Ref review: Arsenal – West Ham United. There was a certain level of bias by the referee. But how much and against which team?

10 Replies to “Ref review: Arsenal – West Ham United. There was a certain level of bias by the referee. But how much and against which team?”

1. Thank you for the review.

   It would be interesting to compare this pgMOB representatives performance in this match, which let’s be fair was an embaressment to anyone watching the match let alone Mike Riley and his employers, with the pgMOB reps performance in the UEFA CL SF match he did (Madrid derby).

   What happens to this pgMOB representative (& others) when they officiate matches involving AFC? Was he smacked on the head by Riley’s truncheon and suffered concussive amnesia as a result? A opposed to be censored for going to a concert? Was he asked to apply the rules of the ass.football code for one team, and another unknown unrecorded yet variable code for the other? Perhaps he just forgot that he was at a football match and was having the day off?

   Who knows,but he sixty odd thousand people in the stadium watching the football match did not deserve to see such a poor official who appeared to not know the rules of association football (written down C1850).

2. hmmmmmm ..they actually managed to stage protest with more than 8 people??!! well done! finally we can take them seriously now. all 27 of them !!!

   and how they pose for the cameras and the attention…

   the pride of north london !!!

3. An excellent review, once again the idiot in black was not fit for purpose – very obviously to everyone who watched the game – something which the media pundits cannot disguise.

   This was a good win for our guys despite the PGMO.

4. Thanks for that. Saw that game from behind the goal, do not know how we didn’t get at least one penalty….or actually I do.
   Until the club make a stand…..or if manager leaves ….if he has offended some jobsworth in power by telling it how it is, including this season, accusing a ref of being an embarrassment to his federation…, this will happen over and over
   Arsenal get it in the neck for a number of reasons….regional bias, a manager who has upset the desired status quo In the past, and if left unabated, could do so, again, a club who do not play the game….but partly, because they are so incredibly ,awfully feckin passive to this cheating. Would rivals put up with this ref shite?
   Wonder if they will change if cheated out of the top four?

5. Mandy…..nobody from the EPL clubs(managers,owners,players,supporters, management) are beating down the PIGMOB’s door or the FA’s for that matter, so why not?

   1)The FA levies fines for anyone involved in direct criticism or overt ridicule of officials decisions or persons.

   2)EPL clubs know that nobody listens to them anyway.

   3)EPL clubs know that nothing will change in the PIGMOB.

   4)It’s a mafia-type organization that answers to noone in particular and is as secretive as the mafia, so they pay off their ex-members to ensure omerta!

   5)If Arsenal openly attacked the PIGMOB, there would be revenge worse than we already suffer.

6. The media (newspapers , Sky , BBC , BT etc ) all pay for the product and so they can’t /won’t crictise the product they earn a fortune from
   Sadly I don’t think there treatment of Arsenal won’t change
   I said on an earlier thread how did Lloris stay on the pitch in the Spurs v WH game last Friday he knew exactly what he was doing if only Arsenal had partially sighted referees doing there games

7. Good work , guys . Thank you. Some of the non given fouls were truly terrible . Poor Nacho , lucky he didn’t get any broken bones.

8. omgarsenal

   An excellent summary of Arsenal’s dilemma on the biased refereeing.

9. Agree Pat.

   omgarsenal

   You sum up the dilemma well.

   But I have said before, the way we are treated has nothing, or virtually nothing, to do with PGMOL. They do not run, manage, discipline, assess or anything else, in regards to the referees.

   The referees referee in accordance to how they will be judged in the media. The media run the referees.

   It is they who determine whether a ref is good bad or indifferent.

   If they are seen to be lenient with Arsenal, and heaven forbid deemed to of been culpable in us securing a victory, they will get slaughtered in the media, and they know it.

   If they screw us they will be praised.

   The ref in the FA Cup final against Hull was a disgrace but got roundly praised for not falling for our players ‘antics’ in the box and NOT awarding 4 good penalty appeals.

   Only on the back of the media kicking up a stink will the PGMOL react.

   In the same vein, if Wenger does something the media don’t like, they will keep on and on about it until he is duly punished.

   When others transgress, not a word, and the incident is left to die, and nothing happens.

   As a prime example of this we had just the other night Klopp throwing a bottle of water to the ground a la Wenger, and not a word was said by the commentators, or the officials.

   If the officials had failed to punish Wenger at the time they would of kept on and on about it until he was.

   Has anything happened to Klopp?

   Have the media even mentioned it?

   If soI haven’t seen it.

   I’ve googled ‘Klopp throws water bottle’ and guess what? Nothing.

   I’ve also googled ‘Wenger throws water bottle’ and guess what? A page full of articles and utube.

   As I say, the referees referee in accordance to how the media dictate they do.

   If Arsenal made a protest about the way we are refereed the media would have a field day. As omg suggests, things would simply get worse.

   Honestly. I don’t know what the answer is.

10. Yes but why are all the press against us.