I saw something a little while back saying that AFTV earns around £350,000 a month. The channel alone earns £4.2m a year. Obviously there's the business operating costs to factor in as well, but it's nuts to think that a fan channel, that predominantly gets its views from Arsenal losing, earn that much. Presumably, that number has increased exponentially in the past couple months!
I don't understand this decision: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55417599 Andersen committed a foul and it was a red card offence, even if you think that what happened subsequently was a dive. Are they saying that it wasn't a foul or that it wasn't a red? They've lost me.
Oh ****! Amongst all of the other completely weird **** going on.....now this..... "Come on Arsenal!"
Add to that the ref looked at VAR, deemed it a foul...and now it's not a foul apparently Oh well, I guess the referee's decision isn't final anymore, so let's try and get 3-0 up during the warmup tomorrow
The pull just outside the was a red for denying a goal scoring opportunity. As the ref gave a penalty it should have been a second yellow as it didn’t prevent a goal scoring opportunity. The VAR official should seen that the foul was outside the area and told the the referee that that was a matter of fact not judgement. Fulham would still have lost their player for one match but not necessarily lost a goal.
Now that Brentford and Citeh are in the semi-finals I think we know what one of the matches will be. Believe me I would be very happy to be wrong about this.
I can’t really complain at who we might get if we get through Stoke tonight. Chelsea aside we’ve had some pretty favourable draws in cups this season. We’ve only played one game in the league cup due to the Orient bye and we now have a quarter final against a Championship side. FA Cup we’ve drawn the lowest ranked side and in Europa we’ve got Wolfsberger who we *should* beat having had a relatively easy group (in which we should’ve done even better in).
I'm expecting Man Utd fans to issue a fatwa on the Grauniad after this... https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...e-100-best-male-footballers-in-the-world-2020 Man Utd fans continue to be weird...
You didn’t honestly think we were winning from seeing that starting 11, did you? Runarsson, Mustafi and Kolasinac all playing should have been a sign!
AFTV did. They were tugging themselves off at kickoff that Micah Richards namedropped them and said they had the right idea by dropping the first team for the kids
Well, this was partly the issue. Arteta didn't really play the kids like he should have done. He played a bunch of players who will be leaving us in the Summer, second-string players who aren't good at, well, anything....he also played a few first-team regulars who also regularly underperform. Then he played one or two younger players in the midst of all this. We've got a bunch of youngsters who have looked hungry and eager to make an impression when they've played in the Europa. We probably still would have lost had they featured, but at least it would have shown a different way forward, whilst simultaneously making clear the Chelsea game was more of a priority. It was Mustafi's 150th Arsenal appearance yesterday....yes, you read that right. If you keep picking players that disappoint you, you can't be surprised when they keep doing it.
The double jeopardy rule doesn't count if it's a deliberate foul in the box, which the ref deemed it to be. I think it was outside the box, but that would still be a red. I've no idea how he's escaped a ban. They must be saying that it wasn't a foul, which is a bit ludicrous.
