He's 5' 7"

By Boris Mellor
February 2 2011

Thank goodness for a disputed referees decision, because up until then Arsenal were not playing that well, and the crowd were somewhat bored by Everton’s time wasting and bus parking.But on 24 minutes the stadium came to life, Saha miles offside was kindly assisted by Koscielny. Not one to waste a gift he put it in the net, how unsporting, he could have tried a back pass or something, but no he put it in the net.

The crowd and team expected it to be ruled offside, but the ref refused to change his mind. It looked offside, but the rules are very complicated these days and even Andy Gray would struggle to explain this one, so I will move on.

Anyhow it’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and it livened up what looked being a boring stalemate. It got the crowd simmering nicely.

Everton sort of have Arsenal’s number, they know how to disrupt our game, leastways when Lescott has left.  Fellaini is head and shoulders above the Arsenal midgets, he is 6 foot four and a half, but his Afro makes him seven foot tall. He uses a very stiff lacquer on it so it makes for a crash helmet. It’s no exaggeration to say that no one can stand up to him. Players scatter in fear before him. He is a monster of a player (that’s a complement, but my apologies if I upset the Adams Family) and at times he seemed to be outplaying our whole midfield.

Everton are great at blocking and niggling, especially when the idiot of a ref helps them, but in the parallel universe that the blues fans inhabit they thought he was favouring the Arsenal – what a load of toffee.

I could have had 7-1

So it was one down at halftime, quite a regular occurrence, how many times have we gone in comfortable at half time? Well Chelsea, yes that’s true, and Blackpool, oh yes, and Spurs, yes but we lost that.  So apart from Blackpool and Chelsea how many times have we gone in comfortable at half time?

It was looking decidedly dodgy, then a mate sent a text at half time saying put £5 on a 2-1 win, I text back “I am in my seat”. What a mug, I should have gone back, its only 27 rows up. After the match he told me he got £35 for his fiver.

 Master Strategy of Subbing

Arsenal tried to equalise, but they were not making much headway, it was all becoming rather predictable, and Rosicky couldn’t score in a brothel. So when he went off and Arshavin came on the crowd suddenly realised when they are well off. Everyone sang his song – is he really 5’ 4”? Well I’ve just googled it and he is actually 5’ 7”, but then that wouldn’t rhyme with Adebarndoor.

Maybe his loss of form is down to insecurity about his height, why don’t we change it to he is 6’ 4” that would rhyme and he could stand tall. Of course when the dictatorial bureaucrats of Europe make us go metric none of it will rhyme, but I digress.

Arshavin changes the game

After only 8 minutes Arshavin equalised, what a goal, true it was a great ball from Cesc, but what technique, what a beauty. How many players would have scored that? Denilson you say? Come on you can’t be serious.

Greatness is as greatness does, the bloke has been on poor form, but he has continued to work hard. He has been honest, admitted that he was off form, and here he was scoring an all important goal.

Now for the first time Arsenal played fluent football, and the place was rocking, the atmosphere was fantastic, on 76 minutes the crowd sucked the ball into the net from a van Persie corner, and once again the ref got it wrong and awarded the goal to Koscielny. Hopefully the Dubious Goals committee (is it the committee that is dubious?) will award it back to the crowd.

Of we all went cheering and whooping, I had never doubted for a moment.

Goals Change Games and Arshavin Scored It. Miss out on 7-1

Discussion started by Arsenal Times , 02/02/2011 20:12

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Rockstaar
02/02/2011 20:38

just want to say..Saha was offside..nothing to debate...he was offside the minute the ball was played towards him way before Kos touched it


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Padre Pio
02/02/2011 20:50

Well there has to be something to debate, the ref said it was onside, the team said it was offside - thats a debate isnt it?

I believe we benefited from one of these decisions, when the other side said it was off, but their defender clipped it.

The problem is the "phases of play" idea in the modern offside law/. It needs changing and get rid of the confusion

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PKGooner
02/02/2011 21:14

Atmosphere seemed decent yesterday Padre

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Rockstaar
02/02/2011 21:21

it was offside padre..even moyes has admitted as such

the refs made a bad call and since we don't have instant replay..they didn't have to overturn it

the only debate is that why don't we have instant replay in 2011

cesc looked like he was showing them on the big screen (which I thought it wasn't allowed to show opposing goals at EPL games) so I may be wrong

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Padre Pio
02/02/2011 21:28

Yes it was rocking, the fact that they brought a few thousand helped. To think that Citeh brough a few hundred.

I didnt say it wasnt offside Rockstar, Sky discussed it and said it was offide, but is theior a debate yes there always is.
Sky mentioned the phases of play argument, but rejected it.
I believe its time they got rid of that law, either its offisde or it isnt. No phases

"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
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PKGooner
03/02/2011 13:15

Were you successful in the League cup final ticket ballot?

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essex gooner
03/02/2011 19:27

they show away goals but not contentious decisions so therefore it wasn't on the screen Cesc must have been showing something else

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Rockstaar
03/02/2011 20:22

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they show away goals but not contentious decisions so therefore it wasn't on the screen Cesc must have been showing something else

yeah I wonder what that was...a bird, a plane or 60,000 maniacs...who knows..looked like he pointing towards the screen...maybe the people running the replays forgot that it contentious


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Padre Pio
03/02/2011 23:24

Sky reported it as offside during the actual game, I assume on SSN as friend rang me up at match and confirmed it was offisde.
But while refs can blame phases these mistakes will happen. We need to get it changed.

it was good team fought back and won, its too easy to hide behind $hyte refeering

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Nonnie
10/02/2011 09:52

Time instant technology was brought it in for some, not
all, but blatent wrong decisions by refs that do cost teams
points at times.

Rugby have it, so does tennis and cricket.

It would take seconds for the 4th official to look at and
would stop all the arguing, surrounding the ref and,
linesmen, arm waving etc etc etc. (Or would it take the
fun out of dissing refs after the match)

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celine dion
10/02/2011 19:32

Quote:

Nonnie
Time instant technology was brought it in for some, not
all, but blatent wrong decisions by refs that do cost teams
points at times.

Rugby have it, so does tennis and cricket.

It would take seconds for the 4th official to look at and
would stop all the arguing, surrounding the ref and,
linesmen, arm waving etc etc etc. (Or would it take the
fun out of dissing refs after the match)

just out of interest, when you are about to do something bad, do your friends shout out 'Hey Nonnie, no'

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Bergmars
10/02/2011 19:51

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Nonnie
10/02/2011 21:50

Quote:

celine dion

Quote:

Nonnie
Time instant technology was brought it in for some, not
all, but blatent wrong decisions by refs that do cost teams
points at times.

Rugby have it, so does tennis and cricket.

It would take seconds for the 4th official to look at and
would stop all the arguing, surrounding the ref and,
linesmen, arm waving etc etc etc. (Or would it take the
fun out of dissing refs after the match)

just out of interest, when you are about to do something bad, do your friends shout out 'Hey Nonnie, no'

No I never do anything bad

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