This furore over Luis Suarez Suarez 'non-handshake' with that Evra fella has gone out of control and is totally out of proportion for what has occurred.
True, Suarez is guilty of going back on his promise to shake that man Evra's hand and he did make a mistake there after previously promising to Liverpool that he would do so.

Goals:
Rooney 47' 50'
Suarez 80'
The worst possible result. Not just a loss, a deserved loss – self-inflicted thanks to a feeble 30 minutes after the restart – but continued, probably increased, focus on the Suarez-Evra contretemps thanks to each acting like spoiled children.

It will be a hostile atmosphere when United take on arch rivals Liverpool this weekend, and Sir Alex's side are slightly odds-on at 1.91 with Paddy Power to come out on top in what promises to be a real hard fought battle.

The game sees Patrice Evra come face to face with Luis Suarez for the first time since the Liverpool striker was banned for eight games after racially abusing the United defender and the role of referee Phil Dowd will be crucial.

Venue: Ewood Park, Blackburn Date: 1st February 2012 Kick Off: 8.00pm Referee: Phil Dowd. Good evening Geordies and welcome to our regular "match banter" feature. This evening sees us facing Blackburn Rovers for the fourth time this season, with the record so far being two wins to one in our favour, their one victory being [.

Venue: Ewood Park, Blackburn Date: 1st February 2012 Kick Off: 8.00pm Referee: Phil Dowd. Don't know about you, but I'm getting sick of the sight of Blackburn Rovers! We've played them three times already this season and of course they were never off the TV screens during the really vicious fan protests against their manager [.

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Today's referee is Phil Dowd and on this side of the fence we had ref reviewer 04.

And in our continuing quest for the Holy Grail (= a higher standard in refereeing) we [.

Liverpool set up a Carling Cup final against Cardiff after playing out a thrilling 2-2 draw with Manchester City at Anfield to advance 3-2 on aggregate.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, City quickly drew level on aggregate thanks to a superb long-range strike from defensive midfielder Nigel de Jong that flew into the top corner.

Roberto Mancini was left to bemoan a couple of refereeing calls that went against Manchester City after seeing Liverpool go through to the Carling Cup final.
Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, City had a lot of work to do at Anfield and opened the scoring thanks to Nigel de Jong's stunning strike from distance.

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Kenny Dalglish feeling the heat after a series of underwhelming displays by Liverpool in the Premiership was able to get a satisfying consolation in today's Carling Cup match pipping City to the Wembley finals.

Nigel De Jong gave City the lead to level the aggregate.

By Alan Duffy

Liverpool 2-2 Manchester City (Aggregate 3-2) Carling Cup Semi-final 25th January 2012

Liverpool came from behind twice against Manchester City at Anfield to secure a place in the final of the Carling Cup, and their first appearance at Wembley in 16 years.

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Referee: Mike Dean Assistant 1: Stuart Burt Assistant 2: Adam Watts 4th Official: Phil Dowd

Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... What can I say – it's Mike Dean and Phil Dowd and we all know what that means don't we?

Here are the most interesting and important points from the 115 page document which explains why the decision was made to charge Luis Suarez with racially abusing Patrice Evra.

Evidence
- The FA and Evra watched some video footage of the match. Evra pointed out to the FA, by reference to the video footage, when it was during the match that Suarez made the comments about which Evra had complained.

First fifteen

For a quarter of an hour on Boxing Day, it seemed like Sir Alex Ferguson had taken the term 'Christmas surprise' too literally. By the time that we eventually figured United were playing with 9 men + Evans + Gibson, Evra had already skipped around a static Wigan defence for Park to score his first goal in the Premier League since those days when he only scored against Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea etc.

szólj hozzá: Incredible Mark Bunn save 1. While you've all been busy stuffing your faces for a few days, Blackburn boss Steve Kean might just have found a Bunn to save his bacon. Young keeper Mark Bunn put in a great performance to earn a point at Liverpool. 2. It definitely wasn't a Blue Christmas.

szólj hozzá: Incredible Mark Bunn save 1. While you've all been busy stuffing your faces for a few days, Blackburn boss Steve Kean might just have found a Bunn to save his bacon. Young keeper Mark Bunn put in a great performance to earn a point at Liverpool. 2. It definitely wasn't a Blue Christmas.

Dimitar Berbatov delivered a late Christmas present to United fans, scoring three in a 5-0 demolition of 10-men Wigan, to send Ferguson's team joint top with Manchester City, albeit behind on goal difference. Park Ji Sung and Antonio Valencia also got on the scoresheet, as Wigan were furious with referee Phil Dowd, whose decision to [.

By Alan Duffy

Manchester 5-0 Wigan Athletic Premier League 26th December 2011

Wigan's recent resurgence took quite a mauling at Old Trafford on Boxing Day, with Dimitar Berbatov giving Sir Alex Ferguson a timely reminder of his quality in front of goal with a superb hat-trick.

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Referee: Phil Dowd Assistant 1: Mick McDonough Assistant 2: David Richardson 4th Official: Michael Oliver

Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch...

This match day we face Manchester City away and the Asian markets are showing an interesting 'quarter ball' market with Manchester City [.

There has been some bad news today, not only is Andre Santos out for around three months as he requires surgery for his ankle injury, but it has been announced that the fat blind walrus who also goes by the name of Phil Dowd is to officiate our game away to Manchester City this weekend.The above video sums up how many of us felt as Dowd threw our game away to Newcastle last season.

By Chris Wright

You'll be glad to know that moments after this grotesque belly-flop, Seb Larsson conspired to miss the penalty he successfully conned out of referee Phil Dowd in woeful fashion, after which Wolves toddled up the other end and equalised within 25 seconds (skip to the 7:00 mark).

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Referee: Mark Clattenburg Assistant 1: Mike Mullarkey Assistant 2: Peter Kirkup 4th Official: Phil Dowd

Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch today we welcome Mark Clattenburg, the subject of the first ever RefWatch; if cast you mind back way back to 2010 [.

Goals:
Maxi 58'
Kelly 63'
A diligent, comprehensive win sealed with two strikes within five minutes around the hour mark. After briefly basking in the afterglow of yet another away win and yet another victory over Chelsea, the result seems somewhat overshadowed by Lucas's frightening knee injury – the last thing the team needed from this poorly-scheduled fixture.

Young guns fail to fire Chelsea past Liverpool's quality in depth | David Hytner

André Villas-Boas's attempt to integrate youthful dynamism into his faltering team fails because of the visitors' superior knowhow After he had checked that his ankle was still affixed to his leg and the lengthy treatment had finished, Jordan Henderson had one question for the assorted black puffa jackets on the Liverpool bench.

Chelsea 0-2 Liverpool | Carling Cup quarter-final match report

The Shed End of this arena, bedecked for the night in the visitors' red banners, was erupting in riotous celebration as Craig Bellamy quietly turned and walked alone back to the centre circle, a player lost in his own thoughts.

Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester. Date: Saturday 26 November, 2011 Kick-off: 3.00pm. Referee: Mike Jones (replaced Phil Dowd). After such a great result was over-shadowed by the deeply sad news of the death of a true Geordie Legend, Gary Speed, I've found it very hard to commit to a match report. It's with a heavy heart [.

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Rio Ferdinand put in a brilliant challenge on Ben Arfa in the box only for the linesman John Flynn to flag for a penalty. Mike Jones, who was filling in for Phil Dowd, had initially rightly indicated that a corner should be awarded, before a discussion with Flynn saw him award a penalty, denying United the three points.

Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester. Date: Saturday 26 November, 2011 Kick-off: 3.00pm. Referee: Mike Jones (replaces Phil Dowd). Good afternoon Geordies and welcome to our regular "match banter" feature for this afternoon's game, which sees the Magpies facing another tough game in Manchester, this time against the United lot.

Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester. Date: Saturday 26 November, 2011 Kick-off: 3.00pm. Referee: Mike Jones (replaces Phil Dowd). Well, it's almost time for the second of Newcastle United's triumvirate of clashes against "the big guns" of Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea. Like the last one, we will also face the further disadvantage of playing away [.

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Arsenal travelled to Norwich where Phil Dowd officiated, picking up a hard fought 2-1 away win.

Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight 1 OTHER Van Persie Naughton C Fairly normal but perhaps used his [.

Denied again

That's our sixth consecutive Premier League win and unbeaten in the last 8 games. The win against Norwich puts us up to 6th position in the table, level on points with both Chelsea and Tottenham, albeit both have games in hand over us. On another day, this could've been a tennis score but it wasn't and ultimately a win was all that matters as we kept our good form going.

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Referee: Phil Dowd Assistant 1: Andy Garratt Assistant 2: David Richardson 4th Official: Michael Oliver

Good morning stat-fans and welcome to RefWatch... First of all greetings to all new readers who may have come here off the back of the Everton [.

Referee Martin Atkinson to take charge of Chelsea's clash with Liverpool at Stamford Bridge

Elsewhere, Phil Dowd is the man in the middle for Norwich v Arsenal, Chris Foy is in charge for Manchester City v Newcastle and Mike Dean officiates Swansea v Manchester United

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Mock the Weekend... Mario Balotelli is as unpredictable and entertaining as a dodgy box of fireworks

The striker capped off a brilliant weekend with an awesome celebration as City battered United, while some Wolves fans and Phil Dowd made right clowns of themselves

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By Alan Duffy

Aston Villa 1-2 West Bromwich Albion Premier League 22 October 2011

They may have benefited from an extremely harsh red card given to Villa's Chris Herd for a rather innocuous-looking tangle with Martin Olsson, but West Brom fully deserved their victory against their local rivals.

You might not have been alive that last time West Brom left Villa Park with three points: it was May 11th 1979. In fairness, we've only played in the same league 12 seasons since then, which reduces the chances of losing somewhat, but then we also didn't have to endure Phil Dowd refereeing.

You might not have been alive that last time West Brom left Villa Park with three points: it was May 11th 1979. In fairness, we've only played in the same league 12 seasons since then, which reduces the chances of losing somewhat, but then we also didn't have to endure Phil Dowd refereeing.

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has spoken publically for the first time to deny claims he racially abused Manchester United defender Patrice Evra at Anfield on Saturday.
During Saturday's 1-1 draw at Anfield, the players were involved in a lengthy dispute and Evra was booked by referee Andre Marriner.

Liverpool FC was making hard work of the Merseyside derby – and then Kenny Dalglish introduced the substitutes. We did not look like we were going to break Everton down and we missed a great opportunity when Dirk Kuyt's penalty was saved by Tim Howard at the end of the first half. With 10 men, Everton just sat back and we were struggling but it was game long marred by the wrongful decision to send off Jack Rodwell.

By Alan Duffy

Steve Kean's tenure in charge at Ewood Park looks close to ending after the Scot's struggling Blackburn side were thoroughly demolished by Roberto Mancini's A-list 11.

Sergio Aguero did go off early with a groin injury in a mediocre first half, but after the break City roared into action.