Warnock:"It's impossible to beat Liverpool"

And the bottom line is results aren’t defined purely by match officials.
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Their incompetence, bias or whatever you call it influences the entire dynamic of a game, especially when it is a close game. Just one incorrect but favorable decision can change the entire flow of a game.

For the last two years we were the team with most penalties given against us. The referees were good and competent back than and we had the worst defence but now when results go our way the referees are biased and incompetent and we are lucky. Surely you can have it both ways.

comment by Billy The Yidd (U3924)
posted 39 minutes ago
And the bottom line is results aren’t defined purely by match officials.
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Their incompetence, bias or whatever you call it influences the entire dynamic of a game, especially when it is a close game. Just one incorrect but favorable decision can change the entire flow of a game.
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But this has been the case since the history of football. It’s not as if these situations don’t happen to every single team.

It just so happens that people will remember the injustices against their own team or against a domestic rival more than they do others.

Some of it is completely subjective as well. The Holding penalty incident wasn’t even a clear cut decision to Leicester fans themselves (if you read FoxesTalk), yet others are saying it was a second yellow and a penalty for Leicester. It’s sometimes a matter of perspective too.

Equally, Lacazette was fouled in the penalty area in 2 successive home games against Everton and Watford. Yet because he tried to stay on his feet on both occasions, the referee didn’t give it. Arsenal didn’t play particularly great in either of these matches. But had those incidents went in our favour, considering both penalty incidents happened fairly early on in both matches, the flow of those games would have been different. Thankfully it didn’t affect either result in the end.

The referee can influence a result with a bad decision sure. But over the course of 90 minutes, when you know some decisions will go for or against you no matter what, as a professional footballer, you cannot afford to let a refereeing decision determine the outcome of a game. If it does, then the team isn’t performing as well as they need to be.

comment by Samir (U2630)
posted 18 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 (U18355)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 14 minutes ago
So he virtually and not actually impossible.

He’s not far wrong, we don’t lose very often.
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So 2 losses in 13 is virtually impossible these days?

Does that mean Arsenal are virtually impossible to beat?
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Why go off the games this season, we’ve been good since October 2017.

You lot have been lucky!
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Sorry, but this is absolute garbage.

You can't 'luckily' win 11 games in a row. We've pretty much deserved every single victory we've had this season. If opposition players can't/don't take their chances, that's not luck; that's poor finishing.

And even if it was luck, so what? Teams that are better than us haven't been able to go on a winning run like this (so far).
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Should not one of your players been red card against Leicester and a penalty given for what was a clear hand ball when the score was 0-0. So yes luck has played some part in your run.

Warnock is a sage

Mystic Warnock

Utterly dominated that game.

"Should not one of your players been red card against Leicester and a penalty given for what was a clear hand ball when the score was 0-0"

I've already addressed this. Read the thread properly.

"So yes luck has played some part in your run."

I'm not disputing that we've had elements of fortune. I'm saying that anyone who thinks Arsenal winning 11 games in a row is solely down to luck, which is what KLS appeared to be saying, is garbage.

Did say it was all down to luck, I said you’d been lucky and you have been.

You’ve had a very favourable run of fixtures after the first 2 and whilst you’ve won them you’ve not been great.

comment by sandy YNWA (U20567)
posted 4 hours, 16 minutes ago
comment by Samir (U2630)
posted 18 hours, 7 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 (U18355)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by KLS (U1695)
posted 14 minutes ago
So he virtually and not actually impossible.

He’s not far wrong, we don’t lose very often.
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So 2 losses in 13 is virtually impossible these days?

Does that mean Arsenal are virtually impossible to beat?
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Why go off the games this season, we’ve been good since October 2017.

You lot have been lucky!
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Sorry, but this is absolute garbage.

You can't 'luckily' win 11 games in a row. We've pretty much deserved every single victory we've had this season. If opposition players can't/don't take their chances, that's not luck; that's poor finishing.

And even if it was luck, so what? Teams that are better than us haven't been able to go on a winning run like this (so far).
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Should not one of your players been red card against Leicester and a penalty given for what was a clear hand ball when the score was 0-0. So yes luck has played some part in your run.
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Sorry what red card? Handball isn't instantly a yellow card. Also the pen didn't make a difference as Leicester went 1-0 up anyway. As soon as they went 1-0 up they dropped up and it was all us. We should have won 5-1 in the end.