Some sympathy
Arsene Wenger is absolutely very cross about being charged with misconduct by UEFA on account of what he said the Swiss referee Massimo Busacca after Arsenal’s defeat at Barcelona on Tuesday evening.
I have asked myself if I am sympathetic in the direction of Wenger on this occasion and have concluded that the answer is sure…and no.
Disgrace
The choice to send off Robin van Persie was a disgrace. It defied widespread sense. It was an ideal example of where gamers and managers say that referees simply don’t understand the game. They know the rules inside out but they don’t understand what it's like to play. No person thought that van Persie should have booked for taking a shot shortly after the whistle had blown for offside and any smart referee, who believed he was wasting time, would have had a word with him and nothing more.
Due to that, I can totally understand why Arsene Wenger was angry and upset by the decision. I can perceive why he may need spoken out of turn to the referee after the game. In any case, that is his livelihood and it'd, simply may, have had an impact on his complete future.
Understand
So, on the entire, I perceive why Wenger mentioned what he did yesterday,
“It could be good for UEFA to show humility, to apologise, not charge people who have completed nothing wrong. I deny utterly any charge.
“We're out of the Champions League, we've got misplaced considered one of our big ambitions, we have been punished with lots of damages and on top of that, we've to say sorry to UEFA.
“When you may have a football game of that stature, you cannot come out with selections like that and present a lot of arrogance on top of that.
“We can all understand that we will make flawed selections, but after that it becomes dictatorship. Its not any more widespread sense.
“It's a shame for me that the referee took the choice to send Robin van Persie off. It was the flawed decision.
“The primary leg was a incredible advert for football and the second recreation has been destroyed. Individuals now will only keep in mind the sending off.”
Agree
Most of what Wenger says I utterly agree with. Nonetheless, there are some parts the place I start to lose my sympathy. Wenger has completely blamed the defeat on the sending off. It is virtually as though he hadn’t observed that his crew were totally out classed throughout the game, even when they had eleven men. They became the first crew out of almost one thousand in Champions League historical past to go an entire recreation without mustering one attempt on goal. For 50-six minutes, that was with eleven men.
I do know some Arsenal fans have mentioned that Arsenal had a game plan that concerned defending for an hour and then coming again into the sport and this was ruined by the sending off. I don’t purchase that for one minute. No one has a recreation plan that claims let the opposite group have the ball on a regular basis, don’t preserve the ball, don’t shoot and let your keeper maintain you in the game.
Better
The actual fact is that the sending off certainly didn’t help Arsenal but the cause they misplaced was as a result of Barcelona had been a vastly higher team. It is so simple as that. Wenger has mentioned that many Champions League games are settled within the last five minutes. Which may be true but it's uncommon for that to occur when one workforce have been so comprehensively out played.
So I sympathise with the anger about the sending off, but I can’t sympathise with the view that it changed the game.
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