[Albion] Maupay challenge on keeper.

[blue-shifted]

I've worked with a number of Arsenal fans over the years. They have a sense of entitlement in that they think they only need to turn up to claim the three points as it is their right to beat "teams like Brighton". Same goes for Man U and Liverpool fans.
I've also worked with Palace fans and I would rather go to the pub and talk football with them any day of the week.

I know we're all desperate for a trip to the pub, but drinking with Palace? That's taking it a bit far.

Ahh, alright. I've met one or two OK ones as well.

 

[Pavilionaire]

I'm going to cut Arsenal fans some slack here. They already had Sokratis, Chambers and Torreira out injured before the resumption, so to lose Mari and Xhaka compounded their injury woes. Then throw in the keeper getting stretchered off and pointing the finger at Maupay as he left and you've got a nightmare situation on your hands.

Furthermore, I fancy most football fans would have had a bitch about Maupay's challenge had it been their keeper suffering the same fate as Leno.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Furthermore, I fancy most football fans would have had a bitch about Maupay's challenge had it been their keeper suffering the same fate as Leno.

Not any that had a fag papers worth of knowledge about football, no.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Wasn't there a Harry Enfield character who was a new convert to football and got everything wrong?

I think you are thinking of a character played by John Thompson in The Fast Show, and funnily enough he was an Arsenal fan (converted from Man Utd cause they weren't doing as well).



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Back on topic, as a fully paid up member of the goalkeepers union you should be expecting an opposing player that close to you to challenge for the ball as they'd want to put as much pressure as they could on you in the hope you'd make a mistake. As others have said the injury was caused by the fact Leno was more worried about carrying the ball out of the area and got his landing wrong, he'd have been at risk of that even if Maupay hadn't challenged him. It was an accident, even Arteta said so.

The only reason Arsenal fans are up in arms is the reaction of Leno when he went off and the fact that Maupay scored a 95th min winner. No-one would have given it a second thought if Leno hadn't reacted.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Arsenal fans responding to Maupay's 'avoidable' challenge: absolute cvnt who could've ended Leno's career. He should be sent off and banned for life.

Arsenal fans responding to SideShow Bob II not being charged after 'avoidable' challenge: good. He didn't do anything wrong anyway. Maupay deserved it.


Er, ok then...

 

[Gwylan]

I think you are thinking of a character played by John Thompson in The Fast Show, and funnily enough he was an Arsenal fan (converted from Man Utd cause they weren't doing as well).

Yeah, that's the one I was thinking of. Cheers

 

[Wrong-Direction]

**** off Arsenal

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[scamander]

the rugby comparisson makes no sense. There's a rationale in the ruling as it relates to a specific in game occurence. The player is usually contesting the ball and being moved in the air while you are trying to catch a ball is very dangerous. You can find numerous clips of this.

In rugby it doesn't happen a great deal. In football it is.

Wish folk would take 2 mins to understand how other sports work. It's the same misunderstanding which sees rugby's use of replays (mostly when the ball is dead) as somehow the template for football (ball is often live).

 

[Wardy's twin]

why are we wasting time thinking about what a load of Arsenal muppets are saying?

 

[rippleman]

Yeah same experience here..

The idea that Arsenal are still part of the elite (in regards to footballing performance) is massively outdated.
It has been a long time since any premier league club has looked at a fixture against Arsenal with trepidation.
Wenger worked miracles to keep them in the top 4 for as long as he did.

They are in decline in the same way Liverpool were 30 years ago.
There is no quick fix for them.

Their fans are going to have to put up with a lot more disappointment.

Totally agree about Wenger. He was a class act and great manager at Arsenal and yet the fans wanted him gone. Ooooooooooops!

They have got what they rightfully deserved. A group of overpaid primadonnas who can't even beat "a team like Brighton". Serves them right.

 

[Gwylan]

Not any that had a fag papers worth of knowledge about football, no.

Not sure about that, judging by the pearl-clutching that's going on in the Guendouzi thread

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Thoughts? I listen to the professionals like Rio Ferdinand, Alan Shearer and Gary Linekar who say it was a normal jump for the ball which happens in any match, the result being an accident.
Unlike Lacazette who went in, studs up on Ryan.

Rio Ferdinand got really annoyed with the tv host on BT Sport who had called it 'cowardly'. The look on RF's face said it all.

 

[southstandandy]

If Maupay can't challenge the keeper, then what will happen at every corner or free kick if the keeper tries to jump to punch the ball away or attempt to catch it?

Then under the Arsenal fans views no attacking player can ever jump up to challenge a keeper. You'd have to re-write the rules of the game. Just sour losers.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Arsenal fans should be comforted now that their player was let off his criminal assault on Maupay. What he did was a foul, assault, red card, thuggish behaviour which was deemed non punishable while Maupay legitimately went for a ball which should have resulted in a Brighton free kick but as the Goalie fell awkwardly and injured......himself was penalised with a free kick against himself. Arsenal fans need to look at who the real villains are here and who (apart from the goalkeeper who was unfortunate to get injured) got punished and who didn't.


Oh well at least Maupay had the last laugh with the winning goal and 3 points.

 

[Gurru991]

The Maupay challenge was just Fine .Leno landed poorly because he was trying to land in the box.

The Arsenal fans are typically not the brightest lights in the night sky as anyone who has watched Arsenal fan TV can attest to.
Rio was 100% correct on his call.

 

[Jeremiah]

It's a little rich that Arsenal fans are up in arms considering David Luiz's antics throughout a season.

The situation was not helped by Leno pointing his finger and giving Maupay a tongue lashing from his stretcher. I think Arsenal players took this to mean that something worse went on than actually happened. Oh and it's football not rugby - completely different rules so it's mad to compare the two.

 

[oldboyroy]

I just don't understand all the fuss over it. It happens every single game every corner every set piece that's launched into to penalty area.

 

[Hampster Gull]

My only thought is they are a bit of a joke club, a sad reflection of their former selves. If they see this as their big issue they are delusional

 

[The Fifth Column]

Arsenal fans have taken the Victims trophy from Liverpool.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

As soon as he sat up on the stretcher the keeper should have been shown a yellow card. (Of course I realise it would never happen)

But by sitting up he actually put the safety of the four stretcher bearers at risk, as he changed the whole distribution of the weight on the stretcher, and ran the risk of damaging their backs.

It really was stupidity of the highest order - the physio told him to lay back down.