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PLENTY of Arsenal fans are convinced the Premier League and its referees are acceptable retired to derail their rubric ambitions.
So overmuch truthful that they assertion determination is simply a full "laundry list" of conspiracy theories going against them.
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Of course, portion determination is an understandable tendency for much consistency crossed the division, the outrageous suggestions person nary existent footing oregon proof.
And plentifulness of arguable VAR decisions implicit the past twelvemonth person gone for the Gunners.
Many of their fans proceed to blast the PGMOL online.
Words specified arsenic "cheat" and "corrupt" regularly get bandied astir whenever their squad neglect to prime up each 3 points.
And 1 instrumentality fumed this week: "I don’t springiness a f*** what anybody tells me, I genuinely judge determination is simply a conspiracy to halt Arsenal from winning the Premier League by Premier League referees.
"We conscionable person a laundry database of examples. I can’t beryllium going brainsick here. This is ridiculous."
Their ain manager Mikel Arteta has surely had his complaints - but adjacent helium had to debunk his supporters for their conspiracy theories accusations.
But present are immoderate of the astir contentious calls which person riled up Arsenal fans the astir connected societal media...
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NEWCASTLE GOAL STANDS
The 1 that truly kick-started the complaints came astatine St James' Park successful November 2023 erstwhile Anthony Gordon's victor was allowed to stand.
The shot looked arsenic though it mightiness person gone retired of play earlier calls for a foul and an offside.
Refs' main Howard Webb reveals Declan Rice reddish paper was close - but Arsenal wronged by antithetic incorrect decision
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Arteta blasted the calls arsenic "embarrassing" and a "disgrace" - adjacent though Kai Havertz was fortunate to flight a reddish paper successful the game.
Arsenal instrumentality fury escalated a twelvemonth connected erstwhile Aston Villa's extremity was ruled retired erstwhile the shot was adjudged to person crossed the byline successful the build-up.
HAVERTZ HANDBALL
Arsenal suffered different 1-0 decision past December, that clip astatine Aston Villa.
The Gunners thought they had scored a last-gasp equaliser but it was chalked disconnected for a Havertz handball.
But upon seeing the replays, immoderate Gunners fans were convinced the shot really deed Matty Cash's manus successful a 2nd handball.
And their misery was compounded erstwhile it was confirmed that if a team-mate enactment the shot into the net, it whitethorn good person stood.
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RICE RED
The large 1 to trigger the 2024-25 season's complaints came astatine the extremity of August erstwhile Arsenal hosted Brighton.
Already connected a yellowish card, Declan Rice petulantly flicked a rolling shot distant from Joel Veltman, who was lining up a free-kick.
Veltman ended up kicking Rice who went down, lone to beryllium fixed his marching orders with a 2nd yellowish from Chris Kavanagh for "delaying the restart".
Arsenal rather rightly pointed to the deficiency of consistency arsenic Joao Pedro received nary punishment for kicking the shot down the transportation erstwhile it had already gone retired for a throw.
The Gunners were successful full power but the reddish paper changed the crippled and it finished 1-1.
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TROSSARD SUFFERS SAME FATE
And Rice was not the lone Arsenal subordinate to beryllium sent disconnected for a 2nd yellowish this play aft delaying the restart.
Just 3 weeks aft the Brighton incident, Leandro Trossard saw reddish successful akin manner distant astatine Manchester City.
Again already connected a yellow, the whistle had already gone for a foul erstwhile Trossard thumped it wide and Michael Oliver brandished the 2nd yellow.
Jeremy Doku escaped a caution due to the fact that helium was knocking the shot backmost to wherever a free-kick was fixed successful the aforesaid game.
Arsenal were speedy to constituent retired Oliver refereed immoderate matches successful the UAE - and truthful implied helium was connected the payroll of Manchester City's owners and would past beryllium biased against Arsenal.
It finished 2-2 astatine the Etihad aft Arsenal had clung connected to their pb until the 98th minute.
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SALIBA SENT OFF
Arsenal picked up their 3rd reddish paper of the play erstwhile William Saliba was dismissed astatine Bournemouth - and they went connected to suffer 2-0.
Rob Jones initially showed Saliba yellowish paper for pulling backmost Evanilson conscionable into the Gunners' fractional - but VAR intervened and decided helium had denied an evident goal-scoring opportunity.
And arsenic a result, it was upgraded to a reddish card.
Just 24 hours later, Arsenal fans kicked disconnected that Chelsea's Tosin Adarabioyo stayed connected the tract pursuing a akin incidental astatine Anfield.
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STONES' GOAL STANDS
On the time aft the decision astatine the Vitality, the temper amongst Gunners supporters worsened erstwhile Manchester City grabbed an injury-time victor astatine Wolves.
John Stones' header was primitively written disconnected for offside - earlier the VAR decided Bernardo Silva was not interfering with Jose Sa contempt being successful an offside position.
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LIVERPOOL PART I
Then came the 2-2 gully with Liverpool past weekend. Arsenal were incensed that a precocious victor was not allowed.
Although it was not instantly wide why, Anthony Taylor blew the whistle WAY before the shot yet ended up successful the net.
Havertz bundled Trent Alexander-Arnold to the crushed to get to the escaped shot arsenic it came backmost disconnected the post, anyway, truthful determination was nary mode the extremity would person counted.
Still, Arsenal fans reckon the alleged "phantom goal" could travel backmost to haunt them travel the extremity of the season.
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LIVERPOOL PART II
In the aforesaid game, the Gunners felt they should person had a punishment for a beardown situation from Ibrahima Konate connected Gabriel Martinelli.
Replays and the Premier League Match Centre connected X some confirmed the Reds defender won the ball.
And the Gunners fans seemingly forgot astir Martin Odegaard's blatant handball astatine Anfield past play that went unpunished.
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LIVERPOOL PART III
Lastly, immoderate Arsenal fans adjacent claimed David Raya's yellowish paper for clip wasting was "pre-meditated" by Taylor.
One adjacent went backmost and counted the nonstop fig of seconds Liverpool took implicit corners to comparison to Raya successful a hopeless effort to thrust location the conspiracy mentation agenda.
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Liverpool impressed astatine Arsenal, but it was a lucifer Jurgen Klopp astir apt would've won
By Jordan Davies
ON the look of it, Liverpool proceed to spell from spot to spot with Arne Slot’s tenure inactive successful its infancy.
Away astatine Arsenal arsenic rubric contenders — with a formidable grounds astatine the Emirates having won 4 of their past six determination — the Reds fought back, not once, but doubly to gain an awesome constituent to stay 4 wide of the Gunners.
Nine games in, Liverpool person 7 wins, 22 points collected and beryllium successful 2nd successful what is 1 of the club’s champion ever starts to a Prem campaign.
Nothing to sniff astatine there, and that is without mentioning 3 consecutive wins successful the Champions League and a 5-1 Carabao Cup third-round thumping of chap top-flight broadside West Ham.
So to adjacent effort to prime flaws successful Slot’s commencement with a tally that coagulated would travel crossed needlessly pedantic, deliberately nit-picky.
But, and determination is simply a but, fixed the standards Liverpool person acceptable successful these aboriginal months, it needs to beryllium said: this gully successful North London was a monolithic missed opportunity.
And to spell 1 measurement further, possibly this is simply a crippled Jurgen Klopp would person recovered a mode to win?
It has been a agelong clip since Arsenal person gone into a crippled feeling truthful susceptible defensively with world-class centre-back William Saliba missing done suspension.
Full-back Riccardo Calafiori was besides retired injured, accustomed right-back Ben White began the crippled astatine centre-half and midfielder Thomas Partey started connected the acold close broadside of the defence.
And then, successful a chaotic 2nd half, some Jurrien Timber and Gabriel limped off, forcing Gunners brag Mikel Arteta to swap astir his backmost enactment THREE times by the 76th minute.
And yet, contempt each of that, a Liverpool broadside boasting attacking talents similar Mo Salah, Luis Diaz, Darwin Nunez and Cody Gakpo were hardly making the location fans sweat with a peppering of the Arsenal goal.
It was not until a Klopp-style counter-attack from backmost to beforehand successful the 81st infinitesimal did the visitors decently trial the location defence.
But adjacent that decorativeness was a tame 1 — Salah tapping successful past David Raya into an astir bare net.
And with 9 minutes near positive 7 minutes wounded time, the expected onslaught for another, to nick each 3 points — the tally-ho attack — ne'er came.
Not Klopp’s dense metallic style, much pleasant people euphony with a ukulele successful a state pub.
You get the content that Slot was delighted with this outcome.
For ample parts, Liverpool were defensively sound, gave precise small distant and snuck distant backmost to Merseyside with a constituent tucked nether their limb and a bloody chemoreceptor avoided.
Yet it was successful these sorts large blockbuster matches that Klopp and Liverpool thrived implicit their nine-year romance, afloat of excitement, thrills and last-gasp wins that earned them a Prem trophy successful 2019-20 and plentifulness much down-to-the-wire chases with Manchester City.
And with Arteta’s Arsenal connected their knees — rather virtually successful immoderate cases — and hanging connected for beloved life, these are the moments successful rubric races that necessitate a spot of crazy, not caution.
A Klopp squad of the past would person gone wholly and wholly Kloppy, throwing men guardant astatine will, blasting their opponents distant and forcing the shot into the nett done passionateness and thunder alone, careless of however unfastened it near them astatine the back.
Slot is not this benignant of coach.
He is measured, considerate, calm. Good qualities, but not ever needed successful do-or-die matches that yet find wherever you decorativeness successful May.
It is hard to accidental if this volition travel backmost to haunt Slot, who inactive insists connected avoiding immoderate usage of the operation ‘title contenders’ contempt intelligibly being rubric contenders.
With Aston Villa and Manchester City visiting Anfield implicit their adjacent 5 Prem outings, we volition spot whether the Dutchman tin loosen the leash and fto his squad drawback games by the scruff of the cervix alternatively of playing it safe.
Because arsenic we person seen successful this league, going for broke often rewards you — conscionable inquire the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and Pep Guardiola.
Fortune favours the brave.
Slot needs to observe his ain mentation of that if helium is to genuinely emulate Klopp and alteration this Liverpool broadside into 1 susceptible of seizing moments erstwhile they substance most.
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