[Albion] Maupay challenge on keeper.

SockMonster · Jun 22, 2020

Just read this in an Arsenal blog

"So, one sly little nudge from Maupay to try and win his team a free kick has all these knock-on effects and complications for Arsenal. It feels like we’ve been hugely punished while the bloke who caused it all gets away without any kind of censure. In rugby, a game where there is massive physical contact, a player who deliberately challenges an opponent who is in the air with no intention to win the ball gets a red card. It’s high time football recognised this is something that happens in our game too, and does something about it."

Thoughts?

sparkie · Jun 22, 2020

SockMonster said:
Just read this in an Arsenal blog

"So, one sly little nudge from Maupay to try and win his team a free kick has all these knock-on effects and complications for Arsenal. It feels like we’ve been hugely punished while the bloke who caused it all gets away without any kind of censure. In rugby, a game where there is massive physical contact, a player who deliberately challenges an opponent who is in the air with no intention to win the ball gets a red card. It’s high time football recognised this is something that happens in our game too, and does something about it."

Thoughts?

Thoughts ?

Arsenal fans should do an in depth analysis of when their players have pole axed opponents and how many got away with it. Lol.

LamieRobertson · Jun 22, 2020

SockMonster said:
Just read this in an Arsenal blog

"So, one sly little nudge from Maupay to try and win his team a free kick has all these knock-on effects and complications for Arsenal. It feels like we’ve been hugely punished while the bloke who caused it all gets away without any kind of censure. In rugby, a game where there is massive physical contact, a player who deliberately challenges an opponent who is in the air with no intention to win the ball gets a red card. It’s high time football recognised this is something that happens in our game too, and does something about it."

Thoughts?

Just refer them to the assault on the Greyhound in a recent match at the Amex and they might think again...oh and to compare that challenge with anything that happens in rugby..giveover

dazzer6666 · Jun 22, 2020

SockMonster said:
Just read this in an Arsenal blog

"So, one sly little nudge from Maupay to try and win his team a free kick has all these knock-on effects and complications for Arsenal. It feels like we’ve been hugely punished while the bloke who caused it all gets away without any kind of censure. In rugby, a game where there is massive physical contact, a player who deliberately challenges an opponent who is in the air with no intention to win the ball gets a red card. It’s high time football recognised this is something that happens in our game too, and does something about it."

Thoughts?

Thoughts ? The OP on the Arsenal blog who wrote that is a blinkered :wanker:

(unless of course he was calling for a retro red when Schelotto was poleaxed in a previous game against them)

Thunder Bolt · Jun 22, 2020

Thoughts? I listen to the professionals like Rio Ferdinand, Alan Shearer and Gary Linekar who say it was a normal jump for the ball which happens in any match, the result being an accident.
Unlike Lacazette who went in, studs up on Ryan.

sparkie · Jun 22, 2020

Another thought.

They were beaten by Little Old Brighton after expecting to turn up and pat our heads.

And they don't like it one little bit.

Yes Chef · Jun 22, 2020

I think they lost, and a lot of their supporters can't get round the temerity of a team like Brighton actually beating them.

If it's the other way around then they wouldn't be having any such discussion. I'm sorry for their keeper, but it's just bad luck, the same incident could happen a 1000 times over and no one gets hurt.

darkwolf666 · Jun 22, 2020

Clearly the Arsenal fan had turned off by the time Maupay was manhandled at the conclusion of another 3 points off Arsenal...

edna krabappel · Jun 22, 2020

Wenger's legacy- fostering an attitude that the entire world are vicious bullies who are out to nobble Arsenal's tiny, silken footballing pixies- lives on and will do for many years to come.

Tell me that Tony Adams or Frank Stapleton never nudged an opponent to put them off.

dazzer6666 · Jun 22, 2020

Thunder Bolt said:
Thoughts? I listen to the professionals like Rio Ferdinand, Alan Shearer and Gary Linekar who say it was a normal jump for the ball which happens in any match, the result being an accident.
Unlike Lacazette who went in, studs up on Ryan.

...even Arteta said it wasn't a bad challenge..............

nicko31 · Jun 22, 2020

Arsenal need to move on, they have massive structural issues in their squad beyond their keeper. So far off being a top side

The implosion since Wenger left was an accident waiting to happen

Guinness Boy · Jun 22, 2020

Ref thought it was fine, VAR thought it was fine, Rio Ferdinand thought it was fine. Maupay is entitled to go for it. End of.

If you want to make that a red card it will only happen going forwards. It won't cure Leno's injury or get Maupay a retrospective suspension.

Tom Bombadil · Jun 22, 2020

My thoughts are that the reactions of arsenal fans on social media are absolutely hilarious and have entertained me no end over the last 40 odd hours. Seriously what a bunch of cry babies.

essbee1 · Jun 22, 2020

SockMonster said:
Just read this in an Arsenal blog

"So, one sly little nudge from Maupay to try and win his team a free kick has all these knock-on effects and complications for Arsenal. It feels like we’ve been hugely punished while the bloke who caused it all gets away without any kind of censure. In rugby, a game where there is massive physical contact, a player who deliberately challenges an opponent who is in the air with no intention to win the ball gets a red card. It’s high time football recognised this is something that happens in our game too, and does something about it."

Thoughts?

They were both in the air at the time which is one difference with the rules of rugby and this is not rugby.

Bitter and silly comment by a supporter who is looking for things that don't exist.

Uh_huh_him · Jun 22, 2020

Blokes a ****. Rugby tackles off the ground have every chance of leaving the opponent unable to protect themselves from landing awkwardly.
Leno's injury was by all accounts "freakish".

Ref had full view of it,gave a free kick and no card.
Second half when Lacazette ploughed into Ryan, ref had no choice but to issue a yellow.
Those sort of tackles are far more likely to injure a player.

OzMike · Jun 22, 2020

Looks like his problem was on his landing awkwardly.

The Wizard · Jun 22, 2020

He was hardly up in the air like a rugby player would be was he, he was at best marginally off the ground. It was very unfortunate and I do feel for Leno but as others have said, players nudge into goalkeepers like that all the time, just unlucky it led to a bad injury, think about how many fouls get given to the goalkeeper for similar incidents, Jake Humphreys ‘cowardly’ comment was the classic comment from someone who has never played football in his life.

The Fifth Column · Jun 22, 2020

OzMike said:
Looks like his problem was on his landing awkwardly.

Absolutely this. An innocuous nudge and it was the keepers desire to remain in the area and place his feet in an unnatural landing position that caused the injury. It wasn't even a particularly physical challenge, it certainly wasn't a barge or rugby tackle.

hans kraay fan club · Jun 22, 2020

Show the videos of Maupay's challenge on Leno, and Lacazette's challenge on Ryan, to 1000 neutral football fans, and roughly 1000 of them will judge Lacazette's as the worse of the two.

Deportivo Seagull · Jun 22, 2020

Clearly knows **** all about rugby.

The rule was brought in because players going up for catch were having their legs taken out by the tackler which invariably meant they landed head first.

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