Capital Cup Last 16 - Reading vs Arsenal 19:45

Soups123

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

The ref certainly had his whistle in his mouth when Jenkinson shoots. Could be to give the Walcott goal or to blow full time?

Might have been about to blow for the peno but held on

kitakyushu

Wow. I don't recall ever seeing that particular scoreline before.

Washington Irving

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

The ref certainly had his whistle in his mouth when Jenkinson shoots. Could be to give the Walcott goal or to blow full time?

Why is there a defender crouched down in the goal?

Quazzie

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Why is there a defender crouched down in the goal?

His hand is sore from the handball.


Serious answer is that, that is the defender that cleared 'walcott's shot.

A Dub in Glasgo

Chucky the tree wrote: »

Could also have been to give a peno and red card to the reading defender. No way was it for full time though.

That is probably it, I actually missed the hand ball with all that was going on in the game

Pepe LeFrits

donfers wrote: »

on top of that he should have sent off Kocielny and given Reading a penalty so it's another case of the big side getting all the calls

haha

What a match

cson

breffni666 wrote: »

I think AWs time is now up. He has served us well but cant bring us any further. Regardless what happens the rest of this game, enough is enough!!

Wilberto

What a ridiculous match!!! :P


Was some viewing though!!!! Trust Arsenal to save football after the weekend it's had!! :P :P :P!!!

greendom

@obinho FT Stats Reading v Arsenal Shots 19-34, On target 9-13, Fouls 14-18, Duels Won 55%-45%, Pass Accuracy 71%-86%, Possession 35%-65%

53 shots in 120 minutes - amazing - what a crazy game

extra gravy

Soups123 wrote: »

That was super, love the away support. And the other lad strolling out getting death stairs from the rest

That lad has been on Twitter defending himself, saying he was actually getting a round in and wasn't leaving at all! You won't hear this on Sky though :rolleyes:

The_Kew_Tour

Its nice to be talking about the football for change.

No Arsenal fan,, but credit where credit is due. Well done.

Quazzie

Soups123 wrote: »

That was super, love the away support. And the other lad strolling out getting death stairs from the rest

With a stairs like that, it sounds like he was lucky to get out at all

Soups123

Quazzie wrote: »

With a stairs like that, it sounds like he was lucky to get out at all

I knew it was wrong but I couldn't get the real spelling in my head, thought to myself 7/5 game everyone's going to be to excited to catch my spelling error:)

EdenHazard

Everyone says what a game but 7-5 is just redic, its like a score in 5 a side, is it that amazing!

Soups123

EdenHazard wrote: »

Everyone says what a game but 7-5 is just redic, its like a score in 5 a side, is it that amazing!

Aah piss off.......

MaroonAndGreen

Crazy game

but a great one

Wilberto

Soups123 wrote: »

Aah piss off.......

To be fair, I think his point may have been that it wasn't exactly a match for the purists!!!

Galvasean

Madness... MADNESS!!!!

A Dub in Glasgo

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

The ref certainly had his whistle in his mouth when Jenkinson shoots. Could be to give the Walcott goal or to blow full time?

Thought he looked ready to blow for a penalty.

extra gravy wrote: »

That lad has been on Twitter defending himself, saying he was actually getting a round in and wasn't leaving at all! You won't hear this on Sky though :rolleyes:

That's what I thought at the time but the Sky lads made their mind up quick. Same with the jerseys being thrown into the crowd at the end saying they must've thought they'd won.:rolleyes:

mike65

Boring boring Arsenal! (soz if I'm a bit late with that one)

P_1

So Arsenal take the first set 7-5, play stopped due to bad light and will resume on center court tomorrow.

Soups123

Wilberto wrote: »

To be fair, I think his point may have been that it wasn't exactly a match for the purists!!!

I was only joking, it was pure entertainment that's all! 7-5 even Wenger looked pissed for the last one

balkieb2002

Saw the half time score on BBC and decided to tune in for the second half.

Boy am I glad I did now

For the neutral supporter that game was amazing... end to end and chances/shots galore (less said about the defending the better!)

pithater1 wrote: »

So Arsenal take the first set 7-5, play stopped due to bad light and will resume on center court tomorrow.

Even Wenger said it was like a Tennis game plus the goal sequence is perfect 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 4-0; 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4; 4-5, 5-5, 5-6, 5-7

DenMan

He's blowing for the goal I'd say. At that point the ball had been cleared away and Jenkinson is about to shoot in the rebound. In the referee's mind he saw the ball cross the line first.

batistuta9

cambo2008 wrote: »

What are they Arsenal fans singing about RvP does anyone know??

cambo2008 wrote: »

It was to the tune of his "scores when he wants" one ??

i thought the RVP stuff was being sung by Reading fans

the first was

he left cos your shít x2
robin van persie
he left cos your shít

and the other was something like

laughing at you x2
robin van persie
he's laughing at you

they could be wrong though but that's what it sounded like to me

RikkFlair

pithater1 wrote: »

So Arsenal take the first set 7-5, play stopped due to bad light and will resume on center court tomorrow.

They won the first set 6-1, previous round vs Coventry...straight sets win?

tayto lover

batistuta9 wrote: »

i thought the RVP stuff was being sung by Reading fans

the first was

he left cos your shít x2
robin van persie
he left cos your shít

and the other was something like

laughing at you x2
robin van persie
he's laughing at you

they could be wrong though but that's what it sounded like to me

Well if that's the case i'm glad we gave them a 4 goal lead and then hammered them

tayto lover

Was Jay Tabb on the Irish panel for a time? I seem to recall that name from a few years back.

MaroonAndGreen

tayto lover wrote: »

Was Jay Tabb on the Irish panel for a time? I seem to recall that name from a few years back.

You could be thinking of Phil Babb :P

grenache

donfers wrote: »

Instead of going by the stopwatch he went by waiting until the chance unfolded which is really quite disgraceful - it's not a game of fifa on the PS3, you go by the clock, no way should it have gone to 96 minutes, on top of that he should have sent off Kocielny and given Reading a penalty so it's another case of the big side getting all the calls

having said all that, Reading are a woeful side defensively and are every bit as bad as the refereeing decisions, it was an exciting game with two poor quality sides, it's the Carling cup at the end of the day and neither of these sides were ever likely to win it so i think it's a lot of fuss about nothing at the end of the day

The original 4 minutes additional time is indicative of the time lost in the 90 minutes for injuries, substitutions, stoppages for bookings, etc.

But you are forgetting that Reading made a further two substitutions during the 4 extra minutes. The ref has to allow extra time for this.

What I liked about the game, was the honesty of the players. There was no diving or play-acting like normal. Walcott and Meade stayed on their feet when they could have gone down. The ref let the play flow too which was good to see. The one criticism I have of him is his failure to send off Kosczelny. Defo a further two yellow card offences after the the first yellow.

I don't know what Chris Gunter was at for the last Arsenal goal. He's normally quite decent. Not that it made a big difference anyway.

Redzer7

FúCKING YESSSSS!

efb

Lads this year was this Capital One tie for me- all hope gone at half time- my hydrocephalus - today I've moved into my own house I bought!

In Arsene we trust!!!

Seaneh

tayto lover wrote: »

Was Jay Tabb on the Irish panel for a time? I seem to recall that name from a few years back.

u21 caps, no senior call ups.

Used to play as a winger, plays centre mid now.

breffni666

cson wrote: »

Look lads we've got away with this bigtime. I'm glad we won but there is something rotten at the core that cant be cured. I really, really hope I'm wrong and I hope Saturday proves me wrong. Hon the Gunners!!

danlen

breffni666 wrote: »

Look lads we've got away with this bigtime. I'm glad we won but there is something rotten at the core that cant be cured. I really, really hope I'm wrong and I hope Saturday proves me wrong. Hon the Gunners!!

To be fair, if morale and passion was as low as people are suggesting there is not a hope in hell a team could come back from 4-0 down to equalise.

This has to be seen for what it is, a freak game. I don't think anyone can read too much into a game that finishes 7-5.

If we put in a performance this weekend, all the talk of a major crisis will have evaporated in the space of 5 days or so.

After our first two games we were supposedly unable to score and had no hope of finishing top 4, then we put a decent few results together and suddenly there is talk of challenging for the title, then we have two ****e performances against Norwich and Schalke and we are in dire straights, I ever heard one pundit claim Everton are now a better team than us :rolleyes:.

Football is fickle.

SlickRic

most. ridiculous. game. ever.

you know it's been ridiculous when Chamakh scoring twice is a complete afterthought.

GreeBo

whippedcream wrote: »

Reading subs and stoppages. Tis a minimum of 4 minutes anyways, he can blow it up whenever he wants. Plus I find when teams Shepard the ball into the corner, as legit as it is, they tend to extend the injury time a little bit.

donfers wrote: »

Instead of going by the stopwatch he went by waiting until the chance unfolded which is really quite disgraceful - it's not a game of fifa on the PS3, you go by the clock, no way should it have gone to 96 minutes, on top of that he should have sent off Kocielny and given Reading a penalty so it's another case of the big side getting all the calls

having said all that, Reading are a woeful side defensively and are every bit as bad as the refereeing decisions, it was an exciting game with two poor quality sides, it's the Carling cup at the end of the day and neither of these sides were ever likely to win it so i think it's a lot of fuss about nothing at the end of the day

GavRedKing wrote: »

Time wasting from a throw in the corner and Reading sub would make up most of it I'd imagine.

Soups123 wrote: »

30 4 the sub, 3/4 stoppages and the 4 held up was a minimum of 4!

ArmaniJeanss wrote: »

Refs are discouraged by FIFA from blowing for full time mid-chance, they rarely if ever blow up when a cross is coming in or a ball is in the middle of a penalty box melee.

The "At least part" of time added on is to allow the ref to add on more time if injuries subs etc happen during the original time added on.
Its 30s extra for the one Reading sub.

Time should have been up before Arsenal got the ball into Readings half so it wasnt mid chance. If the you are saying the ref added on an extra minute for time wasting then no PL game would ever end. Reading took how long on that throw in, 20s?

Extending the time because Reading held the ball in the corner? Are you serious?