Referees/Officials

[Don Karleone]

Rinse and repeat on thurs night..

Doubt I'll watch it.

As you say, we're going to get done good and proper by whoever they pick to ref it.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Shafted again. Let them kick the shit out of us without cards and we ended up with 5 yellows to their 2 i think it was. Lost Silva early on due to a snidy kick. Happens every game yet we try and be physical and early yellows given.
Family invited themselves down for the game, i just let them watch and i did some photoshop editing as i knew it was pointless wasting time watching the game as knew we would be fucked over. Was not shocked by the officiating at all.
That said, incredibly bad luck also and some strange subs and shows how little in quality we have in depth (almost said delph as a typo but same point).
At the stage now and have been for some time of whats the point anymore in following a sport so corrupt and inept officialism

The MDC sez we had 65% of the possession. It doesn't matter what we did with it, but to end up with 70% of the yellow cards is more than an eyebrows raising exercise. It must be that the only time we need to tackle to get the ball back it's considered too robust whereas those teams on 35%, like the Arse today, spend most of the match tackling like ferrets and it's considered the norm!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Or with some footballers who had some bottle. That is as poor an Arsenal team as I can remember and, playing the ball quickly, we take the officials out of the game and win it easily. These fucking players get a free pass every week, based on some poor officiating. I'm not defending some of the decisions out there but: Nacho-free header, Ota-free header, Fern-free header, Sterling playing the invisible man, Sane making poor decisions all game, Clichy back to his usual form, Navas turning round and round and producing nothing. Kompany giving soft fouls away then dropping back and playing everyone onside for their winner.
Finally, Guardiola is taking us nowhere fast. Apart from Sane, that was almost exactly the side Pellegrini would have picked. Not only that, but if Pellers had still been here, that result would have had nothing to do with the officials, he'd have just been a senile, old ****.

And had that game finished 2-1 for us or 3-1 given the pen, then the above becomes pretty irrelevant!

 

[blueinsa]

Or with some footballers who had some bottle. That is as poor an Arsenal team as I can remember and, playing the ball quickly, we take the officials out of the game and win it easily. These fucking players get a free pass every week, based on some poor officiating. I'm not defending some of the decisions out there but: Nacho-free header, Ota-free header, Fern-free header, Sterling playing the invisible man, Sane making poor decisions all game, Clichy back to his usual form, Navas turning round and round and producing nothing. Kompany giving soft fouls away then dropping back and playing everyone onside for their winner.
Finally, Guardiola is taking us nowhere fast. Apart from Sane, that was almost exactly the side Pellegrini would have picked. Not only that, but if Pellers had still been here, that result would have had nothing to do with the officials, he'd have just been a senile, old ****.

A post more fitting elsewhere seeing this is about the officials.

 

[Allnightlong]

After Webbs shocking display in the first half he wasn't used after.

 

[cadds92]

We had some bad decisions but don't mask it over the poor performance we put in second half onwards.

Arsenal were there for the taking in that second half after completely bossing them in the first, yet when we scored we just hit chill mode and let them get back into the game and gain momentum.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

The snidey knee into the back of Silva (one of about four similar in the game) and Howard Webb says that it wasn't a booking because it was too early in the game. I don't remember seeing that in the rule book.

Webb - one of the best referees we've had recently, apparently. No wonder the rest are bad.

We were still poor, though.

 

[Don Karleone]

We did take our chance, it was disallowed for fuck all!

 

[eastmanc]

And had that game finished 2-1 for us or 3-1 given the pen, then the above becomes pretty irrelevant!

Exactly, also my previous post I should have mentioned the poor decisions against Liverpool at home. fuck me ive got to calm down there are far more important things happening in the world.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

The referees have too much influence and the game has moved on and left them behind. I won't spend my time and money on going to watch referees decide the outcome of a match until this is sorted, hopefully by video refereeing

Webb in the studio said the serg incident wasn't a pen tho. Video refereeing isn't a panacea