re: Arsenal 2024/2025 Season Thread: It’s time

I wholeheartedly agree.

This Arsenal Liverpool race should be generational especially 2 beloved clubs from the biggest league in the world finally winning after City's corruption.

Yet the refs have made it a 9 point race. It is infuriating considering how hard we have clawed to be in this position. I had a post a few weeks back of all the decisions that have fricked us all year. This title race should be within 2 points even with a game in hand for Liverpool. It is ridiculous and why you won't ever catch me saying shite about Arteta. This season has been disappointing but I've realized that 75% of it is because the refs have put us in such a position that we have been on an uphill battle.

Look how well we are doing in the Champions League with elite officiating. This is a fricking team of character

The inconsistency is what baffles me most. Wolves second yellow was more of a red than MLS for starters, but that wasn't the most infuriating sequence.

The wolves player kicking the ball away at one point on a yellow in front of the same ref that gave Trossard a 2nd yellow for doing the exact same thing. That is a perfect example of where the conspiracies come out about Oliver hating Arsenal. I mean come on

Also, if the season ended today, Liverpool would have won the league by such a wide margin because of Arsenal’s injury crisis and inability to score with Saka out..not because there’s some ref conspiracy against the club


Premier League refs as a whole prove time and time again they’re incompetent. There have been many times over the last few seasons all the LFC fans on reddit listed calls against them as proof City got favorable treatment. Yeah- Arsenal has had some shite luck this season with a few red cards but it’s not some long term conspiracy that the league is trying to keep Arsenal down that’s all I’m trying to say

This years LFC has had insane luck with a lack of injuries just like Arsenal did last season. And we are admittedly very fortunate to be this healthy while Arsenal has key players out as well as Rodri for City. We’ve had plenty of seasons where we have had constant injuries to our first team players that resulted in us finishing with less points than we were capable of. It’s part of the game- in any sport



ETA I realize nobody wants a fan of another club posting in here so I’ll make this one my last. Yall are good posters for the most part and I wish this board had more discussion which is why I post in here from time to time. Genuinely not trying to troll

quote:

---

As a fan it definitely FEELS like something is going on

---

I’ll throw this out there: Arteta doesn’t exactly seem like the most likeable guy in the world, and he’s definitely one to complain/moan to the refs constantly. That gets on people’s nerves (at a human level) regardless of the profession.

I’m not saying that this should influence the refs in any way, but sympathetic characters definitely get more subconscious leeway whether we want to admit it or not.

I turned on game and it was 0-0 but had to restart the wifi and then we were up 1-0 and tons of talk of red cards.

Objectively that’s not true.

Red card for kick away the ball time wasting against Brighton - 2 dropped points

Red card for kick away the ball time wasting against City - 2 dropped points

Terrible Penalty call against Saliba against Brighton - 2 dropped points

Terrible VAR overturn against Aston Villa for GW - 2 dropped points

Arsenal is essentially tied with Pool without those four terrible officiating decisions (and don’t give me the fricking “well they said kicking away is a second yellow time wasting” they completely stopped enforcing the rule to that extent after the man city red card because there was such blowback).

Liverpool also second in the league in penalties awarded while Arsenal is 15th.

quote:

---

of Arsenal’s injury crisis and inability to score with Saka out..not because there’s some ref conspiracy against the club

---

This is bs. We also had players missing for your game due to these calls.

So I’d say you give us 6 points for bullshite ref calls.

Actually that means we end the season as champions because it takes 1 point from Liverpool.

Dumbass.

okay


Of course every example cited assumes arsenal gets 3 points in every single one of those games

And this is also assuming every ref in every arsenal game makes the correct call but not in anybody else’s games



Even with all of that….you saying arsenal would be way ahead of Liverpool is hysterical considering we have 1 loss

Also just for fun, here is the xG table on FotMob (with a game in hand although it’s the last Merseyside derby at Goodison so I anticipate it to be very close)

quote:

---

Of course every example cited assumes arsenal gets 3 points in every single one of those games

---

I’m saying they would. Yes.

We were winning the games before the red card.

You came up with the scenario that if the season ended today Liverpool would be way out in front even without the bad ref decisions.

You are wrong.