The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️

North bank is my home. All views are my own.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

Klopp couldn’t get close to Arteta in his last 2 seasons despite having a wage bill >35% higher (that’s HUGE).

Why would it be different now Arteta has a better squad?

Romanticising Klopp in the PL fodder era is lovely but it’s not the current reality.

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Everything everyone says about Arsenal - Favoured by the refs, fouling players during corners, dark arts cheaters - is literally Man City.

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

But PGMOL/proref love us

[Dale Johnson @DaleJohnsonBBC]

It is going to be very controversial if Arsenal do not win this game against Hull.

Kai Havertz should have got a VAR penalty regardless of the offside. #ARSHUL

[🟠⚪️ | Schrödinger's Time Traveller @ConcordiaUltra]

Things reverted because we slowed down our football to reduce transition and transition fouls

They're mad about our "style of play" because Teta worked out how to counter their targeted red-card cheating

They weren't discussing style of play when we beat city 5-1. It was "why are Arsenal players celebrating when they haven't won anything"

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

@Shamsdale I don't even think any of the decisions we were "given" were as egregious as any of the past decisions that went against us. We weren't even the most favoured club last season. We are generally a team that avoids serious foul play. We just used to get punished for nothing.

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

I wasn't sure if people genuinely believed that Arsenal, the team consistently detrimented by egregious refereeing decisions, was in fact favoured by officials. Turns out they do... and that to me is insane.

Forgot to draw the lines?
2 yellows in the same passage?
Plus many more

[🪫 @yashited2pnt0]

This Andy Madley performance

[Tim Stillman ⭐️⭐️ @timstillman_]

Liverpool have committed more fouls this season than any other team in the Premier League. Arsenal are joint 17th.

Liverpool rank joint fourth in the league for yellow cards. Arsenal are joint 17th and Liverpool have one red card to Arsenal's none.

Arsenal's highest entry in the most fouls committed by a player in the league is Myles Lewis Skelly at 34th, joint with Szoboszlai. There are four Liverpool players who have committed more than MLS.

This is fan fic nonsense.

[SB @Afc_Seann]

We used to come here and get hammered 4-0, now they argue whether they had 1 shot on target or not

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

So just because Arsenal are the best the league is low quality?

The same Arsenal that got to a final and semi-final of the CL 2yrs b2b and were only bested by a heavily rested PSG. And the same league where teams like Brighton, Villa and Palace are mopping up in Europe?

[Samuel Luckhurst @samuelluckhurst]

Shaping up to be another low quality Premier League season. Arsenal are very complete but City have lost successive games and their wins are pretty much meaningless, that’s another loss for Liverpool, Chelsea are erratic while Bournemouth and Spurs - winless three weeks ago - are now in the top eight. It is not difficult to merely compete.

[Bielsista @pedroelchileno]

This is such a good shot by the way. Bouncing ball, defender in front and Tzolis performs a precise and strong low driven shot.

Amazing save by Allison.

[ZK @zk_afc]

Changed our broke ass lives and people still hate on him

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Liverpool didn't have a shot on target 😭

You've been well and truly Arsenal'd

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Mad how much van Dijk gets away with

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Nah this ref needs to be subbed off

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Ref aside, this seasons Arsenal team has absolutely no composure

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

Does this fraud of a ref want to gove them every decision? Every corner is a goal kick, every goal kick is a corner. Non-fouls everywhere. Joker.

[Magic hat 🎩 @themagic_tophat]

Don’t know who’s briefing against Mikel but I can guess.

There’s truth to this piece but some falsehoods here too. Arsenal’s recruitment was limited by financial rules that they, unlike others, were not prepared to break. And for me, the emphasis of this piece is wrong, Matt.

The club desperately pleaded with PGMOL to protect Saka more; on multiple occasions too. They provided ample data to clearly demonstrate how he was suffering from heavy fouls more than other wingers in the league because of officiating indifference. They were basically asking the refs to book the first time someone went through him (a deserving yellow) rather than just having a word. Sometimes, opposition would get away with 3-4 yellow-worthy fouls before they were booked. And Arsenal warned them and others (incl the England camp) of the consequences. They didn’t want to listen. Neither did the media.

But out of the different pressures of trying to win against sports’ biggest ever cheats, vs financial restrictions that you are adhering to, vs over-playing your stars who are delivering week in, week out… it’s a tough call to chose the sacrifice.

[The Big Arsenal Breakfast Show @bigarsebrekkie]

@HandofArsenal Tired of this meathead mentality shit

[The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ @TheWaveAFC]

An insanely stupid tackle

All of the referee's decisions throughout the game led up to this. He allowed the "plucky underdogs" to get away with over-aggressive challenges synonymous with the English lower leagues, empowering this braindead moment which could've ended in tragedy.

[James Benge @jamesbenge]

I dunno man, I think referees should probably be sanctioning the dangerous, out of control tackle as much -- if not more -- than they should the petulant but unimpactful swing out in response.