Said it the other day that the PL is a harsh "acid test" for players. No shame on Werner if he cannot make the transition.
Us ! If we are to play in this negative way then lets get the master of it to go full Spurs-Stoke. We can hack our way to a plastic reindeer cup.
We’re not the only team who does what they can to try and gain an advantage in the penalty area it seems: Not even a booking!
It's a push and he falls over. Not a penalty, but not a dive. We didn't get the decision either, despite it being the same official for the VAR on your one, which was clearly a blatant dive: Lee Dixon and Ian Wright are clearly biased against Arsenal. Tierney was right to give the decision to... Tierney...
Are you kidding me? Of course he dived! Look at the way he goes to ground, it doesn't look natural at all. There's no 'push', there's barely any contact if any at all. It isn't the first time Kane has dived and it certainly won't be the last. I personally think the penalty we got was extremely soft, but there was more contact on Tierney from Reece-James than Saiss on Kane. please log in to view this image You naming people who thought it wasn't a penalty means nothing, by the way. Shearer thought it was a penalty, and I saw two different sets of Chelsea fancams on YouTube say it was a penalty, too. It wasn't a 'clear and obvious' decision to overturn if people can't agree on it.
I completely agree mate ... am genuinely pleased that I can not go to games atm cos if truth be told I would be telling my girls I'd rather stay home and watch Eastenders than spend £150 on taking the 3 of us to a game. Either way, we are gonna be bored ****less and wondering why we bothered ...but at least I'd be £150 better off!
There's far more contact on Kane than there is on Tierney and what little there is on the Arsenal man is from his own actions. He Piresed it. Goes to ground and sticks his leg back to make contact with the defender. Anyone that thinks that's a foul should stop watching football altogether, as they have no idea what they're watching. It was a blatant dive and it should've been overturned. It wasn't because Tierney is ****ing useless and he gave it to his namesake. The Premier League should ban him in the same way that they did Niasse for Everton, but they won't. Cavani should've been banned for this last week, but they're not fit for purpose:
On first viewing, I thought it was a clear foul. Watching the replays, I wouldn't have given a penalty for it because I do feel Tierney's gone down too easily. However, if we look at the standards of what's a penalty these days, any contact whatsoever in the box from a defender on an attacker can result in an advantage for the attacking team. Until this changes, and common sense is applied, players will keep doing it. The Tierney incident isn't the first one of its kind to be rewarded with a penalty. The fact that there's benefit of VAR, looking at the incident from multiple angles, with two assistant VAR officials at Stockley Park too, and none of them deemed it worthy to overturn, should be the wider concern.
And he's already got such a great connection with the fans! He was never sent off in the Premier League, so it's about time he corrected that.
