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Our history is littered with examples. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/27401986.amp Heck, we have even had a penalty incorrectly ruled out after we scored it. This resulted in a 5 minute conversation between the officials to determine what the right result was, and they still got it wrong. Even though this happened in the Championship, the referee was later promoted to the Premier League.
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No. We are supposed to be getting long sleeved versions of tops next season, and also the trefoil on one of our away shirts. They were both reserved for other clubs last season. I think our Adidas tie-up has been massively successful. All the shirts have sold well. The Originals training merchandise all sold out, twice over. The Gazelles sold out, the Originals stopped shirt sold well and is largely sold out, the 95-97 home shirt re-make has sold very well.
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Every non-top 6 club can give you multiple examples of red cards they have received which are worse. The uproar is because it happened to Arsenal, if it was Wolves who received that red card, absolutely no one would be talking about it.
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Doesn’t matter if they do or not, it would be an access to gaining talent from South America. Santos would end up buying everyone in Brazil and elsewhere who showed any promise.
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Arsenal fans are kicking off that Michael Oliver has never given us a yellow or red card, this despite the fact that he can’t referee our games because he is a fan. https://www.reddit.com/r/ArsenalFC/s/VeI1C30nZt
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That’s generally the plan though.
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It’s an excellent move, and shows that we are serious about our women’s team as well. I’m guessing the aim for next season will be promotion into the WSL before they decide to close it off.
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The top 6 is not just about league placing. It’s very political. They all vote together, aside for Man City and Chelsea who are more newcomers, they have been instrumental in English football politics since they broke away to form the Premier League. Even since then they have had a hand to play in the attempts to create the ESL. It’s only until recently that controversial refereeing decisions have started to go against them. They have had decades of referees giving them every decision, from the big calls, to the soft yellows that took out an opponents key player out of the game. The media has a love in with them. They tend to get the majority of their games shown on TV. Every sports show, every radio show, all the newspaper headlines are about them. If you were new to football and didn’t have any influences growing up, and in particular live in a no man’s land in the U.K., you wouldn’t support anyone else other than a top 6 club because information and the conversation about anyone else is hard to come across. Even on social media, go on the Premier Leagues Reddit and it’s all them. You can’t put an opinion across against them because you get down voted. The change in KO times for them being on TV helps them create fans across the globe as well. A 12pm Saturday KO is good for those in Asia and the Oceanic to watch. Later KO’s are good for those in America and Canada to watch because it’s during the day there, but before all their major sports start. So even if you want to gain fans across the globe, it’s still harder to do so for a non-top 6 club. The pundits both here in the UK and across the world are increasingly former players of these clubs. Watch SSN and you have an Arsenal fan watching the Arsenal match, and you obviously had Lawrenson for years being a Liverpool love in laughing stock.
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I hope our fans reflect like they did with Jonas as they do with Miggy. Jonas was a hate figure up until his cancer diagnosis, then court case against the club. He’s now waved about as if he was a long serving club legend all along.
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I’m sad he’s leaving, but I’m happy for him that he’s going back to a club who love him and where his family will be settled.
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Well that’s for last season, so hopefully ours has already dropped a little bit. However whatever we lose, we will have to replace, likely on higher wages as well.
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Aye, there is a lot of rewriting of history going on. Just yesterday someone on Reddit was saying that the Glazers ownership has to go down as the single greatest heist in history. That’s despite the fact that how they bought the club is both legal, and common practice within the business world. I responded that Bury had an owner that sent them out of business, Wigan had an owner who bought them to win a bet that they would be relegated, Bolton had an owner who was minutes away from sending them out of business, and Blackpool had a convicted rapist own them who was taking money out of the club. The Glazers ownership of Man Utd isn’t even the worst football ownership on Lancaster or even Greater Manchester. As for Spurs. I’m pretty sure if Enic and Levy had bought us, build us a new stadium like theirs that also hosted things like the NFL, and concerts, had us regularly in Europe (including the Champions League), won a League Cup, got to the final of the Champions League, and other League Cups, then our fans would have been very fucking happy.
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That could change massively in a week or so.
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Aye, I’ve already made various posts about how we will look back at his time in English football with a negative view for all the shit he’s left lying around.
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I don’t get it? Referees are increasingly seeing abuse aimed at them, and lately it’s largely been from the same clubs. The issue isn’t just over yesterday’s game, but over a growing trend. The only way you are going to stop it is by addressing the issue, and that ultimately has to go down to points deduction. You can’t just single out Arsenal fans when Liverpool fans are still abusing a referee from last year, and are actually online at the moment encouraging Arsenal fans.
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Whats funny? They were doing it a little while back with that goal that was disallowed vs Spurs.
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Let’s just start deducting points from the teams who’s fans keep doing this then. Oh wait, it’s Arsenal and Liverpool fans.
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We still will in my opinion. They’ll only open it up for hosing, and so far, like every other government, they haven’t actually done anything that would smooth the planning process.
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Can we dare dream of a West Ham winner?
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Why does a team who play in claret and blue in their home kit, have claret shorts in their away kit? It’s all a con to get me to buy a big 77 inch TV, a bit like how you couldn’t read the writing on Xbox games on CRT TV’s once flatscreens came out.
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Acoustics are pretty to be fair.
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Southgate is available for nothing.