Coincidence?

Newcastle 4- 4 Arsenal

Fair and square?

Not a chance!

I wonder how much money Alan Pardew put into Phil Dowd(y)'s pocket at half time?

This is not the first time Arsenal is playing magnificent football, to come out after half time and everything changes.

3 games this year when this has happened or when Arsenal playing extremely well but still, somehow, the results have not gone their way.

The three games this season, has these few things in common, Arsenal playing very well, and... Phil Dowd(y).

Arsenal 2 - 3 Tottenham

Leeds 1 - 1 Arsenal

Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal

And yeah, I might be an Arsenal fan, but they did not play that poorly in either of the games.

Let's take the Newcastle game yesterday for example...

Arsenal make 4 goals in less than 30 mins and keeps the pressure on Newcastle for the rest of the half.

They came on out again after half time and...

BOOM! Diaby, red card. Provoced by a known hotheaded Newcastle player. Of course he kept his head cold this time, as he knew what he said was provoking enough that Diaby would react, so all he had to do was look innocent. *Swearing! Dirty words! Name calling!*

BOOM! Penalty for Newcastle!

BOOM! Yellow card for the Arsenal keeper; and this is a big WTF? it was the Newcastle player trying a headlock on the Arsenal keeper, not the opposite and the referee standing just a few yards away!

BOOM! New penalty, Newcastle players falling over like nothing...

And there we go. Newcastle goes from an enormous amount of offsides, to practically none in the second half.

I for at least do not think this is just a coincident

Who makes all this decisions? Well, of course, our man of the evening... Phil Dowd(y)