Yesterday's Premier League action made all other sports look boring. God knows how many goals in total, however all this was overshadowed by the CRAP (I could have used a worse adjective) refereeing that went on.
Arsenal were 4-0 up by the half hour mark and some of the Barmy Army had already left St James' after the dismal performance of their team. However, somehow, Newcastle scored 4 in the last 25 minutes to equalise. Early in the half, Diaby got sent off (quite rightly) for pushing Barton the the ground and then shoving Kevin Nolan. What an idiot (Diaby that is).
Several minutes later, Newcastle get a deserved penalty which Barton converts. This is when stuff starts to bad for the refereeing side. In an attempt to time waste, Szczesny keeps hold of the ball and delays giving it back to Newcastle (this is what the latter would do every game if they were in that situation). Kevin Nolan then grabs him in a headlock and tosses him down to the ground. This is almost as bad as Diaby's sending off, and yet he only gets yellow. Szczesny also gets yellow for some inexplicable reason.
Last massively crap decision of the game: Newcastle's second penalty. Koscielny was just jumping for the ball with a Newcastle player who tumbled (purposefully of not) to the ground. Phil Dowd gave the penalty and it really is a disgrace. He's already given some very controversial decisions recently and I can't tell you HOW PISSED OFF I AM.
The real final score in the game should have been 4-1. Both teams should have ended at ten men, with Newcastle only scoring their first penalty and with Nolan getting sent off.
Everybody credits Pardew's team talk at half time for Newcastle coming back into it, THAT'S NOT THE BLOODY REASON!! It was the biased refs. In the other games, Stoke should have lost (two of their goals were offside). The standard of refereeing is going downhill big time, and nobody really knows how to get it going in the other direction
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