Arsenal buying a defender, diving bias, and more on twitter

I’m working on a larger piece for tomorrow which details Howard Webb’s complete record when refereeing a top four team so, just some quick thoughts on today’s news stories and some follow up on yesterday’s piece about players using twitter.

Buy buy buy

Wenger did the thing that he always does in the transfer window and has everyone [...]

Manchester United Babies 1 Arsenal Men 0 (And Player Ratings)

Let’s be clear about this. We didn’t deserve to win this game. But, equally, we didn’t deserve to lose. And what struck me most about the game was what a pathetic bunch of cheating babies the United players are. More about that in a moment, but first a word for Howard Webb: …………………….TIT If he [...]

Determined performance puts Arsenal second

Not sure I took a breath in the four minutes of extra time as Everton piled on the pressure forRead the Rest…

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Van Persie blames Howard Webb for Holland’s defeat!

Everybody in the world is in agreement that Spain fully deserved to beat Holland in last nights World Cup Final, but Robin Van Persie, along with a few other Dutch players, think that Howard Webb was instrumental in the Spain win, especially in the events leading up to Spain’s winning goal.
Van Persie was especially scathing [...]

The Daily Antoine 10/7/2010 LFC News Digest

I am back home now, tomorrow’s edition will be back to the normal schedule, YNWA Cally will be thinking of Babel & Reina tomorrow more… (One of them will get a winner’s medal even if they don’t play) Torres doesn’t know if he will start tomorrow more… (We will support you Nando but please don’t [...]

Benitez – It was 100% a penalty!

Rafael Benitez is absolutely certain that Liverpool should have been given a penalty by Howard Webb yesterday against Arsenal, when William Gallas clumsily up-ended Steven Gerard, and believes that, if it was given, it could have all been different.
“It was 100% a penalty,” said Benitez. “It doesn’t matter if the ball is going away in [...]

Ballack – City were strong (with the refs help!) but Chelsea will bounce back

The Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack admitted that Man City played well yesterday, but if it wasn’t for a few dodgy decisions by the referee, Chelsea could easily have still got a result.
He says that Chelsea just have to accept the result, but doesn’t think there is any reason for the team not to bounce back [...]