Originally Posted by Globalgunner
He's the John Bercow of refereeing. Everything always has to be about him and his fucking circus. Arsehole. Worst referee in the premiership by a country mile. And surely what he did today has to break some rule of impartiality? Can you really talk to a team at half-time and say you got a decision wrong? Doesn't it put your impartiality into doubt? Amazed he gave our penalty at the end.
It's also terrifying that after clearly reviewing TV evidence (which I didn't think refs were allowed to do either) he STILL got the decision wrong - as you say, clearly ball to hand, which unless there is an obscure, Arsenal-specific rule that's been freshly written into the laws of the game (like the Xhaka Rule) HAS to be unintentional.
I expect the media to give it plenty of air tomorrow anyway. Last week we got the Arsenal-are-soft narrative from the media after alonso knocked bellerin into next week for their first goal. This week it's the Arsenal-are-lucky one when we get a decision in our favour. No wonder we seldom get them. Referees and the media: both are made for each other. Crooked, corrupt liars.
Having said all of that, I am mainly angry because we were really shit again today, and have clearly learnt nothing from the last fortnight or so about organisation, resolve and mental strength.
Ozil needs to shape up or fuck off. He looked utterly disinterested today and barely even made a pretence of contesting the ball at times. £250k a week? Really?
Walcott just needs to fuck off period. He's become a joke of a player who needs to salvage his career at West Ham or somewhere shit like that. I don't think he'd get in any of the top 6 sides. He was embarrassing today.
And I'm afraid to say Iwobi and Coquelin look increasingly like the limited, stopgap solutions they should always have been. Useful squad players, but they are not players who are going to win you trophies.
May seem strange saying all this after a 2-0 win, but there really wasn't anything out there to suggest we've turned a corner. Bayern, Southampton and Liverpool away all coming up and we will need to play a million times better to get anything out of them.
Wenger is a goner this year, surely...?
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