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@Makingtrax Off the top of your head, can you think of one big piece good fortune we've had this season? I.e, players lucky to not get a red, a dodgy pen in our favour or offside goals?
Mustafi should have had a pen given against him v West Brom:@Makingtrax Off the top of your head, can you think of one big piece good fortune we've had this season? I.e, players lucky to not get a red, a dodgy pen in our favour or offside goals?
I know a lot of stuff doesn't go our way. I've always maintained that. It seems like it's been happening ever since Wenger started doing well. Im just saying it's very likely that it's nowhere near as bad as you or I might think.
Every year I think about doing a thread that highlights our good fortune and shaftings, so we can have a count up. But I never bother.
Mustafi should have had a pen given against him v West Brom:
We are Manchester City fans, not Etihad fans, and you very, very wrong.I might be wrong, but I have the feeling Etihad fans, the ones that go to games anyway, are rather embarrassed by their financial doping. They were silent for 85 minutes. We might only win FA Cups but that means more then them winning the league. .
He didn't dive, it was a penalty.Stop defending English players because they dive it's embarrassing and that's why England national team always fail.
When Alexis dives or Suarez we never stop hear about it but when English players dive like Sterling Alli they end up saying he not that type of player
Not having that, Arsenal absolutely are one of the elite clubs. At the moment. You are, however in danger of losing that, and that will bring it's own problems in regards to signing top class players and being able to step up the ladder again.It has never been more clear to me that we aren't one of the elite clubs.
I mean it depends on how you define "elite teams". For me, it is the teams competing for the title in a top 5 league in the past 5-10 years, and we just haven't been doing that. We can only hang on to who we were in the early 2000s for so long.Not having that, Arsenal absolutely are one of the elite clubs. At the moment. You are, however in danger of losing that, and that will bring it's own problems in regards to signing top class players and being able to step up the ladder again.
talk about blinkered, even most of your supporters on here have said it was a pen, get over it.He did dive. It wasn't a penalty.
Snitches get stitchesThen it's the UEFA Champions League 2017-18 thread in the Football Talk forum.
Here: https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/threads/uefa-champions-league-2017-18.30362/page-79
@Aevius
You could be right, but when things do go against us, it's often in the big games and at decisive moments
Go back to that United game in 04/05 where Rooney dived for a penalty. Or the fact that Ferdinand wasn't given his marching orders for tackling Ljungberg as the last man. Or that CL quarter final against Liverpool where Kuyt basically rugby tackled Hleb in the box only for the referee to not give a penalty. Didn't stop him from giving a penalty to Liverpool after Babel dived. How about RVP's red card against Barca in 2010/2011, or the fact that Abidal was going around throttling Arsenal players in that with no consequences.
And these are just off the top of my head.
My point is that it is truly staggering the number of times we've been shafted by the officials at critical moments in big games.