Arsenal v AFC Bournemouth - Saturday 12.30 pm

Got done by the officials there. The thing is, they want this, everyone around the sport wants the title chase to continue.
 
Wish we had played the first half like we did the second. Full credit for the guys and AI, didn't drop their heads after a couple of really detrimental calls.
 
The scoreline looks rough, but I'm proud of the boys again today. They showed a lot of resolve to come out and play a much-improved second half. Given more fair officiating, things might have gone much differently. They tried to score right to the end. I thought it was a good show.
 
Referees need to be sat down and given some training on not cow tailing to the top clubs IMO

Seen it too many times this season especially
 
First half wasn't an AI performance. More a GON one. That said, we were resolute and they were wasteful and should have gone in level. Except for a penalty we would never, ever get.

Second half was a different story and was much more like what we've come to expect. Was good to see.

The disallowed goal was the PL all over. Top six team never gets that disallowed. Even if they do, then they get the pen for the foul on Billing. As we're neither we got neither.

The commentator actually celebrating the Arsenal third tells you everything you need to know about the PL. Cheering the goal? It's beyond parody.

The PL is a paradox. I always want us to play as high as we can but it gets tiresome watching the same things happen in favour of the same teams time and again. And VAR, which we were told would level that playing field, has actually turned out to be an undercover way of doing the opposite.

I want us to be in this league. I wish we weren't in this league.
 
Listening on Solent it was another game with controversial decisions, especially the penalty.

But VAR ruled it a penalty and that broke the deadlock.

Seemed Mark Travers made some great saves and in the last three games is making the goalkeeping positions his.
 
kirsikka said:
First half wasn't an AI performance. More a GON one. That said, we were resolute and they were wasteful and should have gone in level. Except for a penalty we would never, ever get.

Second half was a different story and was much more like what we've come to expect. Was good to see.

The disallowed goal was the PL all over. Top six team never gets that disallowed. Even if they do, then they get the pen for the foul on Billing. As we're neither we got neither.

The commentator actually celebrating the Arsenal third tells you everything you need to know about the PL. Cheering the goal? It's beyond parody.

The PL is a paradox. I always want us to play as high as we can but it gets tiresome watching the same things happen in favour of the same teams time and again. And VAR, which we were told would level that playing field, has actually turned out to be an undercover way of doing the opposite.

I want us to be in this league. I wish we weren't in this league.
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Commentators cheer for all of the big six.
 
If anyone was still in any doubt that VAR was there to ensure the big teams get the 'right' results, this was it. Really don't mind getting beat by a better team, but it leaves a very bitter taste to get cheated by officials that don't have the backbone to make fair decisions. You end up asking yourself 'just what is the point'? In addition, it would have been a much better spectacle if the ref had just made the fair choices. Arsenal would still, probably, have won and everyone would go home happier. Ruining the game.
 
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billythekid said:
Listening on Solent it was another game with controversial decisions, especially the penalty.

But VAR ruled it a penalty and that broke the deadlock.

Seemed Mark Travers made some great saves and in the last three games is making the goalkeeping positions his.
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I guess var said it wasn't a clear & obvious error by the ref..... which is very contentious to say the least. In real-time, it looked a pen - it was top quality cheating. Would be nice to see VAR used to get a grip on that sort of stuff, but pigs may fly.

Travs did very well.
 
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