The Official 2017/18 Premier League Thread

[Goose]

anything that sees that little prick Wheelchair getting angry is gold in my book, gooooooold!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

[scaramanga]

Harsh. But it looked like Chambers moved his arm to the ball?

Just as the ball was about to be kicked he put his arms out. From most angles it looks harsh, from the ref's it looks like handball.

 

[Gazza]

Never a penalty ... hard times hahah enjoy your new year

 

[Robspur12]

Penalty for me. Chambers could put his hands behind his back like many defenders in the box do. If your hands are up and the ball hits it, you are fair game tbh. Don't let L'Arse showing their usual victim mentality confuse the issue.

 

[Goose]

Also, i'd have thought moving yr arms towards the ball narrows the angle and thus gives the defender an advantage. doesnt matter if the arms are in front of his body. If he'd moved his arms inwards towards his gonads I'd have said harsh, but here Dean got it right

 

[Legohamster]

Just as the ball was about to be kicked he put his arms out. From most angles it looks harsh, from the ref's it looks like handball.

That’s my thinking.

You can see his arm jutting out

On a slightly related point, VAR will ruin football.

This is what makes football great.

 

[scaramanga]

anything that sees that little prick Wheelchair getting angry is gold in my book, gooooooold!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Why didn't the West Brom player hold the ball longer? Wheelchair was about to flip.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

That’s my thinking.

You can see his arm jutting out

On a slightly related point, VAR will ruin football.

This is what makes football great.

video can be used for line calls only imo so offsides and goal line as their black and white calls

Everything else is subject to opinion and has to be subject to human intervention and sometimes error

 

[Legohamster]

video can be used for line calls only imo so offsides and goal line as their black and white calls

Everything else is subject to opinion and has to be subject to human intervention and sometimes error

Very rarely I agree with Redknapp.

But that’s what he said

 

[scaramanga]

video can be used for line calls only imo so offsides and goal line as their black and white calls

Everything else is subject to opinion and has to be subject to human intervention and sometimes error

Slow motion and more/better angles will reduce that chance of error.

 

[Legohamster]

Slow motion and more/better angles will reduce that chance of error.

It would be interesting (and impossible) to see how many we have benefited from and been a victim of major decision wise - I feel like we have had the rub of the green more than poor decisions.

 

[Jordinho]

Three games for Young.

 

[the dza]

Utd and Arsenal dropping points...Utd away to Everton next, Liverpool at Burnley and the goons host Chelsea. So we should gain more ground if we continue our run. We'll be close to 2nd by the end of Jan I think, if not outright 2nd.

 

[Legohamster]

Next two games are massive for the season, we have to start taking advantage of these slip ups

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Slow motion and more/better angles will reduce that chance of error.

But it still calls based on an opinion rather than fact
You can never tell intent (only the player knows that) and so many rules vary around the intent to infringe

 

[Bedfordspurs]

It would be interesting (and impossible) to see how many we have benefited from and been a victim of major decision wise - I feel like we have had the rub of the green more than poor decisions.

Well we would be 2 points better off straight away with the penalty we should have had vs Swansea

 

[mudshark]

Instinctive movement of the arm towards the ball, IMO, which I don't think was so in Okazaki's case. Possibly a bit harsh, but I've seen them given (today, for instance ) and it's only the Arse.

 

[greatwhitenorf]

Same old Arsenal
Always bleating

Doubt there's little sympathy for the Popguns up Burnley way where charitable late calls have gifted them wins there recently.

 

[Legohamster]

Well we would be 2 points better off straight away with the penalty we should have had vs Swansea

Same old Arsenal
Always bleating

Doubt there's little sympathy for the Popguns up Burnley way where charitable late calls have gifted them wins there recently.

I can think of three times in the past season and a bit when an Arsenal player has bundled in a goal for his arm for a winner/match changing goal.

They have absolutely no grounds to moan about bad decisions.

 

[Legohamster]

LOL Jeff Stelling is listing off decisions that they have got