.

 

"It is something that one or two managers would have something to say about. It is the FA's appointment; it was originally supposed to be Steve Bennett.

 

"If you (the press) are saying that Mike Riley is a Manchester United supporter, you would hope the FA would look at that."

 

The FA responded by giving Riley their full back. "All our referees are fair, unbiased and objective," the spokesman said. "Mike Riley is one of our top officials and we are 100 percent confident he will do a good job on Sunday."

 

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Flight

Flight

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"All our referees are fair, unbiased and objective," the spokesman said. "Mike Riley is one of our top officials and we are 100 percent confident he will do a good job on Sunday."

 

 

Hilarious.

Chili Palmer

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Moyes has taken a leaf out of Rafa's book there, putting pressure on the referee ahead of a Utd fixture.

 

 

and he is just right too, good for him. (I admit that I have softened in my view of Moyles since seeing him attend the service, maybe the Everton manager does it every year, but its the first time I saw him there)

Jarg Armani

Jarg Armani

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Bennett or Riley??

 

frying pan. Fire.

 

Rock, Hard place.

 

Why is a rock and a hard place such a difficult decision anyway? Are they asking if you'd rather have a rock than go to a hard place? and what is a hard place? portsmouth is quite a hard place i suppose.

 

on balance, i'd rather have a rock. i'd hit steve bennett on the nose with it.

Bigal

Bigal

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Why is a rock and a hard place such a difficult decision anyway? Are they asking if you'd rather have a rock than go to a hard place? and what is a hard place? portsmouth is quite a hard place i suppose.

 

on balance, i'd rather have a rock. i'd hit steve bennett on the nose with it.

 

and then throw it Riley.

 

2 c****, one stone

Sir Tokyo Sexwale

Sir Tokyo Sexwale

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Steve Bennett and then Mike Riley.....could the c**** make it any more obvious that they are bowing to Ferguson's pressure all the time.

exactly. Surprised it's not Bryan Robson as the ref or something

Andy @ Allerton

Andy @ Allerton

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Everton have no chance of winning this fixture.

 

The FA appointing Bennett and then Riley are showing that they aren't even bothering to pretend the league and FA Cup aren't fixed.

 

I just wish we had the same investigators the Italian league had - ours is far more obviously fixed then any of the other corrupt leagues.

 

17 points in the league on bent decisions for the Mancs already is quite an achievement.

Barnesy_10

Barnesy_10

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how do you work that out? not disputing it, just wondering?

does it include the 2 points we had taken off us for the perfectly legit goal we scored against Stoke at home?

John am Rhein

John am Rhein

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Everton have no chance of winning this fixture.

 

The FA appointing Bennett and then Riley are showing that they aren't even bothering to pretend the league and FA Cup aren't fixed.

 

I just wish we had the same investigators the Italian league had - ours is far more obviously fixed then any of the other corrupt leagues.

 

17 points in the league on bent decisions for the Mancs already is quite an achievement.

 

it really does seem to have become more blatant than ever

Andy @ Allerton

Andy @ Allerton

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how do you work that out? not disputing it, just wondering?

 

 

 

Someone a few months ago went through all the games and looked at all the incorrect decisions (Pen against Bolton, West Brom captain wrongly sent off, Stoke player being sent off after Ronaldo should have already gone and Rooney not being sent off in the same game, goals scored from incorrectly awarded freekicks, offsides allowed, not given and the like) and added the points up.

 

It came to 17 points that were definately because of incorrect decisions in the Mancs favour. I think it came to 20 odd when you added in some of the borderline decisions.

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Woodsyla

Woodsyla

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Someone a few months ago went through all the games and looked at all the incorrect decisions (Pen against Bolton, West Brom captain wrongly sent off, Stoke player being sent off after Ronaldo should have already gone and Rooney not being sent off in the same game, goals scored from incorrectly awarded freekicks, offsides allowed, not given and the like) and added the points up.

 

It came to 17 points that were definately because of incorrect decisions in the Mancs favour. I think it came to 20 odd when you added in some of the borderline decisions.

So every mistake made in every game. You cna't remove goals from incorrectly awarded free kicks. Every team would be 10pts a season down as 50% of free kicks are either wrongly given or not given.

nrkintheuk

nrkintheuk

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and he is just right too, good for him. (I admit that I have softened in my view of Moyles since seeing him attend the service, maybe the Everton manager does it every year, but its the first time I saw him there)

 

Think he goes every year, I'm sure I've seen him on the photos before anyway. He's definitely gone up in my estimation this week though admittedly that wasn't hard.

 

 

does it include the 2 points we had taken off us for the perfectly legit goal we scored against Stoke at home?

 

Ah Andre Marriner the worst of the lot, what's happened to him? Expect him to be wheeled out for our Tottenham match.

Barnesy_10

Barnesy_10

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Ah Andre Marriner the worst of the lot, what's happened to him? Expect him to be wheeled out for our Tottenham match.

it was made even more irritating when it got to half time when I actually realised they had discounted the goal. Somehow during celebrating it didn't occur to me that a free kick was taken and assumed they had kicked off as normal....

I did get suspicious when Stokes keeper was wasting time on goal kicks on 43 minutes though.

nrkintheuk

nrkintheuk

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it was made even more irritating when it got to half time when I actually realised they had discounted the goal. Somehow during celebrating it didn't occur to me that a free kick was taken and assumed they had kicked off as normal....

I did get suspicious when Stokes keeper was wasting time on goal kicks on 43 minutes though.

 

I did that at a match against Luton years ago when we had 2 or 3 goals disallowed - thought we'd won till we left and my Dad told me we'd drawn 3-3. In my defence I was only 9 at the time :hmm:

Sion

Sion

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i still can't get over that 5 mins added time utd got from Riley vs villa. why has nobody in the press seemed to mention that? it wasn't a stoppage filled game at all, and yet they got 5 minutes out of nowhere. it was a disgrace and as blatent an act of bias you'll ever see in football.

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