{"id":287553,"date":"2011-03-03T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/branislav-ivanovic-admits-referee-martin-atkinson-was-wrong-to-award-chelsea-penalty-against-manchester-united\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T08:40:00","slug":"branislav-ivanovic-admits-referee-martin-atkinson-was-wrong-to-award-chelsea-penalty-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/branislav-ivanovic-admits-referee-martin-atkinson-was-wrong-to-award-chelsea-penalty-against-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson was wrong to award Chelsea penalty against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Mar 2011 08:40:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"56.1854768154\">\n<div readability=\"15.8944954128\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL: Martin Atkinson points penalty, Chelsea v Manchester United\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/f748dd1a125416_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>EPL: Martin Atkinson points penalty, Chelsea v Manchester United<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"16.2272727273\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/serbia\/12065\/branislav-ivanovic\">Branislav Ivanovic<\/a> admits referee Martin Atkinson should not have awarded a penalty to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a> against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A challenge from Chris Smalling on Yury Zhirkov resulted in the official pointing to the spot 10 minutes from time, with Frank Lampard scoring the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson hit out at Atkinson for the decision, and could now be sanctioned by the FA as they are reported to have requested the video of his interview with <em>MUTV<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanovic was quoted by <em>The Sun<\/em> as saying: &#8220;I find the penalty for Chelsea very dubious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was too easily adjudged. I have to admit that after seeing it again. I thought it was a penalty when Zhirkov fell but, afterwards, I saw it never was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we were in a similar situation a couple of times this season and no one said anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/f748dd1a125416_news-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/03\/2377147\/branislav-ivanovic-admits-referee-martin-atkinson-was-wrong\" title=\"Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson was wrong to award Chelsea penalty against Manchester United\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson was wrong to award Chelsea penalty against Manchester United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 3 Mar 2011 08:40:00 EPL: Martin Atkinson points penalty, Chelsea v Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson should not have awarded a penalty to Chelsea against Manchester United . A challenge from Chris Smalling on Yury Zhirkov resulted in the official pointing to the spot 10 minutes from time, with Frank Lampard scoring the winner. Red Devils boss Sir Alex Ferguson hit out at Atkinson for the decision, and could now be sanctioned by the FA as they are reported to have requested the video of his interview with MUTV . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson was wrong to award Chelsea penalty against Manchester United - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/branislav-ivanovic-admits-referee-martin-atkinson-was-wrong-to-award-chelsea-penalty-against-manchester-united\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson was wrong to award Chelsea penalty against Manchester United - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 3 Mar 2011 08:40:00 EPL: Martin Atkinson points penalty, Chelsea v Manchester United Related Links Teams Players Branislav Ivanovic admits referee Martin Atkinson should not have awarded a penalty to Chelsea against Manchester United . 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