A certain Twitter member whom I admirer greatly as she has served as an inspiration for my blog and twitter behaviours, is @LadyArse.
Not only does she amass great debate and write interesting daily blog posts, she also makes awesome Arsenal t-shirts too!
In fact I shall purchase one to give away to my 1000th follower on Twitter, a promise I made previously and shall stick to as my ArsenalRant is my word.
This little ditty is about debate.
I've joined in with LadyArse's debates this week and now feel the need to share my views on some of those subjects with others who may have missed out.
I know I have certain readers who follow other teams like Liverpool, Manure and Swindon Town!
They read and feedback to me but I know they are not as interested in my Arsenal only - related posts as they are with posts that include Arsenal and other items regarding the Premiership, England and general football topics which are easier to engage in a universal sense.
So this is for all you neutrals, Gooners and sad jealous followers of other teams to join in with.
(Of course you still have to bear in mind that my views are NOT neutral and are still tainted with the red of Arsenal, but I know no other way!)
Fergie gets a five match ban (two activated from a previous suspended charge) from the FA this week! Finally they use their power for good! This is probably the best decision they've made for............(you fill in the blanks)
The debate was based around how the FA seem to deem the criticism of a referee as more serious than a broken leg from a dangerous tackle. The following are my opinions on the subject. As you may know, I'm no fan of the (Corrupt) FA, FIFA & UEFA so I never hold back on subjects like these:
......Breaking a players leg either maliciously or by accident deserves a far harsher punishment than a manager/player would get for criticising/demeaning a referee or questioning a ref's integrity.
There is an ongoing issue that when a player has his leg broken or is badly injured from a poor challenge that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
There is an ongoing issue that when a player has his leg broken or is badly injured from a poor challenge that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
A player who's leg is broken, has damaged ligaments or head injuries could take him/her out for anything between three games to a whole season or more.
So how is charging the instigator with a measly three game ban, fair punishment?
Why should a team go without an important player for so long, yet the person who put him in that position can still play on after a three game ban/rest which ultimately serves to benefit his/her team.
Ok on occasion, a three game ban for an important player at an important part of the season could affect their teams' results for those three games, but that's it.
They then have them back to help with their season's challenges. Whereas the team who have lost an important player are affected for a much longer period. Arsenal have been regular victims of this scenario.
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| Oh, where's the ball Shawcross cos it aint down Ramsey's Sock fuckwit! |
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| At this point, Shawcross was walking off crying like a Nani. Thug! |
Cynics such as myself could be forgiven for thinking that a team could set out to hurt an opposing player of importance on purpose in order to sabotage their opponent's own season's challenges and in effect, stifle them as a rival.
It wouldn't surprise me if this had happened on many occasions, if only it could be proved.
Oh wait, hold on, I seem to remember a certain Roy Keane openly admitting in his own autobiography that he purposely set out to injure a certain Man City player a few years back. No retrospective punishment for that of course.
Is it possible that one day a rule would be brought in that suggests;
If a player is proven (using video technology) to maliciously/poorly challenge a player which puts him/her on the sidelines for a prolonged period, that the instigator should be banned for that same period of time.
I doubt it.
Some moron/twat/phlegmchewing backwards sewage breath prick piped up about how Wenger and all affiliated with Arsenal had over-reacted about Shawcross' leg breaking challenge on Ramsey a year ago.
How Shawcross, the poor chap, was unlucky etc. He even dared to compare Shawcross with two Arsenal players who have been a bitey at times but only rarely!......basically utter bollocks, which prompted this rant in reply;
Shawcross, the poor chap?! has a reputation as a very bad tackler. He has a very, very, very low standard of technical ability when it comes to tackling. Luckily for him he's only actually broken one players' leg, that was Ramsey's.
All the other players that have been the victims of the multitude of ill-timed, rash, reckless challenges have been lucky enough to at least play again in the same season.
Putting it simply, Shawcross deserves every bit of the abuse he receives from Arsenal fans.
He will also deserve the abuse he gets from fans of other clubs once he badly injures a few of their players.
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| Birmingham insist it was a simple mis-timed tackle. I insist he is still a cunt for making it. |
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| Human bones are not supposed to escape the skin and poke through football socks like that. |
I'm looking forward to the day when Fergie and Hughes and the likes of all the fuck face managers who lambasted Wenger for his reaction, will have to swallow their words when they too are slagging off a very poor footballer for injuring one of their players..... hopefully Rooney/Nani......too many to mention.
In regards to Cesc's and Wilshere's tackles, they cannot be compared. One thing our players are good at, when they do it, is making good clean tackles, they are taught how to tackle in a very technical way, the same effort is put into that as it is into how to dribble and shoot.
If they do go in a bit harder than normal 'in the heat of the moment' the intent may be to get the player as well as the ball but in a good old fashioned way, with vigour but not intent to physically damage the player in a malicious way. When was the last time an Arsenal player broke an opposing players leg/ankle/cheekbone/head? I can't remember.
Basically, frustration can play it's part and we have a poor record in terms of yellow and red cards (mainly for minor/professional challenges or over-reaction in Diaby's case!) but not one player can be accused of a lack of ability in tackling or that he is malicious or dangerous in any way.
IF any Arsenal player was stupid enough to dangerously tackle someone which led to a broken body part, then TRUE Arsenal fans would lambaste that player no matter who he is as we do not want that kind of reputation at our club.
Stoke and the likes seem to love having that reputation and even boast about it, where are they in the league? How many people go to watch their football? Only their thick inbred fans, that's who.
There has been plenty of other debate which Arsenal fans may agree to be of more importance.
Like what the feck has happened to our season?
But that's for another time. I'd like to see how we perform in our next Premiership game before passing judgement on our prospects.
Overall, as you should gather from my previous post, I see our current position as a positive and shall remain so as much as possible.
Other debates could surround the hoo-haa about Fabio Crapello's captaincy balls up.
What's going on there?
Is Terry being reinstated or not?
Frankly, I don't give a flying fuck who is Captain of England.
I've been so disappointed in the team as a whole and especially in the manager that I just want to see some decent performances first.......That's it!
Do away with the Captain altogether and make them play for it.
Then we'll see who deserves it.
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| Now that's how you tackle. |
In fact, give him the captaincy now!
