Arsenal cheating

Unfortunately it’s part of the game. Gary Neville nailed it. He said Arteta’s halftime talk would be to defend for forty five minutes and go down with injuries/cramp as often as possible. It nearly worked.

injury time is only time lost in the game,in theory city could have scored in 90 mins if the time hadn't been lost and maybe had 20 mins left who no,s to get a winner, 10 mins during the game is worth far more than 10 mins injury time with tired minds,legs,panic setting in, its why players/teams do it

we had a reff on teesside dead now,  little ginger skinny fella with a squeaky voice ,great well known character 1000 at his funeral,and that was his party piece to pull centre halves up who were kicking lumps out of forwards,shout them over for a chat and when they've walked 30 yds soon as they get there shout play on,blow his whistle and runaway 

Raya took 8 mins to get ball into play in euro game

It all adds up.

yep that's the fella ray down,pulling centre halves nout to talk to him was his party piece

Hong Kong ray dowel part of my funniest football story ever
playing on Redcar fire station pitch,nearest toilet/changing block ,Sunday morning ,
centre forward been out for a curry Saturday night  needed toilet,when ball was out for a corner at other end snuck off,ray dowel reffing so him out the corner of his eye,when he tried to sneak back on ,loud shrill of whistle  , ray made lad walk 50 yds to him
said no one leaves my field of play without permission ,what's going on,the lad said sorry ray I was looking for a ****house, ray quick as a flash shouted ,   YOUVE FOUND ONE ME, now get off and got his red card out, , everyone was in tears laughing

Oliver is a bent barsteward:

https://x.com/sg_cannonball/status/1837875277243781420

All Professional footballers are cheats. Football had become the home of the poorest sportsmanship

All the diving, shirt pulling, faking injuries and moaning at officials have ruined the game .

At least now Arsenal's on-pitch cheating is being talked about.

If nothing is done and other teams copy Arteta's vile game management then top flight football will become unwatchable.

Have a day off, every team in the league cheats in one form or another and always have done, conning the ref at every opportunity, diving, tactical fouls, time wasting, stepping on players feet in the box waiting for a corner, pinching, moving the ball forward for a free kick, feigning injury, pretending you're more hurt than you are etc, it's part of the game, as soon as people finally accept it instead of crying like babies the sooner we can move on, they do not bat an eye lid about this sort of thing abroad, they are ahead of time, it's just a precious English thing which might explain why we never win anything when dark arts are such a big part of the game. I'll give Kane his due, he is one English player who knows the score, never won anything though because he played for the filth, not really his fault. Kind Regards.

Under Arteta Arsenal have taken gamesmanship to another level.

arteta sascrificing SAKA is like barca sac messi,Madrid sac Ronny or city sac Hall and if they get a man sent off ,it just wouldn't happen, win/draw at all costs in September,its going to be rough season for gooners with only a title at the end to justify it, gooner,s getting more pragmatic as every week goes by

A quick search says that the average time a ball is in play is 55 minutes, so 30 minutes should suffice, which might upset Rodri but hey ho. I still believe that teams will find a way to defeat that too, but it is the best idea and probably the fairest.

For all the accusations of time wasting, breaking up play and deceiving the referee with lengthy injury stoppages, Opta have since come out to reveal the ball was in play for 35 minutes in the second-half on Sunday, the most for any match this season.

If other teams could defend like Arsenal, you'd see a lot more of it.


4 weeks of that nonsense and the game would be dead.

It was an excellent rearguard action considering the circumstances. Teams down to 10 mean are steamrolled by City. Trossard should have been embarrassed for giving the ref a reason to send him off and putting the team in the situation.

Remind me Norbert which team do you support?

As an Arsenal fan, some of the gamesmanship was embarrassing, though Rodri did go down as if poleaxed in the first 10 seconds, so everyone is at it. But the alternative was to roll over with 10 men against the best team in the country. I'm pleased they fought like they did.

When we were behind in games last season, teams beating us or getting a draw employed similar tactics - rolling around, changing the player who took a corner or throw in, etc, etc. It happens every week. I understand why teams do it.

I think there's huge merit in 30 minutes of 'live' play in each half with an independent timekeeper and I think that's where we'll eventually end up. A klaxon with a minute to go each half. It does leave the door open, with so many American owners these days, for 4 x 15 minute quarters. More commercial breaks, more money.

"Everton would become the 10th club in the Premier League under majority American ownership"

Looking extremely likely fink

I don't believe for one second that Oliver is bent. Human yes, but bent no.

Was this the same Oliver who called Walker up for a chat and then let Arsenal take a free-kick, with Walker way out of position, that led to their first goal?