Hot take: if the ball counts as in there despite it being literally impossible to tell and looking out to the naked eye, either the rule should be changed or the lines should be required to have GLT all across the four lines.
I was just thinking that to your last point... crazy we can tell if the ball crosses the line for a goal, but can't tell if the ball has gone out of play.
Honestly in a game like this, kinda glad we have Jorgi on the pitch to just be calm
Him and Rice together give us such a strong and compossed midfield
Argue more Bruno G, argue some more
Red card for dissent, we will be there
You know, we often talk about the dark arts, but we clearly haven't reached Newcastle's levels of rotational dissent
I love Declan Rice
What a player man
I love players who got his paycheck and rightfully earns it
BRO there were 4 minutes taken for the VAR check ONLY. How the fuck is 8 minutes acceptable?
Should be 10 MINIMUM
lol the classic only giving out cards now that it's 85 minutes and the result is all but decided. WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
Havertz showing his worth there. Hopefully he can get some more balls to Eddie
Looking forward to 3 minutes added on
Bruno G hits Jorginho in the head. Hits Havertz with the ball. Then tries to choke Rice. How is he not booked once? Fishy stuff going on upon Tyne.
The ball went fucking out
HE LITERALLY PUT HIS HAND ON THE REF
Oil money goes a long way, as we've seen. Someday Newcastle will ascend to Rodri levels of invincibility
Nice recovery by Tomi.
When even Gary Neville thinks you're fucking wrong
High boot scissor kick that takes out both of Martinelli's legs.
Not a red card.
What, do we have to get literally murdered to get one given?
Oh, of course not. There's literally no situation where Newcastle would be given a red.
That ball is defs out lol
It is partially in. There is no definitive angle.
That could have been beautiful..
Eddie off (optimal) position as usual
Just give a card to Bruno already
Insane that he doesn’t have at least one already
Absurd, twitter is full of delusional fans.
Very important to remember that most people on God's green earth are actually morons
When you don't vaccinate your kids
Ah yes we paid the refs. The refs that gave the goal despite two errors
MOTM: PGMOL
So we gonna go back and review that elbow?
nope. elbows have been deemed ok today. Until an Arsenal player does it.
I genuinely wonder whether someone's unplugged the VAR TV
It's just Madley, assume we'll not have VAR today
VAR signals too weak this far up north
I wouldn't even be surprised if it was true lol
Yeah, fucking book them all, cunts
Havertz already more of an impact than Mudryk. Three yellows to NU.
Wish there was one for Burn though, woulda been useful for when he eventually gets one from Saka fouling constantly
Burn will probably come off at the half, though, so it'll have the same net effect
We're racking up the PGMOL apologies, boys
And it'll mean so so much to the team and fans if we go on to lose 🙃
I'm starting to dislike Newcastle more. They might be the most pampered team by the EPL and PGMOL. At least Manchester City can mask it with good football. Newcastle get favorable kick off times and a PGMOL blind eye. Wolves were robbed of 3 points.
The narrative of an English manager succeeding. It's all about the narrative!!!
LOL THE LINESMEN
I genuinely do not understand how these decisions have been made
HOW IS THAT THEIR THROW
PGMOL had to hand the match to Newcastle
Isn't hitting the neck with an arm a red usually
cuz that definitely scratches Rice's neck in that replay
nothing matters anymore when it comes to serious foul play especially in the "big games"
It's such shit.
How Bruno and Livermento were still on the field can only be attributed to PGMOL's bia$e$.
Trossard for Nketiah, he has been limping for awhile.
Oh shit they plugged in the VAR machine!
Yeah but they didn't plug their eyes in so who cares
and checking like three things
There's lots to catch up, on tbh
Team full of Orcs this
it's the North
Liverpool are fine tbf
Happ early bday to Tomi btw
How did everyone just stop and stare at the ball?!?!?
Gabi, Gabi, Gabi... not the best spot to pick
Boneheaded move by Raya there. No one closing out on the cross.
Wtf all that and the goal is still given
PGMOL what else is new
Tell me the game is rigged without telling me the game is rigged
I see how Havertz is Xhaka's replacement
Gabi XL is a wall
Newcastle have started much more energetically than we, hopefully we can find out rhythm soon...
I feel like we've shown we're equal to the challenge
I think this is our rhythm. Slow, methodical play where we control the tempo of the game. It doesn't always make for a viewer friendly game but it does keep the opposition chances to a minimum.
I'm not mad about it, to be clear - it just makes me laugh when I think about the 50 minutes of ball in play match last season.
HOW IS THAT NOT A RED?!?!?!
$$$$$$
Bruno not being sent off is ridiculous.
Imagine Tomi scored from that lol
Some twats booing Saka?
It's because Joelington wasn't allowed back on the pitch after 30 seconds since the play was on that side. They didn't know the rules.
BANG IT FOR FUCK'S SAKE
Very good ball carrying and final pass from Kai
OH NOW YOURE CALLING FOUL THROWS AGAIN
Man the refs are really pulling out all the stops to make sure we don't win
stolen: "Ref against violent conduct 👨🦯ref against throw ins 🦅"
EDDIE IF YOU'RE GOING TO CALL FOR IT KEEP YOUR FUCKING HEAD UP
Migi Almiron only winner of the bruno fernandes award
I just realized Ben got rid of the platinum blonde
Yeah, so according to PoorlyDrawnArsenal Hairdye theory we should win this
Yeah it didn't quite work for him lookwise either
It's time to pull a Tiberius Gracchus on PGMOL
Just let the man tie his laces man 😭
LOL REF HAS ACTUALLY LOST CONTROL
Y'all are acting up like we're down a goal or something. Relax
Now let's enforce the throw in rule that no one cares about
That ONLY EVER GETS CALLED FOR ARSENAL
FOR THE PAST DECADE
If only, Havertz done good there Eddie just gets shoved off it
Points to badge of club that was zilch before the takeover
Shearer tbf
THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE HERE
Fuck off
Holy shit never mind, 3 cards to our 1 is fair.
Joelington got owned
I worry about Saliba's back tho
So they're finally admitting that it's probably offside as well :P ffs
Of course it was! Love to hear people talk about how complicated offside is, but it only seems to be complicated when it's us who would benefit.
Still complains about Garnacho
Out of everyone else Jorgi taking shots
Dan Burn is a fucking cunt
Nah nah you can't tell me that's not a red
Kai should've went for the shot just to rattle them
Foul Saka > no consequences
Tomi the marauder
He's our LB/RB/LCB/RCB/ST.....
Don't forget he can play DM, gotta keep up the old standards
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL
Not sure that's a foul on either but I'll take it
Dan Burn holding his back like us middle age folks is low key a funny sight
AND THATS ON THE NECK
Saka use his right foot challenge
WHERE'S THE FUCKING CARD YOU BLIND SHIT
Rice is the MVP
It's been 20 minutes chill
He is good though so far
Bennyyyy
Ah yes, the classic FM wunderkind
You actually said "wonderkid"
Saka is completely knackered
Eddie doesn't wanna pass?
Awwwwww
Joe Willock revenge goal incoming?
Fucking knew we were going to lose this game, just knew it
Honestly just start kicking them, if they're going to keep playing like this
Who's on VAR? Lol. There's ref that would've just checked the out of bounds and forgot the rest.
Well now they can say after the match "VAR had a busy day at St. James'"
We need to stop playing David Raya like this man
Havertz deserves a goal
he needs to attempt a shot first lol
I see Saliba's been training with Zinny and our Hashtag United tekkers guru
Ooof if Tomi had gotten to that
Tomi has gotten into some really nice attacking positions this game.
He's playing with a lot more confidence and it adds to the unpredictability like Arteta wants
Jorgi not great today so far, though he has one or two moments
Jesus Christ that could have been disastrous
White off for Zinny
Good from Raya
I am furious.
honestly - we are not good enough. The premier league is going to do this shit refereeing like 60% of the time. We need to be good enough to overcome bad referees and Stokeish tactics. Nobody is creating shit. We're in the horseshoe of death again.
Here's the thing - consider the level that we would need to be to overcome this level of shit refereeing. We'd need adamantium skeletons for all of our players, maximum inhalers and caffeine pills from Liverpool, and all the luck in the world to level this playing field. If shit refereeing occurs 60% of the time, I don't think you can chalk that up to incompetence or accidents. Why is it that VAR seemed to be completely off for the first 60 minutes? Why did they get more yellow cards for dissent than for the actual horror tackles they put in? That's completely unfair to ask a team to just "be better" to overcome this shit.
Raya with the unnecessary long ball...
Ngl that was not great bugling
but, lest we forget
missed it but surely I'll find it online later
Just the two bugles being out of tune with each other lol
Surprised they haven't started just roundhousing Saka
it'll take that to get a card
I doubt that'll be enough, Saka has reverse plot armor for Arsenal
St. James's looks really good under the lights. The match looks crisp and cinematic on my tv.
He didn't get a pat on the back oh no
Wow a foul actually getting called for Saka
Arsenal Arsenal Arsenal
I swear it's the same shit every game, lose concentration for a second and they're in behind
Even Rice can't be perfect huh
Jorgi needs some of that Partey genes
Needs some octopus stem cell injections
Only four minutes? Between the laces thing and the cards flying expected more tbh
Dislocated shoulder? Feels bad man
Not a foul from Rice I feel like
Not even. Gets the ball first and everything
Fucking hate Dan Burn
Oh ffs
How does Gordon have 6 cards already lol
I love it - Newcastle cracking the way they'd expect Arsenal to
Lol Newcastle innovating ways to waste time
I didn't realize you could just have your medical staff run onto the field like in rugby
lol what, how is that their kick?
foul was on Gabriel it seems
It looked to me like Burn was the one who collided and caused the head injury
Arteta actually hates the fans, only reason why Raya does this stuff
Yknow what i rate the ref, actually calling the fouls out even if they ain't carding yet
Usually we don't even get the free kicks
I can't give the ref credit when I've seen our opponents get away with 6 or 7 cardable offenses and then we get carded for our first time and time again
Of course Eddie won't receive the ball
Would you be satisfied with a draw?
That's a goal. Get on with the game.
Besides Bruno not being sent off, I think VAR has done a good job today. I am trying to be unbiased as possible. The goal should stand.
