Manchester United defender, Luke Shaw and manager, Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer, will not face any punishment from the English FA following
their comments on referee Stuart Attwell after the club’s 0-0 draw against
Chelsea last Sunday.
Man United’s team were angry not to have been awarded a
penalty in the first half of the encounter against Chelsea when Callum
Hudson-Odoi and Mason Greenwood challenged for the ball, which bounced up and
appeared to hit both players’ arms inside the 18-yard box.
VAR called the attention of referee Stuart Attwell, but he
decided not to award a spot-kick to Man United after consulting the on-pitch
screen.
After the game, Shaw, in his post-match interview with Sky
Sports, claimed referee Attwell had told Man United captain, Harry Maguire,
that while he felt it was a penalty, awarding it would “cause a lot of talks.”
On his part, Solskjaer then backed up Shaw’s claims saying
he had heard the same thing from his players, as well as launching an attack on
Chelsea for trying to influence referees.
However, The Times reports that, after reviewing footage
from the interviews and reports filed from the match officials, the FA have now
decided against charging Shaw and Solskjaer with misconduct.
The English football body felt that the comments didn’t
violate disciplinary rule E3(1), which says a player should be charged if their
comments imply an official is biased or attacks their integrity, while it would
have been difficult to prove the charge to an independent panel.
Man United’s next game is against Crystal Palace on
Wednesday night at Selhurst Park Stadium.
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