
for this, even though the ref didn't even hurry us up.
Now he may well have a point that the rules need to be changed. But what he must surely understand can't happen is that the refs unilaterally change the laws mid-season.
That BHA are given an extra few mins to try to equalise when all those other teams we've beaten by one goal so far weren't.
I want the rules on holding at corners changed. But you can't do it mid-season, and you can't have this rule change applied randomly by refs according to how they think the changes should be.
I wonder if the reason the ref didn't even give us a hurry up was because he didn't want to be seen to be giving into manager pressure cos they he'd have every manager on his case in every game. That would be funny if true. This antics being counter-productive.
Everyone could see what he was doing. And if they couldn't, he spelled it out after the game.
He was using the media before the game to pressure the referee into handing out yellow cards and to create an atmosphere in the ground. Have you ever heard so much booing the second the ball goes dead? It was pure theatre.
He was pressuring the ref and fourth official during the game. After the game, he claimed Raya should have been sent off and tried to pressure refs in future games.
And, clear as day, you could see their players had been told to fall over the minute Mosquera went near them once he was on a yellow. And they have form for this- remember the Declan Rice sending off.
The bloke is an absolute dickhead and he should have been booked last night. You can shout at the fourth official but when you shout at the ref, follow him down the tunnel, and get in the faces of opponents mid play, you've overstepped the line. You've become Mourinho.
Arteta told him to shut the **** up during the game and then swatted away his nonsense at his post match interview. Quite right.
What a ****.
I see Alan Pardew wants us to have am asterisk next to our name if we win the title. For not being attractive enough. What a plonker![]()
We dont need excuses. Time wasting has been a part of football for as long as I've been alive. And even today, every team does it. Including City. And Liverpool. Yet nobody complained when they won titles.
Everyone hates us. I can see why. But let's be honest about what this is- hate. Nothing more.
What pisses me off is that the narrative in the media this morning makes it seem like we play this way every time.
We just beat Leeds 4-0 away, Spurs 4-1 away, we beat Atl Madrid, Inter Milan and Bayern in the CL scoring 3 or more goals.
And how many times have we been forced to play boring football by teams that come to ours for a 0-0?
Last night was sh1t, terrible to watch, but the suggestion that it represents our season and how we got to the top of the league is complete nonsense.
Kai's not. He has sad eyes, like Ozil. And Per was just a big, friendly giant. Jens was mad, though.
The glw said the thing she fancied about me when she first saw us in a squat, when I had the mankiest, natural dreads on the planet, and looked like utter ****, was my sad eyes. Luckily there weren't many German no.10s on ?350k pw on the London free party scene in the early-'90s.