Oh, you, building a straw man again.
Yes, but you should know by now that I continue to discuss a pattern of officiating, not simply individual decisions I disagree with.just how I see it. The corruption card gets thrown about so often that it just becomes tedious. All fans are saying it about opposition teams they hate getting awarded a decision they disagree with.
It is quite interesting how quickly Eddie gets carded in comparison to opposition keepers in our matches that often start time wasting from kickoff and rarely ever get carded.The strangest thing about tonight's game was how Bazunu never got carded. After the referee gave him a good talking to (wasting another minute) he just continued on in the same path. If Ederson had used the same tactics in a game he'd have been sent off after 10 minutes.
I don’t think the goalies do themselves any favours by taking the piss over every goal kick. The ref went up and had a word with him earlyish in the second half and was presumably telling him he was going to add it all on. But he carried on. Probably end up getting more time added on than they waste.
Had they gave Arsenal a penalty = corruption
No penalty = this how corruption really works - it would look too obvious.
They were all pretty obvious dives. Giving any of them would have been far too obvious, drawing even more problematic attention.
People tend to have this false notion that unless they are deciding everything in favour of a team, they aren’t attempting to influence the outcome of a match.
Anyone that is familiar with how this sort of corruption is carried out, especially over long periods of time, will know that it is not how it works.
In this case, Hooper used booking Soton players, not booking Arsenal players, ignoring some pretty clear fouls on Soton players in dangerous areas (some prime Ward-Prowse territory), and extending added time, in hopes that would be enough to help Arsenal along.
And just because it was not successful, doesn’t mean they weren’t doing it.
They were not. Funny that.Was anyone booked for an obvious dive?
It’s say I have to agree with this statement tonightThey had a couple penalty shouts in that extra time. All very soft. But if they was really corrupt and desperate for Arsenal to get the 3 points they could easily have just pointed to the spot
just how I see it. The corruption card gets thrown about so often that it just becomes tedious. All fans are saying it about opposition teams they hate getting awarded a decision they disagree with.