Such a bad look
https://bsky.app/profile/nowarsenal.bsky.social/post/3lgszjqjjk22y

I said it in the other thread, lets see how this shakes out. It could be either swept under the rug, or it can cause a major overhaul. When every player, coach, pundit and many ex-referees say that it was never a red card in a million years (and wasnt even the worst tackle in that game), doubling down on it was not a good idea. Good for MLS and the club though. Glad to see he will be available for the next 3 games.

USArsenal you can’t have a child traumatized like this. I’m glad he can stand up tall knowing he isn’t at fault.

They usually want to cheat us against Manchester City. Remember Gabriel, Kovacic, Trossard. We could go on. Wonder what they’ll cook up. Next Kai Havertz handball will be deemed deliberate and a red card offense.

We need a whistleblower, on of their own to expose them. Otherwise they'll continue to do shit

I'm not inclined to go down the systematically corrupt road, although these last few days have not been a good look for the PGMOL.

But I do think Michael Oliver has given us enough dodgy red cards that we can now say he is at the very least unconsciously biased against us. The stats are stark and I think the MLS dismissal is a textbook example of this unconscious bias.

He was behind the incident and so did not have a great view of it, so he guessed and gave himself no time to think about the decision (you'd think removing a player would require at least a degree of thought), he reacted emotionally and not logically.

Darren England's application of the VAR process is the thing that concerns me, although I'm sure that when we hear the audio, it will all be very plausible. Especially given the still image @flobaba referred to previously.

I just can't see how he can have justified a decision, with all the images available to him, that almost to a man, the entire football world has been utterly shocked by.

The speed with which the appeal was upheld seems pretty telling, but I don't know if that's standard.

Also, just to say on the point of how long it took the red card to come out and be cleared by VAR, it would be nice if the same level of scrutiny applied to disallowing a goal was applied to removing a player from the pitch.

Having a bias is a form of corruption for a referee.

I'm being totally serious when I say this: if I was a professional ref and was asked to referee a Man Utd game, I would refuse. There's not a chance I could referee that game fairly.

Tierney, England, Kavanaugh and Oliver are objectively anti-Arsenal. Their performances have shown they cannot be neutral in an Arsenal match. Even if its existence is not made public, a competent body should analyse refereeing performances for irregularities such as bias.

This isn't only for the benefit of Arsenal. There'll be refs that are biased against Liverpool or Newcastle or Villa. Man City are unscathed because they may be paying off refs and they're a small club so no-one outside of north London and Liverpool feels strongly about them.

biases aren't corruption. we all have biases. i have to recruit people at my job. every interview i walk into, i look into the screen or across the table and despite all my bias training i have already formed a rich opinion of the candidate in front of me - and it has an impact on how i will assess them. it helps that i have a structured interview format and scoring rubric, but those biases still linger. this stuff isn't corruption. it's just a hazard of the job that you need to actively manage against.

That analogy doesn't work in this context. A referee's only job is to officiate a match between two teams as a neutral.

Having a bias against one of the teams displays a lack of integrity and honesty, which is the definition of corruption.

Claudius consciously biased!

If a referee is unconsciously biased, then he's an idiot. It's like excusing a judge for having unconscious bias and putting black kids away while letting white guys go free for the same offenses. Bullshit. Their job is to be conscious of their biases and to manage them. If they can't, bin 'em.

FWIW, there's no way I can ever be convinced they they have any unconscious biases. They know exactly how they feel.

One individual could be unconsciously biased but an entire organisation...? It's not like Michael Oliver is the only one with issues.

Mirth in a career that is almost literally about managing biases, to be unaware of your own seems slightly ludicrous.

Claudius you can’t have a child traumatized like this.

The man is 18 years old. Have some respect.

Qwiss

Not sure is tongue in cheek.... But... 18 is not quite a child, but not quite a man either.

They appointed a Liverpool fan to ref our game v City

Tierney on VAR as well - what could go wrong?

If anything, I think they will all be too anxious to do anything overly dramatic.
Only issue is that it might allow animals like Kovacic license to do some gangster shit