However long Arsenal fans cry about it - they can’t escape the reality. This was a red but it was the less egregious and later of two such incidents. On balance Arsenal weren’t screwed over by the refs and still lost.
However long Arsenal fans cry about it - they can’t escape the reality. This was a red but it was the less egregious and later of two such incidents. On balance Arsenal weren’t screwed over by the refs and still lost.
Just a reminder that Havertz launched himself studs up at shin height and 3 Newcastle players, including the 1 that alarmist had his career ended, got yellows for it. Officially, and unbiasedly, a much worse decision.
Then later when multiple Arsenal players surrounded the ref, including 8 of them for the correctly seated goal, no yellows.
Considering the unbiased panel (rather than Arsenal fans£ decided this was 3-2 and Havert 5-0, and you want a 6 game ban for Bruno I’m sure you’ll also be arguing for a much longer ban for the much clearer red……
Seems to me like Newcastle deserve an apology - 5-0 saying Havertz should have been sent off is pretty damn clear cut.
Change FFP. Everyone can argue about how, but it’s currently designed to help the top clubs stay where they are and hence prevents the evening up you ask for.
In some sense removing FFP would help, eg Everton wouldn’t be facing a points deduction for trying to compete. But that would have its own problems.
An absolute cap on yearly spending for salaries/transfer fees applied to all clubs equally could be a dramatic change, but would be wildly unpopular with the big clubs.
The average 14 year old is clearly more intelligent…