Substitute Riccardo Calafiori was Arsenal’s matchwinner as Arsenal rode out a controversial first-half red card for Myles Lewis-Skelly to beat Wolves 1-0 at Molineux.
Referee Michael Oliver’s decision to brandish a red card to the 18-year-old full-back for a trip on Matt Doherty just before the break was met with total disbelief by the Gunners. But the visitors showed real fighting spirit and level-headedness after the break, capitalising on a red card for the home side – rightly handed to Joao Gomes for two yellow cards – before snatching the win through Calafiori’s well-taken left-foot finish.
With Liverpool cruising past Ipswich, Arsenal’s three points were crucial in keeping their ailing title hopes alive and maintaining pressure on the league leaders.
Speaking to Sky Sports, Mikel Arteta praised the character of his players: “It’s incredible what the boys did again. In the context that we were thrown in again, it was about character, personality of the team, courage and intelligence to play the game we wanted to play. It was exceptional.”
Unsurprisingly, the Spaniard was less than impressed by the performance of the officials. Not only did VAR fail to recommend a review of the Lewis-Skelly incident, the PGMOL later confirmed the red card was awarded for violent conduct meaning the defender will be handed a three-game ban.
“It is that clear that I leave it to you guys,” said Arteta of the incident. “I am absolutely fuming but I leave it with you. Because it is that obvious. I don’t think my words are going to help.”
On whether the Gunners will appeal the decision, he added: “That’s for the club to decide what the best decision is. I think it’s that obvious, maybe we don’t even need to.”
Having been utterly dejected at having to leave the field, to the point Arsenal staff had to lead him down the tunnel, the boss at least had a positive update on Lewis-Skelly’s state of mind after the match.
“He is really happy now that the team won and we found a way to win it.”
He’s not the only one.
Someone at the club needs to walk over to PGMOL HQ and start swinging. That decision was beyond shocking and it’s not just Arsenal fans that are realizing this.
Several worse tackles against Arsenal weren’t given by Oliver in other matches…
In the same match even. Gomes 2nd yellow and the studs on Timber were much worse. Also let’s highlight Oliver failing to send Gones off for kicking the ball away
The head of the team should have walked on his sword over the Coote scandal. Instead he’s on the tele every week with that muppet Owen talking shite backing every wrong call with gusto.
Officials on the pitch are bad enough but the ones behind monitors are an absolute disgrace.
As I moaned after the absurd Rice red card earlier this season, the evidence is clear and obvious that under the current PGMOL Arsenal cannot win the Premier League title. We simply are officiated differently, and quite drastically so. The evidence is everywhere, on display every single week, but fans (including our own) and pundits and the PL accept it and celebrate it rather than advocate for change. I can’t fathom a professional league with the money and global reach of the EPL that does not guarantee a fair and even playing field, an equitable application of the rules of… Read more »
I took your advice after that one and took a break, just came back to see the fall out here. It’s a corrupt, but why would we expect otherwise, everything is bent and corrupt. Billionaires have destroyed everything good in this world. Heil Tesla!
Well, sorry about that; I don’t like being right about the PGMOL. I miss debating Arteta (my good) and Nketiah (my bad!) and all things Arsenal with you and others on here, but I find it impossible when the field is tilted so dramatically against our team. The mentality our manager and boys show each week knowing the league’s officials are entirely against them is remarkable to me (and don’t forget Neville’s seedy admission that it can really boost a team knowing the ref is in your pocket and not out to get you). Gabriel and Saliba especially, but the… Read more »
So eloquently put. 100%
Just like Serie A a few years back, the PL is so obviously bent. I wish I understood what Arsenal have done to consistently be on the end of corrupt decisions over the years, I really do. Hopefully, fans around the World will realise that the PL is no better than WWE and will stop paying to watch it en masse.
This, and sadly is the only way…. or a whistle blower from the inside comes out of the cracks..
Fcuking Infantino at Man$h115Ty match makes me dry-reach
Didn’t pay them when they asked?
It’s costing us titles. The players must also notice this, how long will they stick around when the league is fixed against us? It’s like starting with minus 10 points every season
Until they are replaced by International Referees, this will continue!
Liverpool sent them a notice sometime back didn’t they? Need to get that corrupt institution out.
That’s one way to describe Liverpool FC 😉😆
When is it okay to start having an open conversation about the fact that Oliver refs is differently than other clubs. The examples are so many now. Gods honest truth! When it happened today my immediate feeling other than total emptiness was “ohh yeah that’s right… he always does that too us. I should have seen it coming”. I have no idea why he refs us differently. But it is without a doubt anymore that he does. And I think it should be addressed. One clear cut example at a time. From the Kova studs on Øde from behind when… Read more »
The data is enough to show he should be nowhere near our games or those of our rivals
Or even on the list of Prem League refs!
I turned the tv on, saw Oliver was the ref and switched the tele off and did my shopping. I got a text at 15.45 saying it was never a red. Oliver doesn’t even try to hide that he has something against Arsenal.
His first season he was actually a very good ref
I think it would be a mistake to focus only on Oilver, he’s just the most egregious one at this point. The whole institution is rotten and needs tearing down.
3 game ban. What the actual fuck.
This “great” league should be embarrassed
I think I will just not watch the Premier League during MLS’s suspension.
I’m addicted to it and love Arsenal but it’s a complete farce and only getting more ridiculous and I would probably be better off just stepping away from it for a little bit.
I will probably just read the Arseblog live blog after the game is over to find out what happened.
If it’s any consolation, one of those three games will be in the Carabao Cup against Newcastle.
Hmm, remind me who Michael Oliver supports again.
Arsenal will appeal. Surely, they will win the appeal.
It is obvious this is corruption at its peak.
Ref on the pitch can sometimes get decisions wrong and that is why the VAR is there to help.
But I can never in my weirdest dream believe that Darren England, the VAR official, agreed with that decision.
Arsenal and bent referees is beyond ridiculous now.
It doesn’t help that with PGMOL running the VAR system, its like marking your own homework. Not to mention Mike Dean’s admission last season that he failed to intervene when a friend made a mistake.
Nah, we’ll lose. I hate being conspiratorial, but looking at what we’ve been penalized for this season v other teams, it’s wildly obvious that we are officiated like this by intent or mandate.
You’re not being “conspiratorial”, that’s what the officials are. Hopefully, Blogs, in all his naivety will realise that life isn’t all rainbows and that sport is usually fixed. Occams razor and all that.
My interpretation is that some refs wield a lot of power in PGMOL, it’s a very hierarchical organisation, and the ‘lesser’ ones are too afraid to challenge their ‘masters’.
One interesting proposition here is that VAR (who also went to the Middle East with Oilver for extras) could have saved his mate a lot of trouble by overturning a clearly incorrect decision but he didn’t. Why? Perhaps VAR buddy inferred that this was just what Oilver wanted so he let it go.
Utterly corrupt bunch of manchester c*nts….happy we won, but surely doesn’t help our already tired squad. Hope it brings us even closer together.
COYG!
Obviously the win does help, the minutes down to 10 certainly won’t.
We’re not a dirty team in the slightest, yet it’s looking ever more like that’s how we’re perceived now. I could hear the Wolves fans chanting “Cheating Arsenal” today and they’re not the first to do it this season. We’re not playing great football and we’ve been a bit over reliant on set pieces for goals but that’s far from being dirty. It’s just functional. It’s a sad thing to see the success pundits and the media, ably assisted by the referees, are having pushing a narrative about us under Arteta. For as long as I’ve been supporting us we’ve… Read more »
Fuck the Wolves fans.
When they’ve finished fucking off, they can go dig coal and listen to Slade. Merry Christmas, cunts.
Hahahahahahaha
reminds me of the pundits and commentators kept saying Arsenal have a soft underbelly and you have to go in hard on them… which resulted in Ramsey, Eduardo and Diaby all getting broken legs… Never before in top flight football has a team suffered so many broken legs in such a short period of time as Arsenal did back then… and it was because of the professional media spinning their shite.. like they are doing now
Prem fans are just parrots. Hope Wolves get relegated, because they won’t be back any time soon.
Today’s match was very similar to a pro wrestling match.
Wrestling is a fun spectacle to laugh at once in a while, but it’s not something worth getting worked up over.
Tbf the “same old Arsenal” chant is like 40 or more years old.
And usually used by opposition fans of cheating teams to project…
A descgracia
The club has to do something! Request a meeting with that other fraud, Webb, have a go at PGMOL, take a case to the FA… I don’t care. But we have to let the authorities know that we are starting to notice a pattern. You have the likes of Jamie O’Hara expressing shock at Oliver’s decision today. Tells you all you need to know. Why is Oliver so quick to brandish a card when an Arsenal player is involved? If we make noise about it maybe that will get them to act more sensibly knowing they are under the microscope… Read more »
If Tim Sherwood and Jamie O’Hara thinks the decision against us was bad, then you know it’s really bad…..
Hell, I’ve just read that Mike Dean disagreed with it too. Case dismissed your honour!
Nope, Mike Dean said it was a red. Something about Achilles tendon, blah blah blah. Absolutely ridiculous decision. A red card for a trip.
Boys were brilliant today. Bags of character. I want to address the elephant in the room though. Those of you who think officials are incompetent and not corrupt need to wake the fuck up. It’s corruption plain as day and I’m sick of people trying to excuse it. It’s been going on for years right under your noses and they don’t even try to make it subtle any more. I don’t care if the motive is bias or financial gain. If it isn’t a level playing field, it’s corrupt. The longer people stick their heads in the sand, the longer… Read more »
Spot on, mate. The handwringing lefties on here won’t agree though; they’ll just call you a conspiracy theorist rather than a critical thinker. It has been obvious for years that the PL is bent. They’re not hiding it anymore.
Because it really hurts that the beautiful game is being torn apart and dragged through mud, especially if the corruption is in your own country, where your own people are slutting around in bed with Saudi and Quatari accountants
What are you on about? What does this have to do with left vs right politics? I’m a leftie and I think Jeremy is right. I believe money is changing hands under the table and it needs to fucking stop. This Americanisation of politics where the opposition is treated like an alien invader must be scrupulously avoided.
Do you understand what the definition of left and right wing politics actually is? Right wing politics is capitalist leaning, left wing is socialist leaning. If you want to be considered to be a critical thinker then perhaps understand what your beliefs are rooted in
💯👏
There’s no chance on getting it changed on appeal. MLS made no attempt to get the ball and unfortunately that leaves you open to a red card if it even looks dangerous.
We’d have little sympathy if an opposition player had caught Saka’s ankle in those circumstances and been sent off
Wtf? Come on fella. Do better.
You’re better than that, disappointing.
Shame
What does the C stand for?
I think we know…haha
Disagree. That should never be a straight red regardless of who is getting tripped.
That’s not what I said, there’s no argument that he tried to win the ball, zero. It was long gone.
It was a cynical trip and definite yellow, which unfortunately opens him up if it looks dangerous to a red.
So based on that it’s never being over turned however bad the decision was.
He gave a yellow card to the Wolves player in the same match for a very similar challenge (IMO a worse challenge). On that basis alone, we have to appeal. One cannot be a red and the other merely a yellow.
much worse!
Well based on “if it looks dangerous” then it actually might get overturned, because basically it doesn’t look dangerous – not every contact between studs and shin pads is dangerous play.
BTW I may disagree with your opinion but I hate seeing it shut down.
Michael, just no
I would never demand a player sent off for an innocuous trip. No way it’s a red card.
Lol you troll.
No, I’m doing the site a service otherwise it becomes an echo chamber.
I’m not defending the decision just expanding the conversation.
If you see MLS coming down above the ankle, which is possible, then it’s a red and not being over turned. Just like last week and Kai’s handball, I saw it hitting his stomach but others hitting his arm
No you’re not. You’re trying too hard. Too hard in pushing “its not them, its us – so fixable” Too hard in pushing “It cant be corruption because…” Too hard in pushing your magnanimous opinion to be “respected by most” lol. The fact you can watch that foul however many times yet still try claim its a valid or even potential red, (its subjective lol) when its blatantly a cheeky – professional foul is really sad mate. I too avoid bias as much as possible. I also recognise that too many football fans are far too tribal for their own… Read more »
Just read what I’ve written and don’t fill in the gaps with your opinion.
Never said it was right, never said it was wrong.
I just said I don’t think the circumstances exist for it to be rescinded
Hold on… You say Skelly’s effort leaves him open to getting a red card…but thats not true. Its only true if corrupt cunts deem it so. We all know, as regular viewers that Skelly’s challenge is a “professional foul” and nothing more. Its a yellow, its always been a yellow, we’ve seen a thousand of em before. It was not dangerous, he was not last man, there was no goal scoring opportunity. The facts and the laws of the game converge in unison. This means there is 100% backing for this card to be rescinded. If it is not rescinded… Read more »
Haha yes mate, concur to the rafters
Here’s why I believe you’re incorrect: pointless arguing about the subjective impression of the actual tackle as it’s, well, ‘subjective’ yes, that first contact was above the ankle but was there really any force at all? Hardly any impact there, rather than just brushing past the shin to land on the foot and it’s the studs on the foot that tripped the player and therefore was the actual ‘foul’ – the point being that if MLS only brushes the shin and misses the foot, play doesn’t even stop for anything. Point is that one can legitmately argue it both ways… Read more »
Are you some sort of bot cnt
Nice attempt at a wind up….
What are the mitigating circumstances to uphold an appeal?
Was it an accident? No, it was a cynical foul
Did his studs touch him above the ankle? Yes
So it’s probably not going to be rescinded, even if I don’t think it’s the correct decision
I think you’ve backed yourself into a corner with this one mate because last few months you’ve been the lone voice saying MLS is average and not worthy of the shirt. Which, with respect, is nonsense. And then today. This was the worst red card Oliver has given and he’s given a lot of shitty red cards. The club must make a stand against this idiot and have him removed from the game.
“MLS made no attempt to get the ball and unfortunately that leaves you open to a red card if it even looks dangerous”
Your opening comment.
It leaves you open to a yellow card based on those circumstances. That’s what you should have said.
As an Arsenal fan, you’re disagreeing with your own and 99.99% of everyone else on this.
Very weird sir.
what is your opinion on the yellow for joão gomes? (stamp on timbers foot)
do you think equal mesures by the official would be correct for the two teams?
A really important win against the odds and you choose not to give any praise to the team or the manager or the spirit or character, but double down on one of the most bullshit red cards we’ve ever had. And we’ve had a lot.
Sorry Blogs but L-S’s foot lifted up then raked down the Wolves player’s leg. It might seem like we are always hard done by, and maybe a few times this season that is true, but not on this occasion. It was a dangerous tackle worthy of at least a yellow if not a red. But we won so happy days.
If that’s a dangerous tackle, maybe football isn’t for you.
It was none of those things. It was a professional foul that was worthy of a yellow, according to that “letter of the law” thing they were obsessed with a few weeks ago but seem to have forgotten now.
It’s a perfectly natural comment to make on an article that mentions the possibility of having the red card rescinded that I don’t think the circumstances exist or I should just join in the rage?
The red will be rescinded. Hopefully you’ll admit to your mistake when it is. If you’re still posting, hopefully someone will hold you to account.
But you had nothing to say in any of the other posts about the game, the report, the ratings, you just went in here to be Mr Negative. Which is your schtick here.
And I have no issue with differing opinions, but when somebody’s entire thing is sticking the knife in, it’s wearing
And it’s just a ridiculous take too. That’s a bog standard yellow card that we see in almost every game, a cheeky little trip to prevent a breakaway. In fact they frequently result in a free kick and no card.
It’s unprecedented, I’ve not seen a decision like that in over 30 years watching football.
They came out angry in the second half, I like that, delighted for them that they rolled the sleeves up and got what they deserved.
Every mistimed tackle we make gives the ref a chance to send a player off??? So let’s not tackle at all, then? And while we’re at it, let’s maybe not even kick the ball….
I guess you are MO’s relatives.
Even at that, you should still be able to know that your relative is corrupt.
The reality is that if something like that happened to Saka the opponent would never be sent off; rendering the point moot.
Are you for real. Do you know how many times Saka has been hacked without even a yellow card. In some instances it’s not even called as a foul. It’s a professional foul. Its a trip pure and simple. That’s all it is. It’s not even dangerous nor does it look dangerous. It’s just tripping him up to stop the attack that is building. That the incompetent and corrupt referee instantly got a red out for that and gave a second yellow for the Wolves player fouls which is much more dangerous and forceful is absolute shame.
We have even had one of our player almost strangulated in a game and Jesus slapped on his ass and those have not been considered violent conduct with no VAR checks on those occasions. It’s absolute corrupt incompetence.
If Arsenal appeal and this red card is not overturned then it’s really a shame.
I think you are making this up; it has no basis in the laws of the game or the way the game is normally officiated. It was indeed an intentional foul, a trip to prevent Wolves from countering. So it deserved a yellow card. If it is an intentional foul that somehow, perhaps because of the referee’s angle, “looks dangerous” but turns out not to be, then it is the sort of clear error that VAR is supposedly intended to correct. If it is a foul–intentional or not–that actually *is* dangerous, then it is a red card. No one thinks… Read more »
The Guardian’s description of the foul: “It was a touch crude but not high, forceful or malicious, a tactical foul if ever there was one.”
You’re right. Should have been a yellow and Oliver found the flimsiest of pretexts to give straight red. I think an appeal is worthwhile even with a small chance of success.
Dude, you get the rule book from a cereal box?
I get the chances of success on appeal thing…..but the Saka comparison falls flat on its face. Every game that Saka plays in PL, his shins, achilles and ankles are raked repeatably. Rarely ever a yellow and never a red.
You can be critical of a players decision to attempt what is commonly whitewashed a “professional foul” in an environment where your club is reffed differently ; it becomes a high risk .
Other clubs can execute the foul, with no risk of a red card, nearly the whole length of the pitch from goal. Arsenal cannot.
A 3 match ban would be adding insult to… even more insult. Absolutely need to appeal.
Adding insult to all of our injuries.
Guess at least we have enough left backs, thankfully Calafiori is back and it might not be the worst thing for MLS to rest a bit given how young he is and the issue he was having last week. That’s the glass half full way of looking at it naywqy, instead of focusing on the glass half empty which is that this whole country has it in for us and they’re all a bunch of complete cunts.
Agree with you for most part, but it good to have as many quality options on bench as possible to change things structurally and bring different energy in different periods of games. Each left back brings different qualities and skill sets, whether it be the ability to invert and technical passes, or power, stength and pace. As we all know, games change “in-game” as it were and with more options in terms of quality players to impact these different scenarios the better, surely? I do agree with you about being positive, but then again dreadful refereeing decisions effect us negatively,… Read more »
Of course he’ll be missed, my point is if we’re going to lose any player for 3 matches right now I’d much rather lose a left back, it’s the only position currently where our backup option isn’t a massive downgrade, if even there is a backup option – we literally had no attacking midfielders on the bench today, nor wingers, nor a senior-level striker.
I understand exactly the point you were trying to make using the old “glass half full” idiom. Perhaps it was you who failed to appreciate or understand the point I was actually trying to make – that any injuries (regardless of position), given our circumstances this season, impact us big time and make us weaker. Wouldn’t you agree that full-backs, in the way Arteta organises and uses them, are also important attacking players in our system too. I was more hinting at your use of “oh it not too bad, we’ll be ok” kind of thinking after another ridiculous player… Read more »
What? Mate, you agreed with me, I agreed with you that he’ll be missed, we basically agree on everything. I’m just trying to emphasise the less negative part of the equation here, let’s not fight about it!
I’ve written elsewhere in this comment section that it sucks to get the red card, just like you say, not sure if it’s worth repeating in another comment just for the sake of it. It just occurred to me that it’s also very lucky that if we were to get a red card, that it wasn’t Saliba, Gabriel, Havertz, Raya, Timber or literally anyone else in that starting eleven, none of whom have any capable and fit backup right now.
Even regularly playing with 10 men, puts certain players, if not all, into the red- zone and players either burn out, or are playing at 50-80% which eventually catches up with you, no matter the opponents and ref
It’s Arsenal so MLS will get an extra game because of the appeal…
Make it make sense! John C, you’re crazy if you think that was a red.
I’ve said it for Donkeys years; the media and the match day officials have an Anti-Arsenal agenda.
End of.
Anyone disagreeing with you at this point is surely just gaslighting. It’s beyond argument that referees give us red cards that no one else gets (that is simply an objective fact an absolute shit ton of players have gotten away with ‘delaying the restart’ since Trossard and Rice got their reds), and the media treat us differently (celebration police, the way we were criticised for holding onto a draw at Man City with 10 men, then a few weeks later Liverpool were praised for the EXACT same thing when they went down to 10 against a lesser team than City).… Read more »
Exactly. At this point it feels like Arsenal is a social experiment to see how totally screwing the team over impacts the fans. I’d love to know what the Club has done to receive such treatment for so many years…
Someone said it before.
The EPL is turning into WWE, and the referee.s- baby sitter brigade- is playing the villians
The crying shame is that we are talking about the ref and his
clown-crew(s)- VAR and most broadcast streams- rather than our performance.
Its not just Arsenal, its what suits the plot, and how many macaroons you have to put into
Whoreward Webbs brown paper bag
A lot of it goes back to the pure jealousy that was generated by the club in the 1930’s. With our Art Deco matching East and West stands at Highbury (and let’s not forget the Marble Halls) and a decade of football dominance, where Herbert Chapman and George Alison’s men swept all before them with ease and regular cricket scores. We had the best stadium, floodlights, undersoil heating, numbers on the backs of shirts and a tube station named purely after a football club. We had the best players in the game; Ted Drake, Alex James, Cliff ‘Boy’ Bastin, Wilf… Read more »
8 reds in 55 games by Oliver. Repeated failings to sanction opposition. There is sufficient evidence to warrant a suspension and detailed investigative review of this man’s behaviour in Arsenal games
For context, 0 in 55 City games, 1 in 57 Liverpool games.
If that MLS trip is “violent conduct” how on earth is the Gomes stomp only a yellow? MLS deserved a yellow for the intentional foul BUT that is never ever violent conduct. In the moment I assumed Oliver reflexively pulled a red thinking it was denial of clear scoring opportunity without thinking about fact that it was in wolves half and arsenal had men back. I stupidly assumed VAR would overturn. instead they reflexively defended oliver and the ridiculous call by saying studs were above ankle. I tried to see it but replays made it look like more like a… Read more »
Match commentators on Peacock spent a full 10 minutes lamely attempting to justify the decision. Had to mute the TV.
That commentary team was the worst I have ever heard on Peacock.
BBC unanimous in disbelief. Not seen motd perhaps they will have found an opposing view
I think we get the Premier League Productions stream. Both commentators rightly shocked at the red.
This felt as much a defining win, as the draw last week felt defining in the opposite way. If that makes any sense.
Might not even have to. That is my manager
If we appeal, what’s the bet they extend the ban for not leaving the field and charge Arsenal for not controlling their players
PGMOL are such absolute cunts, they will probably close ranks on this decision… if we appeal they will add a ban and will also fine the club for surrounding the ref…
What a bullshit red card that was! The likes of which we’ve never seen before and will never see again!
I feel like I’ve heard that before….
Unfortunately we probably will…. Michael Oliver has shown a creative ability and sliding standards that are consistent only in that he consistently screws us.
Was surprised that Gomez had gotten away, cardless, with a higher and harder tackle on Rice just outside the box than the MLS foul. Michael Oliver was letting Wolves manhandle MLS the whole time he was in. Crickets from the US commentators when Gomez fouled Rice. And to harp on an old sore point-Wolves either kicked the the ball after fouls were called on them, walked away holding it, or blocked the retake. Left with “no choice”, Oliver made the choice to ignore all but maybe one instance. I was never clear whether the first Gomez yellow was for his… Read more »
“The letter of the law” is for Arsenal only, not for any other clubs or players.
That is how the Premier League is officiated and it’s not going to change.
It will only change once these pansy officials, just like the bent govt, feel unsafe in their homes. Nothing else will make a difference now.
Probably not going to be a popular opinion but if you stop the video at the exact moment L-S makes the tackle his foot arches up, basically raising his studs to rake down the Wolves players leg. Unintentional and clumsy but dangerous. Borderline red, certainly a yellow, so we can’t have too many complaints on this one. At least we won so it won’t matter.
Sorry, there was no rake, it’s a straightforward trip.
And the fact it was indeed a yellow does not mean it’s a red
Stopping the video doesn’t give you better information than watching the whole video!
It does because in real time at full speed it looks like an innocuous trip. However If you watch the tackle slowed down you can see how L-S lifts his foot up to bring his studs down the Wolves players leg. People see what they want to see, but this is the truth. The only issue then is the amount of force and it seems more of a glancing blow, but this is more down to luck than anything else. Another day the player could be badly injured.
Remember Oliver’s decision on Kovacic’s lunge on Ødegaard ?
And Kovacic was already on a yellow ..
It was all forgotten because we won. But that was horrible
Anxiety attack all over again
Lost another patch of hair
Cheers
I wish arteta would be a bit more bold in his statements and just call Oliver a corrupt bellend 👍
Congratulations to the pgmol in giving me absoloute clarity on the bias towards us
Oliver won’t be getting paid. He was supposed to get Saliba or Gabriel banned
Oliver needs to be investigated.
The list of wrong decisions with Oliver is out of hand.
They think they’re untouchable unless they expose themselves with white powder around their noses.
Dermot will be on Ref watch on Monday saying that it’s clearly serious foul play and a deserved red card
The only positive thing for me about the red is that it used up the last of my anger for PGMOL. The situation has firmly entered the realm of the ridiculous. We should do whatever is in our power to get the red rescinded, of course. But Oliver is a cunt. Always will be, probably. He’s as bent as a pretzel. I hope they find kompromat on him and it gets spread far and wide. Well done to our Apollo. He is promising and may even develop aura. Massive bravo to our travelling supporters. And congratulations to our brilliant team… Read more »
I think we need neutral referees, at least at the top level. It’s ridiculous how these chaps get away with some horrendous decisions and happily pop on the pitch the next week (or in Abu Dhabi)
Get the best officials from Europe on a reciprocal basis (I bet no other country will want these jokers!) it happened in cricket and the game is better served. Even if we start with neutral VAR officials, it will make a difference.
This is getting beyond pathetic for f@*cks sake!
Clone a couple ‘Collina’s’
This wil go down for me as one of the greatest “Fcuk you” wins we have ever had. Not so much the opponent as it was for the whole bullshit system
Commentators where I was were wondering if it was because of the studs which were minimal. Then a Wolves players gets a second yellow for something far worse, then another player puts his studs in even worse than that and he gets nothing. There comes a point where you have lost any kind of means to understand what it is you are actually watching and how to make sense of it,
For everyone’s sake, that pathetic little dweeb of a man better not referee a match at the Emirates for the remainder of this season.
We know the PGMOL weasels will give him a safe away game against us though.