Arsenal got the most red cards in the league last season (6).
Then they made a huge fuss about officiating and even went directly to the PGMOL.
This season they’ve had 0 red cards in 37 games.
Total coincidence, I’m sure.
They’ve really shit on this bloke from a great height … no referee will stand by his decision again if called to the screen … it’s poor from Webb who’s overseen a complete & utter shitshow with VAR
This Arsenal Burnley game is genuinely a sad indictment of how far the standards have dropped in this league.
One team champions elect.
One team relegated.
Hard to tell either apart.
That Gabriel decision btw… imagine not having him for the 3 games he SHOULD have been suspended for. Officiating this season has been some of the worst I’ve ever seen for all clubs, but especially them. 🤨
🚨🎙️Joe Hart on Kai Havertz escaping a red card against Burnley, insists they’re doing to help Arsenal win the league:
“Listen, I’ve been in this game a long time as a player, now watching it closely and that challenge from Kai Havertz on the Burnley lad today is a stone-cold red card. Straight out of the IFAB Law 12 playbook: serious foul play.
You’re lunging in, studs showing high, minimal contact with the ball, endangering an opponent’s safety with excessive force. It’s reckless at best, dangerous and brutal at worst. The law is clear, ‘a tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent… must be sanctioned as serious foul play.’ VAR had a look and still bottled it. Yellow card? Come on.
If that was a Burnley player sliding into Saka or Ødegaard like that in the title run-in? Red card before he even hits the ground, three-game ban, headlines for days. But Arsenal? Nah, just a booking and carry on.
They’re doing everything, everything to help Arsenal win this league. Refs, VAR, the whole system. It’s not even subtle anymore. Big club protection on another level while teams like Burnley are fighting for their lives. How are we supposed to trust the integrity of the competition when decisions like this keep swinging one way?
Fans are fed up. Proper fans see it. This isn’t football anymore, it’s a scripted title charge. If Arsenal win it, a lot of people will have serious questions. Absolute shambles.”
VAR has instructed Chris Kavanagh to look at the Rice & Trossard incidents, then provided CK with minimal footage of the incidents
This is a monumental error which could relegate West Ham & cost Man City the title
Both clubs should sue the Premier League
What all the pundits are missing on Sky Sports is, of course it's a foul. But for the last 18 months they haven't been given and there are countless examples of it. So why change course today?
🗣️🎙️| Roy Keane on Westham goal disallowed:
“The decision itself shouldn’t be the issue because it was the correct call, but Arsenal have been awarded goals like that several times this season, and I could clearly remember the one against United.”
The inconsistency in Premier League refereeing is becoming an absolute disgrace. It happens almost every match now, and something seriously needs to be done about it.
There wouldn’t have been this much outrage from fans if Arsenal hadn’t benefited from similar goals all season. That’s where the frustration comes from.”
I’ve never heard of a ‘clear and obvious’ error which takes a full 5 minutes of multiple angles and analysis to rectify.
They TRIED to find something wrong with it and it’s so poetic that it’s for the very thing Arsenal have escaped sanction for all season. 🤢