@WillMonk09 To be fair, the article’s not claiming West Ham are bigger than villa or Newcastle, it’s suggesting the growth of the league over the past decade paired with a recent lack of movement in the biggest non-big 6 sides will result in greater implications than any relegation before
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC In fact, should both fouls occur simultaneously, one is a freekick in your own area and the other is a penalty. The goal being disallowed being a moot point (play stops the moment those fouls occurred), the trossard-pablo foul takes clear tactical priority?
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC “punishes the more serious offence, in terms of sanction, restart, physical severity and tactical impact, when more than one offence occurs at the same time” - other than the fact the fouls don’t occur at the same time, there’s no difference in severity?
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC …decision won’t change the colours of those ribbons come May 24th. You lot played excellently and got the job done against us, fair play, but you’ve got to understand how unfair it feels on our end.
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC Again, just to re-iterate, I understand how many people clearly have an anti-arsenal agenda in their input into the whole issue, and how frustrating that may be, but this fundamentally isn’t about Arsenal - it’s the prem’s fault. Accepting you may have been lucky with a…
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC …away special moments with seemingly endless wait as much as anyone else, until we’ve implemented a strict 60 second rule or the like, we might as well try get the decision right. This halfway house of long checks without proper analysis benefits no one.
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC ‘Only review the most serious incident’ isn’t the law of the game tho is it mate hahaha. The entire discourse after this weekend around how long the decision took has been ‘at least they made sure they got it right’ - but they didn’t even do that! I hate VAR’s impact on taking…
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC …OR, as is my entire point, the officials in the VAR booth could actually take a look at the larger picture (instead of rushing to make a decision) and decide themselves! Ultimately, we’ll never know what would have been given should it have been analysed properly…
@kalifahfattah@mikolin4real@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC Law 5 explicitly states the most serious tactical foul only becomes relevant should the fouls in question be committed at the same time? For the same reason rice’s foul on mavro isn’t considered (occurs after Pablo fouls raya), trossard’s foul on Pablo takes precedent?
@kalifahfattah@mikolin4real@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC Either way mate, neither soucek on havertz nor trossard on Pablo before the raya incident were properly discussed - like deciding a case with only half the evidence presented. Frustrating when points are so sparse at the bottom end of the table.
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC …annoyed that something so clearly complicated and requiring proper analysis is so easily decided under our current system, potentially to our detriment.
@kalifahfattah@TrustMiles7@Lea_EFC It’s ok to admit a decision has gone your way mate - every champion has had them. It actually detracts from what has been an excellent season for you lot by making people remember the controversial moments instead of the gameplay. Nothing against Arsenal in my analysis, just…