billglass

Blues/Rock guitar player, Foodie, Gooner, Greyhound fan. Not as young as I used to be !

[billglass @BillGlass66]

@GunnerLoulou Well maybe Lou, but he seems to have the bulk of the bench he doesn’t trust, so either squad building has been awful, or he needs to examine his trust levels ! this is Arsenal FFS, what good is nearly half a squad that MA ‘doesn’t trust’?

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@TheArsenalbiker Ah, happy days ! I remember it well

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@DailyAFC No, No, No

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@YankeeGunner That about says it all. So few options - Busted Flushes RS and GJ, 30 min specialist Trossard, ever more useless ‘technically elite’ (clive’s words) Zinchenko who was clearly gone last season. Saliba knackered and head turned by Real,
Only Kiwior is getting a rough deal from MA

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@ArsenalNZ1 Has to be Trossard, even though most fans knew he is hopeless over a full 90

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@GunnerLoulou Busted Flush, as we used to say.

[Matt Scott @Matt5cott]

Sport has a corruption problem. A helicopter carrying the former South Africa cricket captain, Hansie Cronje, fell out of the sky, killing him, after he tried to stop fixing matches. Tennis has had its scandals too.

Cricket and tennis responded by setting up the Anti-Corruption Unit and Tennis Integrity Unit.

Football has a betting problem. Look at Ivan Toney. Look at how many players are bankrupt within five years of retiring. Fifty percent. That’s not down to bad investments alone.

I happen to know for a fact that a household-name former referee was internally reprimanded by PGMOL for breaching betting regulations.

Now we have a PGMOL whose referees make up their own interpretations of the laws from week to week with no regard to consistency.

We have a PGMOL that engages in open conflicts of interest like appointing Liverpool-based and Liverpool-supporting match officials in a game involving their next opposition. With inevitable consequences.

We have a PGMOL that draws its match officials almost exclusively from the north of England. Almost exclusively - to the point of the exceptions to this rule being tokenism - from white, working-class backgrounds. Contrast this with the teachers, lawyers and accountants who referee in Uefa competitions. This homogenous absence of diversity would be sanctioned in any corporate structure.

We have a PGMOL whose once-effective governance function does not function at all after almost a dozen years of no-oversight, one-man rule by Mike Riley. Who replaced him? One of his closest mates, Howard Webb.
See: https://t.co/lfiysr7rFi.

Who watches these watchmen? Where is English football’s ACU and TIU? Where is the independent oversight of an organisation exposed to the biggest year-round sports-gambling market in the world? And one whose serial champions are being held to account for more than 100 alleged breaches of financial regulations?

I am accused of conspiracy theory. There is nothing conspiratorial about identifying a clear and repeated failure of governance. This cancer will destroy the Premier League and it will destroy English football.

Yet everyone cheers it on from the sidelines because it’s Arsenal bearing the brunt of it. It isn’t. It’s all of us. Because the game we all love is dying from within.

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@Rory_Talks_Ball 100%. Sterling, Jesus, Tomi, Zini, all busted flushes. Tross can’t play a decent 90mins, hence the ‘bargain’.

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@dinhofootballls @Rory_Talks_Ball Have you seen an actual clear view of the apparent initial offence itself? SKY didn’t have one. Onfield ref had a great view though.

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@RyanHorobin @a1ias86 @ErikLFC_ @Rory_Talks_Ball Yeah, that how the rules work.

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@nickcauser92 @ToTheFootballl @Rory_Talks_Ball I have yet to see a different video angle which actually shows, in clear detail the moment that a foul is committed? I can see Saliba has an arm raised, sure, but degree of contact? Any contact? Then he moves across Saliba to the left and they both go over.

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@YankeeGunner I will reserve my decision until SKY or PGMOL release a clear angle of the actual contact and therefore the alleged foul. At this point I have no idea what the actual foul was, as all I have seen is Saliba running towards the ball and BFC player running right to left and falling

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“Tadic knew exactly what he had to do to get the free kick”
Yup.
Cheat.

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The ref is letting Manure ‘players’ push in the small of the back whilst Arsenal players are in the air, time and time again. Where does one find a referee with some cajoles these days?
Anything to say @gnev2? @Real_HowardWebb
Thought not.

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I wonder if @SkyFootball know how hurtful it is to Arsenal supporters to turn on their far from cheap Sky subscription TV, to hear the nasal, disingenuous, self-agrandising dicktats (deliberate spelling), of the odious @GNev2 ?

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@Alex176__ It’ll be just how they are mate😂🤣😂🤣

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@GunnerLoulou It has become a very strange world.