Banned From TV

Match of the Day highlights -

Fulham v Manchester United

The usual rubbish. There's a complete decontextualisation of Ronaldo's behaviour, not showing any of the decisions that led up to his first half "petulance"; they don't show the foul on Berbatov that led to his injury, again a foul not given. I give Phil Dowd the benefit of the doubt that he was just trying to let the game flow, but he still ignored numerous fouls on our players. Same second half where Ronaldo's challenge for his booking is shown but the foul on him that preceded that isn't, again trying to make Ronaldo look bad by ignoring the sins against him. There is an interesting bit of commentary in the build up to Fulham's second where he points out that there's a foot up and so we should have had a free kick. Of course we have no replay of that - it's forgotten as soon as Fulham score. The commentary on the Rooney sending off as well, "the way he furiously flung the ball back at the referee", or, as it looked like to me, "flung the ball to where the referee pettily wanted it taken from in the context of being 2 down with time running out and wanting to get on with the game."
The studio discussion isn't on the above video, Ex Liverpool players slag us off. They do have a bit where they demonstrate that Rooney threw the ball to the exact spot that Dowd wanted the free kick taken from. The ex Liverpool players don't seem to appreciate that though.