Worst robberies in football history?

[Nani Nana]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

 

[Redplane]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010.

Any suggestions?

You can never convince me our CL loss to Real with the Nani red card wasn't highway robbery of the highest order. That one still stings bc with a prime RvP I believe we would have won the whole thing that year.

 

[Samid]

Arse (FAC final 2005)
Pompey (FAC QF 2008)

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

United vs Porto in 2004. Scholes about three yards onside. If we'd gone through like we should have, we'd have hammered all of Lyon, Deportivo and Monaco and have another CL to our name,

 

[GhastlyHun]

Nah.

 

[pierrethesnack]

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010

I keep seeing this one, but I don't really see how it was a steal. Uruguay gave it their all, played entertaining football, and in the end the hero they didn't deserve but needed took a bullet for the team, even though being internationally condemned.

 

[Martialfc]

Alexis Sanchez

 

[2 man midfield]

In before someone mentions the 99 final

 

[Nani Nana]

Something happened in the 1966 World Cup final I am told.

 

[Samid]

Nah.

Bayern (CL QF 2010)

 

[Pexbo]

United vs Porto in 2004. Scholes about three yards onside. If we'd gone through like we should have, we'd have hammered all of Lyon, Deportivo and Monaco and have another CL to our name,

And Mourinho would never have become the special one

 

[Acrobat7]

World Cup final 1966

 

[Pexbo]

Di Maria vs robbers - Cheshire

Robbers vs Di Maria - Paris.

Robbed over two legs with Robbers winning on aggregate.

 

[The Corinthian]

Didn't Celtic beat Barca with 18% possession and 1 shot on target a few years ago? That.

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[Robertd0803]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

I keep seeing this one, but I don't really see how it was a steal. Uruguay gave it their all, played entertaining football, and in the end the hero they didn't deserve but needed took a bullet for the team, even though being internationally condemned.

Yeah Im with you on this one. Sucks for Ghana but Suarez got red carded rightly and then Ghana missed the penalty. They then failed to win the penalty shootout.

Plenty of terrible decisions against us over the years but Ill just mention the away game vs Chelsea in 2009/2010. Chelsea given a shit free kick for Ashley Cole jumping out of the way and they score and was decisive in us not winning the league.

France vs Ireland. No explanation needed.

Villa vs Sheffield United last season with the goal not given. Utterly appalling.

The entire Chelsea vs Barca semi final.

Maradonna handled a ball or something once didnt he?

 

[Bertie Wooster]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

That whole 'football injustice' stuff about Uruguay v Ghana is so overblown.

Players handballing a goal bound shot, or dragging back a player just about to score, happens regularly. The times there's an 'injustice' is when the ref doesn't spot it and nothing is given.

The ref did spot it. A penalty was rightly given. Suarez was rightly sent off. And Ghana had the chance to win it with a penalty. The fact the Ghanaian player blew the chance and missed it and they went on to lose doesn't make it an 'injustice'.

So many call it that because they were desperate for the African country to win. And because it was 'controversial Suarez' who handballed it so that gets added to his list of 'nasty antics'. But it was hardly akin to the biting incidents. Players blocking a shot with their hands happens far more regularly. And as long as there's a red card and a penalty given, then it's not particularly controversial or an injustice.

 

[Makelele]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

That Chelsea - Barcelona game was just remarkable in every way. The build up, the amount of controversial decisions, Essien screamer, Ballack losing it on the field, the last second goal, Drogba emotional outburst. So many things. It will be remembered in a negative light but that really was European football at its pinnacle.

 

[Fitchett]

Utd v AC Milan, 1969 European Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Utd v AC Milan, 1969 European Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg

What happened?

 

[Offside]

United v Pompey 2008 was a mental smash and grab.

 

[Sassy Colin]

We wuz robbed

 

[SalfordRed18]

Di Maria vs robbers - Cheshire

Robbers vs Di Maria - Paris.

Robbed over two legs with Robbers winning on aggregate.

For feck sake I spit out my milk

 

[pierrethesnack]

Yeah Im with you on this one. Sucks for Ghana but Suarez got red carded rightly and then Ghana missed the penalty. They then failed to win the penalty shootout.

Plenty of terrible decisions against us over the years but Ill just mention the away game vs Chelsea in 2009/2010. Chelsea given a shit free kick for Ashley Cole jumping out of the way and they score and was decisive in us not winning the league.

France vs Ireland. No explanation needed.

Villa vs Sheffield United last season with the goal not given. Utterly appalling.

The entire Chelsea vs Barca semi final.

Maradonna handled a ball or something once didnt he?

That whole 'football injustice' stuff about Uruguay v Ghana is so overblown.

Players handballing a goal bound shot, or dragging back a player just about to score, happens regularly. The times there's an 'injustice' is when the ref doesn't spot it and nothing is given.

The ref did spot it. A penalty was rightly given. Suarez was rightly sent off. And Ghana had the chance to win it with a penalty. The fact the Ghanaian player blew the chance and missed it and they went on to lose doesn't make it an 'injustice'.

So many call it that because they were desperate for the African country to win. And because it was 'controversial Suarez' who handballed it so that gets added to his list of 'nasty antics'. But it was hardly akin to the biting incidents. Players blocking a shot with their hands happens far more regularly. And as long as there's a red card and a penalty given, then it's not particularly controversial or an injustice.

Yeah, and it's not like I didn't feel bad for Ghana, they were also great to watch and I realize how much it would have meant for the country and continent.

I don't remember the game in detail, but wasn't it pretty even? Loads of chances for both teams, IIRC.

 

[Foxbatt]

United vs Spurs 2005. Roy Carroll "save".

 

[Robertd0803]

Yeah, and it's not like I didn't feel bad for Ghana, they were also great to watch and I realize how much it would have meant for the country and continent.

I don't remember the game in detail, but wasn't it pretty even? Loads of chances for both teams, IIRC.

Didnt Uruguay have a perfectly good goal disallowed and Ghana had a free kick given that shouldnt have been in the build up? Its a bit hazy.

On the handling the ball Scholes/Kanchelskis and Butt all got red carded for it with us and Fulham/Villa/Barca scored the resultant penalty. No injustice. Seemingly only an injustice when the other team misses the penalty.

On this subject though what about the wrong Arsenal player getting red carded for handling against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

 

[Welbeckham]

United vs Porto certainly springs to mind, could’ve changed football history radically if Mourinho’s Porto didn’t progress from that tie. We may have won the UCL, but then again we had a very questionable defence and goalkeeper back then.

Also Chelsea-Barcelona is an obvious one. And again, I think that result could’ve changed a lot of things, maybe we’d have won back to back UCLs, but probably still have the same decline after failing to replace our star players and eventually losing our manager.

Internationals... Spain-Korea is the worst I can remember by far. No robbery about Uruguay-Ghana. It’s just a popular narrative, but it was a fair game and Uruguay won it on penalties.

 

[Counterfactual]

Didn't Celtic beat Barca with 18% possession and 1 shot on target a few years ago? That.

Edit:

To be fair, that is a mugging of excellent quality.

 

[Fitchett]

What happened?

Milan won the 1st leg 2-0. In the 2nd leg, at Old Trafford, Charlton scored a screamer in the 2nd half, then Law equalised late on. Only for a defender to clear the ball, when it was a good 3 feet over the goal line ( I had a perfect view of that being behind the goal, near the front of the Stretford End). The referee waved play on, Law waved his fist at the defender, and Milan held on to "win" 2-1 on aggregate. United the holders were out, while Milan beat a young Ajax side 4-1 in the final. We were definitely robbed of a 2nd successive European Cup win.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

United vs Spurs 2005. Roy Carroll "save".

I was in the Stretford End that night. Looked over the line from 130 yards away

 

[Jezpeza]

Birmingham vs liverpool worthington cup final. Same day we beat arsenal 6-1 with a yorke hat trick.

if you can find watch the highlights, in the final moments of normal time andy johnson is clean through on goal in the box, ball a couple of yards ahead of him and henchoz just takes him out from behind. It was in the days of refs bottling big decisions against smaller teams.

 

[La Vecchia Signora]

The Ghana and Uruguay one was not a robbery. What Suarez did wasn’t good, but he got sent off and a penalty awarded to Ghana. It would be beautiful though to see an African country in the semifinals of the WC.

 

[Dirty Schwein]

Arse (FAC final 2005)

To this day this match still pissed me off.

 

[Rozay]

Never seen a team so battered like Arsenal in the 2005 Cup Final. They mist have genuinely been a tiny but embarrassed to lift the trophy that day!

 

[Ecstatic]

Didn't Celtic beat Barca with 18% possession and 1 shot on target a few years ago? That.

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[Charlie Foley]

On the pitch, that is.

Italy - South Korea 2002, Chelsea - Barcelona 2009, France - Ireland 2009 spring to mind.

Football injustices also happened at Ghana - Uruguay 2010, Argentina - Mexico 2014...

Any suggestions?

I don’t think Ghana Uruguay was an injustice. The free kick leading up to the incident was a dive. Also the first shot that Suarez blocks with his knees, Appiah was offside. The injustice would have been Ghana winning that match

 

[calodo2003]

Didn't Celtic beat Barca with 18% possession and 1 shot on target a few years ago? That.

Edit:

There’s a lot good about that.

 

[MyOnlySolskjaer]

Ghana Uruguay still boils my blood.

 

[Lay]

Haven’t seen it in awhile but the free kick for Ghana was from a dive and I’m sure the header before the handball came from an offside position.

 

[Oly Francis]

Barcelona PSG 6-1. We deserved the loss but it really was a robbery.

 

[Isotope]

Icardi - Maxi Lopez.