Official Arsenal FC Thread

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:While I don't agree with Scott entirely, at least 2 of the last 4 penalties awarded to Arsenal have been questionable, if not ridiculous. The one against Cazorla was stonewall, he did well to avoid a scything challenge. The one today was probably about right. The Fulham one was extremely harsh, and the second against West Brom resulted from some clever thuggery from Chamberlain outside of the box.

Cazorlas was, West Brom, I mean the actual pen rather then the build up, and Fulham, it was handball imo, granted it was close but he shouldn't have his hand that far out in the box.

19Jones19v wrote: Liverpool fans.

Focus on your team later on, you're pushing for top 2 aren't you.

Glen Damon wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

Cazorlas was, West Brom, I mean the actual pen rather then the build up, and Fulham, it was handball imo, granted it was close but he shouldn't have his hand that far out in the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrGba6LS5ns

His hand is not extended from his body in the incident at 1:54.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrGba6LS5ns

His hand is not extended from his body in the incident at 1:54.

Watch it on Arsenal player, it's a lot clearer.

Glen Damon wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

Watch it on Arsenal player, it's a lot clearer.

We're not dealing with Floyd Mayweather here, you can't expect him to pull his arm back in less than a tenth of a second.

Glen Damon wrote:

19Jones19v wrote: Liverpool fans.

Focus on your team later on, you're pushing for top 2 aren't you.

I am not focusing on any team in particular, I am focusing on justice.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:We're not dealing with Floyd Mayweather here, you can't expect him to pull his arm back in less than a tenth of a second.

No I agree, but he shouldn't have his arm there in the first place. There's a reason why defenders are meant to or try to put there hands behind there backs in the box. If his arm is that far out he can't complain if it hits him, it's blocking the cross.

Glen Damon wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

No I agree, but he shouldn't have his arm there in the first place. There's a reason why defenders are meant to or try to put there hands behind there backs in the box. If his arm is that far out he can't complain if it hits him, it's blocking the cross.

I'm just not entirely sure that it was an intentional handball or that his arm was outside of a natural playing position.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:I'm just not entirely sure that it was an intentional handball or that his arm was outside of a natural playing position.

Either way it's a penalty imo, i'm not saying it was intentional, it probably wasn't but he shouldn't have his arm that far out. It should be behind his back and he blocks the cross with it.

Glen Damon wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

Either way it's a penalty imo, i'm not saying it was intentional, it probably wasn't but he shouldn't have his arm that far out. It should be behind his back and he blocks the cross with it.

"A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any
of the following three offences:

handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)"

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:"A direct free kick is also awarded to the opposing team if a player commits any
of the following three offences:

handles the ball deliberately (except for the goalkeeper within his own penalty area)"

So would you say if a defender is on the line and he has his arms out and an attacker is quite close to him, shoots, it's about to go in but hits the defenders arm even though he didn't move his arm towards it, that's fine?

Sean wrote:You're talking like theres only 2 teams in the league, every team has spells where they get decisions or spells where they dont. Its not limited to Arsenal and Liverpool.

Glen Damon wrote:

arsenalap11 wrote:

So would you say if a defender is on the line and he has his arms out and an attacker is quite close to him, shoots, it's about to go in but hits the defenders arm even though he didn't move his arm towards it, that's fine?

I believe that the referee would correctly interpret that as a deliberate handball if his arm was extended (much of it would depend on the pace of the shot), but I do not see how that applies to Riether, whose arm was by his side.

arsenalap11 wrote:

Glen Damon wrote:I believe that the referee would correctly interpret that as a deliberate handball if his arm was extended (much of it would depend on the pace of the shot), but I do not see how that applies to Riether, whose arm was by his side.

His arm was quite far out, then when the ball was hit he tried to move it a bit to his body but it hit it.

http://player.arsenal.com/matches/3518514/arsenal-v-fulham

19Jones19v wrote:How did we cheat when the ref's in control? We didn't dive for our penalty or anything, we played a well thought out game and showed the other side to us we hardly show and others are complaining

Zibra wrote:That sig.

20Legend wrote:

19Jones19v wrote:How did we cheat when the ref's in control? We didn't dive for our penalty or anything, we played a well thought out game and showed the other side to us we hardly show and others are complaining

1. yous looked on par with Wigan.

2. Diving is cheating. Walcott Dived to win the penalty.

Carlos Jenkinson wrote:

20Legend wrote:

1. yous looked on par with Wigan.

2. Diving is cheating. Walcott Dived to win the penalty.

A united fan talking about cheating

Fuck outta here

20Legend wrote:

19Jones19v wrote:How did we cheat when the ref's in control? We didn't dive for our penalty or anything, we played a well thought out game and showed the other side to us we hardly show and others are complaining

1. yous looked on par with Wigan.

2. Diving is cheating. Walcott Dived to win the penalty.

Zibra wrote:That sig.

19Jones19v wrote:

20Legend wrote:

1. yous looked on par with Wigan.

2. Diving is cheating. Walcott Dived to win the penalty.

No he didn't, maybe you don't know what diving is. Wigan are a tough team to face especially at home, didn't they beat you lot there last season? Going on as if they're a shit team.

Zibra wrote:That sig.

I know, he really thinks Ronaldo calls that home

Yrael wrote:I don't know of any other set of fans that cling to a former player as much as United fans do with Ronaldo