Sam Holmes

[Sam Holmes @HolmesSam]

@NorthantsCCC @Sm4rtyy96 not a spinner?

[Luke Paton @Golfpunter1]

The discourse around the Eze penalty last night is fascinating. If nothing else it provides Arteta with an excuse as to how his team has been hard done by and robbed. He loves excuses.

It’s a fascinating situation because I actually think the right outcome was reached albeit through the wrong process. Once given on the field under the current rules it shouldn't have been overturned. For that Arsenal can feel aggrieved. Don't forget Arsenal were the beneficiaries of an incredibly soft penalty in Leverkusen. It wasn’t overturned.

I find the attached video interesting because it clearly shows how minimal the contact is. The defender doesn’t pin Ezes foot to the ground. Doesn’t smash into it. It brushes down the side of it. It’s where the still pictures of it were wildly misleading.

Are we really saying that contact such as that is worthy of a penalty? What’s clear in the video is that Eze has absolutely made the most of the slight contact. I love the straight left leg. A very natural position. It’s a brilliant dive and normally it would have been rewarded.

By saying that is a stone wall penalty all we are doing is encouraging such theatrics and cheating. Whenever you hear the words “that was clever” by a commentator they are intimating the player has cheated/made the most of it.

We complain about refs all the time but what chance do they have when players are doing stuff like this. Until players are punished properly there is no disincentive for players to keep doing this stuff.

I also find it fascinating when you have a foot brushed like this. When you compare it to all the holding/pushing/grappling at other times. Sometimes a contact sport and others not. Is this really what football has become?

[Iona Stephen @Iona_Stephen]

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[Wingman @Wingman_X_]

We've had Ronaldo, Werghost, Zirkzee and Hojlund and none of them have come close to this guy🤦🏼‍♂️.
Amad Diallo and cavani would've been something 🔥

[Sam Holmes @HolmesSam]

@Eddsyy This is the same referee that was at the Watford v Cardiff game a few weeks ago. He had a howler and lost complete control. Should have been demoted then!

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

UGARTE WITH THE HEADBUTT ON HAVERTZ FOR CHEATING!!

MY DM!!! 😭😭❤️

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[Ronny @ronaldobrownn_]

I DONT WANT TO HEAR FUCK ALL FROM ARSENAL FANS ABOUT REFEREES FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON

[Des Kelly @TheDesKelly]

If V.A.R. was operating at Arsenal v ManUtd, the referee would be sent off.

#Shocker
#FACup #ManUtd #ARSMUN #Arsenal #AFC #MUFC

[Adam McKola @AdamMcKola]

12 vs 10 and still beat on your own patch. LOL. Get fucked.

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if Andy Madley is the worst Referee in the premier league and should be suspended immediately after this game

[EPL Bible @EPLBible]

Nobody gets more decisions than Arsenal…

Honestly, what is that? 😅 https://t.co/f7NfDbCCZu

[AB⚕ @AbsoluteBruno]

Hang it in the FUCKING LOUVRE

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

JUST LOOK AT THIS.

KAI HAVERTZ KICKS MAGUIRE AND THEN GETS A PENALTY!!

HAVERTZ MANUFACTURED A PENALTY AND THE REF IMMEDIATELY GAVE IT!!

NAH, CAN'T COMPETE!! 😂😂 https://t.co/Zc2jAobPdW

[Rio Ferdinand @rioferdy5]

Another battling performance… desire, willingness to fight as a team! @ManUtd ❤️

Bet the ref’s gutted 😱🤯

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

Andy Madley with one of the worst refereeing performances in a long, long time. One of the most incompetent displays you can ever imagine today. https://t.co/rzTceeouqx

[Daniel O’Reilly @dapperlaughs]

Amount of people saying “Stay & fight”, like this is some war movie. You cant fight. You cant even protest without being called racist.

& Fight who? How? The whole country is fucked, the water companies robbed us & dumped shit in the water, you can’t swim anywhere you’ll get ill & die. The country is literally a shit hole.

The councils are bankrupt & cant even fix a pot hole & charge you council tax for the privilege of doing fuck all while robbing you.

Moneys taxed, cars taxed, petrols taxed, booze, food EVERYTHING is taxed, then if you manage to save enough money after its been taxed to buy a house you get taxed on that, then if you die and pass it to your kids that gets taxed. They literally want everything from the working man while they hide their money. Its a con, we are being conned.

& We are about to get taxed even more.

NHS is fucked. Cost of living fucked. Interest rates are fucked, & we got years of it getting worse before it gets better.

Londons a hell hole & unsafe after dark. I hate it.

The men think they are women, kids are encouraged to think about their sexuality & gender.

Our soldiers are getting stabbed.

Our police are pussies & the ones that aint get fired.

& that aint even getting started on illegal immigration, thats getting worse.

If my country ever needed me to actually fight id be there, 100%, but i ain’t gambling the lifes of my three daughters in the mean time, & even if they did survive growing up here for what? To live in a shit hole full of fucking wierdo’s. No thanks.

Where would i go? Somewhere with a backbone, a bit of sun & with less risk of your kids getting murderd, like Australia, Russia or fucking North Korea.

I whole heartedly encourage anyone with young kids that have the ability to leave to do so. Todays events in Southport have rocked me to the core, im sat here looking at my daughters feeling sad.

You can still work on trying to get your voice heard while your kids are safe.

I want my kids to live not survive.

[Sam Holmes @HolmesSam]

@NorthantsCCC Captain poor again!!! Drop him down the order like he should be, 6 maybe 7, dont bowl him and put bopara as captain

[Wootton St George F.C @WoottonStGeorge]

WOOTTON ST GEORGE 1
THRAPSTON VENTURAS 0

Ben Paul ⚽️ GOAL OF THE SEASON

What A fucking performance. The boys were superb and fully deserved that against one of the best teams at our level!

CUP FINAL!!!!!

[Sam Holmes @HolmesSam]

@bIurt99 He didn’t do that much

[Jamie Carragher @Carra23]

By all means enjoy it, but enjoy it by being disciplined! #ARSLIV