Good thing that it didn't impact the final score, but I'm amazed that Brighton didn't get a penalty for that high boot by Gusto. Total incompetence as usual from Hooper, and just as bad from VAR.
Agreed. VAR should never be used for something like that. On live viewing, I imagine almost every football fan said penalty. How on earth the VAR decides to get involved with that one, but not get involved with the Brighton one yesterday.
Arteta has every right to go ballistic. If the slight touch from Pope was enough to overturn the penalty, then the slight push from Woltermade should have ruled out that. (My view is that neither contact was sufficient for an overturn.)
Watched him in most of Germany’s game at the U21 Euros and he was superb. He has since been promoted to the senior side. Would love to see someone like that play for us.
Watching Newcastle United vs Arsenal and if it carries on like this Ramsdale is just going to be playing a few cup games. Money talks I suppose....
All depends what his options were, didn’t seem like there was much interest in him. Probably backed himself to compete for the number one spot at a PL side than be playing in the Champ. Especially under former manager who didn’t seem to rate Pope that highly
I do wonder what the general perception of him is. Nobody I know rates him at all and whenever he’s mentioned bring up his relegation record. The Arsenal fans are a bit kinder on him but say Raya is a big upgrade. Maybe the sorts of teams he could’ve joined were relegation favourites and he didn’t want to do that again. We’ll see what happens in the summer, if he barely plays this year and we don’t go up it could be interesting.
