VoiceOfReason wrote:highburyJD wrote:
5 years ago all that stopped us winning the league was an unprecedented series of refereeing decisions were 'compounded' by a horrific injury to Eduardo
Can you remind me of these dubious refereeing decisions in the following games:
Arsenal 1-1 Aston Villa (March 1, 2008)
Wigan 0-0 Arsenal (March 9, 2008)
Arsenal 1-1 Middlesbrough (March 15, 2008)
Chelsea 2-1 Arsenal (March 23, 2008)
Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool (April 5, 2008)
Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal (April 13, 2008)
I can't seem to remember what they were, that's all. Although I assume the dodgy decisions in the game at OT were nothing to do with Adebayor punching the ball into the net for us?
in the boro home game aliadiare was offside when he scored and adebayor had a goal ruled out for offside when he recieved the pass from boros boatang.
this would have kept us 2 points clear at the top
however i do believe the excuse culture that has sprung up since that day at birmingham
has been very damaging
seeing our captain sitting on the pitch crying when there was a possible penalty miss to defend was disgusting
take the paint off the walls but don,t show a weakness on the pitch
he should have been stripped of captaincy
we should have wiped our mouth and said we took an away point on a difficult day.
we were still in the box seat and even went to old trafford with a chance to win and possibly go on and win the league.
the whole message from the club was 1 of white flag waving.
i still believe wenger gives the players a get out with complaining about tiredness,poor pitches, refereeing, 4th a trophy
fa /league/europa don,t matter. it matters to us as supporters it should matter to them.
its unfair to call the last 8 years failure but failing to adress defensive issues for 5 years is 1 of the reasons why i believe wenger is a good 18 months past his sell by date
) and Wiltord was shit (1st touch of a rapist 
) but still walked away with the match ball after scoring a hat-trick - if ever a game summed up Wiltord it was that one 
