Media Tears

[Sanchez11]

Salty

 

[drippin]

White tickles a goalkeeper and they want to put him in jail.

Richarlison crushes Gabriel, who has no ball, like an American footballer and nothing is said. And not even a yellow given.

 

[Synical]

Oh great. More scrutiny. Notice how we started scoring less from set pieces once the media made a song and dance about it

 

[berric]

They definitely want to target White now.

Saw that SkySports made a compilation video of his corner antics. That Times article? You've never seen anything like it before.

 

[Synical]

They definitely want to target White now.

Saw that SkySports made a compilation video of his corner antics. That Times article? You've never seen anything like it before.

Yes I've seen a lot of Ben White slander on my timeline today. It's ridiculous

 

[Iwobeast]

Doesn’t care about England and plays for Arsenal. Bet media couldn’t wait to jump on him.

Not a word about how this guy is easily the best rb in the league

 

[field442]

Called it. How do they even know he was trying to take off his glove? To me it just looked like he was tugging his arm to distract him.

They'll be changing the interpretation of the laws soon to stop White doing what he does. There'll be a media campaign.

 

[berric]

Doesn’t care about England and plays for Arsenal. Bet media couldn’t wait to jump on him.

Not a word about how this guy is easily the best rb in the league

The agenda is out of this world.

Wish Kane did it first for example. It would be called "smart" and "dark arts."

 

[Sapient Hawk]

White tickles a goalkeeper and they want to put him in jail.

Richarlison crushes Gabriel, who has no ball, like an American footballer and nothing is said. And not even a yellow given.

In fairness, there's no real equivalency, is there?

White vs goalkeepers is two men battling for the battle.

Magalhães vs Richarlison is thorny because it involves a man & a pigeon clashing.

 

[Kobi]

Other thing to note is Kevin Nolan did this for ten years and nobody said a word, now we’re benefiting and it suddenly needs looking at.
Strange.

 

[SuperGoon]

Don't be so sensitive. Benny Blanco thrives on being the villain.

 

[Ljonin]

Don't be so sensitive. Benny Blanco thrives on being the villain.

Problem is they’ll now target him but let all other dark antics that happen on corners pass.

 

[DuBB]

I don't like that the media is doing this, but overall I don't think that is is very important.

The main reason is, the one thing I have the most faith in is Jover and the staff and their ability to teach our players other tactics that are to our benefit. Our set-piece "antics" have been boiled down to Ben White and his "dark arts" when in reality his biggest job is being a distraction, and not the key piece of those set pieces.

If you want an example of this, watch Ben White's 1st goal aganst Chelsea. But don't watch Ben White - watch Saliba, and watch him the entire corner. While Ben White, our King of the Dark Arts is floating around, being a nuisance, and trying to find space, all Saliba does for almost the entire set piece is hold on to his man, and push his man closer and closer to goal with one express aim - to ensure that however the ball breaks, our forward line will be onside.

So yeah, let the media spend 1,000's of words breaking down Ben White and him trying to take off a keeper's gloves. He's only 1 of 10 outfield players.

Every player clearly has instructions for all of our variations of set pieces, so when the media and opposition analysts call one of them out, there are probably 6-7 others happening that they haven't accounted for.

 

[Batman]

The agenda is out of this world.

Wish Kane did it first for example. It would be called "smart" and "dark arts."

I wish I would see someone call Harry Kane smart.

 

[Gooner Zig]

This is so typical of the British press - the last few weeks we've seen red card challenges on our players go unpunished in consecutive games but the uproar and gnashing of teeth are reserved for something as trivial as what Ben White does as corners.

Boring.

 

[Rex Stone]

Wonder who Gary Jacob supports?

 

[Sapient Hawk]

Wonder who Gary Jacob supports?

But this might qualify as slander.