What a prat

Well that was a game and a half, its pretty much 3 in the morning here and I’m still pretty miffed with what i saw, not from Arsenal, but from a referee that isn’t fit to referee a pub game on a Sunday afternoon.

The start was cagey, everyone was a bit on edge and the first bit of controversy took just a minute, Triangle head Keane scythed down Gael Clichy, and if that was an Arsenal player that committed that challenge he would have been sent off right there and then.

Lucas fouled every time he tackled one of our players, no less than 6 fouls in the first half alone, Webb was waving his finger at him but failed to pull out his cards to the Brazillian. Wenger pointed this out after the game:

“I believe that (Lucas) Leiva made foul after foul without being booked. I don’t agree with the kind of attitude here today.”

Then Adebayor received a joke of a yellow card for protecting the ball, i admit it was a foul but it was not warranting of a yellow. Lucas had made about three fouls by then and has only received a finger wagging, this was Adebayors first foul.

We were 1 up when Nasri picked out Van Persie with a stunning long range pass, he controlled the ball expertly and lashed the ball home with his ‘chocolate leg’. Outstanding from one of the words most gifted footballers, maybe his second half of the season will be the best of his career, he has the world at his feet if he fulfills his potential.

Triangle Head

Triangle head then drew the bindippers level, a very good goal i do admit, a long pass over the heads of our defenders put triangle head through and he lashed the ball home on the half volley, just as we thought we were going to throw the title race wide open…

Alonso then slid through Cesc and damaged his medial ligament, meaning he faces three weeks out, with the Villa game up next he couldn’t have picked a worse time to do our captain. The bastard.

It could be a blessing in disguise, if Wenger gets a good support act for Cesc in midfield in January, a fresh Cesc and a decent midfield companion could cause havoc, short term pain for long term gain?

Adebayor was then dismissed for a tackle that was not even a foul. The arm was out to balance, he was defending the ball which is waaay within his rights and his studs were nowhere near Arbeloa’s leg. The Liverpool supporting referee then proceeded to send off our striker.

It infuriated the crowd, for the remainder of the game all you could here were boo’s it inspired the Arsenal and we came alive, they had determination, belief and lots of fight. The atmosphere came alive.

Sadly we couldn’t pinch the winner but 1-1 is not a bad result.

Adebayor described Arbeloa’s theatrics as like him stabbing him, he certainly reacted like it:

“I hope when the referee watches it on the TV, he will see it was a foul but I didn’t deserve a card. It was a mistake from him. He said it was for the leg [rather than a flailing arm that caught Arbeloa in the face] but if I don’t put my body in there I would never score a goal in this league. We have to protect the ball, which is normal and that’s what I tried to do.

“The defender threw himself on the floor as if I put a knife in him. Of course I’m annoyed. We are all here to play and if you win or lose you have to do it with 11. I cannot say he cheated but what he did wasn’t fair play at all.”

Ade didn’t remonstrate with the referee, i think he was in too much shock, how on earth could Howard Webb get it this wrong?

Lucas got his yellow after comitting far worse fouls, and more importantly three times more fouls!

It was clear what team Howard Webb supports, his performance in the Liverpool Utd game was pretty dubious as well.

Impartial?

He is about as impartial as Jamie Redknapp commenting on the North London Derby.

Alan Green of the BBC was an utter disgrace too, he found fault with everything to do with Arsenal, Wenger’s anger was a ‘disgrace’ according to him. After Rieira deliberately elbowed Van Persie who was understandably peeved with him, he said ‘we are all used to his (Van Persie’s) antics by now’, he also found fault with the fans for giving Howard Webb stick for his rubbish decisions and gave the fans more stick for shouting abuse at Liverpool players.

Now, he is supposed to be impartial. What is with all the Arsenal hating?

Now i have a message for Alan Green, your wages get paid by Joe Public, many many thousands, possibly millions are Arsenal supporters so i suggest you quit the bias and start treating the listeners with a bit of respect and give us a bit of honest commentary.

There was a fuss in one of the stands when a Liverpool supporter in the Arsenal section celebrated, i hope he got ten tonnes of crap kicked out of him because that is plain stupidity on their part, Alan Green called the Gooners ‘diablolical’ when it was suggested that he would have been in for some rough treatment.

If you were in that stand feel free to shed some light on the issue!

Right, Wenger reaction tomorrow

Til then.