North bank is my home. All views are my own.
London, England
Joined October 2010
- Tweets16K
- Following294
- Followers2K
- Likes25.2K
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
Klopp couldn’t get close to Arteta in his last 2 seasons despite having a wage bill >35% higher (that’s HUGE).
Why would it be different now Arteta has a better squad?
Romanticising Klopp in the PL fodder era is lovely but it’s not the current reality.
Everything everyone says about Arsenal - Favoured by the refs, fouling players during corners, dark arts cheaters - is literally Man City.
But PGMOL/proref love us
It is going to be very controversial if Arsenal do not win this game against Hull.
Kai Havertz should have got a VAR penalty regardless of the offside. #ARSHUL
1
189
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
Things reverted because we slowed down our football to reduce transition and transition fouls
They're mad about our "style of play" because Teta worked out how to counter their targeted red-card cheating
They weren't discussing style of play when we beat city 5-1. It was "why are Arsenal players celebrating when they haven't won anything"
I wasn't sure if people genuinely believed that Arsenal, the team consistently detrimented by egregious refereeing decisions, was in fact favoured by officials. Turns out they do... and that to me is insane.
Forgot to draw the lines?
2 yellows in the same passage?
Plus many more
1
7
1,379
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
Liverpool have committed more fouls this season than any other team in the Premier League. Arsenal are joint 17th.
Liverpool rank joint fourth in the league for yellow cards. Arsenal are joint 17th and Liverpool have one red card to Arsenal's none.
Arsenal's highest entry in the most fouls committed by a player in the league is Myles Lewis Skelly at 34th, joint with Szoboszlai. There are four Liverpool players who have committed more than MLS.
This is fan fic nonsense.
Sunday merely served to reinforce the belief that Liverpool as a team are far too nice.
There’s a difference between being streetwise and cheating. It wasn’t pretty, but Arsenal produced a masterclass in the former in the second half on Sunday.
Andoni Iraola was clear post-match that there will be a change of approach. He will tell his players to start going to ground when they are impeded in the box.
It’s a sad state of affairs, but needs must.
📝 @JamesPearceLFC
🔗 bit.ly/3V3E2BJ
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Liverpool have committed more fouls than any other team in the premier league this season with 128 fouls over 9 games. They are also fourth highest for yellow cards with 21.
playerstats.football/premier-league…
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
We used to come here and get hammered 4-0, now they argue whether they had 1 shot on target or not
So just because Arsenal are the best the league is low quality?
The same Arsenal that got to a final and semi-final of the CL 2yrs b2b and were only bested by a heavily rested PSG. And the same league where teams like Brighton, Villa and Palace are mopping up in Europe?
Shaping up to be another low quality Premier League season. Arsenal are very complete but City have lost successive games and their wins are pretty much meaningless, that’s another loss for Liverpool, Chelsea are erratic while Bournemouth and Spurs - winless three weeks ago - are now in the top eight. It is not difficult to merely compete.
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
This is such a good shot by the way. Bouncing ball, defender in front and Tzolis performs a precise and strong low driven shot.
Amazing save by Allison.
Does this fraud of a ref want to gove them every decision? Every corner is a goal kick, every goal kick is a corner. Non-fouls everywhere. Joker.
2
222
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
Don’t know who’s briefing against Mikel but I can guess.
There’s truth to this piece but some falsehoods here too. Arsenal’s recruitment was limited by financial rules that they, unlike others, were not prepared to break. And for me, the emphasis of this piece is wrong, Matt.
The club desperately pleaded with PGMOL to protect Saka more; on multiple occasions too. They provided ample data to clearly demonstrate how he was suffering from heavy fouls more than other wingers in the league because of officiating indifference. They were basically asking the refs to book the first time someone went through him (a deserving yellow) rather than just having a word. Sometimes, opposition would get away with 3-4 yellow-worthy fouls before they were booked. And Arsenal warned them and others (incl the England camp) of the consequences. They didn’t want to listen. Neither did the media.
But out of the different pressures of trying to win against sports’ biggest ever cheats, vs financial restrictions that you are adhering to, vs over-playing your stars who are delivering week in, week out… it’s a tough call to chose the sacrifice.
An insanely stupid tackle
All of the referee's decisions throughout the game led up to this. He allowed the "plucky underdogs" to get away with over-aggressive challenges synonymous with the English lower leagues, empowering this braindead moment which could've ended in tragedy.
1
168
The Wave 🏆🔴⚪️ retweeted
I dunno man, I think referees should probably be sanctioning the dangerous, out of control tackle as much -- if not more -- than they should the petulant but unimpactful swing out in response.