Olivier Giroud: Twitter reacts to Arsenal stars 100th goal as fans outraged after referee awards softest penalty ever
The Frenchman made no mistake from the spot as he brought up a century of Gunners goals with a spot-kick against BATE Borisov in the Europa League
OLIVIER GIROUD brought up a century of Arsenal goals from the penalty spot in hugely controversial fashion.
Fans fumed on Twitter after the referee awarded the softest spot-kick to be given during the Europa League clash against BATE Borisov.
Stanislav Dragun was deemed to have German centre-back Shkodran Mustafi in the box - although it remains to be seen what the midfielder actually did.
Nevertheless, Giroud stepped up, and wrong-footed the goalkeeper as he dispatched the spot-kick in the bottom left corner.
In what would delight Arsenal fans, the former Montpellier man netted 100 goals in quicker than Robin van Persie.
Theo Walcott - on a hat-trick - turned down the chance to take the penalty, and now has just seven more goals for the Gunners, despite signing six years before the Frenchman.
But despite a century of goals for the FA Cup champions, the major talking was how the ref decided to award them a free shot from 12-yards out.
Some believed he was making amends for failing to send off Nemanja Milunovic for an elbow on midfielder Joe Willock.
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Here are the best tweets about the awful refereeing decision...