Lol, can I borrow those glasses? I'd love to see how everything looks in rose... Brum game - the only contentious decision was the one not to send of Lojack and give a penalty in the first minute. Barcelona - are you seriously claiming that you could have beaten them had RVP not been sent off? In that case, I hereby claim that had Carragher been sent off we would have beaten Liverpool, and had Luiz been sent off we'd have beaten Chelsea Sunderland - you're probably right there, but then a team in good form would have seen off a Sunderland side that was missing seven first team players through injury long before the 85th minute and the bad decisions would have been irrelevant.
Of course, you'll have a different opinion. I'd fully expect you to. However as I said, the calamitous ending to the Brum game (our own doing) is a 1 in a 1000 freak passage of play, unlikely to happen again (at Arsenal) for a number of years. Had that game gone to extra time, we could have won it The ref against Sunderland denied us a valid goal long before the 85th min blatant penalty that wasn't given. That game could have been 2-0 The Barca game was poised at 1-1 with the game opening up, before the ref ruined it for us. It pure speculation to say what might have happened and in the end, we got mauled. Playing with 11 men is difficult at the Nou Camp, playing with 10 is near impossible. If RVP was on the end of the Bendtner chance...who know? We have been victims of poor luck - rather than poor form
You should have been down to 10 men against Birmingham and they should have had a penalty so I don't see where the lack of luck was there. Barcelona had a goal wrongly disallowed in the 1st leg and should have had a penalty in the first half of the 2nd leg so again I don't see where Arsenal's lack of luck was. The only game where you were unlucky was Sunderland.
Maybe, but had your keeper been correctly sent off in the first minute, it could have been 3-0 Brum. I thought you only had two decisions go against you - the penalty and the offside. Both of which were in the last ten minutes of the match. The Barca game wasn't really poised. It was one way traffic and you hadn't had a shot on goal until that point. Utd could just as equally argue that had Luiz been sent off for Chelsea, with the score 1-1, who knows what might have happened. And likewise, who knows what might have happened had Carragher been sent off for Liverpool. We can play 'what if' for the rest of the day but the fact remains that both teams have only won three out of their last seven games, and both teams have played poorly in their last few games, which is poor form by our respective standards.
