Just noticed this report in The Guardian which includes a good paragraph on the referee and reinforces the point that too many reports were prepared to ignore the uselessness of Mike Riley to have a go at us:
But a point apiece was a fair result from a game which, while
intriguing, never had much flow because of the officiousness of Mike
Riley. He blew constantly, like a 1950s child playing at being a
traffic policemen after finding a whistle in his Christmas stocking. It
wasn't a dirty game, yet Riley flashed eight yellows - seven at United
players, just the one at Chelsea blue - missed a blatant Ronaldo dive,
and generally got more things wrong than right. He even blew for time
early, to general confusion, having initially appeared to have given a
foul against Rio Ferdinand, prompting the United defender to call him a
"shit ref" as he walked off.
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