Match Reaction - Arsenal vs Scrote City

[Cripps_orig]

Except a red for Owen. The old argument about not lifting a hand to the opponent. Just because he's a limp wrist doesn't mean he's exempt. Shawcross should have gone as well for leaving his studs in on Kos. No doubt about that one either.

Arteta did the same thing in retaliation. Nothing incident.

Didn't see the Shawcross one. But he's a **** so he had to go.

[Xhaka Can’t]

And getting ass whipped by Barcelona year in and year out. :Coffee:

It probably wouldn't feel as bad if Barcelona ass whipped other teams too.

[Cripps_orig]

Barca and the ref, tbf.

Pretty much

[GP]

Except a red for Owen. The old argument about not lifting a hand to the opponent. Just because he's a limp wrist doesn't mean he's exempt. Shawcross should have gone as well for leaving his studs in on Kos. No doubt about that one either.

Exactly. Great, clean tackle from Arteta and Owen lashed out. He should have walked.

[Xhaka Can’t]

It's not really the Champions league though is it, it's a tournament for a fair amount of losers as well (mostly losers in fact).

In addition it's a slightly different case, we're a big club, historically one of the biggest in England and should really have a chance of winning it at some point, all we do is make up the numbers until a decent teams shows up to give us a pasting.

I'd be prouder of our record if something different happened from time to time, not just the predictable stuff we see every season. The fact we sit there and change nothing and hope things change really isn't very satisfying at all.

Neither is watching every other English side pick up the trophy instead of us. I actually enjoyed the CL more pre 2005 when although we didn't do that well you just believed we had a chance and the result was less predictable, it's not all about winning, it's also about unpredictability and having the belief that there's an outside chance it could happen.

Yeah, like that outside chance Stoke have of winning the league.

Makes you wonder wtf is wrong with their fans.

[Niall_Quinn]

The challenge wasn't the best by Arteta either to be fair, was it two footed (didn't get a proper look but it was a poor challenge from what I saw)?

Possibly, but it would have been a harsh red. Owen's was a definite red, not because of any challenge but because he lifted his hands to an opponent, and as we well know from commentators gloating at our players getting sent off over the year, you can't do that. But the ref ignored it. At least he had the balls to give a legitimate goal and not listed to that crappy linesman. So break even.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Exactly. Great, clean tackle from Arteta and Owen lashed out. He should have walked.

Haven't seen it yet, have recorded MOTD and will watch our bit and delete the rest during the first period intermission in the Bruins/Leafs game.

Then I will report back my findings.

[Syn]

I still don't know what that linesman was thinking, because it wasn't even marginal. Theo couldn't have been complicating things because he was standing well offside. The only defence I can make is that he couldn't see, from his angle, whether or not Theo was in line with the goalkeeper's view and so wanted to ask the referee. But either way it was very weak.

In hindsight I don't think you'd want to see Owen being sent off for something like that. It was handbags and players should be laughed at. A proper punch would be different, but I suspect Arteta would've been rolling on the floor like footballers do if there was actually a hint of pain. Looking at the replay, Arteta's challenge was absolutely fine, and clean.

[Özim]

Yeah, like that outside chance Stoke have of winning the league.

Makes you wonder wtf is wrong with their fans.

Like I said different case, they're a small club, we're one of the biggest in the world and in the top 5-6 richest.

[Syn]

Jack finally decided to pick on someone his own size.