Totally different thing as other people have pointed out. Plus….
It’s annoyed this Turkey-toothed throbber, one of a diminishing number of dinosaurs who think the title should just be given to Liverpool every season because they were good in the 80s and only the “big clubs” should be allowed to challenge them. Uncle Tone’s going to disrupt this a lot over the next five or ten seasons and I’m here for it.
Your first mistake.I listened to the Arsenal podcast "Handbrake Off" yesterday. It's one of The Athletic's club-specific podcasts, this one with Amy Lawrence (very well-respected journo), Adrian Clarke (Arsenal player from the 90s and long-time pundit/journo), and Ian Stone (comedian, mate of Alan Davies). Three very sensible individuals, one might have thought!
Their take on the whole Rice-gate incident included the following:
- The ref should have used "common sense" (nb: but they want consistency)....
- The authorities should be able to review red cards in cases where the sanction is the result of a second yellow (and in this case, if such a process was in place, Rice's second yellow would obviously be over-turned)
- The further one match ban in THIS case is disproportionate....in particular because it will cause Rice to miss the North London Derby (which is not fair!)....AND because Arsenal are already suffering from an injury to the obvious Declan Rice replacement, namely Merino, which makes it DOUBLY UNFAIR!!
It was difficult at times to know whether they were deliberately parodying themselves, so ludicrous were their arguments!!!
I'm not sure how we'd react if the roles were reversed, but I'd like to hope that there would be at least ONE Brighton fan who understood the rules and the way they were applied. Anyway, the rest of the podcast is actually quite interesting in that they are pretty critical of the way Arsenal reacted after going down to ten men.
My Dad was born in north London and grew up an Arsenal fan. He passed his love of the Gunners on to my brother (but obvs not me - phew). Despite these family links, I really, really hope Arsenal do NOT win the title. The events of Saturday have made me realise how unbearable it would be to see Arteta and his crew of over-priviliged players (not mentioning the fans) parading through Islington! In fact, it would be wonderful if they missed out by 2 points again
Uhm.. no?
Yep and who helps fuel the clicks, helps pay for Robbie Lyle's new red Range Rover Evoque with white leather interior? Fans of opposition clubs posting up links to pantomime shit like AFTV and getting 'outraged'
I suspect that rule needs to be changed.
Seen, blud.
You can also see Partey gesturing for one of the two balls available to him positioned on the cones next to the technical areas, as soon as Pedro kicks it.
Exactly. JP was simply swifting things along a bit so that Arsenal could get on with the game.
But persistent low level fouling does break up play too much, and is worthy of a yellow in my opinion. It's a good rule, if somewhat subjective.
I have often wondered how 'fans' of clubs who haven't won anything (for ages) acquire such entitlement.
Perhaps.
As others have posted, you are wrong - I am not goading them at all, merely pointing out that rules and facts clearly aren't relevant to them if it doesn't suit their agenda. Yes they would have been annoyed at the time, but when their manager and RIce come out and say it was the correct decision (whereas the Crawley manager tried to blame the ref for not sending Williams off...) surely that is the Arsenal fans cue to move on. The Arsenal fans are continuing to wind themselves up into a frenzy rather than focussing on the bluntness of their attack for instance.
It'd be an interesting study, for sure.
As I said, I'm not a football ref so I don't know what the guidelines are. However, in rugby, the totting up process works in such a way that a player doesn't have to have committed a previous offence before being sent to the bin for persistent offences, if his team mates have been doing it. And that's not subjective interpretation, we're actually encouraged to do it.
Oh yes. People went to a game, made monkey sounds against the black guys, chanted homophobic slurs for 90 minutes, beat up a guy dressed in the wrong shirt outside of the stadium, then went home and took a cup of tea and thought "the ref was ok today".
