Is Newcastle sh*t-housing to be admired? Arsenal fans are raging at VAR and time-wasting

Arsenal ran aground against Newcastle and Gunners fans are angry about VAR and time-wasting, while we have plenty on Man Utd and Liverpool too…

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Loving the Newcastle sh*thousing
Can I just email now before you get all the p*ssy Asenal fans emailing in complaining about how we set up.

I am so proud of how horrible we are as a team right now. They hated it at Liverpool, they hated it last night. We are doing well to beat teams in the league but know our limitations away to the runaway leaders.

I’ve never seen us like this, we’ve always been soft. I love it.

Atletico Trippier.
Harry, York

Raging at the officials and Newcastle time-wasting
So 0-0 vs Newcastle and their stingy defence, it’s not the end of the world even though Arsenal deserved the win with the clear penalty not given for the shirt pull by Burn on Gabriel – made twice as bad because the same ref had actually yellow carded two Arsenal players for shirt pulling in the first half AND var can have a good long look at it.

Every team in the league would want and expect a penalty for that. I suppose we’ll resign ourselves to receiving another apology from the PGMOL in a few months as they tell us the decisions they definitely got wrong like the Martinelli goal v Man U which they admitted was a wrong intervention by var.

Now onto time wasting, this is not new to Newcastle as I’ve read Liverpool and Spurs fans write in annoyed at this tactic and the refusal of the officials to punish it or add on sufficient time. The ball was in play for 53 minutes last night, 8 minutes below average and the 18th shortest period this season. I thought it was fairly unanimous that the 10-12 minutes we were getting at the World Cup was a good thing to stamp out blatant time wasting and give the public the football they’ve paid for.

It’s literally the easiest thing to change in football but for reasons unknown the officials seem to turn a blind eye continuously – is it any wonder teams keep doing it?
Rich, AFC

…So Howard Webb says that VAR is only there to look at clear and obvious errors, can someone explain then how Saliba’s brushing of Bowen is more of a clear and obvious mistake than Dan Burn rugby tackling Gabriel?
Andy Woodall

Happy being a Man Utd fan
The feeling of waiting for the mailbox after matchday without any dread, wonderful.
Kay, Cheerful United fan

…United looked like a team against Bournemouth with everyone doing their roles…