BIRMINGHAM CITY v ARSENAL - Cold comfort
Saturday 23 February 2008
With many in the Arsenal camp left distraught by the truly horrible injury to Eduardo, it is understandable that other events during the game were overshadowed by thoughts for their stricken colleague. But for that, the headlines would have been dominated by two unnecessarily dropped points by the league leaders. Late in the day, the Gunners should have been awarded a penalty when Medhi Nafti held back Emmanuel Adebayor by tugging at his shorts. Then, Blues added time spot-kick should not have been given. Gael Clichy recovered from his momentary slumber to get a foot to the ball before Stuart Parnaby went to ground.
The Right Result is a 3-1 win for Arsenal.
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4 Comments Add your own
1. Nick | February 26th, 2008 at 12:14 am
3-0 should be the right score because the McFadden free kick wasnt a foul by any means.
2. Neil Leathers | March 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
I thought the McFadden infringement was obstruction, nothing else. Not sure if the rules have changed, but this would have been an indirect free kick in the old days. Am I out of date?
3. Colm | May 17th, 2008 at 10:05 am
You cant chalk the Arsenal goal off just because it resulted from a wrongly given corner. What about the corner at the end when the ref blew early for full time? Maybe theyd hve scpred then.
The site should stick to key decisions only and not minor ones that just happened to end up as a goal.
4. Colm | May 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Sorry - the last comment was in relation to the Middlesbro game
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