{"id":416408,"date":"2011-05-03T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/03\/howard-webb-to-referee-potential-premier-league-decider-between-manchester-united-chelsea\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T15:06:00","slug":"howard-webb-to-referee-potential-premier-league-decider-between-manchester-united-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/03\/howard-webb-to-referee-potential-premier-league-decider-between-manchester-united-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Webb to referee potential Premier League decider between Manchester United &#038; Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>3 May 2011 16:06:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"63.5730337079\">\n<div readability=\"16.5\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL : Referee Howard Webb , Everton vs Liverpool (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/113300\/113308_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL : Referee Howard Webb , Everton vs Liverpool (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"24.4966442953\">Howard Webb has been appointed as the referee for the blockbuster game between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/96\/chelsea\">Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are only three points behind the league leaders in the title race after Sir Alex Ferguson&#8217;s men lost to Arsenal while Carlo Ancelotti&#8217;s charges beat Tottenham Hotspur last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Now with equal goal difference, the winner of the game between the two sides will go top with just two games to go.<\/p>\n<p>Ferguson has previously taken a pop at Chelsea for benefitting from officiating errors during their victory over Spurs, and also was hit with a five-game touchline ban for comments made about referee Martin Atkinson after United&#8217;s controversial defeat at Stamford Bridge in March.<\/p>\n<p>Webb was the man in charge during the World Cup final in South Africa, where Spain beat the Netherlands in a game that saw 14 yellow cards and one red shown.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old also received some criticism following an FA Cup game between Liverpool and United in January, where he award a controversial penalty to the Red Devils after Dimitar Berbatov tumbled in the box and sent off Steven Gerrard.<\/p>\n<p>Webb will be assisted by Darren Cann and Mike Mullarkey, who ran the touchlines in the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/05\/03\/2469195\/howard-webb-to-referee-potential-premier-league-decider\" title=\"Howard Webb to referee potential Premier League decider between Manchester United &amp; Chelsea\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard Webb to referee potential Premier League decider between Manchester United &amp; Chelsea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 3 May 2011 16:06:00 EPL : Referee Howard Webb , Everton vs Liverpool (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Howard Webb has been appointed as the referee for the blockbuster game between Manchester United and Chelsea . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":416409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-416408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Howard Webb to referee potential Premier League decider between Manchester United &amp; 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