Bottled Violence

Just read this paragraph from today's Guardian report on our match:

Stoke performed with the kind of raw, rough commitment that someone who
had last attended a match in 1958 would have recognised, and with a few
inventive moves at free-kicks they would have found utterly baffling.
John O'Shea looked bewildered when dealing with Rory Delap's long
throws. Edwin van der Sar's concentration was not helped by the odd
beer bottle that appeared to be flung in his direction from the Stoke
fans while Jonny Evans, standing in for Rio Ferdinand, endured an
untypically poor afternoon.

Now tell me how this reference to throwing bottles at a goalkeeper can be made so casually?  Although to be fair it is the only report to bother mentioning it.  It's only Man Utd...
All the reports go on in the usual manner about Ronaldo and Rooney.  Not sure what Ronaldo did wrong at all, it certainly wasn't bookable, Rooney, maybe could have been booked, but there were far too many examples of rubbish refereeing in the game to insinuate, as Graham Poll does, that the referee favoured the "big team".  He just had a bad game, he could have sent off Fuller for dissent on numerous occassions and should have booked a lot more Stoke players for dissent than he did, and he could have given a second yellow to a player whose name escapes me off for elbowing Vidic second half in a carbon copy of an incident in the first half that did warrant a booking.
The greatest thing in the reports today is that they all go on about how great Stoke were, tenacious defending, only the sending off robbed them, brilliant, etc., and yet at least two of them give the Man of the Match to Vidic?!  They defended so well one of our defenders gets man of the match...