We didn't deserve that at all.

[aylee]

how can you say that baros would defo have scored? have you forgotten tevezes miss earlier on in the game? and for it to have been a sending off, he would have had to have been the last defender back, which clearly he wasn't. but don't let the rule book get in the way of a good rant

Jesus H Christ on a brand new fucking mountain bike.

By definition, when a player is fouled, you can't tell whether he would definitely have scored, because he's been fouled and impeded from scoring. That's why the rule refers to an "obvious goalscoring opportunity".

Baros is prone to miss sitters (a few glaring ones when he was 'graceing' the claret and blue of Villa spring to mind) but at the time he was taken out, the goal was open as it was only after he'd fallen that Rooney and the other one got back to cover.

Therefore it was an "obvious goalscoring opportunity".

If you want to invoke the rulebook, I suggest that you give it a read yourself, because otherwise you just make yourself look like an idiot with red-tinted specs.