Thierry Henry left Arsenal for Barcelona- still an Arsenal legend.
Cristiano Ronaldo left United for Real Madrid- still a United legend.
Frank Lampard left Chelsea for Man City- still a Chelsea legend.
Messi left Barcelona for PSG- still a Barcelona legend.
But Bernardo Silva leaves us for Real Madrid and suddenly he's not our legend? Wow!
Qatar said it doesnāt matter who you are or where you come from, you can come to the World Cup, just donāt drink alcohol at the stadium.
USA said you canāt come. Who you are or where you come from matters. Weāll decide who can and canāt participate. This isnāt a sport for everyone.
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didnāt). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didnāt want to do it.
BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.
but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany arenāt protesting anything when thereās so much to protest about š¤”
AVAR: I donāt like Trossard not facing the ball and youāve got⦠I agree, itās impactful, itās just everything else thatās going on as well. Letās say weāre saying thatās a foul, then what are we saying about Trossardās actions on the same player?
Theyāre all being wheeled out to justify that West Ham shambles.
Yet @FA_PGMOL pretends we didnāt all see this.
The referee ignored it
Then VAR ignored it
Then PG MOL refused to look at it retrospectively
For me & many other football fans the one sided treatment is clear.
Im late to this party, i didnt bother watching the game.
But how did the officials conclude the 6th foul in this sequence was the only thing that mattered?
It was either a goal or pick from one of 5 pens
Iāve just scrolled the timeline and seen a fan from pretty much every club post a screenshot of Arsenal getting away with wrestling in the box against their club ffs
šØYaya Toure on West Hamās disallowed equalizer vs Arsenal, accuses VAR of saving Arsenalās title hopes:
š£ļøāListen, I donāt care what anyone says, that goal shouldāve stood. VAR has absolutely ruined moments like that. West Ham fought for that equalizer and somehow theyāve found a way to disallow it for the softest little touch youāll ever see. If thatās Arsenal scoring at the Emirates, nobody even checks it for more than five seconds.
And this is what frustrates fans, Arsenal have lived off those scrappy, aggressive goals all season. Blocking keepers, crowding the six-yard box, little nudges here and there⦠suddenly when it happens against them, itās āclear and obvious.ā Give me a break.
I was a goalkeeper, I know when a keeperās genuinely impeded and when heās looking for help. Thereās no way you can tell me that was enough contact for the goal to be overturned. The gameās gone soft. West Ham have been robbed, simple as that.
You wonder why fans think certain clubs get favourable decisions because moments like this keep happening. Arsenal are in a title race and somehow every 50/50 call seems to land their way. That equalizer changes the whole atmosphere of the game and VAR bottled it. Absolutely bottled it.ā
šØš£ļø | Paul Scholes on Arsenal NOT deserving to WIN the League:
āLook, I love seeing Manchester City drop points as much as anyone, but first of all, football has to be fair. Thierno Barryās first goal should have been offside, simple. We cannot talk about integrity only when it suits us. If City are going to slip, it should be through proper football, not poor decisions.
And honestly, if Arsenal win the league at this point, it wonāt feel like they were the best team, itāll feel like the rest of the league has just been awful. Too many teams dropping standards, too many favors, too much luck falling their way, Credit to Arsenal for taking advantage, but letās not act like luck hasnāt played a huge part too.
if they actually go on to win it I will say it straight to their faces: it is not going to be because they are the best team in England. No chance. It is simply because the rest of the teams in the league are absolutely awful right now. It is a league of massive underperformers. Liverpool is dropping silly points, United is rebuilding for the hundredth time, Chelsea is a mess, and now City is getting robbed by bad decisions.
Arsenal are not playing this incredible, untouchable football that people want to pretend they are playing. They are just getting lucky, and luckier, week after week. You watch their games teams are missing open goals against them, the referees are handing them favors or punishing their rivals, and the other top clubs are constantly tripping over their own feet. The consistency from the big teams this year is zero. Arsenal is just the team making the fewest stupid mistakes in a season full of them.
That is not being a team of greatness. That is just surviving a terrible year for English football. If Martin Ćdegaard and Saka lift that trophy in May, they don't need to tell us how brilliant they are. They need to look up to the sky, thank the football gods for their unbelievable luck, and send a thank-you card to the rest of the league for being so incredibly poorā
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit.
British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit.
Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit.
It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.