Arsenal vs Burnley. 22nd Jan. 14:15

[Niall_Quinn]

Amazing we are already 22 games through the season and approaching the final stretch. Crazy.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

Thought Coquelin's was a pen (as it was a foul) and the Burnley player should have got a yellow for diving at the same time, though clearly no ref will call it like that.

The argument being that, just because a player doesn't go down, doesn't mean he hasn't been fouled.

[Niall_Quinn]

Thought Coquelin's was a pen (as it was a foul) and the Burnley player should have got a yellow for diving at the same time, though clearly no ref will call it like that.

The argument being that, just because a player doesn't go down, doesn't mean he hasn't been fouled.

That's true. But equally, just because he goes down screaming and holding his face doesn't make it a chance for the ref to grab the headlines either. Possibly yes, the Coquelin pen was soft but maybe, perhaps, possibly a pen. Given what we've had waved away over the weeks and given that farcical decision yesterday that saw the spuds get away with it, given the reffing standard in general, it was incredibly harsh. The utterly incompetent ref and his useless gang of mates made up for it though when they awarded us a pen for nothing in the last min. But what will endure from this game is the idea Xhaka needs to be sent off all the time for doing shit others keep walking away from without a card of any colour.