With Patrick Vieira claiming that Manchester United get preferential treatment form referees in their home games this week, Sir Alex Ferguson has responded by claiming that their isn't much water to that theory and that each team in the league all have good and bad decisions against them.
You have to say that Sir Alex does have a point. It seems that Manchester United and the bigger clubs usually have this conspiracy against them and referees because it is the bigger teams that are in the media the most. It is the big teams who have more riding on penalty incidents and so such controversies are magnified. Those placing a Victor Chandler bet need to bear this in mind.
Then you have to think of the amount of times the likes of Manchester United are in their opponent's box. They attack teams all day long as Sir Alex Ferguson put it, so they are bound to have more penalty shouts against them as opponents crack under pressure make rash decisions. In actual fact, over the course of the season, I bet they have more appeals for penalties turned down than anybody else.
Lionel Messi is a perfect example of this, sometimes the only way to stop him is to foul him, so you are going to get a lot more decisions in your favour if he is in your team and anyone placing a Bet Victor bet needs to bear this in mind.
Unfortunately people ignore the above points when it comes to judging fairness, and instead use the number of penalties given or conceded. Let's make no mistakes about it, Fulham should have had a penalty on Monday night, but Manchester United could have argued they should have had a penalty in recent weeks that wasn't given. It really is swings and roundabouts and it balances out for teams over the course of the season.
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