Mike Dean was in charge for Eduardo’s leg break, Wilshere’s ankle injury, Diaby’s 2nd ankle injury and now Torreira’s leg break.
Awards statistically fewer pens for Arsenal than any other top 6 team.
Are all these things pure chance?
There is no suitable explanation for why Luiz got a red for this challenge on Mahrez. But Diaz only got a yellow for a foul in a more dangerous position. Other than bias.
@Arsenal
need to address this. The PL and PGMOL need to address this.
So after 30 games of this PL season Arsenal have the most yellow cards (65). The most red cards (4). While being only 14th in number of tackles made (477).
Would love the pundits to figure out how we are such a ‘soft’ team but yet punished so heavily by referees.
Times when contact=penalty:
Hazard vs Arsenal
Son vs Arsenal
Salah vs Arsenal
Lovren vs Arsenal
Times when contact ‘not enough’:
Guendouzi vs Huddersfield
Mustafi vs Huddersfield
Lacazette vs anyone.
Pundits who thought United were brilliant in the Arsenal match are now baffled as to why they are so poor. Maybe because you let the scoreline outweigh the actual events of the match in your analysis?
Tell me there isn’t something VERY dodgy going on with PL refereeing when this was NOT shown to the referee to decide on whether to award Arsenal a penalty.
The empathy towards Ukrainians is correct and normal.
The lack of empathy towards Yemenis, Iraqis, Afghanis and Somalians is the thing that is not normal.
We don’t want war. ANYWHERE.
92nd min: Burnley player fouls Guendouzi when goal side preventing a counter. Then blocks the quick free kick. Then pushes Guendouzi. Three yellow card offences..... he got a warning. Par for the course with these referees and Arsenal.
Mad to see Margaret Hodge dismiss concern over the killing of innocent Palestinians as ‘you are just banging the drum you have been banging for years’….
That drum that Palestinian lives matter as much as Israeli lives? What a horrible response. She should be ashamed.
It should not be controversial to oppose the killing of both Palestinian and Israeli children.
It should not be controversial to oppose war crimes.
But Margaret Hodge tried to shut me down, and lied, on
@SkyPoliticsHub
.
Here's the full interview.
This is absolutely wild.
If dropping Özil was entirely a ‘football reasons’ decision from Arteta then Smith Rowe’s performance yday poses some awkward questions. The difference having a number 10 makes. Has banishing Özil cost us a chance at top 4 this season? And was it really worth it? It’s no for me.
Media for 6 years: Arsenal need a world class striker to score the important goals.
Arsenal: *signs Aubamayang and Lacazette who proceed to score important goals*
Media: why do Arsenal rely on world class strikers to score goals to win them matches?
Failed to award Pepe a penalty against Sheffield United at Emirates.
Failed to award Sokratis a penalty away against Sheffield United.
It is amazing how more huge ‘errors’ come to mind so easily for Dean vs Arsenal.
Also notable he gave Birmingham a late penalty for a clean tackle by Clichy to make it 2-2.
Failed to spot a clear red card foul on Pepe when we played WHU.
Missed a clear pen on Walcott and red card foul by Mikel on Arteta when we played CFC in 2013.
Wrongly sent off Gabriel and failed to red card Costa when we played CFC in 2015.
Awarded the infamous WBA penalty in 2017 that cost us 2 points and Wenger a fine.
There has to be some issue there. It is too consistent.
Former Stoke players going on radio to admit they intentionally went out to hurt Arsenal players. And that the refs allowed it because ‘atmosphere’. This tactic resulted in several injuries
Yet the media were critical of Ramsey not accepting Shawcross’ apology for his broken leg
It’s easy to accept that Xhaka’s foul was a clear red card. But we all know that if Fabinho made the same foul on Saka we would have seen a yellow and been told ‘he didn’t have control of the ball so not a clear goal scoring op’ or ‘Fabinho tried to play the ball so no red’.
Just seen Alan Brazil has suggested Eric Dier is as good as Sergio Busquets. That opinion alone demonstrates the shocking lack of football knowledge in British Football punditry.
That ignorance has consequences for the public who absorb these shocking opinions.
Remarkable how many clips there are of Kane doing this. Disgusting behaviour and seriously endangering his fellow professionals. But still at least he didn’t do anything horrendous like buy a house. So the Mail will join the referees and ignore it.
It tells you everything you need to know about the shocking state of British football Press/punditry that they criticised Aubameyang for giving a penalty to Lacazette but applaud Kane stealing a goal from Eriksen.
No surprise to see that Pochettino advocates diving. Fairly obvious to anyone who has watched Spurs play under his leadership it is one of his ‘tactics’. The only groups oblivious to this are the media, FA and PGMO.
Serious questions should be raised about 1. Why VAR is 2 years late to the PL. 2. Why Mike Riley is not following protocol of every other league who use it.
What is he seeking to protect? The game or his influence?
English football will continue to allow Alli to get away with dangerous tackles. Then they’ll be shocked when he gets sent off for one in the World Cup. Lessons are not being learnt.
Arsenal vs PGMO:
Net VAR decisions for -7 (20th)
VAR Decisions for 2 (20th)
VAR Decisions against 9 (19th)
20/21 season
Tackles 403 (1st) *least*
Fouls 306 (1st)
🟥 5 (20th) *most*
🟨 43 (7th)
19/20 season
Tackles 584 (7th)
Fouls 421 (8th)
🟥 5 (20th)
🟨 86 (20th)
Bad luck?
The club have been offering Sanchez contracts for 2 years. He has refused so that he can leave on a free. Of course the fee his new club would have spent (given to Arsenal) now goes directly into his wages. But sure you 'Arsenal fan' keep lauding his winners attitude.
So Arteta took a pay cut to push through his move from Everton to Arsenal as a player.
And now has chosen to risk it all. Leaving a cushy job with the richest club in the land to come and manage us.
If this doesn't buy him 22 years of goodwill I am done with you lot.
I can't relate to football fans who think a 2min delay is too much to justify checking decisions when the match could have swung from 1-3 to 2-2 based on 2 easily checked calls. If it ruined the match you turned off right? Fans left the stadium right? No thought not.
So rumours make it seem Arsenal will be active in the transfer market and Ian Wright finds a negative slant to it. What would he have said if we were not active? Again it would have been a negative. Why is it always that way with our ex-players?
What is most obvious from this Bellerin fall out is that most of the critics of what he said cannot interpret a whole sentence of the English language. Let alone a paragraph of nuanced discussion. The amount of anger over things he REALLY DID NOT SAY is astonishing.
Özil was clearly our best player. Taking him off made no sense. Saka looked exhausted. Kolasinac spent 10mins begging to be subbed. Emery took off our best player.
That allowed Liverpool to push forward 30m up the pitch. We stopped attacking and we are not good enough to defend.
Kane did to Karius exactly what he did to Gabriel last season. Throws himself to the ground and kicks out his right leg to induce contact. As he is English and Spurs they will say 'Clever'. Contact is made AFTER he has started going down. Onside or Offside it is a dive.
Guy behind me spent 2 mins shouting and moaning at Elneny for what he did to get sent off. Until the guy next to him asked ‘what did he do I didn’t see it?’
His response?
‘I dunno I didn’t see it either but he must have done something’
What a supporter!
The most remarkable thing about Henry was him setting the PL assist record. 20 assists in one season. Even Beckham swinging in crosses for Cole/Yorke/Scholes only managed 15.
Henry banged 24 goals and TWENTY assists.
Harry Kane is the most consistent diver I’ve ever seen in English football. If he was any other nationality or colour the press would be destroying him weekly for it. But he gets a free pass because he is the ‘golden boy’.
Fans who probably moaned and groaned their way through every one of Ox's 198 appearances now offer him more support than they do to the players who stay and fight for the club. All because 'Wenger'.
Mike Dean who watched Cresswell scissor tackle Pepe earlier in the season and called it fair sees the same thing happen to Torreira and again thinks it was a fair challenge. Despite the after effects visible here.
Referees so bad they endanger the health of our players.
I just can’t believe that is a penalty. It means ANY contact in the box that doesn’t play the ball is a pen. Which makes my mind wander back to Stoke and Man U matches. Different rules?
The club with 115 financial doping charges against them who just won the league for the 3rd time in a row are hijacking the deal of their closest competitor… and somehow Arsenal are the bad guys lol
Honestly winning one FA cup alone is an ok achievement. Winning three in four years is absolutely incredible on reflection. I doubt it has been managed often in the entire history of the competition.
Johan Cryuff On playing defensive football:
‘imagine having to sit through a season of ugly football and you might not even win the title! The whole season wld then have been wasted!’
@stephenkb
So you wrote a whole article on how Margaret Hodge didn't say the thing that everyone got upset over.
And now you have headlined and written an article entirely about a phrase 'British Zionists' which Corbyn never used. This only appeared in the mail online paraphrasing in [.].
We’ve seen it with Arsenal. One replay of Xhaka’s goal against LCFC. From the worst angle before disallowing it. 5secs spent on possible pens vs Man City. Even less on Mane hitting Tierney. 20 replays of Tierney’s pen vs CFC. 20 Replays of Nketiah v LCFC.
It is really telling how many current and former players credit Arsène Wenger with shaping them as men. Not just as footballers. Actually helping them to become better people. Now that is a legacy to leave on the world.
Remember when Hazard won a penalty against us and they said contact=penalty.
Now there was contact on Mustafi and Guendouzi and did we get a penalty? Nope we got yellow cards for simulation. PGMO is just a disgrace.
I’m a huge fan of ESR. The impact he has had on the team is phenomenal. But if you think he ‘Does a lot more than Özil’ I’m going to go ahead and realise that you don’t actually understand football. You can’t make that statement and actually have a football brain. Sorry.
There are two Twitter opinions re Wenger and Arsenal at the moment.
1. He started all this.
2. He was holding it all together.
I may be biased but there is very little evidence for 1. And a lot of evidence that supports 2.
The funniest people are the ones who have spent years of their life eating KFC and McDonald’s but think putting a vaccine into their body is the place to draw the line.
Watch Dean here. Guendouzi clearly saying ‘isn’t that a foul’ Dean so so arrogant and dismissive towards him. Then he looks at Torreira in agony on the floor in almost disgust. It is disgusting to see this over and over. Dean of course got it wrong but is allowed to act this way.
Unless Özil was disrupting every training session. And starting fights left, right and center. It would be hard to argue for a football reason. And it’s fairly clear from training pics and videos that his behaviour (whatever it is) has never been that extreme. So. Poor decision.
Special shout out to those really bitter Arsenal fans who were hoping Liverpool went unbeaten to take the shine off Arsene Wenger’s legacy. He is better than you all.
#mypathtomedicine
I wanted to be a footballer but as a back up I thought the best way I could use my brain to help people was through medicine. Local state school and college. First in my fam to go uni. Worked hard and now delighted to be a GP and able to actually help people!
Of course the press will be completely furious at Liverpool cheating by only clearing the half of the pitch they were attacking against LCFC....... oh no? That isn’t cheating? All in the spirit of the game? Only spying on training is too far!
90 year old housebound patient was admitted to hospital 2 weeks ago with COVID. I feared the worst. I love this patient. One of the nicest people you could ever meet. And today I got the news through he is fit for discharge. Celebrated like a goal! Come on!
It is sad to see the same people who were absolutely furious with Muslims (allegedly) gathering for Ramadan during the pandemic are now talking up the necessity of Christmas gatherings in everyone’s life.
On the list of things you haven't seen pundits discussing: How both Chelsea and Crystal Palace's man to man marking systems were left horribly exposed by Arsenal's player movement. Perhaps they should try a zonal system?!
@stephenkb
Are they? Who were the Zionists who were at this meeting? Do we have an attendance record to confirm this?
People will be upset but over a paraphrased and truncated statement that has been altered to make it as offensive as possible.
I know ppl try to claim that bias is all in our heads but this is ridiculous. Imagine if CFC signed Auba and we kept Giroud. What would the pundits have said then?
Why ask 'What happens to Lacazette' but not ask 'What happens to Morata?!'
Alexis decline has been swift. I felt that he burnt himself out. Playing every minute of every game with no summer break for 4/5 years. Also wonder if he lost motivation. Definitely saw a change in his physique from early Arsenal days to latter stages.
I don’t want to hear anyone excusing that decision against us. We did enough. Went away. Won 1-0. Only the referee altered the result.
No way Mike Dean gives that as a penalty for us. Corruption or simple bias? No other option.
Madness looking at City's transfer market activity. What other club cld have England's number 1 GK... replace him with a £30m international and when that doesn't work buy another £30m GK. They didn't even need to sell their former number 1 either time they upgraded.
So linesman says ‘if Lovren didn’t touch it he is offside’
Jon Moss says ‘I have no idea whether he touched it or not’
Turns away and says ‘I’m going to give a penalty’
Fascinating insight into fact ref simply guessed. With no evidence to prove what he wanted to do.
Just have to say that it has been a privilege to be an
@arsenal
fan with a human being as great as Arsene Wenger for our manager. You don't get many characters like him in football.
Wow. Nick Cohen really wrote an article about the awful background of Manchester City’s owners just so that he could work in criticisms of Corbyn! What a joke journalism has become.
People pointing at Arteta’s record and questioning whether we have improved are the same people who said ‘but we are third’ when the rest of us could clearly see Emeryball failing in front of our eyes.
The press have found an interpretation of the offside rule that says Kane was not offside. Just like they did last year against Liverpool. A unique rule that will only be applicable to Kane right before he wins a penalty. It really does pay to be England’s golden boy.
My worst fear through covid has been my mum being admitted to hospital. Not being able to visit. And now it’s happened. Don’t even know what to do even being a medical professional. Can only imagine how others have suffered through this.
Can’t help but wonder how the last 13 years of Wenger may have been if Eduardo, Diaby, Ramsey, Rosicky and Cazorla hadn’t suffered their injuries. This guy was a brilliant striker.
Remember they used to say that Wenger didn’t know how to set his team up tactically away from home.
Yes. That is Mr Arsène Wenger. The only manager to ever go an entire PL season unbeaten away from home. And he did it twice for good measure.
Given that Wenger was the biggest victim of the French match fixing scandal isn't it a little strange how dismissive the British press were of even the hint of Corruption/bias? If anyone's concerns should be upheld it would be his.
I’ve been critical of Arteta lately. Though would have never asked for him to be sacked.
But.
If he drops Emile Smith Rowe and brings Willian back in.... I will personally fund the Arteta out plane to fly over the Emirates.
So many things Emery does as a manager are exactly what the fans demanded of Wenger. I always maintained they didn’t have much if any impact on end results.
Waves hands. Early subs. Tailors team to opposition. More pragmatic away from home. Etc.
Yet nobody recognises the error.
Since Gabriel was booked for kicking the ball away against Southampton I’ve seen several other players do it and not once be cautioned. Zaha there smashing the ball 20m away into the advertising hoardings. Not even a warning. Different rulebook for Arsenal.
So crazy how begrudge paying taxes to help those on benefits. Well my mum was on benefits. And thanks to that I had a stable life. Went to medical school. Became a GP. And now my taxes gladly pay other ppls benefits. And now I spend all day helping other people. Like you.