Charlie Allan finally turns on Calderwood for the first time in the other EE article (but can't cut and paste that one so if someone else can it is quite funny)
http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/835847
Wright hands victory to United
Calderwood wrong to claim Dons dominated dismal clash
By Charlie Allan
Published: 22/09/2008
TURNING POINT: Tommy Wright, centre, concedes the decisive penalty.
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DONS boss Jimmy Calderwood says he felt they were mugged as United claimed their first league win since March.
But it’s the fans who coughed up an average of £20 each to watch this rubbish who were robbed blind.
This was an awful match played by two terrible teams. It’s embarrassing to think it was screened live throughout Britain, heaven knows what football supporters south of the border will have thought of it all.
It was Scottish football at its very worst. The majority of the players appeared to have forgotten how to control the ball, never mind pass it about and maybe entertain the paying fans.
How Calderwood could say the Dons dominated for a spell is beyond me. We must have been at a different game.
Calderwood is right to say the Dons enjoyed a lot of possession in the first half, but it’s what you do with it that counts.
For the third time in four home games they failed to give their front men any decent service.
United defensive pair Lee Wilkie and Darren Dods picked off the barrage of long balls aimed at them as easily as taking sweeties from a bairn.
You can’t fault any of the Dons players for effort, but that can only take you so far in this league.
It could have been so different if Gary McDonald hadn’t missed a glorious chance in the fifth minute, when he scooped the ball over the bar from five yards after Lee Miller’s free-kick had been knocked into his path.
From then on it was a case of cringing as the quality of play rapidly deteriorated.
Charlie Mulgrew wasted countless chances to set up chances from corners and free-kicks and that increased the frustration in the stands.
The Dons at least went close again just before the interval, when Chris Maguire’s shot was parried by United keeper Lukasz Zaluska.
Tommy Wright was crowded out as he attempted to net the rebound and McDonald then shot off target again.
The bizarre manner in which United were gifted the decisive penalty will have had the armchair viewers down south wondering if they were actually watching basketball.
I would love to know what was going through Wright’s head when he chose to wave his arm up like a windmill to knock away Craig Conway’s corner.
The Englishman declined the request to explain things to the Dons fans via the media afterwards.
It was a stonewall penalty, taken expertly by Francisco SANDAZA, whose little shimmy during his run-up was enough to send Jamie Langfield the wrong way.
You knew there would be no way back for the dismal Dons, even with more than 40 minutes still to go.
Jon Daly should have made it 2-0 when he shot wide of an empty goal from six yards as the match fittingly ended with Mulgrew sending another disappointing free-kick into the hands of Zaluska.
Losing at Pittodrie to Inverness, Hamilton and now United is simply not acceptable, and if the Dons don’t sort themselves out quickly, they will soon be struggling to give away tickets.