[Albion] Ben White

[AnotherArch]

The thing about Ben White was that I don't recall him begin anything special in the one full season he had with us. That we got £50+ million for him is remarkable business.

Exactly. Whilst the potential was obvious, he was was generally assessed as being only our third best English centre back that season.

 

[nicko31]

Absolutely.

He's made his choice...

I assume it's a choice he's comfortable with too.

I remember Paul Scholes at 31, saying enough for England. But White, honestly...

 

[dazzer6666]

 

[LamieRobertson]

Any news on his injury

 

[Seagull on the Hill]

Any news on his injury

I think he's out of intensive care now.

 

[Chicken Run]

Any news on his injury

Collapsed Larynx apparently

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Awarded posthumously, presumably?

 

[pasty]

#PrayForBen

 

[Algernon]

Luckily he'd already had his blood group tattooed on his arm incase something like this happened.

 

[Acker79]

Covered on ref watch this morning. They all were critical of him, highlighting how pointless it is in an age of VAR - even if the ref had seen him on the floor nd sent of Estupinian, VAR would have reviewed and showed him up.

Edit:

 

[Milano]

One VAR usage change I'd like to see for next season is if VAR review an incident as a potential pen or red and it's decided to be not, then if the reason it's not is down to cheating then the ref is alllowed to take action against the cheater. Diving or feigning injury should be a straight red IMO.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Covered on ref watch this morning. They all were critical of him, highlighting how pointless it is in an age of VAR - even if the ref had seen him on the floor nd sent of Estupinian, VAR would have reviewed and showed him up.

Edit:

I do wish they'd use the word cheating when talking about this sort of thing, rather than dancing around with "not doing the ref any favours" and "it's poor".

 

[BLOCK F]

Stupid boy…..!

Thick as shit in a bottle….of fake tan.

 

[Steve in Japan]

I do wish they'd use the word cheating when talking about this sort of thing, rather than dancing around with "not doing the ref any favours" and "it's poor".

Yes, agreed. I thought their confidence that VAR would definitely overturn a bad decision was quite touching, really.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

The thing about Ben White was that I don't recall him begin anything special in the one full season he had with us. That we got £50+ million for him is remarkable business.

I find the amount of money we got for him was bonkers. No doubt Alexis M had a fee in his contract but shoulda woulda coulda been £100m on that basis.

 

[Doc Lynam]

I find the amount of money we got for him was bonkers. No doubt Alexis M had a fee in his contract but shoulda woulda coulda been £100m on that basis.

That was never gonna happen for us and Mac in this instance, re signing protected our investment and having a buy out protected Mac.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Odd that officials don't seem to give yellows for simulation anymore, I don't recall seeing any this season.

 

[maltaseagull]

Awarded posthumously, presumably?

Is that like an oscar?

Best falling down dying award?

 

[BN9 BHA]

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John Keeley

 

[A1X]

Covered on ref watch this morning. They all were critical of him, highlighting how pointless it is in an age of VAR - even if the ref had seen him on the floor nd sent of Estupinian, VAR would have reviewed and showed him up.

Edit:

A worrying number of Arsenal fans underneath that video backing White and claiming it’s violent conduct by Estupinian

Just in case anyone fancied despairing at humanity some more