Cheating ref - Oliver

How can there have been only 3 minutes of injury time at the end of the Utd match? There were a few subs in the 2nd half for sure and a couple of injuries. I was expecting at least 4 minutes if not a bit more. Then Utd waste about 45 second over a free kick and he adds nothing on at the end. Bollocks. Absolute bollocks.

Arsenal were poor up front. Sagna played 2 perfect crosses into the box and nobody could be arsed getting across their marker. It's not his fault they won... they had the type of player today that we need... Wayne Rooney. As much as we hate him, he lifts the team...we have ??????

As much as I hate the Vermin it was the best result for us in the circumstances. Arsenal would have been 9 points ahead of us had they won, not that it looks like we'll be pushing for top spot in any case 

We'll be lucky if we finish top 4 if we keep on losing to lower teams away from home. I just wish MP would settle on his best 11, and best 11 players if we have injuries....but this constant changing is costing us.

He likes to play out from the back...well if we keeping changing our FB's, then CB's, then keeper, then RMF, them LMF....where is the understanding, continuity with players knowing what the others will be doing next?

I know we had injuries to Silva and Fernando....but another change to both FB's can't help. Lescott hasn't played in how many games? I'm not saying its his fault as I haven't seen the game.. It's just the constant changing. 

Garcia is and has been fucking woeful, yet he keeps playing him. Put Milner alongside Yaya and play Navas, even if he's been distinctly average since he's arrived.

blueboy wrote:Arsenal were poor up front. Sagna played 2 perfect crosses into the box and nobody could be arsed getting across their marker.

Both of those crosses were just begging for someone to poke them in.  I watched the highlights last night and the first cross, there was an Arsenal player in precisely the right place (can't recall his name) and you can see him actively leaning away from the ball, then the close-up of him looking like he'd tried so hard.  And I think Bendtner had one on a plate, but it didn't sit down for him to nudge in.  Giroud was next to useless, useless being Ozil, who appeared to do the square root of bollocks all.  Even if the referee had given them another hour, they still wouldn't have scored.

As TMG said, it's horrible to watch the scum win, especially when we don't, but it does peg Arsenal back and now there's eight points between all the teams in the top half of the table.  The next few weeks are crucial, but at least this is a week where losing doesn't hurt us too much, even though a win would've been better.

Yeah, it was Gibbs for the first one. Then instead of throwing his body at it - Bendtner decided to try and stretch a leg at it.

I would have preferred a draw, but Arsenal just couldn't do it in the final third.

blueboy wrote:Garcia is and has been fucking woeful, yet he keeps playing him.

Well, it looks like Larsson may have done us a favour, Garcia may well be out for a few weeks.