Just gonna leave this here.

You can talk about our inadequate attack all you want, but in my view we've just been fucked out of another two points.

They've been inventing new reasons to fuck us all season. As Arteta said post match it took them "three seconds" to look into this incorrect decision and double down.

I mean we can’t re referee the game, and it’s a super high bar for interventions isn’t it.

Taylor had to clear a very high bar just to give the penalty.

First he had to give a type of decision that's almost never given, even though it would influence the outcome of the match.

Then he had to choose to give this almost unprecedented decision even though it was incorrect.

And to give this incorrect decision he either had to overrule the evidence of his own eyes or ignore the lack of it.

He's really outdone himself, it's a masterpiece. Frankly given the sheer effort and talent Taylor put into fucking this one up, the VAR probably would've felt rude to call the error "clear and obvious".

Burnwinter a penalty is scored 4 times in 5. You are basically awarding a goal for a moment that will amount to nothing and that was a fair challenge in the end. At least let it be a shot taking action. It’s a decision deserving of a demotion

Burn them all.

I did see someone reference the game against Brighton last season where Lamptey gave away a penalty against Jesus for a challenge where he also touched the ball. I get the ball hit his head but Saliba still made contact with their player after the ball is gone.

I think we are very unlucky that it got called because many times you get the benefit of the doubt but once it is I think VAR aren't going to intervene because Saliba did contact the player after the ball is gone.

A bit like Rice va Brighton, I’ve never seen this given. Feels like we signed up for the PGMOL experimentation package.

Does anyone know what is going on with Sky and the refs? Why do they keep backing their dreadful decisions?

The sky "studio" were unanimous it was a pen yesterday and 1 of the reasons was because Gabriel + Saliba were chaotic in that moment...it is starting to make their coverage unwatchable.

And then you get objective coverage from MoTD:

These decisions have been sucking a lot of joy out of what really should be a good Arsenal season.

A few debatable or wrong calls against us is normal but we've suffered a number of bizarre and unorthodox calls that are hard to explain except by way of tinfoil hat thinking.

Panda it’s just authority dick sucking

awooga83 I did see someone reference the game against Brighton last season where Lamptey gave away a penalty against Jesus for a challenge where he also touched the ball.

I think this is a valid point and this is why I don't necessarily think the penalty was all that crazy of a call. One thing I will say, however, is that if we're going to referee upper body contact in the same way that we referee lower body contact (and I think we probably should, on the merits) then the Brighton player that Superman-jumped into Declan Rice's face should have gotten a red card.

This is phenomenal from Dermot.

Mirth Telling on themselves again.

"people say he got the ball - he didn't, the ball got him" is something else. Been calling for PL refs to get stabbed, publicly castrated etc pp since the days of Mike Riley but this punditry is a whole new level. Calciopoli is calm compared to what we're watching every weekend

jones