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 would have taken a draw before the game, at half time and even I’m the last ten.
We deserved better. City aren’t scary, the refs are. Simple as that. The very fact that we went there, we’re fucked out with a player and then fucked out with the additional time and still didn’t beat us says A LOT. Fuck you, fuck the refs and duck snyone who says we were lucky. We won that game and they had the cheat to get the point.
I’m proud of the boys today!
Heads up and fucks the refs and the cheating *word censored*,
I would've taken a draw before the game but I'm gutted at how it panned out If Leo stays on we get the 3pts I'm certain of that.Weve got the c unts rattled for sure..Hopefully that big mong gets retrospective action taken against him for bouncing the ball off of Gabriel's napper..a cowardly act from a piece of filth
We need to use this obvious corruption and bias to create a siege mentality like back in the GG days..We've the best defensive unit in world football imo
We've taken 11pts from 15 so far,after trips to 3 of last seasons top 5 That's an impressive start really and the dropped points came in the games when the officials have f ucked us over..
There's a view of the second Trossard yellow that shows the cheating cùnt ref was still blowing his whistle as Trossard kicked the ball.
It is entirely possible that he thought the whistle had gone for half-time, what with it being about eight minutes past the end of the half. It's not just the inconsistency and clear cheating but the speed with which these refs are doing it. Make an excuse for not booking opposition players for exactly the same thing and then act in milliseconds when one of our players does absolutely anything.
We need to use these injustices as fuel for a siege mentality..We want the reaction to the points deduction in 90/91 not the reaction to Birmingham 07/08.This needs drumming into the players heads..everyone is against us.
Some city players crying like babies.....FFS any team would try and use up the minutes if down to 10 men away at city...sour grapes
Lets have it right...The Arsenal were unbelievable...the spirit of Adams, Bouldy and Keown was with them....they fought as if their lives depended on it...outstanding performance
Got to give Arteta credit, this team has real togetherness and spirit, they were well set up barring their goal in whch we were caught way to open at the back
That said will go down as one of our great performances....gutted we did not win ......but proud of the way they stood up to the test
20 grand he got paid for that game - plus expenses (refs get £1500 per game in the PL). Even if nothing happened out there the optics are fucking horrendous and with multiple high profile decisions going cheatys way from the same referee he has to be open to questions of bias at the very least if not sheer corruption.
I'm sick of this whinging shit tbh - either the club stands up and does a proper protest or just shut up about it. I will say it again for the millionth time - trossard and rice have NO DEFENCE cos they were both wrong by the rules of the game, BUT both doku and joao pedro committed the same offences and were not punished and THAT is what the club should be fighting on. I would have no problem if the manager took the team off yesterday and refused to play the remainder of the game and would accept the commotion and backlash that would follow - some things are more important than just the 3pts and the one game, and imo there is willful double standards at play here and as a club we should be refusing to accept it. Changing their official reason for trossards second yellow doesnt change that narrative cos that mongoloid c.unt put in a worse challenge on saliba and wasnt punished so we are back at the double standards thing again.
Building a siege mentality is all well and good but our players have to engage their brain too - rice knew before the red card came out against brighton that he was after fcuking up, and whilst I agree that a lot of refs would have chosen to use common sense and issued a warning, the fact that he was nailed should have been used as a warning to the other players and yet trossard kicked the ball away blatantly yesterday. When you kick it the way he did you cant argue that you were running onto it cos a greyhound wouldnt have caught up with it ffs. Defending trossard just muddy's the waters and allows the media, fans of other teams, and the refs and premier league to label us as fans who want every decision to go their way - argue based on facts and laws of the game cos in that area the refs and premier league know they are fucked. Should doku have got yellow card ? Absolutely. Should joao pedro have received a yellow card ? Absolutely, so why are AFC players being punished and other clubs are not ? Stick to that and we have a case, but focus on defending trossard and we have our shite