{"id":288202,"date":"2011-03-03T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/lma-chief-executive-richard-bevan-defends-manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-after-referee-rant\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:21:00","slug":"lma-chief-executive-richard-bevan-defends-manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-after-referee-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/lma-chief-executive-richard-bevan-defends-manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-after-referee-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"LMA chief executive Richard Bevan defends Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson after referee rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Craig Turnbull<\/h3>\n<h4>3 Mar 2011 16:21:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"64.9273579379\">\n<div readability=\"13.0169491525\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir Alex Ferguson (Getty images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/5dc7cbd6119918_news.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sir Alex Ferguson (Getty images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"29.1955526488\"><\/p>\n<p>        Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the League Managers Association, has conceded that he understands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a> manager <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/scotland\/8123\/sir-alex-ferguson\">Alex Ferguson\u2019s<\/a> angry post match reaction against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot was left fuming after referee Martin Atkinson decided not to send off David Luiz and then awarded Chelsea a penalty late in the game following a Chris Smalling challenge.<\/p>\n<p>United went on to lose 2-1 at a ground that they have come home pointless from since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson claimed after the game that &#8220;he feared the worst&#8221; when he heard Atkinson was the man in charge of the game, and he has since come under fire from some quarters, notably former referee Jeff Winter, who called for the veteran manager to be banned for four games.<\/p>\n<p>But Bevan sympathised with Ferguson\u2019s reaction and felt he was entitled to air his opinion after the controversial penalty decision.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested that it comes with the territory if managers are going to be interviewed minutes after a match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a man that since 1986 has been building high performance teams and when mistakes are made he will get angry,\u201d Bevan told <em>talkSPORT<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd in the 76th minute that was a big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you\u2019re going to interview managers after a game when so much is riding on these games, particularly a game of such a high-profile, then unfortunately you will get emotions going over &#8211; as you saw in Celtic-Rangers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/03\/03\/2377787\/lma-chief-executive-richard-bevan-defends-manchester-united\" title=\"LMA chief executive Richard Bevan defends Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson after referee rant\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LMA chief executive Richard Bevan defends Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson after referee rant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Craig Turnbull 3 Mar 2011 16:21:00 Sir Alex Ferguson (Getty images) Related Links Teams Players Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the League Managers Association, has conceded that he understands Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson\u2019s angry post match reaction against Chelsea . The Scot was left fuming after referee Martin Atkinson decided not to send off David Luiz and then awarded Chelsea a penalty late in the game following a Chris Smalling challenge. <\/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-288202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LMA chief executive Richard Bevan defends Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson after referee rant - 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\/lma-chief-executive-richard-bevan-defends-manchester-united-manager-sir-alex-ferguson-after-referee-rant\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"LMA chief executive Richard Bevan defends Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson after referee rant - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Craig Turnbull 3 Mar 2011 16:21:00 Sir Alex Ferguson (Getty images) Related Links Teams Players Richard Bevan, the chief executive of the League Managers Association, has conceded that he understands Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson\u2019s angry post match reaction against Chelsea . 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