{"id":288251,"date":"2011-03-03T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/ferguson-charged-over-ref-remarks\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:50:07","slug":"ferguson-charged-over-ref-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/ferguson-charged-over-ref-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson charged over ref remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div>\n                        <!-- S BO --><br \/>\n<!-- S IIMA --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"right\" width=\"226\" cellpadding=\"0\" readability=\"1\">\n<tr readability=\"2\">\n<td readability=\"4\">\n<div readability=\"7\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/9ab215114_fergee226.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" alt=\"Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ferguson criticised Atkinson after his side&#8217;s loss to their title rivals<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- E IIMA --><!-- S SF --><\/p>\n<p><b>Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged by the Football Association with improper conduct over comments he made about referee Martin Atkinson.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United boss said he had &#8220;feared the worst&#8221; when Atkinson was appointed for Tuesday&#8217;s game with Chelsea, which United lost 2-1. <\/p>\n<p>Ferguson has until 1600 GMT next Tuesday to respond to the charge. <\/p>\n<p>He also has two matches of a four-game ban from last season hanging over him after remarks about referee Alan Wiley. <\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>Following their <\/p>\n<p>         <!-- S ILIN --><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport2\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/9405635.stm\">defeat at Stamford Bridge,<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <!-- E ILIN --><\/p>\n<p> Ferguson told MUTV: &#8220;You want a fair referee, or a strong referee anyway &#8211; and we didn&#8217;t get that. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I must say, when I saw who the referee was I feared it. I feared the worst.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Ferguson was angry over Atkinson&#8217;s failure to dismiss Chelsea defender David Luiz for fouls on Javier Hernandez and Wayne Rooney after he had already been booked. <\/p>\n<p>He was further upset when Chelsea were awarded what he considered a &#8220;soft&#8221; penalty when Yuri Zhirkov fell under the challenge of Chris Smalling. <\/p>\n<p>If Ferguson&#8217;s suspended ban is triggered, he will be suspended from the touchline for United&#8217;s FA Cup sixth-round tie with Arsenal at Old Trafford on 12 March and the Premier League game with Bolton a week later and then whatever extra games &#8211; if any &#8211; are added on for his latest outburst. <\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s loss at Stamford Bridge pegged their lead over Arsenal back to four points, with the Gunners having played a game less.\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- E BO --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/9ab215114_fergee226-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Visit link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/m\/man_utd\/9413347.stm\" title=\"Ferguson charged over ref remarks\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ferguson charged over ref remarks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ferguson criticised Atkinson after his side&#8217;s loss to their title rivals Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged by the Football Association with improper conduct over comments he made about referee Martin Atkinson. The Manchester United boss said he had &#8220;feared the worst&#8221; when Atkinson was appointed for Tuesday&#8217;s game with Chelsea, which United lost 2-1. Ferguson has until 1600 GMT next Tuesday to respond to the charge. <\/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-288251","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>Ferguson charged over ref remarks - 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\/ferguson-charged-over-ref-remarks\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ferguson charged over ref remarks - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ferguson criticised Atkinson after his side&#039;s loss to their title rivals Sir Alex Ferguson has been charged by the Football Association with improper conduct over comments he made about referee Martin Atkinson. 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