Premier League Games 2/3/4/5/6/ May '24

[BringBackSwales]

I haven’t been watching, only just saw the replay via halftime coverage on USA.

I am quite disappointed in Robbie Earle, who I usually think does a decent job of talking sense, commenting on the penalty saying he thought it was one and stating that “it shows the maturity of Arsenal this season, as last season Havertz may have tried to round the keeper and stayed on his feet and not gotten the goal”, before rounding it off with “but if I am a striker, and the keeper comes out, I am going to drag my feet and get the penalty”.

I may be misremembering, but I feel like he has said the exact opposite in the past, practically denouncing strikers being dishonest by trying to “buy” penalties.

Can only think the producers have finally taken complete control and begun to feed them their talking points as they have been on BBC and Sky Sports for many years now. Up until now it seemed like they were allowed to speak their mind, even when it went against the prevailing narrative in the UK.

Not so much any more, I guess.

Sad to see.

Didn’t Robbie Earle get sacked by itv for doing dodgy shit?

 

[ysmsa]

What is the point of VAR?

So an attacker has the choice of staying on his feet to try and slot the ball into an empty net or,

DECIDE "he is getting a penalty" instead?

Officials are absolutely useless. Don't blame the onfield referee but VAR is there to see it's cheating and a player shitting out of a goalscoring chance!

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Just try and keep the score down Bournemouth

Doesn’t matter if they twat them, GD can’t be caught.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Didn’t Robbie Earle get sacked by itv for doing dodgy shit?

Like ignoring the script?

 

[Bluearmy]

He left his foot there for the keeper to catch. Yes it's buying a penalty but if you make contact with the foot it remains a penalty whether you like the intention of the forward or not.

The keeper was stationary

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Just seen the penalty - fucking shameful. Paying to watch this game is no different to paying to watch WWF

 

[Tb1981]

Fuck them
Cheating twats!!
Let’s win out and hurt them even more

 

[BringBackSwales]

Nobody could deny Arsenal have played well this season, but the number of dodgy penalties and over provision of injury time is scandalous. I guess now that the dippers have fucked up all the Premier League and PIGMOB eggs are in the arsenal basket

 

[DenisLawBackHeel74]

What happened to var just asking the ref to look again?

Because that’s actually code for ‘change your decision’…..and they wanted it to stand

 

[waspish]

Just notice we got a half 12 kick of next Saturday and if we got through in the champions league we would have been playing Wednesday! There again BT influencing the league because no team should be picked for tv at half 12 if they play Wednesday specially teams who get to the 1/4 finals in the champs league!