Wembley's ghost goal

At 5-1 does it really Mata?

April 16, 2012
By Dave Roberts
Yes, is the answer, and for once I'm on the side of a Premier League manager panning the man-in-the-middle. The Juan Mata 'goal' was a very bad piece of officiating by a man tipped to soon take over the mantle of England's best referee - Martin Atkinson.

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