Furious Fergie lashed out after Frank Lampard's late penalty
shot down United and blew the title race wide open again.
Just three days after Wayne Rooney's elbow storm at Wigan,
Ferguson claimed Atkinson should have sent off Blues' goal hero
David Luiz for clattering the England striker.
And to make it worse, Nemanja Vidic was red-carded in injury
time Fergie rapped: "It was a major game, you want a fair referee
and we didn't get that.
"I don't know why he got the game. I feared the worst when I saw
who was refereeing.
"It's three years in a row now where the referee's decisions
have changed the game down here. And that's hard to take."
Luiz cancelled out Rooney's first-half goal but it was the
defender's off-the-ball trip on his star striker which enraged
Ferguson.
He added: "Six yards in front of the ref, maybe eight yet he
gives him the benefit of the doubt.
"It was incredible. Even before that, he'd done Chicharito off
the ball.
"I don't know how Luiz stayed on the pitch."
FA chiefs are bound to take a dim view of Ferguson's blast
especially in the wake of the leniency shown to Rooney after he
elbowed Wigan's James McCarthy last weekend.
Vidic was sent off for a second yellow card in injury time and
the United skipper is now banned for Sunday's crunch trip to
Liverpool.
Lampard - watched by girlfriend Christine Bleakley and pal Geri
Halliwell - struck 11 minutes from time after Chris Smalling fouled
Yuri Zhirkov.
But Fergie insisted: "The penalty was so soft. It was a great
performance from us and we didn't deserve that."
Chelsea moved back into the top four, 12 points behind United
with a game in hand.
And boss Carlo Ancelotti insists Ashley Cole's airgun incident
at the club's training ground has not affected his squad.
The Italian said: "I spoke an hour about Ashley yesterday. He
played a good game.
"We never had a problem with the unity of the players. They are
always together, in good and bad moments. This victory is important
for us and our confidence."