Most Arsenal fans I know are more concerned about staying in the top four than chasing the title, and Spurs this season could be a very real threat. It's pretty reasonable to want them to lose if they feel it's for the good of their own club.
The tackle that got Scholes his first yellow on Saturday? Bloke's been launching into legbreakers for a decade and a half.
Not at all the same as kicking someone in the head, although his crap tackling is seriously annoying.
It's the same ball-park, if I might be excused a baseball metaphor in a football thread:a physical assault on the opposing team. Just as likely to injure the unfortunate recipient. There's a tendancy to overlook Scholes's efforts in this area because he's that strangest of oxymorons, a popular ManUre player, but as Keane was candid enough to admit in his autobiography, sometimes such tackles are both deliberate and malicious.
That's understandable but Arsenal fans surely can see through that delusion - typical this is Spurs year (being the 4th best team in the land..) tripe we hear at the start of every season and base their 'dislike' on something less tangible.
As I said tho, everyone hates T*ttenham, it's not just Arsenal fans.
I don't really consider it a physical assault. I've made hundreds of seriously ugly tackles in my time playing football but I've never once attempted to injure or seriously hurt the other player. Well, maybe I tried to soften them up a bit. But I've never once kicked someone in the head when they were on the ground. With Scholes there's generally plenty of benefit-of-doubt you can give him for his sub-standard tackles, as dangerous as they sometimes are.
Well, that's partly a reflection of your own bias, isn't it? Where it concerns one's own team there's a tendency to overlook or excuse. You bent over backwards to defend Rooney's dive against us, but felt no such compulsion to excuse him when he was sent off in the world cup. The main difference is the team he's playing for, surely?
Of course, no ex-Arsenal player ever gets homophobic abuse when he plays against you, *cough*Cashley*cough*
That's no fun, GTFO
Yeah, it's possible. At worst you could say he thought better of kicking RvP in the head halfway thru, because it's not a very meaty connection.
Look, if you're just going to come here and point out every instance of my rampant hypocrisy, I might as well not bother posting about football.Of course, no ex-Arsenal player ever gets homophobic abuse when he plays against you, *cough*Cashley*cough*
He is indeed, and it's a shame as he would be appreciated as one of the best players in the world if he wasn't a ****. I love his wife though if it's any consolation.Look, if you're just going to come here and point out every instance of my rampant hypocrisy, I might as well not bother posting about football.
TBF tho, Cashley's pretty much universally disliked amongst football fans, isn't he? One of those players (Bellamy, Savage, etc).
Yeah I can agree with that as well. It's somewhere inbetween our theories I'd imagine.
It could be bias, because no one's immune to it, but I don't think so. I didn't see it any differently when a player like Paul Ince made a trademark rash tackle, and he's pretty much bottom of the pile in the Manyoo-fans bias list.
I think whether he intended to go for the head or any other part of the body is irrelevant as long as it was an intentional stamp to be honest. For mine, the recklessness of his actions were enough to substitute the intent, as with if this had happened out of a sporting context. I mean, it's not the best example, but the same principles ought to apply as if you went out with a gun, meant to shoot them in the arm, but accidentily shot them in the head and killed them, "sorry I was aiming for his arm" would not erase the offence, neither should it here.
I don't think the system is particularly fair to be honest. All it means is that people who give the club money as part of a yearly subscription fee means they get priority for tickets over those who would rather not pay up. Esspecially when there are so many seats taken up by corporate events, which should be allocated to the real fans rather than those who piss off to sip champers and cucumber sandwiches during half time and don't actually give a crap about the match itself.
Point to where I said punishment should be different?
