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Piers Morgan has gone on social media to rage about Arsenal‘s woes with VAR and Kai Havertz role in the squad.
Morgan, an avid Arsenal fan, took to X to voice his displeasure at the refereeing perfomance during the Gunners’ 1-0 loss to Newcastle.
VAR made the decision to allow Anthony Gordon‘s match winning effort with the result dealing the Gunners an early blow in the title race.
Gordon’s 64th minute strike was checked by VAR officials for nearly four minutes, with three seperate incidents assessed.
Morgan blasted the decision-making by VAR as ‘pathetic’, called out some of Mikel Arteta‘s moves and laid into the struggling German Havertz.
Piers Morgan is an avid but very vocal Arsenal fan and he voiced his displeasure at VAR on X
Morgan released a series of tweets, the first stating: ‘So we all just watched the ball go out of play, then Gabriel get fouled, and then a clear offside. But VAR still gave Newcastle the goal. Just pathetic.’
The flurry of VAR decisions took four minutes to decide, with the first taking a look at whether the ball went out of play as Willock attempted to rescue it.
It was then being checked whether Joelinton committed a foul on Gabriel as it appeared the Brazilian pushed his fellow countryman in the back.
After it was deemed that was not a foul, VAR tried to look at whether there was an offside as Gordon looked ahead of Joelinton.
However, it was confirmed that there was no conclusive angle that Joelinton made contact with the ball which means they didn’t know whether Gordon was offside.
Morgan then continued to voice his displeasure at VAR and also turned his attention to Spanish manager Arteta and Havertz.
He insisted: ‘VAR was MoM for Newcastle but we deserved to lose. Arsenal were dreadful. Only Rice, again, deserves any praise. So long as we have no proper striker, and Arteta persists in this ridiculous Havertz farce, we won’t win the League.’
Havertz has struggled since his £62m move across London from Chelsea, but the rangey German is still being picked on a fairly regular basis by Arteta.
Kai Havertz has struggled to maintain form during his time a both clubs Chelsea and Arsenal
Much of the Gunners’ fanbase often express their dissapointment with Havertz online, while like Morgan many are full of praise of Declan Rice.
Morgan then directed a third tweet towards Arteta, and said the manager was part of the reason why Arsenal were not going to win the league
He said: ‘Arteta’s absolutely losing his sh*t, and he’s right about VAR being a disgrace and embarrassment.. BUT we were still cr*p, and didn’t deserve to win. And HIS inexplicable decisions re Havertz & Raya, and not buying a top striker, are hurting us.’
Despite Morgan’s moaning Arsenal have only just lost their first league game of the season and remain in the hunt for the Premier League title.
They have also struggled more with injuries, particularly after skipper Martin Odegaard was ruled out before kickoff against Newcastle, and have managed well in the league so far.
