As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
I've said for a long time refs should be open to public scrutiny, the situation where any investigation on an incident during a match is done behind closed doors by the PGMO is ridiculous and undermines the whole supposed fair play image in football.
Every one makes mistakes in their jobs but referees seem to be only answerable to other referees, many of whom weren't exactly good at their jobs in the first place. Interestingly enough a 'top' PL ref will earn 80000 a year without any external scrutiny, nice work if you can get it.
Another game where I suspect we'll take an early lead, hang on for a good part of the match and then fall over our usual defensive frailties...... more interested in the transfer market, or lack of in our case, than this match.
100% agree. If a manager says something about a ref then the FA would come out with the "explain your comments" bullshit, but the refs themselves never have to explain their decisions. This is the *word censored* Riley cheating back in 2004, if refs were being monitored then the *word censored* would have been sent to the conference where he belongs.
We should get every single Gooner on this Forum to e-mail that link to Riley and ask how much he got paid?
CORRUPT CHEATING FERGIE COCKSUCKING *word censored*. Still makes my blood boil to this day.
Just watched that clip and forgot just how biased and corrupt Riley was. Ferdinand, Van HorseFace, and Gary Neville should all have seen red. If Riley wasn’t bent we would have won that game and carried on unbeaten. Absolute scandal.
I was telling myself not to click on that link but I did and now I am fucking seething
I personally do not believe our game has the blatant corruption that has gone on in other countries (i.e. paying off refs or opponents) but there is definitely a form of corruption under the surface. The media dictate the agenda far more than they should. And there were (and still are) weak officials that are subject to intimidation and at that time Riley was the ref Ferguson would have picked to take charge of that game. And we saw why
Oh and how the fuck does Pires have a reputation for diving but not that vile c,unt Rooney? Pires against Portsmouth was only a year before this game so the same journalists that made such a drama about it were the very same ones reporting on this game. And this was a much more high profile game so again its an example of the way the media control the narrative!
I've said for a long time refs should be open to public scrutiny, the situation where any investigation on an incident during a match is done behind closed doors by the PGMO is ridiculous and undermines the whole supposed fair play image in football.
Every one makes mistakes in their jobs but referees seem to be only answerable to other referees, many of whom weren't exactly good at their jobs in the first place. Interestingly enough a 'top' PL ref will earn 80000 a year without any external scrutiny, nice work if you can get it.
Another game where I suspect we'll take an early lead, hang on for a good part of the match and then fall over our usual defensive frailties...... more interested in the transfer market, or lack of in our case, than this match.
100% agree. If a manager says something about a ref then the FA would come out with the "explain your comments" bullshit, but the refs themselves never have to explain their decisions. This is the *word censored* Riley cheating back in 2004, if refs were being monitored then the *word censored* would have been sent to the conference where he belongs.
We should get every single Gooner on this Forum to e-mail that link to Riley and ask how much he got paid?
CORRUPT CHEATING FERGIE COCKSUCKING *word censored*. Still makes my blood boil to this day.
Just watched that clip and forgot just how biased and corrupt Riley was. Ferdinand, Van HorseFace, and Gary Neville should all have seen red. If Riley wasn’t bent we would have won that game and carried on unbeaten. Absolute scandal.
I was telling myself not to click on that link but I did and now I am fucking seething
I personally do not believe our game has the blatant corruption that has gone on in other countries (i.e. paying off refs or opponents) but there is definitely a form of corruption under the surface. The media dictate the agenda far more than they should. And there were (and still are) weak officials that are subject to intimidation and at that time Riley was the ref Ferguson would have picked to take charge of that game. And we saw why
Oh and how the fuck does Pires have a reputation for diving but not that vile c,unt Rooney? Pires against Portsmouth was only a year before this game so the same journalists that made such a drama about it were the very same ones reporting on this game. And this was a much more high profile game so again its an example of the way the media control the narrative!
Where's that sherry ?!
Put the sherry down.........and pick up a bottle of something much stronger, you're going to need it over the next few weeks
I reckon by about 2am I'll be predicting a 5-0 thrashing of them, the downside being watching the match with a hangover that bad will be greater torture than usual
Xhaka, Holding, Martinelli Sokratis and Ceballos all involved in full training today at Colney.
Thank fcuk for that - several of the players were out on their feet for the last 30 minutes last sunday, so fresh legs at this stage will be most welcome.
Restore sokratis alongside luiz. Other than that, I would start the exact same team, but have martinelli, Ceballos and holding on the bench instead of mavropanas, john-jules, and either Willock or smith-rowe (I would keep smith-rowe personally). If xhaka is going to be fcuking off to Hertha, then he shouldn't even be on the bench, though I expect he will start ahead of the douzi
What a stupid name ''United'' is in football. How can the city of Manchester be ''united'' when there is another team in the same city that hates them? Its an absurd name and yet they are so often just referred to around the world as United!
Its equally stupid for Sheffield and Dundee is not united either - they even has two grounds in the same street ffs! Leeds, West Ham and Torquay are not big enough areas to justify having ''United'' in their name because there was only every going to be one club in the area at any one time there.
In fact it only makes sense at one club and that is Newcastle, where two teams (East and West) merged to become one team. In other words this one team united the city of Newcastle and became Newcastle United.
So fuck Manchester United. You cannot be biggest club in the world when you have such a stupid name! Its almost as stupid a name as Hotspur
