Arsenal v Norwich, Saturday 5th May - 12:45pm

[Niall_Quinn]

watch the first half again and see how many times we got out of our half after the first minute

Sorry, not quite understanding this. Even if we had 11 men lined up on our goalline for 89 minutes and they battered the ball against our legs, applying the rules and awarding us that indisputable penalty in the last moments was the key incident that affected the final score. RvP had a tap in, it was a pen, a red card and 3 points. The ref decided to change that. Whether he took money to do it or whether he's following a directive from people higher up who are taking money we don't know, but his cheating today - regardless of what else went on - fixed the final score. Many teams have played shit and still nicked a result. That's exactly what we were about to do in the final minute until the ref intervened and changes the rules of the game. So now we have had ZERO pens awarded at home - how is it going to even itself out? Anyone know?

[Özim]

Sorry, not quite understanding this. Even if we had 11 men lined up on our goalline for 89 minutes and they battered the ball against our legs, applying the rules and awarding us that indisputable penalty in the last moments was the key incident that affected the final score. RvP had a tap in, it was a pen, a red card and 3 points. The ref decided to change that. Whether he took money to do it or whether he's following a directive from people higher up who are taking money we don't know, but his cheating today - regardless of what else went on - fixed the final score. Many teams have played shit and still nicked a result. That's exactly what we were about to do in the final minute until the ref intervened and changes the rules of the game. So now we have had ZERO pens awarded at home - how is it going to even itself out? Anyone know?

Even if we got a penalty, who's to say we wouldn't have missed it?

Hardly 3 points, we f*cked it up and have only ourselves to blame.....I could see this happening when you were telling me we were still a point ahead earlier in the week, we had this in the bag but dropped points left right and center at the crucial time.

[leaf]

Sorry, not quite understanding this. Even if we had 11 men lined up on our goalline for 89 minutes and they battered the ball against our legs, applying the rules and awarding us that indisputable penalty in the last moments was the key incident that affected the final score. RvP had a tap in, it was a pen, a red card and 3 points. The ref decided to change that. Whether he took money to do it or whether he's following a directive from people higher up who are taking money we don't know, but his cheating today - regardless of what else went on - fixed the final score. Many teams have played shit and still nicked a result. That's exactly what we were about to do in the final minute until the ref intervened and changes the rules of the game. So now we have had ZERO pens awarded at home - how is it going to even itself out? Anyone know?

we were at home and 1-0 up after 1min go for the jugular keep the pressure on dont let norwich out grab a second before half time.

[Niall_Quinn]

So because we played badly and pretty much fucked things up, that wasn't a foul on RvP and wasn't the penalty that could have got the 3 points we needed despite all the fucks up? And because we may have missed it, the pen shouldn't have been awarded? Maybe that's what all the refs have been thinking all season long at the Emirates, that would explain it.

[Cripps_orig]

Pathetic