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Our semi final against Chelsea last season?

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Please let this be true. And please let him get some 1st team action. Please please please please please....

Now THAT would have entertained me!

Another pony with just the one trick then?

11 men pummelling ten men with their backs against the wall (apart from a couple of counters, from which - admittedly - they scored) and their game plan out of the window? Nah, it wasn't that entertaining. That was what was wrong with the remainder of the game for me. Arsenal play rapid free-flowing footie and so do Barca and I was so looking forward to it as a neutral.

I guess so. I'm assuming it was a case of deliberately bringing him down (he appeared to grab his ankle), which would be a cynical foul and worthy of a yellow, but again its open to interpretation. I thought it was boring. I would've preferred to see an nice open game with Arsenal able to play the way they normally do. And at 1-0 down they would have had to take the game to Barca. As I said its opinion only. That's why I'm on a forum discussing it with people And yes, I suspect Lehmann knew he was risking a red with that challenge, and can't really complain. But the point remains that if the ref was in any way competent it would've been a completely different outcome (in terms of that incident, and the way the remainder of the game was played). Its a red card offence if he prevents a goalscoring opportunity. He didn't. Guily scored. If the ref had let play go on for two more seconds it wouldn't have been a red card offence. That's the point we're all trying to make.

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You are interpreting that incorrectly. Lehmann's foul was not a sending off offence. It would only have been a sending off offence if he had prevented a goalscoring opportunity, which he wouldn't have if play had been waved on.

Did they say why? It obviously isn't because he prevented a goalscoring opportunity because he didn't. Maybe they view deliberate handball as a red card offence anyway.

I guess it would depend on how long he lets play run on and if he does let it run long enough then it would depend on how he judged the severity of Campbell's handball. It wouldn't be a decision based on 'preventing a clear goalscoring opportunity' though, same as it should have been with Lehmann. Lehmann's foul in isolation wasn't a red by any standards.

11 v 11 at 1-0 would've been a much more entertaining spectacle than seeing Arsenal play on the counter and do the backs to the wall thing against Barca. It would've been fairer and more entertaining. In my opinion anyway. Don't think that merits a wacko smiley though...

Italian Businessmen? Corrupt?? Blimey, whatever next...?

No elbows at the table though!

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Its just you. Enjoy Noel Edmonds though! Just call the police anyway, he probably hasn't hidden them that well!