PL: West Brom vs Arsenal | December 31, 2017 | 16:30 GMT | Sky Sports

[TromsoGooner]

Anyone who belives that`s a penalty or even one that can be given doesn`t understand much football, I`m sorry to say.

 

[BobP]

The fact is it was not a penalty. If it was not a penalty it was not an excuse.

People looking for any excuse to diss Wenger even if it means denying the truth. It is not about how good or bad we were, it was simply not a penalty. Chambers hand was not in an unnatural position and his body was behind it.

What do you mean it isn't about how good or bad we were?

We were up against the bottom team and struggled to achieve anything of note. Took a deflected free kick for us to take the lead.

 

[Beany]

Not a single person, who isn’t an ****ing imbecile or a ****ing troll. Could possibly think that’s a penalty.

 

[SuperGoon]

Mike Dean ***** again. Surprised. Not.

 

[celestis]

They're not though.

The issue is his distance to when Gibbs hit the ball.

Watch the lead up and you'll see his arms flaying about.

Eh? he actually retracts his arms . We'll just have to disagree with you .

 

[Jasard]

Life as an Arsenal fan is exhausting

 

[blaze_of_glory]

Why the hell won't anyone just come out and say that the refs overall are not good enough and that Dean in particular has always been completely incompetent? All the fans know it, the pundits are scared to say the obvious.

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

He did, but it was a reflexive protective move in anticipation of the cross. He's moving his arm in towards his body, and crucially, he's doing it before the cross left Gibbs foot. Never a penalty in a million years.

I'm not arguing whether or not it was a penalty, I'm just saying he made it easy for the ref. Get your arms behind you.

 

[krengon]

It's ****ing pathetic to hear , we dominated possession , we scored a goal , what more criteria of deserving is there ?

I swear some here want us to do bad just so they can moan..

 

[Sniper Mik]

Should have held on to the own goal that we managed to get late in the game against the bottom PL team. Says it all really, if we dont strengthen in Jan then Wenger is watching another team out there week in week out. The team I see is barely top 6 let alone top 4 level.

This is an absolutely awful team in every department. There's not one area of the game where this side excels at. You could play the West Ham, and Southampton games side by side along with this one and they'd look almost identical.

 

[FreakySami]

Disgusting officiating, can't see any repercussions forthcoming sadly.

The funny thing is he apologizes after to wenger midgame!! He knows what he is doing!!!

 

[Ceballinhos]

I don't even care about the penalty tbf.
We were so poor that I'm not even pissed about Dean's decision.

So 1st half of the season:

- We're 5th. Tottenham has a game in hand.

- We have the worst defensive record of the top 6.

- We have the worst offensive record of the top 6.

 

[blaze_of_glory]

If the arm position doesn't increase the area of the body to block the ball then there is no advantage and no pen. It's not difficult.

 

[rich 1990]

Would happily end some posters here and now.

 

[A_G]

Wenger unhappy with the schedule, says WBA had 5 days to prepare and we had 3

 

[CurryFlavoured]

I see both sides. That was a terrible penalty decision and we should've come away with a win. But we were also inept, and I don't think that our performance deserved a win in many ways. We didn't create a lot and relied on a fluky deflection to get the lead. It was really depressing watching our inability to convert so much possession into any kind of opportunity.

 

[A_G]

Why did West Brom do for them to deserve to get a result then? Someone please explain to me

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

I don't even care about the penalty tbf.
We were so poor that I'm not even pissed about Dean's decision.

So 1st half of the season:

- We're 5th. Tottenham has a game in hand.

- We have the worst defensive record of the top 6.

- We have the worst offensive record of the top 6.

Happy New Year

 

[Yousif Arsenal]

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I don't even care about the penalty tbf.
We were so poor that I'm not even pissed about Dean's decision.

So 1st half of the season:

- We're 5th. Tottenham has a game in hand.

- We have the worst defensive record of the top 6.

- We have the worst offensive record of the top 6.

But we only few points from 3rd place

 

[NieThePiet]

Complaining about wrong decisions is not an ‘excuse’ for the team performance. We scored the goal to win us the game & we should’ve had a clean sheet to go with it.

We would have an dirty win today, you need these dirties, close wins.

We had our goal and would win the game without Mike Dean. We have an important game on wednesday and this were important 3 points.

It's a joke.