agree there.the decision to ban him is ridiculous.lets see whetehr UEFA can keep up this level of decision making or was this just a one off.

as for rooney,well the contact was made so whether he was going down before or not does not really matter.

Now I admit that it was a penalty, just what Almunia was doing out there I have no idea. However Rooney was going down before any contact was made. Does this not constitute

“an intent to deceive the referee’

Its not like Rooney doesnt have form, as opposed to Eduardo, who’s dive against Celtic seems to be the first recorded occurence of him diving.

Fletcher calm down?

Have you watched our team trashing your team in semi final of CL we had comfortable lead and Fletcher made decision to tackle CF.

He should have calm down having such big lead but no. he went for CF and got unfairly booked.

So please stfu with this calm down nonsense. Maybe Arsenal players calm down after yellow cards and play at their 50% but our players give their hearts into the game.

Come on throw some another great explanation why you lost this game.

Again, I’ll admit Almunia had a rush of blood to the head and that it was his stupid action which created the situation. But when you’re presented with frame by frame video evidence that clearly shows the ball change trajectory and even more clearly shows your god diving, just throw your hands up and say, “ok, I guess they’re right, we were really lucky to get a goal there.”

And the main reason there are so many frustrated Asenal fans here is because each and every one of these blogs shows up on our newsnow feed. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again this is a top notch fan blog, with lots of current articles and a lot of good football conversation and banter going on.

But you must admit that when we see articles on newsnow lambasting “disgraceful” Eboue and Wenger for diving and then come here and see an article directly above it portraying Wayne Rooney as some kind of football god for doing absolutely f*ck all for 90 minutes besides diving for a penalty that we have a justifiable bone to pick.

That’s exactly why Wenger’s with hunt comments were 100% justified as well. Why is it that Eduardo, after thousands of dives by players all over Europe over the past few years is the one to get all this overblown attention?

Are all of your lot who were screaming for Eduardo to be banned now screaming the same thing about Rooney?

Are all of the Celtic supporters who were screaming for Eduardo to be banned now screaming the same thing about Aiden McGeady after his dive against Hibs at the weekend?

Of course you’re f*cking not and of course they’re f*cking not.

Just be balanced. By claiming Rooney didn’t dive there, which is exactly what this very article does, you are doing the exact same thing for which you wrote an article criticising Arsene Wenger; defending disgraceful cheating.

Your top boy Wazza is a cheat; there’s no way around it.

Good luck against Spurs. Meanwhile, we’ll take care of your new and improved cross town “rivals” for you.

@Tim, the slow motion replay shows only that Almunia was late with his actions. Ball changing direction? Dude look at the rotation from the moment Rooney touched the ball. And looka at the perspective ball —> almunia’s hands. His hands are behind the ball.

This video proves that Almunia fouled rooney. look how his hands are on rooneys foot. How the hell was he suppose avoid that?

Ok. I watched that twice, and have more fun things to do in life than arsenal funs trying to memorize each nanosecond of this clip.

Cheers. Poor form at the start and we still won with Arsenal.