Ref Review : Leicester – Arsenal

19 Replies to “Ref Review : Leicester – Arsenal”

1. deluded

2. Interesting review which is sure to get you some stick from the usual suspects re the Musa non given penalty.

3. arwar

   ‘deluded’

   Are you talking about yourself?

4. I support arsenal but this is ridiculously biased

5. Arwar……evidence and rational arguments please or FOff to LeGrovel!

6. I’m impressed by your capability to have the ref review vailable so quickly.
   Great and interesting reading.

   Thanks for all the explanations

7. Arwar
   Do please tell us which particular parts of the review are biased and why.

8. Talking of a future top quality striker for Arsenal that could even have an immediate impact if signed before the transfer window is closed, the Nigerian bronze medals winning Rio Olympics Under 23 dream team V1’s striker Umar Sadiq readily comes to my mind.

   I am not an Arsenal FC scout. But if the striking exploits of Umar Sadiq for the NGR football dream team V1 that I watched at recently concluded Olympic games in Rio is anything to go by, I will recommend him to Arsenal to sign him from his Italian Series B Spezia club side. But he’s currently on loan at Roma. I obtained some this information from Google.

   Notwithstanding, I watched Umar Sadiq in all the matches he played for our dream team V1 at the Olympics and scored a couple of goals for us. I think the Boss and Hus coaches can train him further to turn him to a marquee striker Arsenal has been looking for since the departure of Robin van Persie left us.

   But has the Boss even watched him at the Olympics? And if yes, is he convinced Sadiq will be good for Arsenal as a top quality striker? Have even the Arsenal scouts tracked him, watched him, assessed him and rated him? If the Boss happens to read this my comment, will he trust my sense of judgement and thus signs Sadiq probably on the bargain price too. But if at all the Boss wants to sign him for Arsenal, how about the home office papers? Will that constitutes a hindrance for Sadiq to immediately starts playing for Arsenal ifbhe’s signed?

   I am making this recommendation totally based on football matters for Arsenal and because Sadiq is a fellow Nigerian citizen like me.

9. Thanks for the hard work. Without benefit of replays or slow motion I thought Clattenburg did a decent job. Better than expected. He looked the other way at the usual Diving Foxes Exhibition. Maybe next time he’ll have a look at the kicking, pulling & other nonsense Leicester got away with for a full season.

10. Talking of a future top quality striker for Arsenal that could even have an immediate impact if signed before the transfer window is closed, the Nigerian bronze medals winning Rio Olympics Under 23 dream team V1’s striker Umar Sadiq readily comes to my mind.

    I am not an Arsenal FC scout. But if the striking exploits of Umar Sadiq for the NGR football dream team V1 that I watched at the recently concluded Olympic games in Rio is anything to go by, I will recommend him for Arsenal to sign him from his Italian Series B Spezia club side. But he’s currently on loan at Roma. I obtained some of his information from Google.

    Notwithstanding, I watched Umar Sadiq in all the matches he played for our dream team V1 at the Olympics and scored a couple of goals for us. I think the Boss and his coaches can train him further to turn him to a marquee striker Arsenal has been looking for since the departure of Robin van Persie from us.

    But has the Boss even watched him at the Olympics on TV as I did? And if yes, is he convinced Sadiq can be good for Arsenal as a top quality striker? Have even the Arsenal scouts tracked him, watched him, assessed him and rated him? If the Boss happens to read this my comment, will he trust my sense of judgement? And thus signs Sadiq probably on the bargain price too. But if at all the Boss wants to sign him for Arsenal, how about the home office papers? Will that constitutes a hindrance for Sadiq to immediately starts playing for Arsenal if he’s signed?

    I am making this recommendation for Arsenal totally based on football matters and not because Sadiq is a fellow Nigerian citizen like me.

11. I think there has to be a kind of re-ordering of priorities here by the Boss. Sky Sports sources have had it that Valencia won’t sell Mustafi to us save if his release clause of over £40m triggered. I think the Boss should suspend this CB transfer purchase till in the winter if the need to sign one is still pressing.

    Why should Valencia force Arsenal hand to pay such a ridiculous amount of money to get Shkodran signed from them? Whereas he won’t be worth more than £25m on the market if weren’t Arsenal that are bidding for him.

    Save the 2 penalties appeals by Leicester which Ref Mark Clattenberg refused to award, the pairing of Koscielny and Holding at the heart of the Arsenal defense-line has spoken volumes of defensive stability at the King Power Stadium last Saturday evening.

    Before Gabriel is back from his short injury sideline and Mertesacker from his long injury spell, I think save any further unknown injury happening to any of our remaining CBs of: Koscielny, Chambers, Holding and Bielik, the need to worry or panic by the Boss his defense-line will fail him again as they did in the Liverpool game at the Ems a fortnight ago is erased with his pairing if Koscielny and Holding as CB partners at the heart of our defense-line, I believe Arsenal are now done as far as CBs stability is concerned with this new CB partnership by Koscielny and Holding. And I believe they will get better an better and even contain Chelsea and their Diego Costa in an upcoming big game at the Ems.

    Therefore, the Boss should now shift his emphasis to signing a striker instead of that of a CB who could drain Arsenal finances. Arsenal has Akpom as a specialist striker option and cover to Olivier Giroud. And could as well bring in Umar Sadiq as another option reinforcement who I’ve talked about in my recent past comment.

    Let it not be taken as if I’ve contradicted myself as I’ve said in my precious comments that the Boss may have to choose if by paying above the odds the signee can give him what he wants or refuse to sign him if thinks he can’t be sure the player can give or guarantee him what he wanted.

12. I think there has to be a kind of re-ordering of priorities here by the Boss. Sky Sports sources have had it that Valencia won’t sell Mustafi to us save if his release clause of over £40m be triggered. I think the Boss should suspend this CB transfer purchase till in the winter if the need to sign one is still pressing.

    Why should Valencia force Arsenal hand to pay such a ridiculous amount of money to get Shkodran signed from them? Whereas he won’t be worth more than £25m on the market if it weren’t Arsenal that are bidding for him.

    Save the 2 penalties appeals by Leicester which Ref Mark Clattenberg refused to award them, the pairing of Koscielny and Holding at the heart of the Arsenal defense-line has spoken volumes of defensive stability at the King Power Stadium last Saturday evening.

    Before Gabriel is back from his short injury sideline and Mertesacker from his long injury spell, I think save any further unknown injury happening to any of our remaining CBs of: Koscielny, Chambers, Holding and Bielik, the need to worry or panic by the Boss his defense-line will fail him again as they did in the Liverpool game at the Ems a fortnight ago has been erased with his pairing of Koscielny and Holding as CB partners at the heart of our defense-line, I believe Arsenal are now done as far as CBs stability is concerned with this new CB partnership by Koscielny and Holding. And I believe they will get better an better and even contain Chelsea and their Diego Costa in an upcoming big game at the Ems.

    Therefore, the Boss should now shift his emphasis on signing a striker instead of that of a CB who could drain Arsenal finances. Arsenal has Akpom as a specialist striker option and cover to Olivier Giroud. And could as well bring in Umar Sadiq as another option reinforcement who I’ve talked about and recommended for Arsenal in my recent past comment.

    Let it not be taken as if I’ve contradicted myself as I’ve said in my precious comments that the Boss may have to choose if by paying above the odds the signee can give him what he wants or refuse to sign him if he thinks he can’t be sure the player can give or guarantee him what he wanted.

13. Interesting review. Complete media silence on any penalties we may have been due

14. Penalties for Arsenal?

    All the muppets either support teams that want Arsenal to do poorly, or are former Arsenal players who will readily crap on Arsenal (for money).

    Who needs enemies, when you have muppets like that?

    Or enemas for that matter.

15. The 2 non-penalties for Arsenal were very disappointing, especially taking into account the penalties awarded in the Stoke v Man City game earlier on Saturday, along with all the talk of clamping down on holding in the box, and Jamie Redknapp writing for the mail, saying “Mike Dean, who gave both penalties on Saturday, is braver than most referees but it is now up to the others to follow his lead week in, week out — regardless of how much stick they get”. It looks like the “week in, week out” did not even last a couple of hours.

    Regarding the Bellerin penalty incident, I agree with the fact that it was not a penalty. In my view, Musa employed the same tactic as Vardy did last season. The player ensures that he enters the box ahead of the defender, where he then plants his leg across the defender, with no intention of continuing his run. The defender, who is running as quickly as he can, then has nowhere to go, and he runs into the attacker. This is not a foul contact, but a deliberate attempt by the attacker to con the referee and buy the penalty. Leicester got away with this tactic many times last season, luckily Clattenburg did not fall for it this time around.

16. Mike Dean can be correct a million times but that does not forgive him his cheating. He should never be allowed to officiate in any sport.

    The review was excellent. I am biased so some of the incidents were not as I saw them, particularly Musa trying it on with his right leg searching for contact before the dive. He should have been red carded for unsporting conduct & trying to cheat the officials.

    Unsporting conduct is as bad as taking drugs. It cheats the truth & robs sporting glory.

17. Very interesting, especially the bits about Vardy. So, he might have been off the pitch and Leicester down to ten men?

18. @Pat and Walter in general

    I don’t think it is really fair to penalise the ref for missing a red on Vardy because he missed both Yellows. I think if he had the original yellow he wouldn’t have made the second challenge. The second yellow miss was a really bad challenge that I noted to my mate at the time and it was definitely a mistake to miss it, but I think we should only penalise for a missed red if there is already a yellow in place…catch my drift?

    On the second (late) penalty claim I think it was actually a correct decsion. The side on replay shows that Musa actually jumps across Bellerin’s line and hence it is he who initiates contact and therefore should not be a foul. Still we were lucky as it would have been hard for Clattenburg to see that. But this is still a grey area in Football as you could argue somewhat that he is closer to the ball and is allowed to shield the ball therefore allowed to cut infront of Bellerin’s line (maybe that he cuts into the side of Bellerin’s line still means no pen)

    Like Walter I thought this was the ref of two halves. Clattenburg was disgustingly bad against Arsenal in the first, but he was quite good in the 2nd. I would debate however there wasn’t really much in the penalty claim on Koscienly, it was going a bit both ways and fairly incidental contact. Koz was just not quite in the right place to nod it home.

19. David M, you’re obviously correct that a 1st Yellow would probably result in different events following, but it’s not possible to review what may have happened. Vardy isn’t dumb (playing-wise) but everyone has bad days when they do things they know they shouldn’t.
    If we get into reviewing what could have happen then when a player gets a straight red they’d need to guess if the manager changes the team, so who comes off for the sub defender/attacker etc etc. Too many variables, as I’m sure you understand.