“Apparently he has retracted the comments but it’s interesting.” Ferguson said. “I’m trying to analyse that. I’m not sure. But he’s more or less saying that all the referees have been wrong this season and really you’re not supposed to discuss referees. He is a paid official of Manchester City, isn’t he?“We’ve had some terrible decisions at Old Trafford, though, like when Newcastle got a penalty kick. But Tottenham could claim the same when Mario Balotelli wasn’t sent off and ended up scoring the winning goal.
“You could go through millions of things like that. City could have had a penalty kick against them at Stoke, as everyone saw, with Gareth Barry’s challenge on Glenn Whelan.
“So you get breaks here and there. Every club gets good breaks, they get bad breaks that even themselves out over a season and that will never change.
“Someone said to me some years ago that United always get penalty kicks at Old Trafford, but you go back through the 25 years I’ve been here, it’s only averaged three a year, or 3½ a year, or something like that. You can’t say that’s a lot when we’re attacking teams every minute"
