Newcastle toppled Arsenal at St. James’ Park on Saturday evening in a game littered with controversies.
Eddie Howe’s men earned a hard-fought three points against the Gunners thanks to an Anthony Gordon second-half winner.
The goal itself is surrounded by controversial moments as the VAR took over four minutes to check if it should stand.
The ball seemed to go out of play before Joe Willock crossed it in and Joelinton looked like he pushed Gabriel in the back before handballing it.
To top it off, VAR checked to see if Gordon was offside but was unable to make a decision due to insufficient evidence.
Mikel Arteta was furious with the goal afterwards, but Howe gave a much calmer measured response.
“With every VAR check that was going on we thought one would cost us in the end. Initially I thought it was a good goal but I saw hesitation from the referee. Obviously pleased goal was given, a good goal from our perspective.” he said via Chronicle Live.
“It was a real battle between normally two teams a lot more fluid than that. Both teams knew we had to fight to win. Wasn’t a game of beauty. It was lot of aerial balls, which was a a marker of how hard the game was. Thankfully, we came out on top.”
The truth of everything is Harword Webb is behind the seen many people may not see it but I do there many ways you can aid a team a d there many ways you can sabotage a team unless Harword Webb is removed from VAR we can’t see any good decision I don’t want to mention anything on Arteta it is shame that he keep on fielding Karl Havertz even on the day Arsenal lost there first premiership league of the season while Nicolas Pepe whom he disregard help his club to win Farnebeche in Turkey the awful display of Havertz alone is a shame to him Arteta be is a money not well spent he has done it before on Williams nothing come out he repeated I tag again he has signal many bad bad signing no one are as going as Pepe in there various position you remembered Mari, Runason, Williams and Karl Haveatz and even Jorginho though he knows but he feel h is doing well but he sold Pepe simple because he is not the one that bought him 65 million pounds and 72 million after ten games Haveatz can’t score even one goal if not the penalty his team mates allowed him to play by now Arteta supposed to hide his face in shame because of the way he treated Pepe in a racist manner