Their fans will care not a jot. They've got 3 points and all in the garden is rosy for them. There is one over-riding reason why they are allowed to get away with it.
Quite simply it is the weak and ineffective officials that ruin our game. Apart from the fact that the referee's assistant at the Reebok should be taken out to a place somewhere near Siberia and made to walk home to teach him a lesson, officials are gutless, poorly regarded by players, fans, managers and almost everyone within the game.
This benefited Bolton yesterday because they were the home side, and it is a similar story every week. The referees and their assistants bow to the pressure of the combined appeals from fans and players in major decisions far too often. Liverpool benefit from it too, at Anfield as do all other teams. Man Utd clearly benefit from it more than anyone else, at Old Trafford. Just ask Mike Riley.
The time has come for a 5th official/video replays or whatever method you wish to use but where key decisions that affect the balance of the game are made away from the pitch, independently without any pressure from fans, players or the likes of Alex Ferguson trying to intimidate officials one way or another.
Sceptics shrug off these suggestions and say how much the game will be delayed far too much. Everyone knows that is nonsense as long as it's done only on key decisions. There aren't many of these in a match and we're only talking debatable penalty/free kick decisions, handball around the area, ball over the line and perhaps violent conduct. There wouldn't be any offside decisions referred for video replay and no incidents that simply prompted free kicks unless there was a clear goal-scoring opportunity (i.e. ball on the 18 yard line like at Bolton yesterday)
Technology these days would mean that between 20 and 30 seconds per incident would be the likely delay. With no more than 6 incidents per match where the referee and their ineffective assistants cannot make a decision, this would only mean 2 or 3 minutes delay to each match but would be of huge benefit in deciding the outcome of matches in the correct way.
Delayed video technology should also be used far more than at present in punishing players for diving, cheating and violent tackles. This attitude of the FA to refuse to impose further punishment if the referee has already seen it is complete nonsense. The referee only sees incidents from one angle, and his view may be that the incident is not of sufficient severity to deal with in the appropriate way, e.g. if a player (Cristiano Ronaldo springs to mind) decides to fall over his own ego in the penalty area to try and cheat his way to a goal opportunity. Besides, as I've said, refs are gutless and the odds of Ronaldo being sent off at Old Trafford for such an act would probably be 2000-1 with a good bookmaker.
If the FA had the foresight to review these instances and impose 5, 6, 7 or even 10 match bans for such behaviour, you would see it suddenly become a rare occurrence in our once beautiful game.
It's time for action. I and countless others are becoming so disillusioned with how top-flight football is affected these days by so many unsavoury incidents and decisions. We have to address them now before football becomes a complete mockery and its popularity adversely affected to such a degree that there's no way back.