Genuinely - was it a penalty?

[Vermilion]

The centre picture here shows Toure jumping on to Babels back = PENALTY.

[Darth Marty]

IT WAS A PENALTY FOR SURE. As was Arsenals last week, thats football. We win, they lose.

[BubbaZanetti]

Whilst we're on the topic of dodgy decisions, note how no-one's talking about Flamini's studs raking Kuyt's shin in the first game. That could easily have been a red card, ban for two games. We all saw last night how limp Arsenal went without 'Filthy' Flamini....

[Kenneth]

Whilst we're on the topic of dodgy decisions, note how no-one's talking about Flamini's studs raking Kuyt's shin in the first game. That could easily have been a red card, ban for two games. We all saw last night how limp Arsenal went without 'Filthy' Flamini....

Yellow for me.

[tomasjj]

If it was scored against us, would we have been pissed off?

We need to be prepared for tomorrow's onslaught from outsiders?

For me, yes it was. Toure bumped Babbel from behind. His fall however did make it look worse than it was.

But was that a tug on Babbel's hand I saw from Fabregas just before Toure's challenge?

Other views please gentlemen (and gentle-ladies)

They were hustling him...but it was a 50/50 decision. Some you get, some not.

I think Hleb did not get his peno because he was looking for it and went down too easily.

[Nic83]

50/50 some are given, some are not. Not for me though but I'll take it!

[Elvis]

It looked like a clear pen in real time - something must have made Babbel lose his balance and it seemed to happen in the area. It looked a bit more contentious in slow motion but sometimes the slow mow doesn't convey how the slightest nudge can cause a loss of balance. In that sense, it was the opposite to the Kuyt challenge last week. That didn't look like a penalty in real time, but did on the slow mows....that's life.
The bad thing from Arse's point of view is that they let Babbel maraud into their penalty area about 30 secs after scoring! Bloody idiots!