Ref Review: Arsenal should have no complaints but Manchester United man got lucky

It took all of 13 minutes for the first major talking point of last weekend’s football, unlucky for Arsenal perhaps. Marcos Alonso’s goal sparked another weekend of big decisions and once again youaretheref.com‘s Mark Halsey is back to take a look at them all…   Martin Atkinson (Chelsea vs Arsenal) I thought it was a fantastic game and I thought Martin handled the game very well. I think it’s a good goal, if we’re going to start disallowing goals like that then we’re in trouble. Alonso’s going into the space from one direction and Bellerin is going into it from another direction, Alonso is already in the air and he’s got his eyes on the ball, firmly on the ball. For me, it’s a good goal and you can go back and look at the incident between Ryan Mason and Gary Cahill, there was no foul given there either and look at Ryan, he got carried off but no foul was given. Had that been at the other end would Arsenal have wanted that goal disallowed? I think it’s making the referee a scapegoat for another poor performance, they can look at the referee but they have to look at … Continue reading Ref Review: Arsenal should have no complaints but Manchester United man got lucky