Quote Originally Posted by gazan View Post
We can all be short-sighted when it comes to our own team and suggestions that the referee was bribed are nothing short of ridiculous. However, I had a direct sight-line of the Cooney incident and the push was very clear. Remember, both players were running full pelt and so the slightest push would have had a significant impact. From the Wrexham side of the ground the push wouldn't have so evident as your view was face on to the players. Add to this the ball was coming over Cooney's head from behind him so he would need eyes in the back of his head th deliberately handball. And, and this is the clincher for it being and absolute disgrace of a decision, the ball was a long way out, it was way over to one side, Mullen was actually behind Cooney so would have needed to get past him and finally there was another Crewe player in the middle of the field. So Cooney wasn't the last man and the play was nowhere near a 'goalscoring situation.
Finally, the decision killed the game off as a spectacle so the statistics of the last 30 minutes are irrelevant.
WOW. Clutching at straws springs to mind here. Just desperate.

I've watched the replays and I was at the game. The incident was pretty much right in front of me. I had one of the best views in the ground and better than any home fan due to how close I was to it. I can understand you thinking this straight after the incident but not after watching the highlights. Its borderline delusional thinking Mullin's contact caused the handball.

He wasn't sent off for being the last man, he was sent off for deliberate handball. So other defenders and where they were is totally irrelevant.

If your hand is stretched out like his was and it was a clear deliberate action then you're in trouble. There was no stumble or anything like that.

As for the so called 'push'. Dear god. It was a coming together of arms, a slight nudge if anything and nothing more. Certainly no foul and that did not cause Cooney to reach out and almost grab the ball and bring it down. If that's a foul then football isn't a contact sport, which is just nonsense. I've seen worse in kids football.

They were not running at full pelt at all either. Where on earth have you got that from?

Its extremely naïve to believe Cooney didn't know exactly what he was doing. It didn't work with the officials but its worked a treat with you. He didn't take it well did he. Looks like the handball rules haven't reached Crewe yet.