WEG, whatever the situation surrounding the second goal, if we had been awarded the penalty it would have been a moot point anyway. one bad decision followed by a highly suspect one were our downfall last night. and regardless of the errors made by fab, he made some fine saves and sol scored the away goal which gives us more than a fighting chance. do you really suggest that we buy more players to sit on the bench when our players are injured. 5 plus rvp.

we all have to remember that its only half time in this match.

The fact that before the start of the season, English pundits were going on and on about Liverpool winning the league and Arsenal finishing behind Man City and out of the top 4. Everyone was saying that Everton should beat us before the game. From the Eduardo diving incident vs. the “flying” Rooney incident against Arsenal this season. And of course, the point constantly highlighted in this site that Arsenal have NEVER won a penalty this season despite always being “bullied” off the pitch by physical roughnecks. Fletcher on Arshavin watched by Mike Dean anyone?

And of course.. The Porto game… People are going on and on about “karma”. That Henry started it. I’ll save my comments about that incident for the other post specifically highlighting that issue.

In short, double standards are painfully obvious and are painful to swallow when Arsenal are on the shorter end of the stick. And even worse when some Arsenal fans get brainwashed by this double standards…

Johny: The guy, Naz, From Nigeria is absolutely correct. But would the iZombies say the truth? Of course not; It happened to ‘bloody foreign Arsenal’. Woe betides any referee or team that tries the same with their darling ManIOU or even Chelsea. But we are not any of those teams, and we certainly don’t have Gerrad in our team. Yes, it is okay to them if we are cheated.

Belief is what you write about. Belief is what you cite that lads have outside of the UK. And, belief is what IOU fans have and Chavs fans have.
You are correct and it’s shameful for the lack of respect given and shown to our lads and Wenger. I was going to write a piece on Denilson to point out his quality and along my journey I discovered that he has a story. It was a great read (research) and some things I knew about him and others I did not. The point being he has amassed quite a CV at 22 yrs. of age. Did anyone know his father was a professional in Brazil. Quit at 25 to raise 4 young boys. 3 of the Neves boys are professionals. Did you know he lost his Mum at age 10 but still had the passion and the belief to become a professional at 14 for Santos? Did you know Denilson captained Brazil Nationals u-14′s, u-15′s, u16, u-17, u-18, u-19 & u-20? At age 22 he has played for our team since 2006 and has amassed over 72 appearances and has played over 58 full games.
So when I or you ask for patience it’s only sensible. Who in their right mind would let this darling footballer go? Well the answer is our fans… ANd, if anyone were to do a little research on “our” supposed youth team they would find similarities of successes at a young age. We are excelling younger and playing better than 99% of Europe. The average age of the supposed elite teams in Europe is at minimum late 20′s. Arsenal is 23!
Seriously the right is ours to view this team but we have no right to disrespect anyone ever. I say this I am disgusted with Arsenal fans and previous Arsenal managers and players who disagree with this team publicly. The tongue is an awful dirty thing and all’s I ask is before anyone opens the mouth to use it simply find out the story!

What a berk.

By his positioning (in the way) and virtue of the fact he put the ball down he has interfered with play and should wait until both teams are in position and aware play is to resume.

Another fascinating point (from another Nigerian Gooner) was made on F365 this morning it goes thus -

“So If The Advantage Rule Is Applied In The Penalty Area, Then What Would Happen With Penalties?
It seems that the conventional wisdom at the moment is that Arsenal should have no complaints about the second Porto goal. After all free kicks can be taken quickly, and have been in the past. However all those commentators miss a central point: the advantage rule does not apply in the box.

Because if advantage applies to indirect freekicks in the box, then it also applies to direct free kicks in the box, just like it applies to direct freekicks outside the box. What is a direct freekick in the box? oh yeah it’s a penalty.

So according to these luminaries, if the referee had given Rosicky a penalty last night the player was completely within his rights to take the ball from the referee while Helton was arguing about the award, place it on the spot and pass it into the net. After all as Graham “Three yellow cards” Poll tells us the rule says “advantage is immediately given to the team that has been wronged”.

Any response that says “but penalties are different” doesn’t count. Any response that says that “penalties have defined rules” automatically proves my point because penalties have defined rules solely because they are direct free kicks in the box.

So let’s hear why direct free kicks in the box are different from indirect free kicks in the box.
Naz, Nigeria”

Walter, again I’d like to hear your thoughts, I wouldn’t know where to begin with! However, I do think it’s an excellent and thought provoking point.