Ben Porter

It feels very exciting again @Arsenal and I can't wait to see what @m8arteta brings to our club. I'm sure given our current state things will take time but I for 1 am very optimistic that if he is given time Mikel will bring the good times back 👊🏼 🔴⚪ #InArtetaWeTrust

@Lea_EFC 🙌🏼

Liverpool are 6th in the Premier League table and 16 points behind Arsenal, after spending almost £500m last summer. I think we’re all forgetting who the biggest failures of the season actually are.

@FabrizioRomano Quiet window Fab?

🚨⚪️🔴 Excl: Ryan Onè, set to leave Sheffield Utd to join Lincoln City FC on loan until the end of the season. Agreement now in place with the Imps.

@fkhanage Does Saka?

Does William Saliba get back in the team? 🙃

@gingerdavemk @GoonerGirl1969 Same

Is anyone else having an issue watching the game on sky sports+?

@GoonerGirl1969 Yerp 😞 @SkySports @skytv

@Matt5cott @clivepafc @ashwest92

Sport has a corruption problem. A helicopter carrying the former South Africa cricket captain, Hansie Cronje, fell out of the sky, killing him, after he tried to stop fixing matches. Tennis has had its scandals too. Cricket and tennis responded by setting up the Anti-Corruption Unit and Tennis Integrity Unit. Football has a betting problem. Look at Ivan Toney. Look at how many players are bankrupt within five years of retiring. Fifty percent. That’s not down to bad investments alone. I happen to know for a fact that a household-name former referee was internally reprimanded by PGMOL for breaching betting regulations. Now we have a PGMOL whose referees make up their own interpretations of the laws from week to week with no regard to consistency. We have a PGMOL that engages in open conflicts of interest like appointing Liverpool-based and Liverpool-supporting match officials in a game involving their next opposition. With inevitable consequences. We have a PGMOL that draws its match officials almost exclusively from the north of England. Almost exclusively - to the point of the exceptions to this rule being tokenism - from white, working-class backgrounds. Contrast this with the teachers, lawyers and accountants who referee in Uefa competitions. This homogenous absence of diversity would be sanctioned in any corporate structure. We have a PGMOL whose once-effective governance function does not function at all after almost a dozen years of no-oversight, one-man rule by Mike Riley. Who replaced him? One of his closest mates, Howard Webb. See: x.com/matt5cott/stat…. Who watches these watchmen? Where is English football’s ACU and TIU? Where is the independent oversight of an organisation exposed to the biggest year-round sports-gambling market in the world? And one whose serial champions are being held to account for more than 100 alleged breaches of financial regulations? I am accused of conspiracy theory. There is nothing conspiratorial about identifying a clear and repeated failure of governance. This cancer will destroy the Premier League and it will destroy English football. Yet everyone cheers it on from the sidelines because it’s Arsenal bearing the brunt of it. It isn’t. It’s all of us. Because the game we all love is dying from within. 🔴⚪️

@aliladiere @SkySportsPL @Carra23 @ashwest92

@SkySportsPL @Carra23 Spot on from Jamie. De Ligt isn’t better than Maguire.

🗣️ "He's completely out of position all the time!" @Carra23 analyses the goals Manchester United conceded to Tottenham.

@adamkeys_ @ashwest92

When Mikel Arteta arrived at #Arsenal the club was a mess and a full rebuild was needed, but he wasn’t backed for the first 18 months. By contrast, Ten Hag has had three successive €200m summers and made United worse. I will never stop enjoying their struggle. #AFC

@adamkeys_ @ashwest92

It really is amazing how Gary Neville is refusing to comment on United’s second half because they had 10 men, but he had plenty to say about #Arsenal last weekend. The difference, we were away from home against the best team the Premier League has ever seen. #AFC

@YankeeGunner @ashwest92

The way United played with 10 men to keep it to just 3-0 shows they’re still fighting for ten Hag. Just give it time and he’ll turn this around

@Gunnersc0m I'm not an Arsenal fan by any means, but Arsenal have played Villa, Spurs and City all away from home. 3 of the top 5 from last season. They also played two halves with only 10 men for stupid personal mistakes. Silly to judge a teams overall attacking quality based on that.

@afc_richard @NorbyAFC @ashwest92

Opta showed the ball was in play for over 35 minutes during the second half, which is the highest of any half in any premier league game this season. So where did 7 minutes injury time plus 2 minutes on top come from? 🫣

@ashwest92 @EduardoHagn As a football fan, you should also be disgusted with the state of the officiating in the EPL.

@BPorts80 @EduardoHagn I see you’ve taken today well then 😂😂😂

Howard Webb on Mateo Kovacic’s tackles against Arsenal last season. Blatant, and it shows.

@ashwest92 @bhavss14 @JamesDodd89 Make it all make sense

@BPorts80 @bhavss14 @JamesDodd89 Honestly, give Twitter a break for a while. You are torturing yourself.

Michael Oliver, the same referee that didn’t see this as a red card last year btw…

@TikiTakaConnor @Carra23 @GNev2 @SkySportsPL

So many things to be happy about that match. Arsenal were immaculate. The pundits and media should be lambasting the embarrassing officiating that robbed everyone of a fair match between the two bests sides in the league.

@ArsenalAnoop @ashwest92

Hahahaha now city fans celebrating a draw against us at home. Thought they were mentality monsters

Michael Oliver was paid 20,000 pounds by the city owner and flown down to Abu Dhabi to ref a game. How is he still allowed to referee their games @FA_PGMOL ? How much more blatantly are you going to cheat us?