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April 04, 2010
Drogba's Goal Sends Chelsea Over Man United: Helped by a controversial goal by Didier Drogba, Chelsea beat Manchester United 2-1 to move into first place in the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson blasted the officiating afterwards: "What I can't understand is the linesman's directly in front of it," he said. "He has no one near him and he gets it wrong."
So since both of those goals shouldn't have counted, Chelsea still wins on Joe Cole's quite lovely backheel, which I can't find a video of on YouTube. If you know of a link, drop it in here. It's quite a goal.
posted by boredom_08 at 07:32 PM on April 04, 2010
Macheda's hand was very hard (for me) to see during the many replays, which I watched in HD. Drogba was far enough offside that you could see green space between him and the last defender.
posted by billsaysthis at 05:59 PM on April 05, 2010
Offside is miscalled all the time -- it's refreshing to see an instance that favors the offense.
posted by Hugh Janus at 11:50 PM on April 05, 2010
Ferguson went on to point out that Federico Macheda's goal for United should have been disallowed for handball.
Oh no wait, no he didn't.