This story is getting worse for them, lets hope it brings the whole organisation down.

RocktheCasbah

I think it's DOGSO, clear evidence of DOGSO. He's goal-side and the ball is only going to get possession from the attacker. I'm going to recommend an on-field review for potential DOGSO.

I'm going to recommend an off-field review for potential dogshit.

    Interesting to see what they would have said about Ferdinand taking out Ljungberg through on goal in the 50th game in the context of declaring a player without possession of the ball on the half way line constitutes 'DOGSO.'

    They better not pull DOGSO 🐕 on us again this session because in that flimsy explanation, nobody mentioned that the SI called “through-on-goal-player” has to take control of a bouncing ball first. It’s a 2D view of the world which lacks actual footballling nuance. It’s fucking DOGSO

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      JazzG really we only have ourselves to blame for continuing to watch this circus. It's about as serious as watching fake wrestling on TV.

      I'll be honest the God awful football we play plus the refereeing decisions I only watch Arsenal games these days if I have nothing else to do, a lot more productive/fun weekends and the annoyance when we inevitable get fucked over by some inbred looking prick like Coote or whoever is not nearly as bad.

      I did watch the Bournemouth match and seeing the camera pan to Howard Webb with his fucking earpiece I nearly popped an artery.

          jones in wrestling eventually the good guys win. So it's not that similar.

            jones

            This guy only pipes on here when we are doing shit. Can’t fool me.

            Prob was waiting for Artera to be under pressure. Where were you last 2 years when we were doing well?

            Spoiler: we will do well again very soon so enjoy the next two weeks. Nov 23rd we are coming back.

                Sicario2 - Tier 1 no need for me to fool you, you do a good job of that yourself.

                I'll openly admit I barely watch our matches live any longer since the club decided to keep a certain player on its books and in recent months even started to put him centre of match day programmes etc. Won't lie and act like I wasn't excited when it looked like we could win the title again but yea I don't need a reason to post or stay away.

                For what it's worth I agree our performances are bound to bounce back, Odegaard was a huge miss and with the level of the league in the absolute gutter there's no way we won't put a string of wins together now.

                  Supposedly Neville and Carragher defended this ref today, saying he made a mistake but shouldn't lose his job. I wonder if they'll be defending him for snorting a few lines, maybe they can get Fowler on the Overlap to throw support behind Coote?

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                  I don't know if the above is true or not, fucking hell this story is getting proper weird now. Just noticed the link is now dead, basically some allegations with under aged kids involved, I won't say any more....

                  I do honestly think this info has been out there for a while, I wonder why it is all coming out now and whether this is just the tip of the iceberg.

                    I honestly don't think it's any surprise that a top flight ref both talks shit about football celebrities and snorts coke.

                    I'm not going to judge the guy. If I were him I'd probably do and say similar things, apart from the bit where I got recorded and humiliated.

                    You get the same behaviour among police top brass, intel services, the military, the top levels of the bureaucracy and the judiciary, the Parliament as we well know and so on.

                    What's a concern is that PGMOL is not properly structured, has no independent watchdog, has a lack of clear professional or probity standards, and its leaders have been actively chasing what amount to conflicts of interest with its move into media.

                      JazzG basically some allegations with under aged kids involved

                      No idea what this is, but the idea of one of these refs being a sex pest is gross.

                          Burnwinter Pretty much this. There can't be many of us who haven't called someone we've had to work with a cunt away from the workplace (I've had a one or two workplaces where there wasn't a day that I wouldn't do so), just that most of us wouldn't have someone film us doing it.
                          Big issue is the refs in this league seem to aim to make themselves the story instead of the game. The ideal scenario is not being able to remember who the referee was after a particular game but that pretty much never happens in the EPL, certainly not as an Arsenal fan it seems. Who the referee is is almost as a big deal as the starting lineup. How ridiciulous is it that we still complain about particular referees from particular games that were literally decades ago?

                            Yep. It's systemic.

                            What PGMOL will try to do with this is present itself as having punished Coote and cleaned house. Borrowing an idea from Sara Ahmed, but institutional processes will often sacrifice one or two bad eggs to reinforce the whole rotten institution.

                            Apparently PGMOL knew of this video immediately in 2020 when it was filmed but then covered it up.

                            Now say shit like his welfare is the most important. Come on.

                            Corrupt organisation