New thread but same ol dissapointment. Frankly, last night's game was one of the best and worst i've ever seen. Best coming from Newcastle's never say die attitude and worst coming from Arsenal's collapse. ANyways, i prefer to speak about the collapse rather than Newcastle's comeback.

The collapse was certainly helped by the ref's decisionmaking, which was rather appaling. First, Barton was throwing in challenges like he had a quota to do so before even being booked. He did it in the first leg where we lost and he did it again last night. I mean that challenge on Diaby, its tackles like those that breaks legs. No doubt Diaby was rightly sent off but when refs don't book these tackles, it only encourages on field thugs like Barton to continue doing it.

After the red card, i think Arsenal completely lost it. It's almost as tho we pushed the "self destruct button". We couldn't hold the ball, and that is super important when you're 1 man down. We should have just kept the ball, maintain possession and suck up what's being thrown at us. I think mentally, the players lost it after the 3rd goal. That was a soft penalty to be given. One of the softest i've ever seen. It wasn't even a handball and to begin with, the player was not even in a goal scoring opportunity. Dowd's completely got it wrong. I think a penalty is given when a player is denied a clear scoring opportunity. I can't remember who the player was, but he was completely not in any clear scoring opportunity. I would accept it if its a handball by Rosicky.

Nevertheless, it was 2 points lost rather than 1 point gain against Man Utd who coincidentally lost. The game was shocking. In Arsene Wenger's words, mathematically we lost 2 points but it was the psychological damage that is bigger.

I'm the one who suggested that video technology should not be implemented in football as it takes away the joy of watching football. Ironically, it hit me back when Arsenal was on the receiving end of 2 dubious calls where video technology might have prevented us from drawing that game.