Regardless of whatever questionable decision has occurred we shouldn't be leaving it for the arsenal or the referees to decide the title; we had it in our hands and we lost it. Plain and simple. We drew and lost against teams we should have won. There is really no excuse for us, in fact I am surprised we even still have a title race.
The season hasn't been a failure though we still have league cup and are in the FA cup final. We are extremely lucky that there is even a hint of a title race despite all our mistakes. We have no excuses given how poor we've been lets not whine about it please and focus on improving next season. Fair play to Arsenal.
This is such utter bullshit. Here's what I said when somebody brought up the whole lot of "not letting referees decide the title" back in November, bolded sections are particularly pertinent to your nonsense;
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Yeah, why should we have to play to the same rules as everybody else, we should just start on -1 goals handicap every game, the players just need to stop being soft and get on with it, we just have to be better than everyone else and overcome the -1 goal deficit.
Do you see how ridiculous that sounds? Why do we have to be "good enough to overcome the referees/take the referees influence out of the game" or "not be soft and go on to win"?
Why do we have to have a 9/10 performance every game "to take the decisions away from the referee". We're not as good as we were 2 years ago and small margins constantly make a difference. Liverpool had a dip in form at the start of last season but when they did they became the one and only team to get a penalty for holding in the box and the only team to get a goal chalked off for holding in the box, was that them "not being soft" and seeing the game out like the brave soldiers they are or were they allowed to play at a level below their usual and the officials giving them leeway to play into gorm and on to a title?
In the Premier League if you want to take the referee out of the equation you have to dive, cheat, time waste, complain and feign injury otherwise you never get a decision. Playing that way is being 'soft'.
Mentality has nothing to do with it,
if the opposition are playing to different rules then mentality is irrelevant. If I was allowed to kick fuck out of a better player than me all game mentality wouldn't come in to it, I'm at an advantage.
Mentality and "not being soft" doesn't stop goalkeepers being allowed to handle the ball outside the box, doesn't stop our players having cheekbones broken with not even a foul being given. You can't hardman your way out of offside rules being irrelevant to your opponent, being brave doesn't stop opponents getting a penalty for the slightest touch while you're being booted all over the place. Being Billy Big Bollocks doesn't stop goals being chalked off because our striker was just stronger than the defender but the opponent can have goals chalked off as an attacker brushed against their keeper when going for the ball."
Honestly, saying "fair play to Arsenal" is a joke when 80% of their tactics is to dive , waste time, wrestle the opposition at set pieces,and crucially, get away with it. They're massive, massive cheats.
Arsenal should have, and have, drawn and lost to opponents they should be beating, just like we have. The difference being though, where we have seen multiple joke decisions throughout the season go against us they, on the other hand, have been bailed out by the cowardly decisions of the refereeing team. Why do West Ham have to play to different rules to Arsenal to ensure their survival? Why can Arsenal wrestle and foul goalkeepers and defenders all season but West Ham can't against Arsenal? Should West Ham just make sure they play much, much better to make sure the referee cant decide the game? How much better does everyone have to be against a media backed team to make sure "the referees don't decide" the result?
If the laws of the game were applied properly in Arsenal games they'd be in 6th
