Arsenal vs Burnley. 22nd Jan. 14:15

[Niall_Quinn]

ALEXIS!

These 7 mins came right back to bite Moss in the arse.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal 2-1 Burnley, FT!!



Jesus wept.

[Niall_Quinn]

Was never a pen btw. But then again, neither was the other one.

FT 2-1

The lino ended up nicking it from Moss with almost the last kick.

[Ernesto]

Wow!

[Niall_Quinn]

The penalty rule is NOT about making contact with an opponent. It's about fouling (not even obstructing but FOULING) the opponent. So it was not a foul on Mustafi because Mustafi went down all by himself. Same with the Burnley pen. No foul. And Kos ducked his head into the boot of a player who wasn't even aware he was there. No pen and certainly not a booking. Xhaka you could argue deserved a yellow for a ridiculously stupid attempt at a tackle. But so did the guy who wasn't touched and dived over screaming. That's called simulation. Vogts deserved 2 red for 2 deliberate elbows on Xhaka.

[AFC Leveller]

Alexis is so cool doing that at 97 minutes

[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.