{"id":13040,"date":"2017-05-14T21:12:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/2017\/05\/14\/peter-crouch-reacts-to-his-controversial-goal-against-arsenal-in-typical-peter-crouch-style\/"},"modified":"2017-05-14T21:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T21:12:01","slug":"peter-crouch-reacts-to-his-controversial-goal-against-arsenal-in-typical-peter-crouch-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/?p=13040","title":{"rendered":"Peter Crouch Reacts to His Controversial Goal Against Arsenal in Typical Peter Crouch Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Crouch has been a decent striker throughout his years as a Premier League footballer, but one thing that has always arguably been better than his ability on the pitch, is his banter.
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Too many footballers have the personality of a wooden spoon – they are media trained\u00a0to within an inch of their lives and fans\u00a0are merely presented with robots at the end of games that try\u00a0desperately to speak in the correct and professional manner.<\/p>\n

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It’s somewhat boring and unfortunately the way it’s always been, but there have always been a couple of exceptions to the\u00a0rule – and character\u00a0Crouchie is one of those.
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Take his reaction to his goal against Arsenal on Saturday – it should definitely have been ruled out for an handball after he put in Marko Arnautovic’s cross, but it was missed by Mike Dean and co.<\/p>\n

The lanky striker took to Twitter to share his take on the\u00a0incident, and said simply ‘Slight suspicion’.\u00a0Such\u00a0a cheeky chappie.<\/p>\n

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Slight suspicion<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Crouch (@petercrouch) 14 May 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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On another day, that goal might have proved costly to the Gunners in their bid to finish in the top four, but they had their main man Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud to thank, who put the result beyond any doubt with ten minutes to spare.
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Arsene Wenger’s side didn’t allow their frustrations to hinder their focus, and they got three more points to leave them breathing down the neck of Liverpool, who face West Ham on Sunday.?<\/p>\n

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Peter Crouch has been a decent striker throughout his years as a Premier League footballer, but one thing that has always arguably been better than his ability on the pitch, is his banter.? Too many footballers have the personality of a wooden spoon – they are media trained\u00a0to within an inch of their lives and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stoke-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.violetsport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}