As for the standard of the commentators on the BBC ITV and Sky, it is so biased i just turn the sound down and watch the picture on the telly, its far better that way or watch it on stream from the far east.

“We are are the Arsenal and we don’t care we’ll win the league anyway”

Watching Arsenal on Chinese TV channels, joy which cant be bought with money.

PS Presumably by Christmas we can expect a season long ban for Ronaldo?

As per usual the football authorities are making a complete balls up of a situation. We have had one UEFA referee retire because of death threats and at least one other ref has received them. Which club was involved in both incidents – Chelsea. Whose players reacted disgracefully after being beaten by Barcelona and then had bans reduced – Chelsea. Why was no serious action taken after these events?

Also will we have goal keepers banned if TV evidence shows them to have made contact and no penalty is given. If you apply a little bit of common sense to this UEFA are opening up a can of worms that will end up causing chaos.

If UEFA do go forward and ban Eduardo OK but if they do not follow this through and apply it to every other alleged dive Arsenal should take legal action.

The reaction to it from some pundits has been ludicrously over the top. The first goal last night was always going to be crucial, it’s a shame it came about the way it did, but can anyone really tell me that over the course of the 180 minutes it made a difference to the overall result? Celtic had two shots on target over both legs. One tame effort in the first half of the first leg and one in the 92nd minute last night which resulted in Donati’s goal.

Arsenal scored five goals. Even without the Eduardo penalty we’d have won last night yet they’re bleating on about Eduardo being a ‘cheat’.

It’s funny but these are the same people who told you ‘Tiny Taylor’ “isn’t that kind of guy” when he shattered Eduardo’s leg and ankle and put him out of football for over a year.

It’s easy to condemn a dive, it’s safe, yet you rarely hear the same condemnation for acts of violence or dangerous tackles.

Eduardo is a cheat yet Michael Owen is ‘clever’ when he wins a penalty against Argentina with a dive. Steven Gerrard is notoriously light on his feet yet he carries no reputation as a diver. You can be sure that Eduardo will after one incident.

We all know there are rules that don’t apply to some because of who they play for or what international shirt they pull on.

Another way to look at it is, maybe this is the cynical streak that we need to see from Arsenal, afterall when Bobby Pires was prone to tumble Arsenal were winning things.

Putting that to one side I have to say the ITV coverage of the incident was absolutely shocking. Clive “that night in Barcelona” Tyldesley spent the entire time after the Eduardo dive berating him and almost seemed to want to ignore the other goals entirely whilst he continued with his relentless moaning about the shocking cheating on display.

Based on the dummy commentators ou’d think that Celtic had been all over Arsenal by listening to them whereas in truth Eduardo and Bentner missed sitters. Eboue went close and Eduardo produced a good save from Boruc! Cetlic meanwhile put the ball in the net from an offside position and er, well that was it!

In short, Eduardo was wrong but it made no difference whatsoever to the result (so get over it Scotland) and please, please, please somehow get football away from ITV…just look how much better the Grand Prix coverage is now!

Back in the studio Kenny Dalgish seemed to have stepped out of a time-machine with his “those cheating foreigners come over here with their diving ways” comments. His assertion that English players only do it because they see foreign players do it was absolutely laughable. I have to say, if it was Rooney diving with Man U playing against an Italian team I am absolutely convinced the reaction would have been dramatically different.

Finally, all those people coming out and saying that they no longer have sympathy for Eduardo following his shocking injury just because he took a dive should be ashamed of themselves. Are they really saying that if a player dives he can have a horrific shattered leg and they wouldn’t feel any sympathy for that? I have always felt that Ronaldo is an odious character but I would certainly not wish any form of injury on him and if he were to suffer a career threatening break I’d have nothing but sympathy for him. Football fans are notoriously fickle but this level of about-turn in people’s views of Eduardo must be leaving a lot of people very dizzy.

http://www.skysports.com/video/clips/0,23791,12606_5520166,00.html

No point acting like a child that lost his dummy as the truth be told we have sufficient back-up up front with the loss of Eduardo.

Should a similar situation happen again the Arsenal FC should be the club to give a “nudge” to the FA and UEFA.

“Arsene! What you view on Rooney’s Penalty?”
“Well, we have to respect the referee’s decisions but I’m sure FA and UEFA and Michele Platini will be reviewing the incident.”

Where were all these people all the years that Ronaldo & Drogba were diving? No. Arsenal fans must not let them forget.