Blue Army

🚨🎙️ Roy Keane on Chris Kavanagh’s Officiating in Arsenal vs Chelsea: 🗣️"I’m looking at this match at the Emirates, and we’re only three games into the season—three weeks in!—and already we’re sitting in studio talking about major officiating questions. It’s standard that shouldn't be accepted. It’s far too early in the campaign to be seeing this level of inconsistency, and it’s becoming an absolute pattern. "Look at the key moments. You’ve got the VAR chalking off Riccardo Calafiori’s goal early on because Ezri Konsa was supposedly offside in the build-up. Fine, by the strict letter of the law, maybe it is. But then you watch the physical battles—Gabriel throwing his weight around in the six-yard box, João Pedro getting booked early, fouls being called one minute and ignored the next when Cole Palmer or Morgan Rogers are driving forward. There's no rhythm, no common sense to how these games are being managed. Chris Kavanagh and his team let the game get chaotic, and then tried to reel it back in by throwing out yellow cards left, right, and center late on. "People like to pretend the title race is won in April or May. It isn't. The winners of this league are determined from Matchday 1. Every single point counts. When you have two top teams going toe-to-toe, a massive chunk of that outcome falls squarely in the hands of the match officials. If they can’t get the basics right now, what hope do we have come September, let alone spring? It’s simply not good enough."