They play the goons at home in a couple of months. So call it 3 points.
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stratnumberone
Terry Yorath
How is it that Woolwich gets a friendly ref every single game? Seems like the dippers should’ve had a clear pen tonight and Woolwich a red card. Yet again, a Woolwich players gets away without proper punishment.
Romero got charged after the event following his dodgy red against Liverpool. I wonder if the league or the fa will have the gonads to charge martinelli for his disgraceful carry on tonight? I bet he walks away Scot free.
Romero got charged after the event following his dodgy red against Liverpool. I wonder if the league or the fa will have the gonads to charge martinelli for his disgraceful carry on tonight? I bet he walks away Scot free.
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balesleftboot
Terry Yorath
People here really wanted Arsenal to win? I'm no Liverpool fan but this is Arsenal we are talking about. Always c*nts of course but there's something extra c*ntish about this current lot as showcased by Martinelli this evening.
It really makes little difference to me when City or Liverpool win another title. But the thought of Arsenal winning the league? Disgusting.
It really makes little difference to me when City or Liverpool win another title. But the thought of Arsenal winning the league? Disgusting.
Seems that being shorn of your 1st choice attackers can be detrimental to goal output… 
tommysvr
Steve Carr
Gabriel Martinelli: Arne Slot defends Arsenal winger
Arsenal's Gabriel Martinelli is criticised for pushing Conor Bradley while he was down injured - but Liverpool boss Arne Slot defends him.
www.bbc.com
fudge me this is embarrassing. I don't get into the "if it was Spurs it'd be different" stuff much, but in this case it absolutely fudging would be. If this was Romero, he'd 100% be facing an FA charge. Instead we get "'Idiot' or 'understandable'? Martinelli apologises for pushing Bradley" from the BBC and this from Slot:
Like fudge you can't. A player is down with what is quite clearly a serious injury and he decides to push him off the pitch!
Robbo
Jack Jull
The inconsistency is mind boggling.Gabriel Martinelli: Arne Slot defends Arsenal winger
Arsenal's Gabriel Martinelli is criticised for pushing Conor Bradley while he was down injured - but Liverpool boss Arne Slot defends him.
fudge me this is embarrassing. I don't get into the "if it was Spurs it'd be different" stuff much, but in this case it absolutely fudging would be. If this was Romero, he'd 100% be facing an FA charge. Instead we get "'Idiot' or 'understandable'? Martinelli apologises for pushing Bradley" from the BBC and this from Slot:
Like fudge you can't. A player is down with what is quite clearly a serious injury and he decides to push him off the pitch!
It doesn't matter if it was "in the heat of the moment", it doesn't matter if he's really a nice guy, it doesn't matter if he apologised afterwards (although fair play for that), it doesn't matter if Bradley was really injured or not - that should be a red card every day.
First he nastily threw the ball on Bradley, then he forcefully pushed him off the pitch. Even being lenient, that's two yellow card offenses.
Shameful refereeing. Again.
tommysvr
Steve Carr
I can kind of understand the ref not quite understanding or seeing the whole thing in the moment. But for people with all the replays to come out and make excuses for him...like I say, that would absolutely never ever happen for Cristian Romero.
DeanoAustin
Cecil Poynton
Agreed. It was a very unusual sort of incident so I can understand the ref not punishing it at the time. Even Neville missed the ball throw as well to be fair until he saw the replay (as did I).
But what Martinelli did endangered Bradley far more than a lot of tackles that routinely get punished with a red or far more than what today is deemed “violent conduct”.
It was a nasty thing for any player to do to a fellow pro.
Robbo
Jack Jull
Also there was a malicious intent, as opposed to for instance the tackle that Xavi was sent off for.
glorygloryeze
Dimitar Berbatov
How did the Goons play yesterday?
Any hope that hey can be chased down? Or are they set to have a Conte/Jose-like '1-0 to the Arsenal' second half of the season park-the-bus stroll?
Any hope that hey can be chased down? Or are they set to have a Conte/Jose-like '1-0 to the Arsenal' second half of the season park-the-bus stroll?
Lemonade Money
Andy Thompson
DeanoAustin
Cecil Poynton
I only saw the second half and they couldn't get out for long periods. I think in any other year I'd be confident of them blowing it. However, Liverpool are out of the race and look vulnerable themselves, Villa have been overachieving and won't win it and City keep dropping stupid points. I reckon Woolwich will get over the line because others are making it easy for them.
City have to beat them at home.
Slot’s take on the Martinelli incident:
“But it doesn’t look great if he has the injury which we fear he might have, of course. But football, time-wasting, diving has come to the situation that players think in the 94th minute that probably that is happening again. Because I have seen it happening against us so many times this season that I can understand that Martinelli might have thought that this was time-wasting as well and he couldn’t have thought, ‘This is Liverpool, they don’t do this.’”
Now excuse me while I go and vomit somewhere.
“But it doesn’t look great if he has the injury which we fear he might have, of course. But football, time-wasting, diving has come to the situation that players think in the 94th minute that probably that is happening again. Because I have seen it happening against us so many times this season that I can understand that Martinelli might have thought that this was time-wasting as well and he couldn’t have thought, ‘This is Liverpool, they don’t do this.’”
Now excuse me while I go and vomit somewhere.
ricky2tricky4city
Chris Jones
It was pretty much the other way round in the first half. Weird in that Sense tbh
glorygloryeze
Dimitar Berbatov
Eh? Who couldn't get out for long periods?? Arsenal??
markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Anthony Taylor, big fan of Arsenal !!
DeanoAustin
Cecil Poynton
Yeah. Second half was mainly played in their half. To be fair, The Dippers didn't create many clear chances despite dominating them. Guess it didn't help that they were missing Salah, Ekitike and Isak. They could have had a pen for a clumsy challenge on Wirtz. I didn't think it was a pen but the more you look at a slow-motion replay, the more you think it could have been.
Sounds like first half was a mirror image of the second half though albeit I did see Bradley hit the bar for the Scousers in that first half.
SteveAWOL
David Ginola
You know it’s bad when even Gooner Sherwood is slating one of his own! No doubt Keown will be saying there’s nowt to it on Talkbrick though!