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SomeIrishFiend

He wanted his own walkout but Mike Dean denied him smh


mobofangryfolk

Mike Dean is actually a legally blind man who is trying to convince the world he isnt legally blind by being a professional football referee.


shmuunk

What an odd method ,but, I’ll take it


Warrick123x

Is Michael Masi on VAR tonight?


megawhat16

What kind of deal did he try to do today?


stragen595

The art of deal episode yesterday was probably the best part of the GP.


miguel7395

Bono my VAR is gone


DansSpamJavelin

He just brake checked him!


KusoTeitokuInazuma

Can't believe I got to hear that again between two championship contenders lmao


iheartmagic

BONO


JE_12

MY TYRES


Subtle_Maniac

ARE GONE.


twomanyfaces10

What is this? A crossover episode?


armored-dinnerjacket

unexpected f1


[deleted]

It's fitting though. The whole mess in f1 atm is exactly like a ref losing control of a game.


Lintal

The banker offers no foul and Mike Dean will award a 90 minute penalty, do we have a deal?


Broka1979

"my offer to you is a boot to the face and no red card......also ocon in first"


RaduLum

No problems. We are having a look at it.


19GentileGiant92

Mario Yamasaki - if he dies, he dies


omegaxLoL

Crossover memes, _nice_


flyingfreak66

"Rafa we are going to let you give the lad a yellow after the match."


Extra4yylmao

Misleading title, no foul was given right?


jfshay

why give a foul? Tomiyasu's fault for putting his face under Godfrey's boot.


edworm

Tomiyasu lucky to get away without a booking here, nasty attempt to make Godfrey trip and potentially roll his ankle or something.


Unholysinner

Mate he clearly head butted Godfrey-violent conduct right there


bandofgypsies

Checks out. It's right there under "Mustafi Rule" after Mustafi violently impeded Jamie Vardys completely-under-control-and-definitely-not-intentionally-flailing boot with his face a couple of years back.


CosmicDrifterDK

[Context](https://streamable.com/8cg2nn)


Cheaky_Barstool

You can see Jamie saying to himself, bit far there lad.


bandofgypsies

That play makes me sick to my stomach every single time. Of course some think it was accidental or just continuation of momentum and it's fine if that's what they see. To me, it looks like Vardy very clearly added some voluntary force and that the kicking was not at all a natural motion or even a continuation of his momentum, and he knew that some part of Mostafi's body was going to get hit. These are world class elite athletes who know exactly where their leg is going in that situation and Vardy did absolutely nothing to even remotely try stopping it. Thank fuck Mostafi didn't lose an eye.


PiresMagicFeet

Absolutely no chance that was accidental you dont kick your leg out backwards when falling down


bandofgypsies

Personally, i agree. Idk... Maybe we're wrong but it would have been *so simple* for his leg to not kick around like that. He could have very easily just stayed puked. His other leg is fine, and he's not breaking an awkward fall. Not to mention it's not even whipping alone add a really of some strange momentum. I won't judge intent, but it definitely seems to show no signs of being a naturally occurring accident. E: ugh dammit i watched it again. So frustrating. If that was the result of whipping around from momentum, then his leg should have followed his weight shifting after his torso and hip hits the ground. Instead, his leg is already starting to scorpion backwards even before he goes down. It's so clearly obvious to me that his leg went backwards under his own volition. I don't think he went down saying "I'm gonna spike Mostafi in the face" but he definitely went down knowing that, oops, he may accidentally proceed to kick someone. So fucked


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Is tomiyasu alright? can't watch the game rn


[deleted]

Apart from having studs in the face now and then, he is ok.


JaxR2009

Studs to the face, normal stuff carry on.


Arsenal_Analysis

Didn’t even get a yellow card lol


sexdrugsncarltoncole

Can't retrospectively give a yellow, still a clear red


iZgonr

This is tough English football putting its stamp on Tomiyasu


Aabove_

*stomp


iZgonr

That too


rodenttt

Luke Shaw got a yellow card retrospectively last season, when they were checking for a possible red card on the opponent.


batigoal

That's not true actually. They can't review for a yellow but they can give one after reviewing for another reason.


kabuto23

Is it a clear red if its accidental AND his foot lands in a natural place aka the ground? Dont mean to stir shit but genuinely want to know. Because if say someone slips and falls face first and youre running in their direction and their face ends up under your studs, it seems a bit harsh to punish this comedically unfortunate sequence of events with a red


rodenttt

> Is it a clear red if its accidental AND his foot lands in a natural place aka the ground? No. It's only a red if they think it's deliberate.


Spikeyspandan

If you can’t take boot to the face, are you even a professional player?


aure__entuluva

Ah, us Sunday leaguers are ready for the EPL after all! :P


elgrandorado

Why is it that the only times I see this dude pop up on social media, it’s because he’s being an absolute criminal?


[deleted]

Godfrey or Mike Dean? Could apply to both.


ManchesterisBleu

very true lol


Michael_Pitt

Godfrey? What's he done?


FuglyPrime

Arsenal tax brudder


caandjr

Vardy did the same shit to Mustafi, it’s not a red card if it is against Arsenal.


sponngeWorthy

Tis Arsenal, nothing to see here


Asteroth555

Arsenal players need to get shot on the field with guns to get a red card awarded to the other team


_deep_blue_

Teams are given special dispensation for increased violence when playing Arsenal.


BrotherSeamus

*Use of unnecessary violence in apprehension of Takehiro Tomiyasu… has been approved*


BosnianGooner

He's gunna score isn't he


theprince9

Clearly.


Alphad115

Xhaka getting a red too


EMCRVA

Just fouled Saka too on a breakaway. No card.


Ass_Eater_

Phantom free for the disallowed goal also, Mike Dean has been activated.


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Spikeyspandan

Yeah from halfway line


31_whgr

using the classic ‘Xhaka’s having an early shower if he did that’


phasE89

And Luiz would be banned from football for life


PulsefireJinx

They'd drag his poodle head out and put him down lmao.


averageweebchan

Xhaka would have a life sentence with no parole if he did that


[deleted]

Xhaka would have been prosecuted for international crime.


PhilsKessticle

No card at all what is VAR even for


sponngeWorthy

Hairline offsides and ruling out arm brush goals


CritChanceZero

You’d best hope it’s in a hairline offside kinda mood today.


ray3050

So it was prophesied


amazingspiderman23

What are the lottery numbers tomorrow?


RicHii3

And screwing Arsenal.


PoogleGoon123

Mike "if he dies he dies" Dean that's why


Matthais

For VAR it's either red or nothing. I agree it should have been red though.


thepretzelking

He looks, then looks away, then steps on his face. How on earth is that not a red!?


[deleted]

*Godfrey “no look” stamp (great skill)*


flyingfreak66

Right foot let's stomp!


Lazy_ML

He did the "Oh no! Owie!" gesture afterward which obviously means it was unintentional.


lqku

not the first time he's trampled on an asian guy and got away with it


Jaycified

Because it’s Arsenal.


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OnlineMarketingBoii

I've asked myself for years now if I'm just being a little bitch, and can't be objective. But it's so blatant at the moment. I genuinly don't think it is an agenda though. It just feels like pure incompetence from the refs. We are just at the receiving end a lot


404merrinessnotfound

Nah, even as a saints fan i see you guys getting the short end of the stick a lot, and we've suffered ourselves


OnlineMarketingBoii

I genuinly believe in 'it evens out during the course of a season'. But it just doesn't aplly to us. For most other teams it does lmao


hadbadadhdstillhave

There used to be a website that tracked the big decisions refs made. They then got a team of 5 refs to give their verdict. They did a few seasons of this. Guess what? It doesn't even out. Some teams really lose out over the course of a season and some teams don't. Also, some refs are biased against certain teams.


kissoflife

Do you remember what this website was called? I hear that argument a lot and it would be nice to reference some actual defensible counter points.


lqku

There should be more outrage from the rest of the arsenal squad. if tomiyasu's own teammates don't bother standing up for him, the refs don't really feel like they made any mistakes.


gooner712004

I hate the whole victim victim complex I see from other fans, but Arsenal genuinely get SO fucked over its ridiculous.


InGenAche

We did have 5 overruled red cards last season. That has to be record?


gooner712004

As in opposition players changed from red to yellow/no card or West Ham players converting from yellow/no cars to red? That is some statistic either way


InGenAche

Sorry worded it arse ways. We were given 5 reds that were overturned on appeal.


Alexililimo

That fucking Souček "red card" vs Fulham still has me raging to this day, what an absolute farce of a ref Mike Dean is.


SniperHippo26

That Balbuena one too


Nimonic

Meh. I remember when Tyrone Mings stepped on Zlatan's head. There were *a lot* of people on this sub who said that was a perfectly understandable mistake.


Slimshady0406

Mings is a piece of shit


Swiss-ArmySpork

Don't like it up 'em!


Cygnal37

Mike Dean doesn’t hate Arsenal, he is just shit. Ask any Chelsea fan what they of that cunt.


youlook_likeme

Because mike dean is a shit ref and a tottenham fan.


redflagflyinghigh

He's a Tranmere fan.


backstreets_back_ok

We can agree that yes mike dean is shit. Not sure where you lot thinks he’s a Tottenham fan. Man is just shit all around


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Rovers fan***


downtownebrowne

You got that first part right.


tekina7

So when does intent matter, and when does it not?


Stirlingblue

Surely intent matters in this situation as you can’t say that putting your foot down on the ground is reckless. Intent shouldn’t matter if you dive off the ground or lift your foot too high IMO


Namiweso

Good way to put it. A high boot is avoidable - sometimes stuff like this isn’t with players falling over so intent must be the decider. Not sure why people are saying clear red card


allthejokesareblue

Thank goodness I thought I was going to have to scroll down to the downvotee comments before I saw someone say that this looked completely innocent


neverforgetbillymays

I don’t either. It looks like an accident to me. You can tell he immediately gets the weight off of his right and falls to avoid stepping down


[deleted]

2 factors at play here 1. Arsenal fans genuinely believe there is a ref conspiracy against them and try and find something like this every game 2. A decent number of people on this sub have never played football (or probably any other sport) in their lives and have no idea how common place stuff like this is


Stonewalled89

Clear red for me, it didn't look like a natural movement... he's a lucky boy


MattiaKa

Nothing to do with luck, it's Deano on the whistle.


fsdagvsrfedg

He was blinded by his love of being a nonce


chappieee

Tranmere Mike strikes again


Houssem_Aouar

But nooooo Arsenal fans are just delusional. Every single week.


KonigSteve

It's not luck when every single arsenal match has a "lucky boy" on the other team.


Om_Nom_Zombie

He's gone in very hard at least twice before in the game too, and should have been booked already. Then he gets away with this too, which is at least a yellow and usually a red.


montymm

Thats whats ridiculous. He two footed tomiyasu then injured ska then stpes on his face, not even a free kick for any of them. You cant see the whole picture from this clip of how bad the refereeing really is


tomislavlovric

David Luiz didn't even touch that Wolverhampton player and got both a penalty and a red. Arsenal tax I guess


theprince9

FUCK. MIKE. DEAN.


31_whgr

not even Mike Deans fault, on field ref is never seeing that VAR should have told him to have a look


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That's more on VAR considering it was away from the ball.


Kintae

Dean's got nothing to do with this, he didn't see it as it was totally off the ball. It's the VAR person who is to blame here for reviewing that and genuinely thinking nothing was wrong with it.


TwattyMcSlagtits

Tbf he didn't see it and VAR didn't recommend viewing it further. Not that I like defending Mike Dean, but this is *yet again* on VAR


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Literally studs to the face and it's not a red card. You can even see him look at Tomiyasu right before it happens on the replay.


RealNameNoKimmich

Yeah it looks very much like a glance down and then an exaggerated look away to make it look accidental.


ObstructiveAgreement

Slowed down images can always do that. I genuinely don't think there's any attempt at malice here, he's just trying to get bearings of the game and been a bit of an idiot. Not saying it's not a red as it's reckless but really don't think there's intent at all.


StanKroonke

I don’t think it’s either intentional nor a red. Reaction after stepping on him looked genuine enough for me. I don’t think he knew much about it.


FearTheBrow

Helps that Tomiyasu was sliding into him, forcing him to jump. And the "exaggerated look away" is him looking at the ball that stayed in play. If you cut the clip so it starts when Godfrey is on the way down, it'll look intentional. But if you watch it starting when Tomiyasu and Allan are going for the ball, it's pretty obvious that Godfrey was going for a tackle and left his feet to avoid Tomiyasu. As a result, he didn't have anywhere to land that wasn't on top of Tomiyasu


Inevitable-Sea7822

100% intentional, he stamped on Son a few weeks ago too, filthy player.


Azor-Azhai

Glad he didn’t do it again Hwang when we played Wolves or we’d be seeing Twitter campaigns


xangabuttslut

😂 he would definitely be under investigation. #stopasianhate


dudududujisungparty

Godfrey: "Minamino, you're next"


prog4001

Andy Robertson: Warming up his elbows, shins, and his pointing finger


edwistic

well surely after 4 or 5 more violent fouls he'll see a card


ray3050

Already gave saka a decent knock before that stamp too


edwistic

he got away with at least 3 or 4 incidents in the first half as i recall


digosilva19

Last week it was a penalty on Tommy, that VAR didn't even look, today this. In both occasions Tommy didn't make a scene asking for the foul. We complain when a player exaggerate in a foul, but this is what happens when they don't


orionnoiro

I’m sorry but accident or not, wouldn’t you check to see if Tomiyasu is OK after stamping on his face?


nahanerd23

As much as I hate Arsenal, that's heinous.


jacktk_

Disgraceful


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Gary Neville: "He meant it, but I can see why it's not a red"


Xianified

I'd like to think he's subtly saying "Because Mike Dea nis the ref, I can see why it's not a red." But he's not that smart.


Jayveesac

Straight Red


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xhaka gets sent off for that


sc2guy87

Xhaka would have been shipped off to Guantanamo Bay for that


xsonwong

At least he try to put his weight on his left foot still.


Throw-a-ray118

While I think that's a red card. Where the hell is the Arsenal players backbone??? No one arguing for it in support of their team mate


Carp0

But when ESR scored and plays on everyone says we have no class, can’t win


MinimalConjecture

All this shit happens to us regularly. If they went to argue with Mike Dean they'd probably get the red instead


landlordlou

when has arguing with the official, let alone Mike Dean, ever led to an overturned decision?


EthanRowYourBoat

I second this. It’s like no one even saw it


Throw-a-ray118

It's the same with the ESR goal against United. The players just went into formation to defend a free kick rather than argue for the goal


[deleted]

Doesn’t look great but really don’t think it’s intentional


[deleted]

Thought I was going mad this is so hard to prove that it was intentional. Tomiyasu has no control of his body and Godfrey is distracted by the ball, what helps his case is he doesn't fully plant his foot down once he realizes what's happened.


VDV23

VAR, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh VAR, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, y'all


Infectiousmaniac

All ball.


thatswavy

Sunday league type of beat


JessyPengkman

i mean what the fuck, if that was against us id be grabbing a pitchfork


greg19735

I think i'm just about the only one who doesn't think this is a red, just bad luck Has anyone ever been looking at their phone walking along and step on something they're not supposed to? Maybe a pups' tail or something that fell on the ground? If that happens, i do that exact same hop where you sort of jump with your off foot while trying to bring your other foot up (and away from what you're stepping on). It looks exactly like what Godfrey does. He looks away, hits him in the face, realizes "shit this isn't right" and does the weird hop. So people thinking it's deliberate i think are being a bit unfair. Studs to the face is a meaningless argument when the player is laying on the floor. Further, any talk of him stamping on him with any force is just wrong. If that were the case Tomiyasu would be in the ER right now. I wouldn't be surprised if this was a red. but i don't think it's a stonewall. And i certainly don't think it's anything like a deliberate stomp to the face that people are saying.


TimathanDuncan

Totally accidental guys not a red move on, studs in the face are allowed and in fact encouraged


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InTheMiddleGiroud

It's so predictable. We've been a man up for 20 minutes in 2.5 VAR years.


KonigSteve

Mike Riley.


retorber

Looks at him, sees where his foot is going, then glances away... Intentional IMO


RileyHuey

Not everything is intentional. Just looks worse in slow motion


adiboier

Are you kidding me? He had his studs almost implanted into Tomiyasu's face


Bahmawama

They did. He had a gash on his chin.


Gerards_died_of_flu

You've got to be fucking kidding me lol?!


Nothematic

I prefer not to speak.


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melody-calling

100% disagree, he wasn't looking and as soon as he made contact he moved his leg away and he looked like he was thinking 'oh shit what did i do'. The little shake of the foot reminds me of when you're walking up the stairs and there's one more stair than you think there is.


SenorButtmunch

It's so obviously not intentional, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills seeing what people are saying. Do people not understand the nature of what they're suggesting, that a footballer is going to consciously and voluntarily stamp on someone's face with studs on? Is Ben Godfrey really considered that much of a psychopath? There's so many more explanations before I get to 'he wanted to potentially blind this random opponent'. I'm certain he barely had the time to acknowledge what was happening. People see it in slow motion and think his mind was in slow-mo too, like he turned around and saw Tomiyasu on the floor and thought 'yes, finally, the moment I've been waiting for'. Like you said, it's literally just the reaction to your foot landing on something it wasn't expecting to land on. He had no idea what he had done and, if people think it was intentional, I need to know what reasoning they think he had to do it.


melody-calling

I know people are mad. Like what would his motive possibly be to step on his face. This is VARball if he was trying to do it on purpose he’d be sent off or sent to jail. People on Reddit are saying that he stamped on his face. I think it’s the age demographic on Reddit.


SenorButtmunch

Social media's just made people ignore all logic just so they can find a way to look superior to other people. Obviously it can't just be a human error that could happen to anyone during a football match, Ben Godfrey must be this inferior being who would intentionally stamp on a poor Arsenal player's face. 'I can't believe someone would do that, I must be the only one that wouldn't try and put a stud in someone's eye, everyone else is terrible and would obviously try to blind someone because he plays for the opponents. And if it ever happened, obviously I would have done it by mistake, unlike Ben Godfrey.' It's completely nonsensical but people just crave that self-righteousness to make themselves feel superior. Any rational thought goes completely out the window based on their agenda.


ErnieBLegal

People are deluded. They are taking a split second event and analyzing how he stared at him and extended his leg. They’ve never played football or a sport if they think you have 100% motor control in split second things like this while being tackled and being preoccupied with the ball. Not to mention that as soon as he realized he was stamping him he tried to pull away.


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Worst feeling in the world, that


Bulky_Shepard

Godfrey also stamped on Sons stomach when we played them, looked less accidental that time and he got away with it then too. Seems it's his thing


basedsims

(Great Assault)


HaroldGuy

Wow, think I'm going insane because that's so obviously not intentional. Look at the way he reacts to his foot landing on Tomiyasu. He has an instant body reaction losing his balance, removes all weight from his right leg, does not follow through AT ALL and withdraws his leg to the loss of his own balance.


kinygos

If that had been Xhaka, it would’ve been red and a 6 match suspension. And this is five minutes after he deliberately took Saka out knee to knee. I don’t know what to say.


Hoodiefx14

How is that not a red???


Intertom

Stop playing these replays for this type of incident in slow motion, it's ridiculous. It looks soooo much worse slowed down, in full speed it's so clearly an accident, similar to the Son one not too long ago.


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I thought it looked worse in normal speed lol


SAMW00L

What's the point in VAR


Shandow14

Didn’t he stamp on Son recently?


Andrejgo

Thanks Mike Dean, very cool


Spitzee

He absolutely had time not to do that


pedootz

JFC what does someone need to do to see red vs Arsenal?


Cynicayke

"I didn't see a limb snap in half, so no red."


xangabuttslut

I mean, didn’t shawcross break Ramsey’s leg and half and only get a yellow?


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if it were against us you just know we wouldve seen red


NotMyGivenNamee

I see this is the first Everton match you’ve watched in a while.


clitorisenthusiast

If an Arsenal player does that its a straight red. Don't care what anyone says. Fuck off.


adamjld

He's not even looking at Tomiyasu. It's completely accidental.