It was a penalty mate. No doubt about it. The thing is we should never of let Bale have that much space in the first place. Vermaelen is playing absolutely shocking.
You're wrong. He fell a metre from Chesney. And if it wasn't our keeper who brought him down, we should have got a red. Therefore, the referee is full of shit. I'm 99% sure the referee got told by his assistant that there was nothing there.
And every Football journo I follow on Twitter unanimously thought it was a dive. And most of them are anti-Arsenal.
As for that 1st half. Several things I'm shocked by:
1. Instead of carding Bale for a blatant dive, he's given a penalty.
2. We score from a header.
3. We come back from 0-2 to make it even at the half.
4. Adebayor kept his celebration to a dignified minimum.
(On that last point, I thought I was seeing things).
Re the penalty: even the Arsenal haters on Sky say it was a dive.