[silverbaggie]

At the risk of claiming bias towards anything involving Man Ure that nice Mr Van Gaal seems to think that his players can do exactly what they want and not expect to get penalised:-

Van Gaal is quoted as saying:-

You can give the two bookings according to the rules but I think the referee needs to know the player who is doing that," added Van Gaal.

"The referee has to decide within one second but you know that Mata never hurts another player.


So the fact that Mata has never before been sent off, he should be considered exempt from such punishment.
What he really means is you can't penalise Man Ure players as they are above the law.

Thank God Fergie isn't still in charge or else the ref would have been hung, drawn and quartered.

Mind you bearing in mind who the ref was; we've had a few complaints of our own in the past.