Have Arsenal finally clinched the Premier League title?!
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Have Arsenal finally clinched the Premier League title?
Hello everybody, welcome to the Football Filling. Lads, how are we? Good weekend?
Fantastic weekend. Celebrating my mother's 78th birthday yesterday. Pints? Only a couple yesterday because I had to drive back from Barnsley.
Mrs Watson is a wonderful lady. I had the pleasure of having a couple of beers with her at your 50th. What a woman. The mother or the wife? Oh, both. His mother. Yeah. His mother, yeah. What about your weekend? You're a little bit stiff today, aren't you, Ben?
A bit stiff today, but I'm in good spirits. I had a triathlon on Saturday, a very tough triathlon. It's called the Rock Whales, but we got it done. Nearly nine hours. And you are dying. I've got this massive scab on the back of my neck here. It's horrible. Well, I did the swim. It's a 750-metre sea swim and I kept my head out of the water all the way. And it's, honestly, it's so red raw, isn't it? I woke up this morning and I've got, like, smeg on my pillow. Honestly, like, sticky smeg on my pillow. Too much info, that is, Bo.
You, good weekend? Yeah, cracking, mate. It was at Chase Mountain Biking with a little fella. Brilliant. Are we going to do that sometime? Yeah, we've got to, mate. It's so much fun.
All right, Premier League's done, lads. I think this might be the last show of the season, to be honest with you. Because there's nothing much else to talk about.
No, there is, there is. There might be a little twist in the story yet. But the big talking point, the foul on David Rea for Callum Wilson's goal. If the media is spinning this into anything other than it's a foul, that would be wrong, wouldn't it? Correct.
Are we in agreement? Yeah, look, the one thing that surprised me out of it all was the fact that Peter Schmeichel wore so polar opposite it.
I could not believe it.
Saying that it should have been allowed? Yes. Because I even in my head was thinking, GK Union, you guys, I was ready for a scrap this morning.
You wouldn't back that. No, mate. So for West Ham fans, I feel for you. And for Arsenal fans, I understand all of it. It's a foul on David Rea. It is, yeah. That action is a foul. It's as simple as that. As soon as you touch a goalie's arms, you're fouling him. But I do understand West Ham's frustration. There were other things going on in there that could have been seen as a foul as well. Trossard having his arms around him. Look at the incident, though. You've got to look at that incident because Tadebo had a handful of shirt as well, didn't he? Yeah, he did. Tadebo had a shirt and Pablo had his arm on David Rea grabbing it. That's the foul, yeah? That's the big main foul or the big main talking point of the whole incident.
But if you watch Trossard, he's got both arms round, I can't remember who it was, and that bit happens before the touch on David Rea, OK? So at what point do you call a foul? Oh, I know, yeah. And this is the bit that I understand from West Ham's frustration and I would be mightily upset.
There's this consistency piece which people are saying about the grappling. Gerard Bowen spoke so well in post-match. He spoke so, so well. But the consistency thing is we've now got to a point where if we're going to be consistent and really, really look at this, we're going to have to go to VAR, After every corner.
Yeah, after every corner.
And go, what about that action there? Because you're right, there was so much going on, wasn't there?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the thing is, we've worked in football all our lives and we watch so much of it still now. If you're going to break it down, like they had to break that, that's why it took five minutes. Because ultimately, I think within 30 seconds, you see it's a foul on Raya. But then they have to look at all the other components. But you are 100% true that because of the... enormity of that decision, I think they're going to be under some massive pressure unless they come up with a different set of stimulus for next season.
Has it got worse? Has the grappling, like since when you kind of came out of first team football, Watto, has the grappling element and the...
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Have Arsenal finally clinched the Premier League title?
0:30–4:40
2
What was the BIGGEST VAR decision affecting Arsenal's game?
4:40–32:21
3
How did David Raya's vital save impact the match?
32:21–37:14
4
What is the current state of Michael Carrick's managerial position?
37:14–38:11
5
What are the implications of Arsenal being in POLE POSITION?
38:11–41:50
6
How does the managerial merry-go-round affect team performance?
41:50–56:21
7
Which England attackers are being considered for the World Cup?
56:21–1:11:59
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