Rulebook shows Owen's Man Utd winner well inside allotted time
Playing by the rulebook, Manchester United striker Michael Owen struck his winner against Manchester City well within the allotted time yesterday.
Despite the complaints of City manager Mark Hughes, it can be confirmed that:
*Fourth official Alan Wiley indicates a minimum four minutes added time.
*Under Premier League rules, the referee can play four minutes plus 59 seconds.
*City score an equaliser – the referee, Martin Atkinson, can add 60 seconds for celebration and restart (Hughes admits it took 45 seconds for play to resume).
*United's Anderson is replaced by Michael Carrick – the referee can add 30 seconds for a substitution.
*In these circumstances, Atkinson is entitled to add two minutes, 29 seconds to the original four minutes.
*Substitute Michael Owen scores for United to win the game on 95 minutes, 25 seconds – well within the allotted time.
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Comments (43)
City also got the added time, not just United. They c*cked up by taking their eye off the ball when Giggs and Owen didn't.
shhh 4-3 united got the 3 points!
Love the ignorance demonstrated here. Great language too.
The point about the extra time is that although the referees have the right to add time for these things they very rarely do. This is where big clubs and home teams get a slight advantage in any sport because if the home side is attacking the referee is more likely to let them complete the attack even though time was up. The real question is when would the referee have blown for full time if City had been attacking at 95mins. I suspect slightly sooner as the crowd would have been jeering and whistling. United scored on their 3rd attempt to deliver a decent ball (which was exceptional).
You cannot accuse United of cheating, they did nothing wrong and just played until the whistle. Very good point by a couple of commenters above about referee not adding a minute after United's goal!! That is life and home team advantage, we will just have to wait another year to embarras them at home.
The 2003 rugby world cup saw real home team advantage demonstrated almost to the point of costing England the world cup.
Let us all move on and hope that the standard of football in the premiership improves as so far this year it feels much lower than in previous seasons.
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