Marseille v Arsenal 19:45 18/09/13 Sky Sports

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Originally Posted by Steve French

It also helps when you watch it playing forward. There was not a single clip that showed it to being remotely close to being a penalty.

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That's just not true at all, even the clip they showed on Sky was very unclear, it's quite hard to see the touch from Ramsey.

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Originally Posted by Özim

I retract my comment, need to see it again but it appears he might have got the ball first.

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:hug:

We've got Aaron Ramsey!

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Originally Posted by LDG

My first instinct before the replay was that he poked it away. But the ref was at the wrong angle tbf.

He wasn't a bad ref really. Tried to keep the game going.

His worst decision was letting that hauling down of flams go. If they'd scored there, i would have shot the cunt myself.

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it just begs the question. just what the fuck do those officals do behind the goal line. there was that decision, and the one where BFG got kicked in the face. stonewall penalty that

It would have been a soft stone wall tbf.

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Originally Posted by LDG

It would have been a soft stone wall tbf.

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not sure on that. if that was outside the box, its a foul. so why is it not a foul inside the box? its a clear high boot. its not like mertesacker is small either. 100% foul so therefore stonewall penalty

If Theo went down he would've got a penalty too in the first few minutes. Agree with LDG though. Ref was decent enough considering Marseille were very physical and we needed play to go on in order to do them on the counter.

I got the feeling that the ref was a little soft on issuing fouls... There was that high kick quite early on that just missed Flamini's head (was a few yards out of their box). If that had connected, then I don't think we would have had Flamini for a few weeks. :/

Merts should have got a pelanty when he got kicked in the face in the box.


It would have easily been a foul outside the box but I suppose being in the box the ref was reluctant to make a big decision there.