Let's keep a record of the potentially game changing decisions that go for and against us. I've forgotten most of them so get posting and I'll stick them all in the top post. 1. Leicester H - dive outside the box penalty awarded 2. Swansea A - Snodgrass blatantly fouled in the box, no foul given 3. Arsenal H - Livermore handball, booted at him from a yard away. Debatably harsh? 4. Arsenal H - Cazorla on a yellow, commits three more yellow card offences, ref allows him to get away with murder and bottles giving the second yellow. 5. Southampton H - Tadic wreck less studs into Mason's knee. Yellow card only!
The thread. The idea that we're particularly hard done to by refs, and that it has a bearing on our fortunes. It's the kind of thing that schoolkids come out with when they keep losing games. Fans of every club think they get a raw deal. It's ridiculous.
One thing's for sure, 'we' were due some luck. Even more so after the 1st half, losing both strikers (possibly to long term injuries too) - simply unbelievable what's happening. I said at half time, we're due some luck from somewhere, maybe we'll get it this 2nd half. And so it was. Not meaning to take anything away from a spirited performance, but it really was against the odds. And could / should even have been 3-1 in the last minute.
I'm with Hat. We're often the cause of our own downfall but the refereeing I've seen this season has been shocking. Nailed on pen today. Doesn't matter that it was in the 94th minute. That could cost us come May. And that midfield **** for them could have wrecked Mason's career. OK, he's trying to do that all on his own but that's not the point. It was a straight red and did we get it? Did we ****.
