BigPoppaPump
Reeling from Laca & Kos nightmares
Teams have been tackling Arsenal players like that since Alex Ferguson did it in that 50th game and people realised refs let you foul Arsenal players with impunity.
How that is just a yellow card and not a straight red is beyond me. It is from behind and a scissor tackle. If anything can do ones knees it is that. ****ing unbelievable. Hope the club raises a stink about it with the refs. They must see this for what it is also and start protecting him. If you get yellow cards for small challenges and gliding tackles from the front and side how is this not worse and a straight red.Yeah, this was a dirty tackle from Lewis. He should have gotten a direct red card not a yellow.
Pepe needs to be protected by referees especially given that there is VAR in the league now.
Arteta had that in him, hopefully it’ll begin to filter down to the players.Be nice to see the team stick up for him some more to be honest. Many past players would have taken a card to give some **** to someone making a challenge like that. Auba is a poor captain
Not just Pepe's challenge but I was shocked on the last one in the last minute, if thats a foul let me know but I see no reason it is by Laca. He backs out of it, Bournemouth guy comes through himself straight & hard, brings it on himself imo. I would have been fuming if they scored from that.How that is just a yellow card and not a straight red is beyond me. It is from behind and a scissor tackle. If anything can do ones knees it is that. ****ing unbelievable. Hope the club raises a stink about it with the refs. They must see this for what it is also and start protecting him. If you get yellow cards for small challenges and gliding tackles from the front and side how is this not worse and a straight red.
We are so disadvantaged by the refs in the PL it is unreal. Imagine us being treated like Tottenham. Break ankles etc. and get your reds rescinded. Play dirty all game long and maybe at worst a yellow. That **** club gets away with anything.
He must be. He looks like he's seen a ghost every time he steps up for an important penalty for us.bet he’s a ghost in the dressing room when **** has hit the fan.
There's no doubt now that managers are telling players to do crunching tackles on Pepe, I think its because hes seen as soft and slightly out of sorts right now.He tends to get a pretty bad challenge on him every time he goes on, gee that was a bad one yesterday, a scissors challenge. Same as against the last one.
When he came on I think it was clear he has to start ahead of Nelson & why if thats right the other managers want bad tackles on him, he has good close dribbling & swerving skills to get away from defenders out of nowhere.There's no doubt now that managers are telling players to do crunching tackles on Pepe, I think its because hes seen as soft and slightly out of sorts right now.
Its just going to take time to get used to, but he won us the game vs West Ham after Cresswell did this **** to him anyway. He has what it takes, he needs to keep at it.
I get the feeling refs see us as a dishonest side, making meals out of tackles etc. not an honest hard playing “English” side like Burnley etc. some of it is fair when you see our players act like Socratis and Guendouzi when they are tackled. Think we to often don’t play act correctly. Look at the Sp**s **** Harry Mouth-breather Kane. When he gets tackled he often yells and screams like he is being killed, but it is when there is a bit more contact. The refs eat that up like there is no tomorrow. It also allows him to play physical and dirty himself. Despite that he cheats more than his fair share he is an “honest” player in their view I believe while ours are not.Not just Pepe's challenge but I was shocked on the last one in the last minute, if thats a foul let me know but I see no reason it is by Laca. He backs out of it, Bournemouth guy comes through himself straight & hard, brings it on himself imo. I would have been fuming if they scored from that.
I can see your point there, you are probably right unfortunately. Seems like Arsenal are the ones disliked by most referees. There were quite a few other 50/50 calls which easily went against us, probably should have been in our favour. I'm not going to mention them, most probably know which ones I'm on about haha. Unfortunately, there always has to be a team disliked by everyone.I get the feeling refs see us as a dishonest side, making meals out of tackles etc. not an honest hard playing “English” side like Burnley etc. some of it is fair when you see our players act like Socratis and Guendouzi when they are tackled. Think we to often don’t play act correctly. Look at the Sp**s **** Harry Mouth-breather Kane. When he gets tackled he often yells and screams like he is being killed, but it is when there is a bit more contact. The refs eat that up like there is no tomorrow. It also allows him to play physical and dirty himself. Despite that he cheats more than his fair share he is an “honest” player in their view I believe while ours are not.