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Saturday 13 August 2011

Newcastle 0 - 0 Arsenal - Barton shows his true character...again, while Arsenal look listless

The Away Boys have made it clear to Arsene

 
It seems amazing to be so worked up after such a dull game in terms of any goalmouth incident. Having said that it is no surprise that Joey Barton sits at the centre of the controversy this evening. It is also no surprise to me to be talking about the weak and incompetent officiating of Peter Walton.
Let's start with the football before we get to the lowlife scum. Arsenal played their usual game with lots and lots of passing, but no end product. After twenty minutes Chris Waddle commented as to how Arsenal were in "complete control." Of course he was right. But we still hadn't had a single shot on target. Gervinho was far and away Arsenal's best player this evening, but it hasn't taken him long to realise that shooting at goal is not allowed all the time there is a square pass on. Apart from Gervinho the only positives to me were an assured presence in goal (though I would rather see my goalkeeper catch the ball than punch it away) and an excellent performance from the back-four (any weakness came from Gibbs, but he was much better today - his best performance in the first-team for a long time). Aside of that there was simply the gaping hole left in our creativity without Fabregas, Nasri and Wilshere. The away fans, who are usually singing "one Arsene Wenger" were unequivocal in their assessment throughout the second-half as "spend some f***ing money" echoed around the otherwise silent St James' Park (great atmosphere, my a**e). It is clear that Wenger needs to do something big in the transfer market this week because once the travelling fans have turned against his policy he has nowhere else to go.
Now, what about that controversy I was talking about? Let's start with Alex Song, who should have been sent-off for a stupid stamp on Barton. Yes, Barton had fouled him, but the free-kick had been given and, had Barton done what Song did, we'd have been screaming blue murder. A combination of the fact that Song plays for Arsenal, and that it is the start of a new season, will ensure that Alex Song will almost certainly be banned on Monday morning. Certainly if that twat Ray Stubbs on ESPN has his way Song will not escape - in fact I think he could be looking at a custodial sentence. It was stupid and irresponsible by Song and he will get what he deserves I suppose. What followed from there was typical Barton as he marched off the pitch to abuse the fourth official - isn't it a bookable offence to leave the field of play without the permission of the referee?
Now the penalty incident. TV replays have shown that Tiote definitely DID trip Gervinho. The referee didn't give the penalty (but also didn't book Gervinho for diving). What followed showed exactly why Joey Barton should not be on a football field. The man is clearly completely out of control. With play ongoing Arsenal should surely have been awarded a penalty when Barton grabbed Gervinho. After that Gervinho slapped him (a very girly slap) and was sent off. Barton should be ashamed at the way he threw himself to the ground and claimed he had been punched - and all this just seconds after wrongly accusing Gervinho of diving. What a scumbag. I think Arsene was right when he said that it's either a yellow for both or a red for both - Pardew claims that Barton did nothing wrong, but he's another cretin, isn't he? For the referee to send-off the Arsenal man, but only book Barton, showed that the incompetence and bottling has not been eradicated over the Summer. Once again we've been robbed on two counts - it took 75 minutes for it to happen this season.
As an Arsenal supporter I found the conduct of our players at the final whistle absolutely disgusting. How could they shake hands and hug Joey Barton after what they had just witnessed? The only one to come out with any credit was Thomas Vermaelen. Such an incident called for the sort of reaction Keown and company had to Van Nistelrooy at Old Trafford in 2003 - if ever you needed to know what is missing from the character of this squad it was laid bare following the game today. There wasn't even a retaliatory kick at Barton while the game was going on. Let's not forget this isn't the first time he has got an Arsenal player sent off. Sickening all round. I just hope that anyone who wanted this horrible c**t at our Club has now changed their mind.
I'm signing off now, and I fully expect to get at least one response from a Geordie (able to type through their webbed fingers) calling me a "whingeing cockney" or some variation.

14 comments:

  1. Hilarious comment from Steven Taylor after the game:

    "It is not for me to comment,” Taylor said of the red card. “The referee made his decision at the end of the day so I can't say anything about that. I didn't see a thing".

    This from the twat who was trying with all his might to convince the referee Barton had been elbowed.

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  2. PauGar - Quite right. He has somewhat less credibility than Barton.

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  3. Whinging Cockney...

    You lot should have finished with 9 men not 10.

    Gervinho DID dive to start the incident off (just because there is a touch in the box doesn't mean it's a foul. He flung himself down a few times today).

    Barton certainly made the most of the incident, flinging himself down wasn't called for in the slightest, neither was all that crap about '...he punched me ref...he punched me', he's a weasel but he's our weasel, for the moment anyway. Still a red card offence by Gervinho though. Although i agree that we were lucky the ref didn't award the penalty for Barton's initial reaction. Walton could have saved a lot of hassle by doing what he should have done and booking Gervinho for the initial dive.

    How you work out that Barton got Song sent off last year is beyond me, unless putting in a robust, but fair, tackle is considered an offence worthy of getting thrown to the turf by the neck. Song saw red and got himself sent off last year, nothing more than that.

    The fact you view the treatment of Van Nistlerooy by Keown et al as a good thing pretty much tells me everything I need to know about your views.

    :)

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  4. You are right on several points, it's true that the ref was inept Gervinho had already dived in the first half when there was no contact but got a foul....in his mind diving was therefore ok. Rosicky should have been booked in the first half but was not....he later received a deserved yellow but it could have been a second (albeit harsh to go) . Colo was booked for his first foul....you say Song should have been off and you're right, in Barton's mind he then became the victim and the only person on the field capable of arbitrating the game correctly. You can't pick someone up and throttle him but if the ref had affiliated correctly I can't help but feel wor Joey wouldn't have felt the need to take matters into his own hands......

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  5. By affiliate I mean officiate..give me a break I'm doing this on a phone. Article was half good.but then you got too 'I deed not zee eet'

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  6. Comment was half good, then you got all "Joey Barton."

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  7. Christ almighty Julio and prick with. a name full of numbers. Barton is scum. Enough said. I am pleased that all of you northerners are so hard that you go down like a sack of shit. We saw it last year with Diaby on the weasel necked scows prick. I can't believe your northern wives don't fight back now we see how truly soft you are

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  8. I see Barton has called Gerviho a cheating bastard on his Twitter feed. Now THAT should be a massive fine and ban. I wonder what the PFA have to say about that?

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  9. Barton went down like the sack of shit he is and the scouse piece of shit he beat up but as numbers points out he's our sack of shit. How's the transfer window going for you or has Wenger run out of young boys to sign up?

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  10. Eat your tripe you mug. If only Hadrian had built the wall a couple of miles further south you could be realising your true potential in the SPL. NUFC a big club with great support. MY ARSE!

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  11. What do you know about great support 'mick' or should that be 'prick' you booed your own team off in a pre-season friendly.

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  12. Ouch, I thoguht my comment was quite fair, apart from the dig at the end obviously.

    I think you'll find I accept Barton is scum, it's pretty hard to deny to be honest. It's just he's our scum at the moment so I cut him some slack.

    Haha 'numbers', yes I don't know what's happening there. It seems to have replaced my AIM name with some random crap.

    Woops I mistakenly said it was Song that got himself sent off last year. It was of course Diaby.

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  13. Julio obviously an obsequious individual. Go and hang some monkeys like your little pals in Hartlepool

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  14. That's a very big word, especially when you could simply replace it with 'football fan' s cakes adly nobody saw any football today. Your knowledge of the North East is very impressive...but you forgot to mention ant & Dec and stotty cakes to complete the stereotype

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