{"id":662226,"date":"2026-05-11T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662226\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:40:09","slug":"premier-league-reaction-west-ham-staring-at-relegation-after-arsenal-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662226\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League reaction: West Ham staring at relegation after Arsenal defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complaints to PGMO are purely performativepublished at 12:35 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:35 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">West Ham 0-1 Arsenal<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Dale Johnson<br \/>Football issues correspondent<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya is fouled by West Ham's Pablo and Todibo\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1514af2b-c179-49f9-b7d5-a28936938198.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Just hours after the final whistle, news emerged through briefings to the media that West Ham were to lodge an official complaint to PGMO, the refereeing body headed by Howard Webb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is almost always a performative act to deflect away from a result. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nottingham Forest did it when current West Ham boss Nuno Espirito Santo was in charge at the City Ground. In fact, Forest have done it many times, under different managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester United complained a couple of months ago when Amad Diallo didn&#8217;t get a penalty against Bournemouth. As did Tottenham. And Fulham, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On each occasion, the affected team did not win the match. In these specific cases, no mistake was logged by the key match incidents panel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">West Ham also said they would request the VAR audio of the incident, as though it is something which is kept from clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yet the VAR audio is routinely made available to clubs upon request.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The next edition of Match Officials Mic&#8217;d up airs on Tuesday, and it would be a surprise if this incident is not included.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Webb has not shied away from including the most high-profile of incidents, especially if they happen the day before the show is filmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ll all probably hear the VAR audio soon enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Complaints to PGMO are purely performativepublished at 12:35 BST 12:35 BST West Ham 0-1 Arsenal Dale JohnsonFootball issues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-662226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}