70% of BBC readers think Martinelli should’ve been sent off 😂
Don't know what's more insane, a reputable journalism platform asking this question in the first place, or the fact 70% of people think he should've got a red card
If you thought reddit was full of trolls and idiots…
NieThePiet on
First time somebody wants to a red card for a shove, while this happens so often in a season
culturaldiversity on
I mean, I don’t think he should have been sent off, but it was a shit thing to do. Maybe he didn’t realize that it was a serious injury, but it was a really bad look.
SpaceRigby on
Im prepared to be downvoted but I really believe what Martinelli did was reckless and potentially endangered the player.
The fact is if you have a serious injury and someone pushes you it could easily make it worse, if one of our players was properly injured and the other team came and pushed them i would want them off too.
Martinelli wasn’t playing for the ball, could’ve made Bradley’s injury worse, I understand he didn’t mean it but that’s where the reckless element comes in
lagerjohn on
This kind of thing really highlights the difference between being in the stadium and watching on tv. Everyone in the ground thought Bradley was time wasting and completely backed Martinelli’s actions.
The amount of pearl clutching going on over this incident is hilarious.
Taxpayer2k on
No. The player could be faking an injury until verified. Nelli was sick of play acting from opponents so him attempting to move pool player is understandable.
DSK1911 on
BBC readers? I doubt these idiots can read at all
whitegoatsupreme on
The fuk they smonkin
GunnersaurusIsKing on
The game was a nothing burger, the media have jumped on this as there was literally nothing to talk about.
Now we get – HE sHoulD get TaaKen tO Da TaWeR an UnG DrawEd aN QUArtEred! – for the next couple of days
Francis-c92 on
For what?
You send him off for that and you give players and teams clairvoyance to go down ‘injured’ at every turn and kill the game.
Slot was right that we have a massive problem with time wasting and diving in this league. I’m tired of seeing stats that show the ball was in play for 25 mins in a half, and it’s because of this stuff.
It was a mistake from Martinelli given the potential severity of the injury, but Bradley moved himself back on to the pitch so he wasn’t to know at the time.
He’s apologised, so move on.
But I have a feeling that Sky/Neville were itching for some drama to be made from the game and here it is. Watch us get punished for tiny stuff like this going forward and teams knowing this and using it to their advantage to kill and break up games.
lazysarcasm on
State of the sport is embarassing
TheGrantyMan on
I can imagine that is the entirety of the city of Liverpool taking part in that vote.
The only way it could have been, is like what happened to Martinelli at Wolves, is multiple yellow cards. But considering we’ve never seen that since it happened.
The hundreds of times it’s happened before, it’s always been a yellow card, I don’t know if they think it’s worse because he was injured or because they’re protective of him. But I wouldn’t expect anything more than a yellow if it was the other way round.
phatsdomino_0213 on
I’ll say it again, football fans like to act soft when it suits them. Suddenly they all have morals. Couldn’t care less about Conor Bradley, fuck him. Referee added an extra 50 seconds on after he spent 3 minutes crying on the pitch.
Justnotstressed on
What happened last night is a symptom of backsliding on diving and the culture of football. 99.99% of the time, players throw themselves to the floor screaming (exactly like Frimpong did with the ‘penalty’), and they are suddenly fine. I don’t blame Martinelli for thinking (after watching Bradley pull himself further onto the pitch deliberately to delay the game), that he was faking.
THAT BEING SAID. What Martinelli did was wrong. It was daft. But it wasn’t malicious in the sense he knew Bradley was seriously hurt. Whilst I know it is thoroughly beyond the wit of man (and certainly the average Redditor in r/soccer) to accept that situations are a bit more complex than good vs evil, acting as if Martinelli is the devil incarnate because of this is somewhat hypocritical.
If you don’t want players doing what Martinelli did last night, stop making football a race to the bottom when it comes to gamesmanship.
PandiBong on
They don’t really “think” that, they just hate Arsenal and this will be the main narrative on Martinelli for three seasons go come. Just watch how he gets cheap yellow cards from referees in every single game that’s left of the season.
firephoenix_sam19 on
BBC is not good enough to be read, watched or engaged with in any manner. I have blocked it’s existence. You should do it too.
datguysadz on
Overreaction to this has been nothing short of hysterical. Not helped by Gary Neville’s idiotic comments, of course. Thank god Arne Slot spoke sense at least.
some-salt-and-Pepe on
And if a Liverpool player did it 70% of BBC audience would’ve wanted Bradley to get a red card. You can’t trust the BBC when it comes to Arsenal
holdmypilsener77 on
I entirely stopped giving a damn about what others say. They’ll talk shit no matter what Arsenal does or doesn’t. The only thing that matters is the goal
Jchibs on
We have given PGMOL the opportunity to do us and have the media and fans gaslight saying ‘those cunts deserve it because of Martinelli’.
The Mike Riley game at OT the medias reaction to it
Was that we were bad sports, too big for our boots and got what was coming to us etc
This week needs some smoothing things over from Arteta and the club.
But PGMOL best be aware that they are not going to get away with it this time. PGMOL violence against arsenal will be responded to.
Afc_josh12 on
Boring game , this was a little stand out so the media will hype it up! Anti Arsenal
EeviKat on
This is being incredibly overblown. It happened so fast, 9/10 times the player is time wasting and the shove (though maybe a bit stupid) is understandable given the emotions involved. Liverpool fans braying for blood, you’d think that Martinelli did a Shawcross on him. It feels fucking soft to me. We’ve had to suffer far worse shit over the years, actual violent assault against our players, career ending or forever altering injuries. This was a nothing burger by comparison.
MoneyLaunderX on
Cunt injuries himself, crawls back into the pitch and yet people cry over a player wants to get him out of the pitch? Game’s gone.
infinitude_ on
So was r/arsenalfc at the time.
fcGabiz on
Yeah of course they would lmao
TruthThanks on
BBC is a weird one. Certain aspects are very good. For others they just push out ragebait propaganda. A good proportion of their football journalism follows the second path, and to top it off they allow wild troll-like comments to be published to feed a narrative.
v2marshall on
Doesn’t this happen all the time? Or played get pulled to their feet when they’re slowing the game down
drinkbuckfast on
BBC comments are primarily right wing idiots i stopped using it along time ago.
Swiss-ArmySpork on
What a ridiculous overreaction to a nothing incident
GrandMasterBash on
70% of those readers hate Arsenal
FactCheckYou on
Arsenal players being made PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE…tell me what else is new
Naive-Temperature-70 on
The BBC comments are well known for being heavily populated with Arsenal haters. Any excuse…
Secret-Walrus-8781 on
This is one for the ombudsman.
Prtyalx on
this whole thing is fucking WILD! i was there, there wasn’t a single person in the ground that thought he was injured, why would Gabi? he didn’t even see him go down and the shuffle onto the pitch is a pretty standard time-wasting move. this happens every fucking week and now there’s uproar? and from pundits who have genuinely gone out to hurt opponents in the past. Roy Keane weighing in knowing anyone can google a pic of him leaning over a player who’s career he’s intentionally ended is just insane to me.
gabi XL had the ball thrown at his head by haaland, saka got dragged off the pitch when his hamstring went… tumbleweeds. honestly it’s not a good look but even Slot knows this is pure spin
DarthSemitone on
Look he made a mistake, he thought it was just time wasting to prevent Arsenal quickly continuing play. He clearly didn’t know it was a genuine injury and probably feels like shit now, people acting like he went in studs up at knee height.
Joshthenosh77 on
For what ?
LemtaLongi on
70% of BBC readers can barely understand or speak English
Fun_Plankton_7793 on
Send off deez nuts
Kaiisim on
I love BBC comments on Arsenal matches. They’ll *randomly* select comments from people saying “Arsenal are shit and boring and terrible for football, they’ll never win anything!!”
And then we score.
Every match XD I finally have had to stop using the BBC for anything this year, the Arsenal hate is booooring and their love of Trump is fucked up so fuck em.
helooksfederal on
fancy taking the BBC seriously
BarbarossaFlagship on
He should’ve seen 2 yellows definitely – 1 for dropping the ball on Bradley and the other for the shove, doesn’t matter if the injured was trying to crawl back to pitch. Michael Oliver is disappointed ☹️
Umbrella_Corp_2020 on
Yeh! And Gabby J committed a foul by not giving his shirt, when that defender tried to rip it off his back.
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Have you ever read any BBC comment section?
If you thought reddit was full of trolls and idiots…
First time somebody wants to a red card for a shove, while this happens so often in a season
I mean, I don’t think he should have been sent off, but it was a shit thing to do. Maybe he didn’t realize that it was a serious injury, but it was a really bad look.
Im prepared to be downvoted but I really believe what Martinelli did was reckless and potentially endangered the player.
The fact is if you have a serious injury and someone pushes you it could easily make it worse, if one of our players was properly injured and the other team came and pushed them i would want them off too.
Martinelli wasn’t playing for the ball, could’ve made Bradley’s injury worse, I understand he didn’t mean it but that’s where the reckless element comes in
This kind of thing really highlights the difference between being in the stadium and watching on tv. Everyone in the ground thought Bradley was time wasting and completely backed Martinelli’s actions.
The amount of pearl clutching going on over this incident is hilarious.
No. The player could be faking an injury until verified. Nelli was sick of play acting from opponents so him attempting to move pool player is understandable.
BBC readers? I doubt these idiots can read at all
The fuk they smonkin
The game was a nothing burger, the media have jumped on this as there was literally nothing to talk about.
Now we get – HE sHoulD get TaaKen tO Da TaWeR an UnG DrawEd aN QUArtEred! – for the next couple of days
For what?
You send him off for that and you give players and teams clairvoyance to go down ‘injured’ at every turn and kill the game.
Slot was right that we have a massive problem with time wasting and diving in this league. I’m tired of seeing stats that show the ball was in play for 25 mins in a half, and it’s because of this stuff.
It was a mistake from Martinelli given the potential severity of the injury, but Bradley moved himself back on to the pitch so he wasn’t to know at the time.
He’s apologised, so move on.
But I have a feeling that Sky/Neville were itching for some drama to be made from the game and here it is. Watch us get punished for tiny stuff like this going forward and teams knowing this and using it to their advantage to kill and break up games.
State of the sport is embarassing
I can imagine that is the entirety of the city of Liverpool taking part in that vote.
The only way it could have been, is like what happened to Martinelli at Wolves, is multiple yellow cards. But considering we’ve never seen that since it happened.
The hundreds of times it’s happened before, it’s always been a yellow card, I don’t know if they think it’s worse because he was injured or because they’re protective of him. But I wouldn’t expect anything more than a yellow if it was the other way round.
I’ll say it again, football fans like to act soft when it suits them. Suddenly they all have morals. Couldn’t care less about Conor Bradley, fuck him. Referee added an extra 50 seconds on after he spent 3 minutes crying on the pitch.
What happened last night is a symptom of backsliding on diving and the culture of football. 99.99% of the time, players throw themselves to the floor screaming (exactly like Frimpong did with the ‘penalty’), and they are suddenly fine. I don’t blame Martinelli for thinking (after watching Bradley pull himself further onto the pitch deliberately to delay the game), that he was faking.
THAT BEING SAID. What Martinelli did was wrong. It was daft. But it wasn’t malicious in the sense he knew Bradley was seriously hurt. Whilst I know it is thoroughly beyond the wit of man (and certainly the average Redditor in r/soccer) to accept that situations are a bit more complex than good vs evil, acting as if Martinelli is the devil incarnate because of this is somewhat hypocritical.
If you don’t want players doing what Martinelli did last night, stop making football a race to the bottom when it comes to gamesmanship.
They don’t really “think” that, they just hate Arsenal and this will be the main narrative on Martinelli for three seasons go come. Just watch how he gets cheap yellow cards from referees in every single game that’s left of the season.
BBC is not good enough to be read, watched or engaged with in any manner. I have blocked it’s existence. You should do it too.
Overreaction to this has been nothing short of hysterical. Not helped by Gary Neville’s idiotic comments, of course. Thank god Arne Slot spoke sense at least.
And if a Liverpool player did it 70% of BBC audience would’ve wanted Bradley to get a red card. You can’t trust the BBC when it comes to Arsenal
I entirely stopped giving a damn about what others say. They’ll talk shit no matter what Arsenal does or doesn’t. The only thing that matters is the goal
We have given PGMOL the opportunity to do us and have the media and fans gaslight saying ‘those cunts deserve it because of Martinelli’.
The Mike Riley game at OT the medias reaction to it
Was that we were bad sports, too big for our boots and got what was coming to us etc
This week needs some smoothing things over from Arteta and the club.
But PGMOL best be aware that they are not going to get away with it this time. PGMOL violence against arsenal will be responded to.
Boring game , this was a little stand out so the media will hype it up! Anti Arsenal
This is being incredibly overblown. It happened so fast, 9/10 times the player is time wasting and the shove (though maybe a bit stupid) is understandable given the emotions involved. Liverpool fans braying for blood, you’d think that Martinelli did a Shawcross on him. It feels fucking soft to me. We’ve had to suffer far worse shit over the years, actual violent assault against our players, career ending or forever altering injuries. This was a nothing burger by comparison.
Cunt injuries himself, crawls back into the pitch and yet people cry over a player wants to get him out of the pitch? Game’s gone.
So was r/arsenalfc at the time.
Yeah of course they would lmao
BBC is a weird one. Certain aspects are very good. For others they just push out ragebait propaganda. A good proportion of their football journalism follows the second path, and to top it off they allow wild troll-like comments to be published to feed a narrative.
Doesn’t this happen all the time? Or played get pulled to their feet when they’re slowing the game down
BBC comments are primarily right wing idiots i stopped using it along time ago.
What a ridiculous overreaction to a nothing incident
70% of those readers hate Arsenal
Arsenal players being made PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE…tell me what else is new
The BBC comments are well known for being heavily populated with Arsenal haters. Any excuse…
This is one for the ombudsman.
this whole thing is fucking WILD! i was there, there wasn’t a single person in the ground that thought he was injured, why would Gabi? he didn’t even see him go down and the shuffle onto the pitch is a pretty standard time-wasting move. this happens every fucking week and now there’s uproar? and from pundits who have genuinely gone out to hurt opponents in the past. Roy Keane weighing in knowing anyone can google a pic of him leaning over a player who’s career he’s intentionally ended is just insane to me.
gabi XL had the ball thrown at his head by haaland, saka got dragged off the pitch when his hamstring went… tumbleweeds. honestly it’s not a good look but even Slot knows this is pure spin
Look he made a mistake, he thought it was just time wasting to prevent Arsenal quickly continuing play. He clearly didn’t know it was a genuine injury and probably feels like shit now, people acting like he went in studs up at knee height.
For what ?
70% of BBC readers can barely understand or speak English
Send off deez nuts
I love BBC comments on Arsenal matches. They’ll *randomly* select comments from people saying “Arsenal are shit and boring and terrible for football, they’ll never win anything!!”
And then we score.
Every match XD I finally have had to stop using the BBC for anything this year, the Arsenal hate is booooring and their love of Trump is fucked up so fuck em.
fancy taking the BBC seriously
He should’ve seen 2 yellows definitely – 1 for dropping the ball on Bradley and the other for the shove, doesn’t matter if the injured was trying to crawl back to pitch. Michael Oliver is disappointed ☹️
Yeh! And Gabby J committed a foul by not giving his shirt, when that defender tried to rip it off his back.