Wolves vs Arsenal 25.01.2025 - KO 15:00

[Niall_Quinn]

Some time ago WMUG opined that the level of abuse refs get - not just at PL level but all the way down - is such that the people who get to the top aren't necessarily the ones who make the best decisions but the ones who are bloody minded enough to put up with it. Maybe they even revel in it - we've all seen referees who seem to actively want to be "the story" after a game. There is something in that, I reckon. They keep talking about getting tough on abuse of referees but here we are in a game where a player can get a second yellow card for "kicking the ball away" but players can still surround the referee with no consequence.

Every fan who saw Collina was reffing their match just thought, fair enough. And there are refs in the PL we don't talk about, is that because they are bloody minded enough to just do their job and not be noticed? I think the ones who make it about them are obvious enough and, just coincidentally, they are the worst refs. It's their desire to be self important that makes them bad refs by default, they are missing the point of what they are hired to do. If they just got on with their job they'd quickly fall into obscurity, and so you have Oliver and Taylor and all those refs from the past that we remember.

[Niall_Quinn]

Here we go. The first stage of retaliation for us having exposed and humiliated the corrupt PGMOL.

Arsenal have been charged by the Football Association after players confronted referee Michael Oliver following Myles Lewis-Skelly's controversial dismissal in the 1-0 win against Wolves.

Oliver showed Lewis-Skelly a straight red card in the first half after the teenager fouled Matt Doherty, with the referee ruling it was serious foul play.

The Gunners appealed against the decision and the 18-year-old's three-match ban was overturned earlier this week.

Arsenal have until 3 February to respond to the FA charge.

[Niall_Quinn]

Again, a charge for us and nothing for the other clubs that do this regularly.

[Niall_Quinn]

So Areta is being slagged in the press, even though he was extremely restrained after the match. And now the team have been charged even though I have seen much, much worse this season. There's definitely something here. Maybe it's just a case of Arsenal are the best at showing these corrupt, incompetent wasters up.

[Mac76]

such an obvious example of deflecting the attention away from the huge error of the sending off itself - the confrontaion was not that bad, I didn't see any pushing etc, other teams do much worse

[Niall_Quinn]

I think we should be relegated 115 times.

[Mac76]

I think we should be relegated 115 times.

Many a true word...

[dazthegooner]

The FA again showing how narrow minded they really are.

[Niall_Quinn]

The FA again showing how narrow minded they really are.

Letter of the law, init?

[KSE Comedy Club]

Deflection is the 'go to' response when corruption is uncovered