Gabriel headbutt on Haaland

I thought interview with Erling spoke volumes. He said if he went down it would have been red but he said he isn’t that type of player (hinting he isn’t a cheat). I think he was also hinting that he’s always getting fouled but because he doesn’t roll around on the floor everytime he’s wrestled with he doesn’t get the free kicks he deserves. Erling is always treated differently to other players. Tearing his shirt into shreds wasn’t a yellow either.

So tearing a shirt isn’t a yellow and head butting isn’t a red, and wrestling a goal keeper isn’t a foul if the team is Arsenal.
 
wayne71 said:
I'd be disappointed to win a game on that personally, we are much better and so is Erling hence his reaction.
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I agree with the sentiment but it sends out the wrong message. What if Gabriel had scored with that chance late on?
 
coolcity said:
You're missing the point. On every occasion I've ever seen, that's been a red card offence. Always seems it's against us, we don't get penalties others get, we don't get decisions others get and so on. It's almost every match. I'm no conspiracy theorist but we can't all be wrong.

It was mentioned on TNT a few weeks ago that we get the fewest penalties of any club in the entire football league per minutes spent in the opposition box. Why?
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I, for one am glad of Erlings reaction.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
I'm not sure, but didn't Vinnie get sent off for something almost identical? Minimal headbutt in that case, really no violence to it but the gesture alone can get you sent off nowadays.
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Rodri got sent off for pushing a player attacking him away at shoulder height and being deemed strangulation.
 
Gabriel is a ****

A bottling ****, his man bossed him and popped up with the winner.

He will be famous for every more because of Earl
 
If Taylor had reffed other incidents properly, Gabriel would already have been booked before that incident.

That said, how he can look at that incident and say both players deserved the same punishment is beyond me.

And how that rag arsehole Martinez can get a red for momentarily grabbing Calvert-Lewin's hair when compared to this is ridiculous.
 
wayne71 said:
I'd be disappointed to win a game on that personally, we are much better and so is Erling hence his reaction.
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There's no guarantee that his being sent off would have changed the game or result particularly. But a straight red would have significantly affected Arsenal, and perhaps the destination of the title itself, over what remains of the season. I think Taylor must have had that in mind.
 
The Bald Bollock from Altrincham is part of a coterie of refs who cheat the ticket paying fans left, right and centre by reading the LotG as they are written pre-match and then applying anything else that might cause less controversy than what the LotG mandate. Violent play is a red card, but there were other instances where Taylor varied his approach depending on the shirt colour. Raya got a free kick in the first half for some block but in the second half Donna was slammed to the deck and we got nowt. Donnarumma started remonstrating with the lino who must have had a better view than we did. Avoid controversy is the refs' mantra.
 
Honestly I think the reaction to it is a damning indictment on what football has become and unfortunately, for me at least, they’re going to have to change the laws of the game and be a lot more descriptive with it. We’re not in a world where people can accept referees interpretations to either interpret something in their own way or manage a game any more, the additional scrutiny in general and particularly the implementation of VAR has made that impossible.

My other main thought was well done Haaland and keep being you.
 
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