General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Are you saying that anyone who gets treatment and comes back on was faking?

I'm saying he was faking.

Football refs have no real confidence in what they are doing, you can see it in their body language. Players influence their decisions otherwise the players wouldn’t bother harassing the refs. American football/basketball/rugby etc doesn’t have that issue because the players do not influence the ref ‘team’. The poor soccer ref is on his lonesome and subject to all sorts of hassasment. The pressure refs are under is immense during games. It’s too much for one man as is evidenced by the erratic nature of every refs performance from minute to minute during games. And this lark of the linesmen running to the refs to walk off the pitch at halftime/full time what’s all that olden days lark for? Ridiculous carry on which points to how outdated the whole soccer referring set up is.

Advantage City.

Arsenal cost themselves the title, they don't have it mentally.

Arsenal just cost arsenal the title. 2-0 and they completely bottled it. Clinging on at the very end against a team who have been awful all season.

2 points dropped by Liverpool, wouldn't of believed that after 40 minutes. Big thanks to Xhaka for waking up the team and crowd when they were cruising.

Why did Arsenal stop playing when 2 up and spent the rest of the match faking injuries and time-wasting. They could of had the match won at half time if they wanted to. Lucky to get a point in the end