You say that but I wonder if they give a damn or have the competency to determine what's good PR and what's not? I suppose PHW going has given everyone a break but if you look at what's been coming out of the club this summer it almost looks like a campaign designed to ruin the standing of the club. You think worst case scenario with this lot and that's what they deliver.
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Good to see referee's performances being scrutinised maybe this will be a wake up call for them.
Having seen the replay's on MOTD though, the 2nd penalty was probably a penalty, they showed Koscielny's trailing leg caught the Villa player's 2nd leg before he touched the ball.
I can see why he gave the 2nd one but I didn't think it was having seen the replays.
Ref looked out of his depth to me.
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.
It wasn't a very good performance but he's been punished for it now.
I agree with the MOTD team on the 2nd, it was tough to spot but probably right in the end, rest of his performance was poor though.
In the end though we were 1-0 up and if we were good enough would/should have won comfortably, only an awful summer in the transfer market cost us the victory, let's face it we all knew we'd have injuries at the start of the campaign (we always do) except for the person that matters it seems.
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.