Moyes unimpressed by officials

17 September 2009 23:13
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Everton manager David Moyes was unimpressed with the match officials after Louis Saha was sent off late on in the 4-0 victory over AEK Athens in the Europa League.[LNB] The Toffees strolled to the three points in Group I, with goals from Joseph Yobo, Sylvain Distin, Steven Pienaar and Jo.[LNB]But the win was tainted for Moyes after Saha was shown a red card in the closing stages against AEK, who had already had Carlos Araujo dismissed.[LNB]The Everton boss was not impressed that the match officials, which included goalline assistants in an experiment by Uefa, did not spot that Saha was allegedly provoked into lashing out at Juanfran.[LNB]Moyes said: "It was disappointing. It was a ridiculous kick the boy has on Louis before he got sent off.[LNB]"It is amazing that they (the officials) see the small arm but don't see the big kick - even with the extra officials.[LNB]Got it wrong"They were looking for something but if they did they initially got it wrong and not to see the kick in the box was really poor.[LNB]"We hope they get more decisions right than wrong and I didn't think the referee had an awful lot of big decisions to make tonight but I think one of those he missed the initial incident.[LNB]"We need to do everything we can to help the referees but if he was helped in the Louis Saha then I think he was wrong."[LNB]Moyes also criticised the AEK players for spending a lot of time on the floor.[LNB]"Tonight was strange. British supporters and teams are not used to seeing players being on the ground so often," he added.[LNB]"I've always said the one thing we have to cut out of football is diving, that is the biggest thing in football that is wrong at the moment."[LNB]

Source: SKY_Sports