Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

[IBK]

[I am invisible]

Winners of the first, and only, European Super League.

Spurs last.

[Mac76]

no surprise that it was us that were the hardest done by

officials

[Letters]

It was only possible because everyone else shat the bed.

True. But. The season before Leicester were battling relegation. Winning the title the following season was incredible.
Sure, it did rely on all the big guns being awful at the same time and Arsenal being...Arsenal.
But as a story it was amazing and for my money trumps the Invincibles.

The fact we won the title in 2003/4 wasn't remarkable - we were the best side and really should have won it the season before.
The unbeaten thing is the story of course but let's be honest with ourselves, we rode our luck in a few games - you have to in a run like that.
I'm not diminishing the achievement, but I'm a sucker for an underdog story.

[Bumble]

no surprise that it was us that were the hardest done by

officials

isn't that more that we were biased for by the referees for it to be overturned by VAR?

[Bumble]

True. But. The season before Leicester were battling relegation. Winning the title the following season was incredible.
Sure, it did rely on all the big guns being awful at the same time and Arsenal being...Arsenal.
But as a story it was amazing and for my money trumps the Invincibles.

The fact we won the title in 2003/4 wasn't remarkable - we were the best side and really should have won it the season before.
The unbeaten thing is the story of course but let's be honest with ourselves, we rode our luck in a few games - you have to in a run like that.
I'm not diminishing the achievement, but I'm a sucker for an underdog story.

also the previous league triumph we didn't lose away form home.

Leicester was more unlikely. The invincibles still rate as the best to play in the Prem League.

[Bumble]

Martinez being interviewed for spuds job haha

[I am invisible]

no surprise that it was us that were the hardest done by

officials

We’ve also committed the fewest fouls out of any team in the top 5 leagues in Europe...

https://football-observatory.com/IMG...2020/wp338/en/

Wonder how that tallies with the number of cards we get per foul?

[IBK]

isn't that more that we were biased for by the referees for it to be overturned by VAR?

Not really - the original decision doesn't have to have been positively biased. This would suggest that VAR gets it right. It very often doesn't.

Difficult one really because we fans will always be biased towards our team (and tend to watch Arsenal so see the VAR decisions that affect us). But subjectively, we do appear to have been on the end of some mystifying decisions that costs us points/game advantage - that are extraordinary given that Stockley Park is supposed to anaylse things properly.

[Mac76]

isn't that more that we were biased for by the referees for it to be overturned by VAR?

No, it was shite decisions by VAR officials saying someone's little toe was offside