🚨 BREAKING: MICHAEL SALISBURY ISSUES PUBLIC APOLOGY TO ARSENAL FANS 😳💔
🗣️ Michael Salisbury:
“Yesterday, I made a serious mistake. I wrongly sent off Max Dowman, a 17-year-old, during the match between Arsenal and Fleetwood Town.
After reviewing the incident, I recognise that my decision was incorrect. I failed to see the full picture in the heat of the moment, and I take full responsibility for my actions.
Max is only 17 years old, with a bright future ahead of him. I understand the disappointment this decision has caused him, his teammates, Arsenal Football Club, and millions of fans.
It was never my intention to unfairly punish a young player, but I understand that intentions do not erase the consequences of my decisions.
I sincerely apologise to Max Dowman, Arsenal, and everyone affected by my mistake.
As a referee, I am expected to make the right decisions, and today, I fell short of that responsibility. I will learn from this experience and work to ensure such an error does not happen again.
I am truly sorry.”
— Michael Salisbury, Referee
Think that’s the win today to get us properly kick started under the manager, players all seems to be buzzing too.
Andoni, Andoni Iraola!
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It takes a special kind of weirdo to be angry about a man doing something to help cancer patients.
PM defends Gogglebox appearance after Badenoch criticism bbc.in/4so5A19
Honest to Christ 🤦🏻♂️
Do the same @LFC and ban vloggers
📱❌ Borussia Dortmund are REWARDING fans who do not use their phone in the stadium! 🇩🇪
The German club now have a "Fan Mode" on their app. When activated, the app measures the time the screen stays locked during matches.
Fans earn points for every minute they do not use their phones. The more points you earn, the more chance you have of winning a prize. This includes club store vouchers, jerseys and more. 🎁
Considering we love recycling a song it’s absolutely criminal the manager’s name isn’t getting sang to Thiago’s one.
Andoni, Andoni Iraola!
Sam 🔴 retweeted
I’m sure there will be people saying it’s only “The Red Cartel” affected.
How much did Man City's rule breaking cost your team? bbc.in/4e5XG6o
Sam 🔴 retweeted
Football is hard to love right now.
You wait 3 weeks for it to return, only to watch your side succumb due to a combination of injuries sustained on international duty, an inept refereeing performance and ultimately lose against a team that shouldn’t even be allowed to play.
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What I witnessed yesterday made me seriously consider walking away from the club and the game I have loved for most of my life.
Many, many supporters across the country will feel exactly the same as this farce continues.
The @premierleague stands on the precipice. It must stop pretending this is just another day at the office and take urgent action now before it loses all credibility and the game we love is damaged beyond any hope of repair.
How long is the stench of the “sham” going to corrode the meaning, worth, and very essence of the Premier League?
Listening to commentary about Manchester City’s players matching the defiance of their ownership and triumphing in adversity.
Listening to fans chorusing the names of the men running the club, wearing masks or displaying banners of their faces and jibing: “We’re Man City, we’ll cheat when we want.”
Victory being framed as “a lovely moment,” a show of togetherness as though some grave injustice has been imposed on City, rather than their hierarchy being found by an independent commission to have orchestrated financial doping on an industrial scale.
Their opponents and the rest of us wondering if any of this actually matters now and how much of it ever did?
There can be no business as usual pretence. We need a full stop to the absurdity.