Villa- post match thread

[Power n Glory]

tbh signings or no we should have enough to beat Villa. It was one of those days where pretty much nothing went for us but if we'd pushed on at 1-0 rather than gone into our usual complacent auto-pilot we'd probably have won.

We should have won and we didn't start playing again until we were losing.

[Power n Glory]

http://blog.emiratesstadium.info/archives/24266

Wish the FA would have read this report on him a year ago before letting him ref an arsenal game... A year ago, 50%+ of his red/yellow/penalty decisions were wrong, he have a tendency to be against the home teams and he has the worst record against Arsenal. Quite amazing to see a report from last year could be so accurate of the game from 2 days ago. This guys numbers are on pair with refs that normally get demoted to lower leagues.

The 2nd booking for Kos was a joke and he missed that awful leg breaker challenge Merts put in. The ref should face a longer ban if he's already been warned.

[Niall_Quinn]

The 2nd booking for Kos was a joke and he missed that awful leg breaker challenge Merts put in. The ref should face a longer ban if he's already been warned.

Whole thing stinks of gambling syndicates. Doubt any ref is biased for one team in the same way Riley was for Utd, it will be more down to which result pays out the most. Arsenal vs Villa would be a great game to influence for several reasons and there's no doubt that ref was on the take. Not in the big decisions (he was just semi-competent there), but in the small stuff that can tip a game over the 90 minutes. As it turns out they needn't have bothered because we were shit anyway.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

Is he being demoted, though? Or is it that he was appointed a 4th official for a particular game, on a particular day, decided long ahead of time, as per norm for all refs?

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Tim Payton responds to that video.

[Munchies]

John Cross response
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...rsenal-2183126

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Only interesting thing from the Tim Payton interview that wasn't David Cameron style PR bollocks to try and paint the AST as effective and on the ball was the revelation that, our new chairman, "Sir Chips Keswick" is on holiday. Missed the game on Saturday and is still on holiday despite the fallout since then.

Just sums it up really.

Though I do agree with him about not having footballing people on the board and missing the input of Carr, Dein and Fizsman who were more in touch with what was going on the pitch.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

To be fair i don't really see what people expect from the AST, this guy getting emotional having a go at Tim Peyton i agree with much of what he was saying but sounds like he has a reputation as being a miserabalist who will complain about something even when the club are doing well (and as John Cross rightly said someone like him is the lifeblood of supporters because we don't want cheerleaders who go along with anything) and i read a lot of the AST statements and you can't really find fault with what he is saying.
And people accuse him of being a "propagandist" for the club because he ask supporters to be patient well to be fair i didn't see a lot wrong with that there is no point in screaming blue murder about the lack of signings in July if there was still a chance signings would have been made by August.
People who go on about David Dein as well, yes i don't think things would be quite as bad as they are now but i still can't help but feel they are crying for the moon, this club has always been tight as long as i have been alive no matter who the manager was.

[Niall_Quinn]

Only interesting thing from the Tim Payton interview that wasn't David Cameron style PR bollocks to try and paint the AST as effective and on the ball was the revelation that, our new chairman, "Sir Chips Keswick" is on holiday. Missed the game on Saturday and is still on holiday despite the fallout since then.

Just sums it up really.

Though I do agree with him about not having footballing people on the board and missing the input of Carr, Dein and Fizsman who were more in touch with what was going on the pitch.

That's what immediately stuck in my mind too, the chairman is on holiday for the kick off.

[Niall_Quinn]

To be fair i don't really see what people expect from the AST, this guy getting emotional having a go at Tim Peyton i agree with much of what he was saying but sounds like he has a reputation as being a miserabalist who will complain about something even when the club are doing well (and as John Cross rightly said someone like him is the lifeblood of supporters because we don't want cheerleaders who go along with anything) and i read a lot of the AST statements and you can't really find fault with what he is saying.
And people accuse him of being a "propagandist" for the club because he ask supporters to be patient well to be fair i didn't see a lot wrong with that there is no point in screaming blue murder about the lack of signings in July if there was still a chance signings would have been made by August.
People who go on about David Dein as well, yes i don't think things would be quite as bad as they are now but i still can't help but feel they are crying for the moon, this club has always been tight as long as i have been alive no matter who the manager was.

Maybe the screaming is required to get the club to do anything at all? It's not just that though, people have been saying be patient since June but who really discounted the possibility we'd end up in mid August with nothing? I think any sort of understanding just gets abused and an inch given will rapidly be stretched to a mile.