Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Did we play the ball in behind and scored? Oh no Calafiori hit it in from 25 yards on an angle.

If that's a decision you cant deal with, you wouldn't survive living with the shit levied upon us (Arsenal).

Another Micheal Oliver special. This kunt cant help himself. A generic cynical foul to stop a counter and he flashes a red card when the textbook decision is yellow.

Ive always said I would support Arteta is he called the players in off the field. The Pakistani cricket team did this at Lords in the early 2010's, they had enough with the umpires dreadful refereeing followed by an incorrect accusation of ball tampering. So the Pakistani captain said you know dickheads, were no longer playing, and he just marched off the pitch. Had Arteta called the Arsenal player in after the shit kunt Oliver issued the red card, I would have supported it, even if it meant a loss by forfeiture.

You really are a clown.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

You players did the same thing when the Anthony Taylor didn't play advantage to Grealish when he was through on goal last year.

You mean stop the game when Grealish was one on one after he had signalled play on?
And it helps if you know what you’re talking about. The referee was Hooper.

 

[ArtetaTechnicalArea]

You mean stop the game when Grealish was one on one after he had signalled play on?
And it helps if you know what you’re talking about. The referee was Hooper.

Yeah I know. Bad referring and the players are venting, Hooper had the sense not to issue second yellow cards when he made the error.

Whats dikheads Olivers excuse for sending off Skelly? Of course the Arsenal players are oging to vent when we catch Oliver red handed int he act of trying to again sabotage.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Yeah I know. Bad referring and the players are venting, Hooper had the sense not to issue second yellow cards when he made the error.

Whats dikheads Olivers excuse for sending off Skelly? Of course the Arsenal players are oging to vent when we catch Oliver red handed int he act of trying to again sabotage.

Put your glass down and go to sleep. You’re making a fool of yourself sonny.

 

[ArtetaTechnicalArea]

Put your glass down and go to sleep. You’re making a fool of yourself sonny.

Be honest, if you could pick any referee to officiate the Arsenal v City match this week. Who would it be?

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Pierluigi Collina.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Be honest, if you could pick any referee to officiate the Arsenal v City match this week. Who would it be?

Let’s watch and see which team gets the rub of the green shall we? I know where my money would be safe.
Besides, aren’t you going to give it us at your place?
The incident where Rodri was injured earlier this season. Should a penalty have been given to us for the grappling on Akanji? Watch it and if you don’t agree it’s a penalty then we know what you are.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Be honest, if you could pick any referee to officiate the Arsenal v City match this week. Who would it be?

Emmanuel Adebayor

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Be honest, if you could pick any referee to officiate the Arsenal v City match this week. Who would it be?

Nigel Owen.
He'd put a halt to those Arsenal strangulation attempts every time there's a tarquin corner.

 

[Amadeus71]

Am I the only that saw Havertz being offside on that Arsenal goal ? He tried to play the ball right in the front of the goalkeeper after that Calafiori shot.

 

[cheekybids]

Conspiracy and bungs aplenty from these whinging cunts on 606.

A proper bunch of mard arses

No doubt they’ve all agreed it’s to help City & not the Dippers….

 

[cheekybids]

To be fair Arsenal have had some 'curious' decisions this season. It will go in one ear and out the other on here for obvious reasons but quite a few decisions have been one-offs that other clubs don't get.

Examples being Rice red card v Brighton, Trossard red at Etihad for kicking away ball half a second after ref blows whistle (Oliver again), Saliba penalty for supposed headbutt against Brighton and then this one today.

I know every team thinks they are hard done by so it is what it is.

We’ve had a few ourselves, Lewis red card at Palace when he won the ball, Trossard not getting a 2nd yellow for his foul before kicking the ball away ;)

 

[ninjamonkey]

Lets see them get retrospective action for this. At least one of them should have been booked for surrounding the referee

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Now we know where their fucknugget fans get it from. It's like a reenactment of the adebayor meltdown. "Hold me back"

 

[bridgeno1]

We’ve had a few ourselves, Lewis red card at Palace when he won the ball, Trossard not getting a 2nd yellow for his foul before kicking the ball away ;)

Yeah I'm not disagreeing City have had some going against them too. For me the issue is consistency, but more than that I think with certain refs like Oliver it's them wanting to make it about themselves- basically deliberately giving a controversial decision to gain attention.

A properly good ref should hardly be noticed. I genuinely think with some of these guys they resent the fame the players get and want in on that action by making it all about them and then standing behind a 'technicality'. I've found the standard of reffing when we've been in the CL to typically be much higher than the PL - I'd imagine likewise for yourselves.

I don't know who the ref will be when we play you next week at the Emirates but I suspect there's a risk that all we'll be talking about afterwards is the officials.

 

[bridgeno1]

Lets see them get retrospective action for this. At least one of them should have been booked for surrounding the referee

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Timber got booked. We'll probably get a charge and a fine (I think City got a £120k fine a couple of years ago right for the same thing?) however it's almost certain Lewis-Skelly will get the red card rescinded on appeal and will be available for City, Leicester and Newcastle.

Funnily enough Calafiori might get in trouble as he did an interview with Italian TV who asked him about his passionate goal celebration when he ran to the bench and he replied in Italian that he was going to take his shirt off but was worried that the idiot with the whistle would use it as an excuse to give him a red card!

 

[BridgyDids]

I think if it wasn’t for these abhorrent decisions against Arsenal (and none going for them at all) due to the referees being paid off by City (or something) then they’d have won all 23 games easily, and we’d be lauding them as the new incarnation of 1970s Brazil.

It’s simply not fair on them, and we should be very mindful of their feelings when the referees penalise them.

 

[Chris-NCL]

It’s absolutely a red card. He goes to take him out after the ball and man has passed him, and by some distance. In addition to that, he’s only ever getting him from behind.

You can also argue that for years fans have been frustrated that cynical fouls like that designed to prevent a counter attack are only ever punished by a yellow card and a free-kick in a non-dangerous position because they happen to do it further back from goal without considering that the attack would have ended up with a very good goal scoring opportunity.
In reality it has always been a red card offence, but referees have been incorrectly giving yellow cards for it for years.

 

[Chris-NCL]

Am I the only that saw Havertz being offside on that Arsenal goal ? He tried to play the ball right in the front of the goalkeeper after that Calafiori shot.

I thought I saw that too.

 

[Vester]

Whats dikheads Olivers excuse for sending off Skelly? Of course the Arsenal players are oging to vent when we catch Oliver red handed int he act of trying to again sabotage.

I would assume the "excuse" was that the player was going in with studs up, catching the opponent while having zero intention to get the ball. Harsh red? Yeah probably. A massive scandal that can only be explained by corruption and Oliver/refs being against Arsenal? Of course not. One would have to be incredibly biased, not to mention deluded, to believe that.

Every fanbase has it set of fans thinking the refs are against them, they will point to multiple situations when they have been "wronged", compare to other similar situations in other games (sometimes even years before) when the ref call was different to "prove" their conspiracy theory. At the same time they of course completely ignore every time a controversial ref decision has gone their way since its in their mind of course is the "correct" decision.
There is of course no massive ref conspiracy. Fans in general think every decision that goes the way they want is correct and every decision that doesn't is wrong. The truth is that every situation is a judgement and decisions sometimes goes your way and sometimes it doesn't. Losers blame the ref every time they drop points, winners find a way to win trophies regardless if you have a few ref calls going against you.

 

[KentBlue]

As much as I dislike Arteta and his negativity and time wasting, it has to be said that Michael Oliver is a Grade 'A' prick. He's like Clattenburg pt 2 - just when you thought it was safe to expect a game to be refereed fairly.


There are two things I would really like to see happen in the game:

1) A detailed and complete investigation into the vile Pisscan's time with the rags. The transfer dealings, his hold over referees and other managers. There has always been something extremely dodgy about the man and I would dearly love to see the whole truth exposed long before he becomes a cadaver and subsequently escapes any and all charges.

2) A prolonged investigation into the dealings of PGMOL, the likes of Riley and Webb, and how VAR became their favoured weapon for manipulating results - 95% of the time in order to assist the rags (and occasionally the dippers).
There is something fundamentally wrong when promotion or relegation is decided on the whim of one man and his whistle. A man whose word is law, and if you dare to question any decision he might make you will find yourself in hot water with the sport's governing bodies.