Looks obvious to me. The Arsenal player (Rice?) is clearly preventing the Chelsea player from falling over & injuring himself.
Showing concern for a fellow professional……
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Wolves kicked a massive hole in Liverpool’s season last night with a late goal and have opened the door to Chelsea if they can beat Villa tonight they’ll go into the all important 5th spot and perhaps stop crying about Declan Rice giving Hato a little cuddle, a cuddle that actually led to their goal so if they had got a penalty they wouldn’t have scored, sorry we wouldn’t have scored for them from that corner.
Another great win for Wolves. If only we had started playing like this a few months ago…………
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Joao Gomes was really good. How has the rest of the season been for him?
Yes, out of the top five clubs , I think four look “wobbly” on occasion.
What about the other 30 times your lot did it ? 
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Come on WW..you know its one rule for the excitables and one rule for everyone else …ask Captain Black …imagine the level of ‘noise’ if they win something other than Sky awards…
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What goes on at corners is off the scale now. The Ref ignores foul play which is punished anywhere else on the pitch. Here’s one from last night - this is a sin bin offence at rugby league. In football it’s totally ignored.
Don’t dare take your shirt off to celebrate though!
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Ruud Gullit on Dutch television saying he’s had enough of modern football after watching Arsenal vs Chelsea
"I’ve decided to stop watching football. I no longer take any pleasure in our sport. I watched Arsenal against Chelsea; what an absolutely utterly poor match!
I see players trying to force corners, trying to force throw-ins, and I see ball boys ready to hand towels to the players. Football has become absolutely horrible. I hope this isn’t the path we’re taking.
I want players capable of taking on defenders in duels, someone like Lamine Yamal. I’m missing the joy! I no longer take any pleasure in football. Where are the players who dribble? Where are the players with balls?"
Yes, I also think football has become boring. It has simply become too physical and too tactical.
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Have to agree…it’s not the beautiful game anymore.
Football in the past was much more physical than the game nowadays (players expected that the oppos would try to kick lumps out of them)…
However, the difference is that with football in the past, players didn’t resort to Rugby style challenges, arms around a player, dragging them to the ground and then having the gall to claim a foul by the other guy.
It has really got out of control since Arsenal started to resort to it in order to defend corners and score all their ‘set-piece’ goals. Set-piece my armhole. It’s blatant cheating.
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Bob will have to refer to Arsenal as “The Cheats”.
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Yes, but it is widespread, and it is amazing that this is not picked up by VAR
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Iliman Ndiaye is probably the best in the premiership at the moment.
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I suggested the sin bin a few posts back but no one commented so I assume the idea is unpopular despite all the complaints about the current situation.
If implemented, clubs could find themselves 2 or 3 players down at a time & loosing games as a result.
Were this to happen I suspect managements would soon put a stop to the holding/shirt pulling etc. The game would benefit hugely from such action.
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In football we do the exact opposite. Fouled - injured - physio arrives - injured player on the side lines for 30 seconds - offender carries on giving the offending team an advantage. How’s that fair?
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Well Bob is a Happy Camper
I don’t give a flying F what Ruud Gullit or anybody else thinks I’m happy to win anyway it comes. I don’t remember Chelsea supporters moaning when they where boring the pants off the footballing world under Mourinho or City’s when Pep’s death by a thousand passes was doing the same.
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Quite right Bob
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Erm grappling a player in the box hardly equates to 115 charges your club is up for.