It was beautiful xD
Just your age ol’ ex-Reddit lurker… who also likes nuggets :)
It was beautiful xD
Looks like Everton and Roma are about to be a part of another multiclub business model. I think it’s a bit if a joke, tbh
There are still a lot of positives, but I’m there with you. It’s hard to say we were robbed, but we were definitely robbed of the chance to do anything.
You want an exciting, enjoyable game for all pundits? Have 22 players on the pitch is a good starting point
This may be a long rant, but I watched Arteta’s postmatch interview and he was (rightfully) savage at the end.
He was asked given the circumstances, Arteta and the players could take some real belief in what they we able to achieve. He replied along the lines of, it’s incredible how we reacted, but he could not be happy because he wants to be involved in a high quality game that can be enjoyed and can be spoken about “in the proper way and we are not talking about that.”
Then ended, “It’s clear, you haven’t asked me one single tactical question.”
The fact they were asking him his thoughts on all the controversy means nobody got to enjoy a high quality/high stakes game, because it was once again ruined by poor officiating.
How can everyone go from, the refs need some common sense in situations like those, for Rice’s 2nd yellow one week, then, Trossard needs to do better, he should know you will get punished for that, the next. Assuming it’s for the kick/clearance and not the tackle, it happens in such a split second and then you’re expecting him to pull out as soon as the whistle blows. There’s a reason someone invented a table saw that shuts off on human contact. We’re not that fucking quick.
It’s annoying how much people squirm and twist to excuse one player and not another, like Doku. Jesus got a yellow for delaying a restart as well.
What about Haaland? Not a single yellow despite throwing a ball at the head of an opposing player or for the unnecessary unsportsman-like barge into a player off the restart. When City do it, they’re just passionate. If Arsenal do it, they’re overreacting, they should sit down until they’ve actually won a trophy. Here’s a yellow card. It’ll brighten up the place. You know what, two would brighten things up even more! Ohh whoops. Yikes… my mistake. I guess that’s red now.
In our game against City last season, although Howard admitted Oliver got it wrong, Oliver apparently didn’t want to card Kovacic since he didn’t want to have a negative impact on the game. Just fuck right off. Are you there to officiate the rules of the game as your job as a referee or decide when the rules apply dependent on how you feel?
I know the officiating is abysmal for a lot of teams and you can point to any number of reasons why that is. I’m just fucken annoyed by it enough I needed to rant and get it off my chest.
I also want to mention Silva mentioning Arsenal using the “dark arts” is fucking rich coming from this City team.
I could rant about a lot of things, but I’m going to end it here.
Plastic club with plastic fans
Covering the smell emanating from the level of officiating this lot are capable of
Along the thoughts I had this morning too. Tough away game in Italy. Fly back for an away game in Manchester against City about 2 days later. That’s a tough turn around
Yep. Robbed then and robbed now of the chance to prove you can take down the rotten cheating powerhouse that is Man City.
This feels like the City game of 2 years ago or so. In a dominant position, but the refs fuck us over with a controversial red card and we conceded late on.
Not to mention we got another controversial red card. Such bullshit yellows can’t be reviewed when they make such a difference in the context of the game.
Same with the 1st half. If the whistle gets called a moment earlier, we still have Trossard.
This game has to end up going 10+ minutes
Maybe, or tired, or all of the above
He barely has, lol
No card?
Why was he carded?
Raya is player of the season so far
How was that not a foul for us…
May the grass be with you
This was the team we fielded last time we versed Bolton in 2012 when they were still in the PL:
Szczesny Song, Koscielny, Mertesacker, Sagna, Vermaelen Arteta, Ramsey The Ox, Walcott Van Persie
Bench: Henry, Rosicky, Arshavin, Park, Diaby, Santos, Coquelin, Wilshere, Benayoun, Jenkinson, Gibbs, Fabianski