And, not that I can explain this, Newcastle and Arsenal absolutely hate each other. They’ll be wild challenges flying in all over the place. They’ll leg each other senseless.
My favourite Arteta-ism recently was the one recently about how we’d drop points because no team is perfect, while forgetting that they would have be be perfect to catch us.
It is an interesting switch. Perhaps injuries have prompted a rethink to minimize their work load, or its to help them stay competitive for the whole season?
I dont see Slot doing the same, from what i’ve seen his approach is very much on creating opportunies from which to score goals through open play.
This is only even a debate because Arsenal fans are fucking deluded. I’ve never really had any antagonistic feelings towards their club or fans, but fuck me… they’ve got the whiniest fanbase, beaten only by City per capita.
It’s funny how they hated AFTV for making them look daft, but really, they do a fine job of it themselves.
“Coming together” is a meaningless phrase. It simply means “I have an emotional reason to not want to see that given as a foul that I cannot articulate using words in a cogent argument so I will fall back on this nonsense phrase as a crutch to appear like I have an reasonable justification for my biased position”.
Two players competing for a ball where one gets there and the other doesn’t and clatters the player. That is the very definition of a foul, not a “coming together”. This was not two players jumping for a header and there being incidental contact, which is what some people seemingly want to portray it as.
Regarding the penalty, wasn’t it Joao Pedro, who gave away a penalty in a similar fashion a week or so ago, where he went to play the ball about 2 foot off the ground and the opposing player nicked it before him and he caught their foot?
This one is no different but happened with the head, which is rare.