08 Jan 2026 22:35:11
I wish Martinelli no end of pain or misery. I don't know what could possess someone to see an injured person on the floor, and rather than aid or ignore, he decides to throw a football at them, then attempts to drag them off the pitch. Absolute piece of work.
And now we have Arteta defending him. He has installed these types of values into his players, the underhanded type that we used to criticise Mourinho and other dinosaurs for. I. e. Time wasting, diving, crowding opposition players or the referee, whining and complaining incessantly about anything, believing the world is against them and understanding that they have to resort to such tactics.
I will cheer for anyone but Arsenal for the title this year, even City.
08 Jan 2026 22:42:05
I'm here with you brother, it was disgraceful.
08 Jan 2026 22:53:04
Damn him. Disgusting player.
08 Jan 2026 22:57:31
As an Arsenal fan, I can't condone what Martinelli did and can only put it down to a moment of madness. He'll go home, reflect on this and know that he was insanely wrong to do what he did. I believe he'll even feel remorse.
I find it absurd that anyone would think Arteta instilled this in him. It's an isolated incident by this player. As for the rest of your rhetoric, we all saw enough of your players rolling about the ground, time wasting, diving, whining and complaining incessantly. Arsenal aren't unique in that respect.
08 Jan 2026 22:58:52
Calm down! Deary me. I've just listened to your own manager give an interview saying that he shouldn't have done what he did, but in the heat of the moment how was he supposed to know he was actually injured. If he'd have known that then there is no way he would have reacted the way he did.
He gave a very honest and balanced opinion I thought.
I don't condone what Martinelli did but you're equally as bad for your sad comments. I don't think any Gooners will lose sleep about you not wanting us to win the title either.
08 Jan 2026 23:00:32
, Mango im with you mate.
08 Jan 2026 23:04:35
You're clearly losing sleep by being on this page. Additionally Slot is a reserved manager, I don't think he's ever lost his temper so that doesn't excuse what the little rat did. He was quite clearly injured as he wasn't touched as he went down.
08 Jan 2026 23:06:37
Ok gooner but he's still a Cnut simple.
08 Jan 2026 23:09:44
There is absolutely zero excuse for it and I'm even more enraged Slot has been so considerate over it.
Anybody with functioning eyes could see it was a potentially bad one.
He throws the ball at him, knees him in the back to edge him off and then when that doesn't work he throws him off.
There is no defence to that. At all. It's a disgrace from a professional footballer.
Martinelli is a complete bell end and anybody even remotely trying to justify or defend it is a bell end as well.
08 Jan 2026 23:11:15
Arteta literally tried to defend him. Saying he didn't mean to do it, laughable comment.
08 Jan 2026 23:16:15
Gooner, anyone saying a moment of bad behaviour reflects the ethos of your team is wrong.
It was an aberration, but a really disgraceful one. As Szob said, a player's health is more important than winning.
One Gooner totally lost his head. I do think a ban is in order as we can't have a precedent of clearly injured players being dragged around, but if it is a serious injury then I suspect Martinelli will be subject to a serious insurance claim. All of us know that you literally cannot touch someone injured on the ground unless you are a medical professional. If someone has, for example, an acl and you push them around - you may well aggravate the injury, and be liable for huge damages. If you do that in anger, then it's way more serious - aggravated assault.
It's a big deal.
08 Jan 2026 23:20:06
Mango best post this year for me.
How Martinelli didn't see red is beyond me.
Ref saw everything and if he says he didn't, then VAR did.
God forbid if Martinelli has exacerbated an already serious (highly likely) injury.
You could potentially disable somebody by doing that (from early years everyone knows that you never move someone until you know what might have transpired) and to have his so called.
Manager then act the way he did in the post match interview, well for me it speaks. volumes for the type of human being he is and the type of traits he is instilling in his team.
I'm with you Mango, anyone but Arse.
Get well soon Connor ❤️☘️.
08 Jan 2026 23:23:24
Gooner Jim, is that "calm down" a stupid reference from a comedy show from the 90s, anyway you are a very boring dirty team, Martinelli first threw the ball at him when he was on the floor, then leaned into Bradley with legs n then pushed him off the pitch all while the lad looked seriously injured ya muppet.
08 Jan 2026 23:26:02
What Martinelli did was disgraceful but when players go down feigning injury 10+ times a game then is it that surprising that he wouldn't immediately think that Bradley was seriously hurt. This is something that needs to be stamped out of the game. We have one of the worst offenders in the league in Mac unfortunately.
08 Jan 2026 23:34:44
I enjoyed Arsenal when I was a kid, played some great football.
Unfortunately Arteta is a horrible, very unlikeable little man who's personality has rubbed off on that team. Falling over at every touch and banking on free kicks and corners. Might well be the worst team in my memory to win the league.
08 Jan 2026 23:36:18
Gooner Jim.
You might not lose sleep but your certainly bothered as you've come on the Liverpool pages to comment.
What Martinelli did was cowardly, disrespectful and down right disgusting. Just because he's used to Arsenal play acting and time wasting doesn't mean everyone does it.
08 Jan 2026 23:36:27
Gooner Jim, don't make excuses for him! If he thought Bradley wasn't actually injured why not just try to help him up? Same way Gabriel did with wirtz!
08 Jan 2026 23:40:04
This is how fickle and biased football fans are.
What Martinelli did was inexcusable yet here you two are making excuses for him. Your team is an image of your manager who is horrible, cheating little turd so it's not a stretch to say he's instilled this attitude into his players.
08 Jan 2026 23:49:35
Arsenal have shown the rest of the league that playing "anti-football" ie diving, cheating, call it what you like, can and does win games and stifle the opposition by continual breaks in play and time wasting.
Take for example the amount of time Arsenal took to take the final corner of the game tonight. Same as at Anfield, zero urgency. The ref should have just blown the whistle.
Teams have taken Arsenal's lead this season in mastering the dirty arts and dirty tricks and it's now a big stain on the PL and the quality of the football. So if LFC are doing the same, which we definitely are this season I hate to say, it's because that's the way the refs have allowed and directed the game to go. Can't beat them, u have to join them. So Arsenal fans enjoy what you brought to the top end of the table.
08 Jan 2026 23:56:33
Spot on Mango.
As for the moaning ass Gooners, they're just rattled because they know their about to commit the biggest bottle job since Newcastle 95/ 96 ?.
09 Jan 2026 00:39:00
Made me laugh when the commentator talked about their final corner: "This is the set-piece Arsenal have spent the whole second half trying to get".
It sums up their anti-football. The roar that goes around their stadium when they get a free kick or corner.
The diving that goes on around the box. The fist-clenching from Legohead when their player manages to con the referee.
Horrible, dirty team typified by Martinelli.
09 Jan 2026 01:00:11
Arsenal fans, worst fans ever!
09 Jan 2026 01:26:31
Arsenal are the worst team in the league for cheating. i've watched them live a few times and what i noticed is on attacking corners they are the most aggressive physical players i've ever witnessed. But when it comes to defending around their own box or defensive corners they go down quicker than players in la liga.
I used to love arsenal they always played beautiful football. This tripe these days is stoke with a lot more quality. They have a good team they don't need to do these things.
09 Jan 2026 01:27:36
Darwin, not to mention Trossard screaming when Connor didn't push him to the ground. Should have been a second yellow for simulation. Thought baldylocks might have had a better grip on the game.
09 Jan 2026 02:17:24
Imagine Arteta's response if Bradley and Martinelli's positions had been reversed. I imagine Arteta wouldn't have been of the same opinion. I'm surprised VAR kept quiet.
09 Jan 2026 03:37:43
Well VAR also kept quiet when Wirtz was clipped by Trossard. I would say that's a pen in this day and age. Never played the ball but there was contact. City yesterday got a very similar decision in their favour.
{Ed078's Note - the commentators noted that if Wirtz had the ball within reach, it would give VAR a decision to make. Why? Can I trip someone if the ball is further away? When is a foul not a foul? For the record, I don't think there was much in it.
09 Jan 2026 03:59:08
Well there are some farcical decisions Ed as u know this day and age and the inconsistency is the same. I'd like to see a much higher bar for what is a foul and a lot more yellow cards for diving.
If someone is say pulled to the ground on a corner and a pen is given, they are often nowhere near the ball but it's still a foul. So ball within reach or not I don't see that matters. I recall the ball being close to Wirtz since he'd just touched it if memory serves.
I find the commentators generally agree with the refs. Job security.
09 Jan 2026 05:55:25
Bad moment for Martinelli who has come out and publicly apologised.
So what is the actual issue we're holding on to now?
09 Jan 2026 07:22:24
Pity we didn't have a Tommy Smith type player on the pitch to absolutely throttle Martinelli. And that's another thing our players should of been all over him but no they are to bloody nice.
{Ed025's Note - im not defending Martinelli in the slightest Endo but its got to the stage now where we dont know if a player is genuinely injured or not these days, MacAllister at it again last night rolling around after the slightest touch then Slot coming out and decrying cheating..the bloody cheek of the guy!, i was actually bored to death by the time that happened though mate..
09 Jan 2026 08:22:53
To hell with Martinelli and his fake apology. Let's hope what goes around comes around. Shame we don't have a Souness in the team who would have snapped the little cretin in half.
09 Jan 2026 08:39:32
"Ed078's Note - the commentators noted that if Wirtz had the ball within reach, it would give VAR a decision to make".
That was exactly what I thought. And like you, I didn't think there was anything in it even tho, we have seen those given.
09 Jan 2026 10:04:18
Gooner Jim. typical. Sh! th@us. Manager, players, fans.
09 Jan 2026 22:25:27
@25, I actually disagree with you on this one. I played contact sports from the age of 7 to my late 30's and have seem a fair number of serious injuries and, as a player, you know instinctively if it is a bad one.
Even watching on the goggle box you could tell from the lad's immediate reaction. I suspect the Arsenal players nearest to the incident knew as well, they didn't exactly charge to Martinelli's defence.
{Ed025's Note - i think some seen that it was bad WDW but maybe not Martinelli, he was too close and knew there was no contact by him, its plain watching it on tv and im not making excuses for him but it did happen very fast, it looked bad though and Bradley screaming should have been a clue, i should declare that i have no sympathy for Martinelli..