City Analysis

[Daily Mail Sport @MailSport]

JEFF POWELL: Arsenal's tainted title should be marked with an asterisk. No wonder conspiracy theories about the establishment favouring clubs are rife, given the outside help they've had https://t.co/57vL1QTfIf

[Nuel @LfcNuel]

🚨 Clubs Benefiting Most from VAR Errors This Season 👀

Arsenal — 18
Bournemouth — 7
Chelsea — 7
Fulham — 6
Manchester City — 6
Manchester United — 6
Aston Villa — 5
Brighton — 5
Newcastle — 5
Tottenham — 4
Wolves — 4
Brentford — 3
Liverpool — 3
West Ham — 3
Burnley — 2
Everton — 2
Leeds United — 2
Sunderland — 2
Crystal Palace — 1
Nottingham Forest — 1

[Rodin Simi @RodinSimi]

Olivier Giroud says he never enjoyed watching a single Arsenal game this season and believes they didn’t deserve to win the Premier League:

"Every time I watched Arsenal, it felt like I was watching a team trying to win football matches without actually playing football. Ninety minutes of corners, long throw-ins, shirt pulling and players falling down like they were auditioning for an action movie.

People will say they won the league because of tactics, but I call it survival football with good PR. I’ve seen more entertaining matches in airport waiting lounges.

Even their celebrations looked rehearsed, like they already knew every referee decision would go their way. If football is supposed to bring joy, Arsenal games this season did the exact opposite.

For me, this wasn’t a legendary title-winning side, it was just a very organized set-piece documentary stretched across an entire season."

[City Chief @City_Chief]

Arsenal won the league with 19 controversial decisions going their way, and plenty of generous assists from @FA_PGMOL via VAR. 😭

Penalties not given, red cards ignored, second yellows avoided, goals allowed, goals disallowed, the list is endless.

Nothing but a tainted title. ❌

[via @Citizen_baker]

[foland (fan) @propsMCFC]

if I speak.

this is a PGMOL handed title. they didn’t earn a thing

[Scott Saunders @__scottsaunders]

First day of the season. Just as a reminder.

[UF @UtdFaithfuls]

You know the crazy part? Literally every Premier League club has an example of Arsenal scoring the exact same goal against them which wasn't disallowed.

[AARONATION 👽 @AARONATION_M]

Frame 1= Manchester United lost to Spurs because holding keeper's hand was deemed not a foul

Frame 2= Manchester United lost 1:0 to Arsenal because holding the keeper's hand is normal

Frame 3= West Ham goal is disallowed because holding Arsenal's keeper is illegal.

Mmm

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

😬

[LB✌🏽 @Londonblue_2]

Wait a minute, Declan Rice fouled TWO different players and Arsenal got the decision.

😂😂😂

[Stunner @invertCucurella]

🚨LATEST: Mikel Obi says there's no reason for PGMOL to rule out Westham goal against Arsenal and that there is a lot of inconsistency in referee decision.

I have watched the tackle on David Raya again and honestly, I still don’t see enough there for it to be ruled out. This is the problem fans have with PGMOL right now — nobody really understands what the standard is anymore. One week it’s a foul, the next week the exact same incident is allowed."

"As players, all we ever wanted was consistency. You can accept a bad decision sometimes because referees are human, but what frustrates people is when similar situations are judged completely differently depending on the game or the team involved."

"When you keep changing interpretations every weekend, it creates confusion for everyone — players, managers, supporters. VAR was supposed to reduce controversy, but now every big decision turns into another debate because people no longer trust the process."

"At this level, small moments decide matches, decide points, sometimes even trophies. That’s why consistency matters so much. Fans just want clarity, and right now I don’t think football is giving them that."

[≠ @cfccarnz]

Colwill posted this and deleted after some mins 👀

[BlaqWit⚡️ @BlaqWit_MCFC]

🚨 Robbie Savage blasts VAR decision after West Ham vs Arsenal:

“Not a foul,” Robbie Savage told BBC Radio 5Live. “It took about 25 times to see it. If it takes that many replays, it can’t be a clear and obvious error. The keeper has got to do better there. This will be a debate forever.”

“It’s one of the biggest VAR decisions ever seen. West Ham were robbed. The foul on David Raya was non-existent or simply not enough to overturn the goal. It’s obvious they want Arsenal to win the league because of City’s consistency — they’ve turned this into their farmers league

The pundit said this after a lengthy review where referee Chris Kavanagh overturned the goal. The official ruled that West Ham’s Pablo Felipe had fouled Raya in the build-up — a decision that has sparked intense debate over the “clear and obvious” error threshold.

[Sarah @JATTSOPRANO316]

Peter Schmeichel thank you for calling them out. have your cheating title VARSENAL. 👏

[Chino @ChinoUTD]

🎙️ Gary Neville on the officiating inconsistency in the league:

“The moment that goal was disallowed, I immediately called someone I know inside PGMOL. I asked him: ‘So what exactly makes this a foul, but the one in United vs Arsenal earlier this season wasn’t?’ And honestly, the answer annoyed me even more. He told me:
‘This one is an obvious foul because the goalkeeper was deliberately impeded from reaching the ball.’

So immediately I asked:
‘Then why did the Arsenal goal against United stand?’ Because if we’re being serious, the situations are almost identical. In the United game, Altay Bayindir clearly tried to raise his arm to attack the ball and William Saliba literally grabs his arm and stops him from moving. How is that not interference? What kind of football is that?

And what frustrated me the most today was how long they spent reviewing the other goal with VAR. So suddenly now we have time to analyse goalkeeper contact carefully? Interesting.

Because when it happened to United, there wasn’t this same urgency. That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans can accept mistakes. What they cannot accept is inconsistency.”

[Satirical Footy™ @SatiricalFooty]

🚨| Paul Scholes on Arsenal winning the League this year:

🗣️“They will go down as one of the worst side to win it. It’s a shame on our history.”

[Duncan Castles @DuncanCastles]

Kevin Nolan: ‘I genuinely think if we went back on all of Arsenal’s goals this year, the way they are and how aggressive they are with blocks and pulling shirts and pulling people in and around places, you will be able to find that they’ve done this to a keeper, to a player.
‘This is why it’s so frustrating. It’s inconsistent over the season.’
#WHUARS
https://t.co/xf5KEFvYzL

[Kalshi EPL @KalshiEPL]

🚨🎙️| Saudi commentator on the disallowed West Ham United goal vs Arsenal:

“Honestly speaking, Arsenal have been getting favoured all season. We’ve seen the exact same situations against Chelsea and Manchester United and the referees said play on. But once it’s Arsenal, suddenly it’s a foul. At this point the bias is becoming impossible to hide. Every week the rules seem to change depending on who Arsenal are playing.”

[EPL Bible @EPLBible]

Peter Schmeichel talking sense. 🗣️

[Lemon @Lemonbryz]

🚨🎙️ Roy Keane on West Ham’s disallowed goal for a foul on Arsenal’s Goalkeeper David Raya

"I tell ya what, that VAR decision is a complete and utter disgrace – an absolute joke!

All season long Arsenal have been crowding the goalkeeper on set-pieces, pushing, shoving, blocking – it’s been their main tactic from day one. We saw it clear as day against us at Old Trafford when Saliba backed straight into Bayindir, stopped him from making a proper save, and they nicked a goal through Calafiori. Nothing given. Not a murmur. But now, in a massive title-deciding match against West Ham, when it doesn’t suit them... suddenly it’s a foul on Raya? Are you kidding me?

What the hell are we even watching in this league anymore? It’s shameless, it’s embarrassing. At this rate just hand the title and the trophy over to Arsenal now, because it’s glaringly obvious what they’re trying to pull. Total, utter disgrace."