We’ll kick the day off with the disappointing news that the 18-year-old that sent death threats to Ian Wright was let off with probation.
— Ian Wright (@IanWright0) February 3, 2021
White privilege my friends. The judge rolled out the usual nuggets that come with this sort of thing. The mega racist was doing well at school. He had a law-abiding family. Still young, a life to live for. He’s shown remorse. He’s a ‘good boy.’ Sure… let’s sweep under the rug that this kid is a massive racist menacing people with death threats in his spare time.
These sort of let-offs are why the internet continues to be a shitty place for a lot of people. If this disgusting human was doing that to you in real life, he’d be in prison… but because it’s on a phone, it’s perceived as being softer. When you do things like that, you are setting out to emotionally terrorize someone, it should not be trivialised.
He walks away without a record. This is a massive miss by the judge and a total misunderstanding of the harm this sort of behaviour inflicts on people.
Onto a trivial form of injustice… the conversation continued today around Dave Luiz. I think most fans realise the decision was an abomination. Arsenal are planning to appeal the red card, but who knows if it’ll be overturned. The bigger question Premier League clubs is how long are they prepared to accept such unbelievable mediocrity in their officials? Why is Mike Riley in charge of PGMOL? He was a shit ref, apparently very dim. Why is there no accountability? Where is the plan to make things better?
Improving the standard of reffing in this country should be a major agenda point. The straw the broke the camel’s back has been VAR. Not because video is bad for the game, but because even with tools, more accuracy, and more eyes… the refs still get it wrong regularly. It’s a circus. Officials should blend into the background. It should be an absolute rarity that we’re talking about them… yet week after week, they are the focal point, and it is not fans being unfair.
Reed Hastings who runs Netflix believes the better the talent you have, the less rules you need. This should apply to refs. We keep solving their lack of good judgment with more and more rules and sub-rules. Football should be simpler. Refs should use their initiative. The game would be better for it.
A penalty shouldn’t be distilled down to ‘any contact.’ It makes the game boring. It allows shit sportsmanship to be palmed off as ‘clever.’ If penalties were given for clear foul play and strikers were rewarded for staying on their feet, it’d take so much controversy out of the game. If you throw yourself at a bootlace, no penalty. Contact should be meaningful. Refs should be able to decipher between a real penalty and one that was played for… but they can’t, can they? Pawson didn’t even want to look at that Luiz decision, his main aim was to make the game about himself and stick rigidly to his gut instinct. It was appalling to watch. The very base level of being at the top of your game as an official should be to challenge your own ego because the truth is the most important outcome… Pawson wasn’t interested, because he knew he didn’t have to, because there is never a day of reckoning for these folk. They don’t even have to speak to TV after.
The whole officiating things has been broken for years. We need better talent. Smarter innovation. Training courses. More accountability. It is staggering a league that generates so much money can be so casual about how average it all is.
Anyway, enough whining about refs.
Joe Willock has gone to Newcastle. It’s always amusing to read how highly players who have done absolutely nothing with their chances rate themselves. This was what he said.
‘He spoke about how he was going to use me, where he sees me in the team, he had a whole plan for me already. I was really shocked, it’s the first time I’ve had a manager who had a whole plan for me’
‘I was disappointed with the number of games I have played for Arsenal in the Premier League.’
Mate… come on. You’ve blown every chance you’ve been given! Don’t whine about opportunities.
The good news is that you get the other side of the story from ESR.
‘I had a knock on my hotel room door on the day of the game. And it was one of the coaches telling me the manager would like to speak to you downstairs. I was thinking, am I in trouble, have I done something wrong. I went down and he [Arteta] was sat down in a chair and he’s basically looking at me saying I’ve got good news for you, you’re starting tonight against Chelsea. He had the tactics board in front of him and showed me where I was playing and what I should do. He gave me so much confidence.’
The idea that Arteta doesn’t have a plan for players is off the mark. Joe Willock has to take his chances. He has to be more focused than he is, rumblings I hear aren’t that great about his focus at training. Still, he can always do a madness and blow-up where he is.
Right, before you go, I’ve dropped a podcast with Away Day Gooner, Lee Meadows… it’s a good one. We cover a lot of ground on Wolves, the squad, and what we’re looking for from the season. ENJOY!
AFC
Mourinho was a great manager in his day, lets not rewrite history.
At Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan he was phenomenal. Inter especially considering how bad they were in Europe under Mancini.
At Real he was a mixed bag and he put up 2 very good seasons at Chelsea in his second spell out of 3.
He has been finished as a top gaffer since 2016 though. Absolutely past it now and the game has passed him by.
Tom
LSD?
Guy’s a fucking menace
The funniest part of the Bale debacle is that he was on his way to the airport to board his private jet to China before Madrid canceled that transfer.
Moreover, Bale’s ridiculous barnet no longer suits him. Looks like someone’s uncle trying to be edgy but who works as an estate agent in St Albans.
Wales Golf Bellend
WE
Can’t stand the black ke or his football. His Porto team were probably the worst bunch of cheats I’ve seen. Think Celtic were threatening not to play them..
He was a dark arts manager.
*bloke.
Fingers too big!!!
PedroFebruary 4, 2021 21:42:49
People have to ask if they want to switch up names, otherwise, the algorithm police stop the comments.It’s generally only the weirdos who try and run with multiple names. That racist freak that comes on here to abuse does it, Bamford was planting accounts for a bit… but generally, you are all who you say you are.
Ooooooh 😂
Who’s the racist freak? 😂
I’d like to take the opportunity to clarify. I don’t rate Owen as a commentator.
Only rate him above the female on bt. She really is bad
Think Bales havin last laugh as he scroll the Gulf Stream back catalog.
Bale’s only in it for the golf now
Valentin,
Bale doesn’t need to punish his body to be in the shape needed to play golf.
Luiz appeal rejected while Southampton won their appeal.
Make of that what you will.
Peter Walton just now on BT said he believes Mike Dean was right to give a penalty to United. Even though everyone can see it’s a dive and the red has been overturned. He just can’t bring himself to say they got it wrong.
Ghar
Peter Walton is mad as a hatter. Clueless.
He typifies the problem we have. I gave some links this afternoon of videos where he’s hilarious.
*Ghat
Peter Walton. Watch this at 5:34 it is hilarious::
https://np.vlip.lv/video/1%2BZ%2Fxcg%2FW53vVWE%3D.html
WE
“At Real he was a mixed bag ”
Mou’s only mission at Real was to defeat Pep and his super team at that time. He came up with a game plan to counter tiki taki. He has succeeded to win the league resulting in Pep taking a leave from football. Just like his success in Chelsea, he lost the room the following season and he had to quit.
First two paragraphs were great just lose the first “white privilege” sentence given you’ve explained why the guy was let off in the rest of paragraph. To be clear I agree he got let off to easily but just because happens to be white doesn’t mean that’s the reason unless you have proper data to ack it up (ONS, Pew centre etc).
On the whole referee thing, yep refs are not good enough and your point about talking to TV after I think would help the fans to understand what the referees are thinking.
La Professor
PGMOL would never let their refs talk to us. They have no interest in what we want. That’s why they pay £50,00 to refetees on retirement – as long as they sign a gagging order.
Damn, some white people really hate the idea that their skin colour is beneficial to them.
White judge deems white 18 year old – who sent messages so vile most papers wouldn’t publish them – didn’t really mean them, is a good boy, has his whole life ahead of him, and he had a nice family.
That is white privilege right there.
‘Nice boy’ sending death threats against a black man from his bedroom… a nice boy.
I don’t know the BT female commentator but it’s impossible she’s worse than Owen
Owen talks a tonne if shit, he has a very open and clear anti arsenal bias, he has the worst dullest voice and lack of personality and worst of all the shot he says is so dumb. ‘They lost the game today but if they had scored more goals than the opposition they would’ve won’. Worst pundit ever
Val, I reckon it’s a bit of both… injuries, the slowdown after a monster career. I don’t think he’s mailing it in, otherwise he’d have stayed in Madrid.
Yeah I’m sorry but letting the racist guy who sends death threats to a black guy off completely because he’s young and has a nice family blah blah is the most standard white privilege thing you’ll ever see
And it happens time and again, in the UK and abroad.
You cannot seriously believe that this case was anything else
I’m white as they come, British (convict some will say as I’m an aussie, you can ask some more questions if you would like 😂) heritage. White people are the biggest cunts in this world. Couple that with their religious views ‘exempting themselves’ from actually having respect for the rest of the world, and we have the absolute shit fight we are still dealing with to this day; multiplied by a factor of 100 due to social media. This blog is all the social media I can live with (and it’s becoming harder to do). What’s the point of scrolling… Read more »
China, it’s so bad in America. They let that girl who stole a laptop from Pelosi’s office go home if she promised not to do anything bad, and she did… and they let college kid that raped a girl behind a bin off for 6 months because he was a good swimmer.
“ Bale also doesn’t seem to give a fuck about football anymore”
Didnt he have some golf nickname at Madrid because the players thought he gave more off shit about his swing than he did football? Here you go, they called him ‘The Golfer’
https://www.sportbible.com/football/foul-play-thibaut-courtois-reveals-gareth-bales-nickname-at-real-madrid-20190217
Money talks in a courtroom. It’s not even about the ‘education or good family’. Good family just means earning more than the average.
It’s such a flawed system it’s actually sickening
“because he was a good swimmer”
Holy fuck. You can’t even make this shit up.
Goober, not sure if this kid had money, but the judge certainly thought his family was so good, the disgusting racist death threats were a moment of madness versus deeply held views fueled by his upbringing.
Hopefully, with this Southampton decision, and a lot of other events , some will now starting to realise there is an agenda against Arsenal Football Club. I have no idea why that is, I can only imagine it is officials following orders rather than them in unison being biased against Arsenal, But usually, if in doubt, follow the money somewhere. There is enough dirty money to be made from football, perhaps our owners make things a little easier for someone a bit more streetwise than they are , (and most in the game seem more streetwise than the Kroenkes,) to… Read more »
Comments by the judge and legal counsel for the boy in the Wright case are absurd. “Nothing to gain by a custodial sentence”? How about deterring similar offences? “Doing great at school”? So it would be okay to jail him if he was a poor student (who may be less likely to understand the severity of what he did?). And he “showed remorse”. Amazing how remorseful people are when they get caught and are facing jail time isn’t it? As for “going forward without any stain on his record” FFS he’s a self confessed racist, if that isn’t a stain… Read more »
“As for “going forward without any stain on his record” ”
That actually is one thing that isn’t true – his name is now on the internet and will be there forever. What I didn’t realise is that he’s Irish ( I have a view that whilst they should be punished you shouldn’t also give these pricks too much attention) – I wonder what he’d say if he came to a match and was abused by a group of English (made of of both white and black guys) for being a dopey Irish fucker?
We must be reminded of what everyone agonized during the Nov/Dec period and how it could have been different if it were not for a certain manager’s stubbornness. From different sources: Mesut Ozil played after 332 days his first minutes in a Fenerbahce shirt this Tuesday in a match against Hatayspor. The German came on to the pitch in the second half and even though he only touched the ball twice, he was key in Fenerbahce’s winner. Arsenal fans have reacted on Twitter to Ozil having a hand in Fener’s winner just moments after coming off the bench to make… Read more »
Andy, the comments were so over the top, I can’t imagine the kids parents believed them.
MD, Ozil is playing in a shit league… his pre-assist was the most uninteresting pass you’ll ever see him make. Arteta was right to bin him. Good riddance.
” The German came on to the pitch in the second half and even though he only touched the ball twice, he was key in Fenerbahce’s winner.”
Oh God – Pierre will never let that go assuming he hasn’t wanked himself to death already over it.
I got plenty of closure when Ozil left thanks. For anyone who didn’t and prefers to laugh at Arsenal in support of Ozil they’re very welcome to follow their idol and his new team in that third rate league he’s languishing in.
Marc, no one needs to see a post with Ozil, Pierre, and ball touching in the same paragraph.
“Yeah I’m sorry but letting the racist guy who sends death threats to a black guy off completely because he’s young and has a nice family blah blah is the most standard white privilege thing you’ll ever see”
Is that really what happened? You sure he didn’t get a suspended sentence or something?
What exactly do you think the 18 year old should have gotten?
“Arsenal fans have reacted on Twitter to Ozil having a hand in Fener’s winner just moments after coming off the bench to make his debut for the Turkish club – and many applauded his efforts, impressed by his touch.“
I can see Pierre gracing the golf course tomorrow with spring in his steps, wearing the yellow and black top of Fenerbahce with number 67 Ozil on the back feeling alive again.
Diss, a criminal record.
Community service.
A suspended sentence
14 days behind bars.
Utter condemnation from the judge.
A fine bigger than his pocket money.
Pedro
I get your point now
He should,d have had a suspended conviction that could have been wiped off the record with good behaviors over a period of time.
He’s not a minor so the trial records can’t be sealed. He will get outed by a tabloid pretty soon.
Seems it’s more of affluenza, country club people taking care of their own.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55916729
Personally I think the bigger problem is this retard was motivated to do it after losing a game of FIFA where he’d picked Wright as a player.
Sterilisation would probably be a good start unfortunately its to late for the parents.
Dissenter
His names already on the BBC website – in that respect he’s named and shamed for life.
Diss, I don’t think the kid was rich… i might be wrong though.
Affluenza is white privilege. Let’s be honest.
For those who are interested, here is the media report. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/55916729 Like what Dissenter said, I am not sure what that 18 year should have gotten. And instead of “white privilege” you can repackage it as “good family privilege”, which in of it self is basically wealth privilege, which is a problem. Or it could be a combination of white and good family privilege. Then again we have on this blog people calling Wenger a “worse dictator than Mugabe” after a loss. I don’t think for a minute people really mean it, but when Wenger gets death threats, which he… Read more »
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9082351/Premier-League-clubs-like-Arsenal-Liverpool-use-missile-tracking-technology-data-war.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9225261/THE-SECRET-SCOUT-Arsenal-teenager-Ben-Cottrell-shades-great-Liam-Brady.html
Both links worth a look
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-9082351/Premier-League-clubs-like-Arsenal-Liverpool-use-missile-tracking-technology-data-war.html
Tony that optical analysis is very interesting. I’m not sure how the ‘old’ GPS data tracking compares to this new analysis, but it’s definitely playing a big role in the modern game. It also makes it very interesting as a fan to look at those ‘new era’ stats which gives literally everyone 1000 different way to view the game. But when it comes down to it, it’s really just good to watch and hopefully see your side win in an entertaining game. That’s the hope of most fans every time their team runs into the pitch. In saying that there… Read more »
I felt that Ian Wright’s reply was really honest. It highlights the disparity with those in charge ( white society) and how those who are minorities are treated. The long lasting effects cannot be quantified and qualified by those who have not faced this adversity. Pedro, Brock Turner was at Stanford when he raped that girl. About 2 miles from where I live right now. But alas, Judge Persky was recalled by a strong grass roots movement. It does not mean this stuff will continue to happen. It will. The saddest part is that it tells society that you can… Read more »
Why is it so hard to have respect and mind your own business? What the fuck does it matter what any other human being does unless it affects you negatively and personally. Social media is the epitome of weak mindedness, where everyone tries to out do each other in the stupidest ways possible and where everyone gets offended in place of someone else. It’s about following celebrities rather than actual truths or facts. It’s about stubbornness and massive ego’s, and proving you’re better than the next person aka all your followers. People are fucking shit. There is still good people… Read more »
Also refs at most levels are just absolute nerds of the game who couldn’t make it past the div 6 Sunday division subs bench.
They are a special breed, but the pgmol had outdone themselves with that Mike Riley leadership role.
Their interpretation of the rules and use of var is appalling. I would prefer the dad reffing the under 6s at my local club to ref than most refs in English Premier league games.
It didn’t even start with the ending of the invincibles run. It was going on well before that with just absolute shite officiating
Football in Australia is more brute and athleticism rather than technique. We are slowly changing that trend since Kewell and viduka were in the epl. But that is why our refs are all shit here too. Couldn’t deal with thugs in the lower divisions
The weekend game just became a 6 pointer. I stated before, we need to be beating teams above us, if we are to get top 6, villa sit one position above us with a game in hand, we need to make it difficult for them and get the three points.
At the start of jan, we were 10th, at present we sit at 10th, not much improvement to talk about in terms of the table, which sadly doesn’t lie.
I don’t normally watch the local league but the refs are mostly biased and fans are always waiting round the corner to jump on them. Refs though seem well protected within the league.
I don’t normally watch the local league but the refs are mostly biased and fans are always waiting round the corner to jump on them. Refs though seem well protected and respected within the league and clearly have more power than the PL or European refs.
Everybody jumping on the refs/pgmol are shit/biased bandwagon.at least 5 years too late. I tried to educate Le Grove but unfortunately , in typical Le Grove fashion, they reverted to abuse and ridicule. Unfortunately they were blinded by their wenger obsession and they found it impossible to admit that biased refereeing against The Arsenal was happening for years Anyway, they have got there in the end, and now their eyes are fully open to it, I expect many more Arsenal blogs to highlight the glaring bias against The Arsenal now that Wenger has left the building. Shame the Wenger obsessives… Read more »
Supreme leader is blinded by his love of Diet Pep
Pierre why don’t you give a prediction about Saturday upcoming game?
That O’Brien kid is obviously unhinged to launch such a tirade of abuse over a FIFA game. The law still hasn’t come to terms with modern technology, there is always a lag. This was a criminal offence that required a criminal conviction – period! Why should players and ex-players have to put up with this type of racist shit with no consequences for the perpetrators? – sickens me to the core. I bet the little prick wouldn’t have the balls to say it to Wrighty’s face! The joys of the internet age!
Pierre
I appreciate your efforts to educate the great unwashed on Le Grove!
Samesong “Pierre why don’t you give a prediction about Saturday upcoming game?” That’s easy … I predict that if we concede the first goal , there will be a deluge of Arteta out comments accompanied by the usual personal abuse aimed at our manager. Personally, I think our game is coming together. At this present time , I would rather see progress in performances than sneaking a lucky win… For me, It’s all about getting the team ready for next season… I’d like to see Arteta take more risks with his selections. Balogun, Azeez, Eddie and Martinelli given more game… Read more »
Aussie gooner..
I’m doing my best to educate them , but it is hard work sometimes…
Pierre
Fair enough.
With these lads confidence is a must. So I’m hoping for a win regardless of the performance.
Agreed would like to see Balogun and Azeez.
I predict that if we concede the first goal , there will be a deluge of Arteta out comments accompanied by the usual personal abuse aimed at our manager.
With Runnarson in goal though. We have to be realistic.
Here’s some educational information for Pierre; you’re a condescending stain on the comment section of Le Grove. That’s the nicest way I can put it. Consider yourself educated.
Odegaard should play false #9 flanked by Pepe and Saka with ESR as #10
If Auba is our CF then replace one of Saka,Pepe with Odegaard and ESR as #10.
Pierre – agree with your comment regarding the biased refereeing over the past seasons being ignored.
Villa will look to target Runarsson tmrw. I expect Arteta to put out a more defensive XI. Either with Ceballos as the #10 or a 343. Won’t be surprised if Smith Rowe and Odegaard are both on the bench. Partey didn’t have the best game against Wolves. Does he leave him out of the XI tmrw to manage his fitness? Back to back games against Leeds and Benfica in eight days time. Not sure if Partey can handle three high intensity matches in succession
“The long lasting effects cannot be quantified and qualified by those who have not faced this adversity.” that’s exactly the problem bet the judge has been racially abused millions of times (not) or is it more likely he identifies more with young well brought up racist … silly boy but seems to be from a good home and a good family , it really is a joke but that I am afraid that is the society we live in ….plain and simple , just not fare. That said I don’t have a great feeling about the Villa game and after… Read more »
I was surprised by Pires comment that Pepe was not suitable for the EPL. Usually he is a lot more circumspect about criticising Arsenal players. Maybe now that Wenger is gone, he does not think that he has to tip toes around the bush. I think that there is a player in Pepe, but that at his age and price paid for him, he should not be that raw. The amount of coaching to make him starts to do basic runs and take correct easy decision is baffling. He looks like one of those former star child prodigy who never… Read more »
I have said before white AND class privilege is an issue. Brock Turner the convicted Stanford rapist is the epitome of it.
Until old fashion judges and racists police officers are removed from their position of power, the same unjust events will take place.
Social media is cancer as it allows such attitude to go unpunished. However the good side is that now once exposed those guys will find very difficult to get on with their life without public opprobrium.
Brock Turner potential dating pool has been reduced to naive and uneducated women without friends and without access to internet.
Pierre
I’m not getting into a discussion on refs being biased but what I will agree with you on Pierre, is that the standard of the officials has deteriorated these past few years.
VAR has highlighted this even further.
Pepe should be loved not ridiculed.
Over these last three games we have seen just how effective he can be when he’s given the green light to start games.
He can help us progress.
Let him breath.
Since Ross Barkley has returns from his injury layoff, Aston Villa has conceded a lot more goals. I think that with Grealiash exiled on the wing and Barkley in the middle, sometimes they are too open. They lack a defensive minded player in the middle of the pitch. They seem to be susceptible to counter-attack. I wonder if Arteta will set us up to play a more aggressive pressing system against them, knowing that we have the players to score from swift movement. Retrieving the ball high up the pitch and not let Grealish take free runs at our defense… Read more »