Son Heung Min is a name that will live in infamy
PL 23/24
If I were Arteta, I would play this on loop before we play City again. It wasn’t that long ago.
Ollie Watkins 
Next season feels like it's gonna be tougher than this one too. Surely Manure can't be as bad again? But we'll be better too. Can't wait!
Mirth So it's better to scrap a safeguard system that's undone by corruption and return to just plain old corruption without even making an attempt at correcting the mistakes? Maybe just review how the system works, change the rules that allow for ambiguity and individual bias and gear the system towards getting ALL big decisions right and away from being at the mercy of whether the VAR ref feels like hurting their mate's feelings by calling out the mistakes?
I thought so at the time. It’s so tight that there’s no way they could have checked it that quickly.
I don’t have the energy to get annoyed over it though.
There have always been rumours the refs don't want VAR and are purposefully undermining the system. Yesterday again a blatant penalty turned down for Newcastle, I mean in real time it is hard to spot but from the replays it is clear that Gordon was fouled. If they can't pick this up from a replay then you do wonder about their competency.
Notice how there is complete silence from the media as well? That Liverpool offside earlier in the system only blew on social media whereas Sky Sports were keeping quiet about it.
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I was very surprised not many people noticed and made noise about it. Could be the difference between us winning the title and not
Clrnc Chelsea will be good next year. They might even catch Spuds for 5th. Incredible given that 2 months ago they were 11th
It's quite a surprise Pochettino has actually gotten on top of it to some extent, he looked like he was out of his depth all season.
Burnwinter Once Nkunku is fit and Lavia comes back I think they will be a top 4 contender over Villa.
Gusto is a great upgrade over James as well.
est Lol, same here. I was at work and my colleague was trying to give me updates in the first half, I was like nope.
Shame on you lot for even thinking about supporting Spurs. There's only one way that has ever ended for anyone.
Now west ham is a different story. Would be surreal if we could 1989 this. Highly unlikely. Already signed off emotionally for the season.
Clrnc what is the source though. I think always worth having scepticism with these things particularly online and it looks like the account is Arsenal linked? Also the amount of times freeze frame screenshots are used to 'prove ' something but don't give you the full context. You just end up in conspiracy theory rabbit holes. Even if that's disallowed who knows what happens City could still go onto win. Not worth being bothered about from our perspective I'd say.
Clrnc I actually said this to my mate not long after the final whistle. I said they might all think it's great and funny now but at some point for absolute certain, for any of them that aren't completely braindead, there will be a moment that night when it starts to sink in how truly pathetic it was. Small time doesn't begin to describe it.
Clrnc there's clearly some truth to what he's saying. That being said, can't dispute that Spurs are much more serious force now than they were during his time (just still not serious enough) - regardless of club loyalties, Levy is probably significantly responsible for that.
The challenge now though is that they face a very tough period of paying off a stadium without CL football for who knows how long. That could undo all the progress they've made (fingers crossed).
They probably do need a manager who through force of will can reshape the club culture like Arteta did. Not an easy job and I have no idea whether Ange would be capable of that (even if the intent is there).
The PL Chief Executive attending the Arsenal-Everton game so he doesn't have to present 115 Charges with the PL trophy. What a surreal situation.
I'd rather referees came to the right decision, however long it takes, then for them to make the wrong one. Whilst VAR has had its issues, the overall number of correct decisions has gone up so giving that up for more mistakes is ludicrous. However, whilst I can understand referees making mistakes due to the speed of the game, making them when you have the benefit of replays is just unacceptable, hence why for me refereeing feels far worse than its ever been. Regardless, the issue is not with VAR but the officials using the tool. If they did end up scrapping it, I don't think I could continue watching this shit.
goon i would rather the PL got this case right. By all accounts we will have another full season before we get a verdict. This team has made a mockery of fair play. But hopefully the premier league has its ducks in a row and doesn’t get caught out on a technicality- “your honor, UAE doesn’t own the club, we just give it unlimited funds through our various state owned entities.”
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Claudius Do you genuinely think there's a chance of any significant punishment? It's quite political when it's an oil nation state. Can they just threaten to restrict UK's access to their oil in response to any sanctions? Wouldn't be surprised if those conversations are happening behind closed doors.
invisibleman18 Saudi pumps out 3x as much oil as UAE. I don’t thin these guys have oil leverage. This is purely a football issue. The PL likes them because they have brought us Haaland, KDB, Guardiola and the champions league. But at what cost to competition?
For the league this judgement is still quietly framed by the Johnson government's threat of an "independent regulator" after the last attempt at a breakaway ESL. It's impurely an impure football issue.
As for the geopolitics, I think they'd be more likely to play a part of sorts if that hypothetical "independent regulator" were involved. The UK government has no track record of stepping up to Gulf monarchies.
Burnwinter their underlying stats have been alright all season, they just kept missing their chances. This was pretty much always coming.
Qwiss Ah good, so we don't need to sign a striker any more
Burnwinter our strikers don't have high xG, thats one of the problems. Saka has our highest xG.
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Ange definitely has the right mentality. I don’t know if he’s tactically good enough, but either way I reckon he’ll be a good manager for them.
