Picking someone who is a known big game screwup , in a controversial team selection that no one expected, with a referee who is known (From previous champions league encounters) to be card happy does have something to do with Ferguson, even if only tangentially. Of course hindsight is always 20 20. Also, who is to say they had won the game? It was 1-0 and i'm not sure the extra man would have prevented either goal. Plenty of teams come back from 1 down to win even with 11 men on the pitch. All they needed was 1 goal to make added time a reality, which would force man U to attack again.
That's racist, a black man can be good at soccer!