This is a foul, apparently: [video=dailymotion;xwdo2b]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwdo2b_gaston-offside-spherachannel_sport#.UOM4I2_tRGY[/video]
They had some, anyway: please log in to view this image Wilshere appeared to have a little less, though: please log in to view this image
Not quite sure how saints didnt win that? 2 points dropped by arsenal today. With west brom losing too, it's been a good day for us. We might have played more games that Chelsea, Everton and arsenal, but they've still gotta get the points on the board! Great Christmas period for us. Away win a @QPR followed by a draw against united and ill be over the moon!
There seems to be a controversial ref decision in every match, often more than one (didn't someone say earlier that Norwich should have had pen(s) against the spammers too?) There is this ludicrous idea that all things balance out over a season, but this is clearly not true as long as one incident has no bearing on another incident... which the vast majority don't. I'm therefore coming round to the idea that the table at the end of the season is to a great extent shaped by referees, with significant consequences when single points determine such important results (like us with the Champions League and 3rd place last year). Can we do anything about it? I don't know for sure but there must be more, such as video evidence. We're all encouraged to accept that bad refereeing is all part of the game - but why accept it? We assume there is no alternative, but there has to be!
Gaston Ramirez. I haven't seen it, but apparently West Ham's penalty was a joke and Norwich should've had two and the Spammer's 2nd involved a foul in the build up and a player going down injured. Not the Canaries' day, by all accounts.
so you dont give yourselves a chance to challenge us and city for the title like the pundits are saying
I don't really agree with that. We all get some for and against but the problem only comes when 2 teams finish close. I thought we got a raw deal from referees in more games than most last season but still I can also recall getting contraversial decisions go our way too. I'm against video reviews during games but I do think that the referees should be held to greater accountability and asked to explain their decisions after the game. Tha FA should be looking for trends in referees behaviour too, Webb for example nearly always sides for the bigger team(he just out and out hates us though ) and tends to shy away from big decisions unless they're in favour of a big side. The standard of refereeing in the Premier League is so poor because idiots like Webb and Clattenburg are championed as our best. It sets the bar way too low and what they have in common is that they both give United decisions and in general bow to the bigger club or home side so no wonder refs coming through are doing the same. I was thinking of starting a thread looking at some of the players we missed out on or didn't go for in the summer and whether we should've got them. I thought we were lucky to miss out on him up until now
So long as Torres is the lone striker I don't see us competing. I believe we have the best defence in the league though so as long as we keep out starlets fit we'll close the gap a little, all it takes is one loss and we are breathing down United's necks but its a big ask. Had we beaten that awful West Ham side we'd still be in it IMO
Superb predicting Arsenal will go unbeaten for the rest of the season and Benitez is Chelsea's saviour Now we wait...
Bloody awful decision not to send off Smalling in the Wigan v Man Utd game. Fergie's mind games win through, again.
Meh it's gone on for years were all used to it now. Lets just hope justice is done and City win the league. It's always a -7 handicap in August for whoever is competing against Man U anyway.
I think they've missed the point with a couple of Clattenburg's decisions. Kane was shoved in the area before the handball and after Cole had landed on the Norwich player's spine(surely worth stopping) but Cole then knocked over the defender on the line before the goal.
