The monthly guest post from Jonathan Blaustein. Enjoy it people, just enjoy it.
My son Theo thinks Unai Emery is ugly.
It’s true.
He once remarked on his resemblance to a vampire, and often mocks his “British Guy Teeth.” (I am not making this up.)
I too have a curved nose, and therefore empathize with Arsenal’s Head Coach.
I never thought he was ugly, (if I ever thought about it at all,) but my son has been emphatic. (He’s 11, so he’s emphatic about a lot of things.) Just yesterday, he tried to argue with a Chicago-born barber, in his own make-shift-barber-shop-located-inside-an-accountant’s-office, that LeBron James was definitely better than Michael Jordan.
(That takes balls, or a child’s lack of perspective.)
I figure Unai Emery has enough money to fix his teeth, if he wants to, so he must not want to.
What does that say?
“I’m Basque. I don’t care. You may call them tapas, but really, they are pintxos, and we, the Basques, invented them. When I eat squid, I eat every part of the squid. If I eat the octopus, you will know that I have eaten the whole octopus.”
How can you not love this guy?
Wayne Rooney had them cut hairline from his neck and sew it onto the top of his head, but Unai Emery doesn’t bother to get some teeth whitener?
Why? Because he’s too busy not-losing football matches.
The last time Arsenal lost was back in August. (Pause.) August 18th.
I’m writing this on November 26th here in America, and we’ve just had our Thanksgiving holiday. I’m on a couch at the moment, and certain parts of my body are sending clear signals that I need to stop with the holiday binging.
No more sugar. No more booze.
Back to normal life. Burn off these extra 4 pounds.
Christmas comes next. That’s what we think of here in America, as soon as Thanksgiving ends.
Christmas break.
So I’m thinking of Christmas, and Arsenal have not lost since it was still high-summer-hot, and we were all walking around in T-shirts, shorts and flip flops, saying things like, “I love summer. Summer’s cool.”
Back then, on August 18th, Arsenal got beat by Chelsea, away, in a game they certainly could have drawn, or perhaps even won. They lost, sure, but at least it was respectable.
And Unai Emery’s team hasn’t lost since.
I don’t care how small and cold your heart may be, how are you not erect-nipples-excited about at 17 match (18 now) undefeated run? There are always things that can be improved, even in wins like Sunday’s against Bournemouth, but being 1 point behind Chelsea, and 3 behind Spurs?
As a monthly pundit, I’m extremely pleased. I think Emery deserves time to bring in his guys, (or at least ask Raul and Sven pretty please to include some names on their shopping list,) to fairly compare his rebuild to Klopp’s or Guardiola’s.
Even setting aside the overall volume of money we have to spend compared to those teams, it still is more fair to judge 3-years-in to 3-years-in.
But in the 3 months since August, have I mentioned that Arsenal have not lost?
Sure, within days of this article, maybe Suprs beat us, thereby rendering my main point moot. (And increasing our distance from the Top 4.)
That’s possible. But if so, I can consider that in next month’s column. This one reflects life through Bournemouth, and I think things look pretty great, for where they are.
The only place I feel like we have true egg on our faces, at the moment, is with the Aaron Ramsey situation. Why on earth would Arsenal have given up 50 million pounds for a player, last summer, only to have Emery turn on him a few weeks later?
It makes no sense.
It is possible there were no offers last summer?
I’m wondering if this isn’t an area where Arsene Wenger was a bit prescient, with European football approaching a more American version of free agency.
Over here, players have immense power, in particular in the NBA, for deciding where to play.
The only way to use that power is to run down your contract. If you promise you’ll never, ever sign with a team, as your contracts dwindles, than anyone who trades for you knows it’s a short-term rental.
It’s possible that Ramsey is unwanted, or that the clubs that wanted him realized they could wait half-a-year, (foreign clubs,) spend nothing to buy him, and keep their resources, plus get the player.
To put this in a Kroenke-centric perspective, it’s like the New York Knicks panicking and trading a ton of assets to the Denver Nuggets for Carmelo Anthony, mid-season, instead of waiting 5 months and getting him for free.
The Nuggets were lauded for their wisdom, and I wonder if Ramsey isn’t an example of the tip of the iceberg.
Sure, Arsenal could have signed him for a likely-exorbitant wage, but barring that, they had to let him walk.
Is that as likely as them bungling the situation this badly? That he had them over a barrel? And they chose to walk away?
Honestly, I don’t know, but seeing him leave for nothing seems like a big failure. I guess it hasn’t happened yet, so perhaps we’ll know more by the December or January column.
On the fresh news front, Mesut Ozil was dropped for the Bournemouth game, a sure warning from Emery as to who wears the pants at the moment at Arsenal.
And that Szczesny/Fabianski interview popped up, thereby proving what Pete had been on about for years: that Arsenal’s goalkeeping coach was more clueless comedian than proper teacher.
It’s kind of amazing to think that Wenger was allowed to keep plodding on with the same old tired methods, year after year. I suppose he earned his last few years with the FA Cup trophies, (in fairness,) but here in America, coaches and GM’s at high profile franchises never get to stay around that long, and keep all the power, unless they deliver time and again.
Doc Rivers, who was considered a legend once he won the NBA title as coach of the Celtics in 2008, was stripped of his General Manager duties for the Clippers a few years back, when it was clear that Lob City had run its course. He was allowed to keep his Head Coach duties only, and now they’re winning again, and playing fresh basketball.
This idea that one person can do it all, and do all the parts well, seems outmoded these days, and I’m extremely glad that Arsenal are finally run like a modern outfit.
So I guess that’s where I’ll leave you. Unai Emery wears the pants in the dressing room, and may or may not be ugly. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang wore a haircut on Sunday that made me say aloud, “No American would ever wear that haircut!”
And then today on Twitter, I saw a video about our-new-hero Lucas Torreira drinking maté, Uruguayan-style.
It’s a truly global product these days, gents, and we best all get used to it.
Ddkingz
Too hard to read basket. But thanks.
Ddkingz…..
Tr4phy
Nice one Ddkingz
Top 5…. I’m pleased..
Ya…. DM ..
Grateful to get the top spot ahead of you….
It’s like I just made my debut on le-grove
Enjoy your moment Ddkingz! lol
As for the post, quite a random read! Though I did also say Emery reminds me of Dracula as soon as I saw him… but I love him anyway.
Sanchez out for a long time according to Moaninho. No way he’s injured he was obviously told he’s not going to be playing. And that’s another reason why they refused him his money last summer he’s been pissing away money since he got there
That’s 18 unbeaten now with a completely rested squad for the Spuds game. Time to put those fuckers back in their place. Forever in our shadow. Oh and LeBum couldn’t lace up MJs shoes. There’s simply no comparison. You’re letting your kid down for not correcting him.
Joe Willock!
@ this rate Sanchez would be fucking heading to China or America….
Could remember Sanchez a few seasons ago Talking about him been on par with Messi and ronaldo….
If ramsey leaves and his career takes a big dip in form, it won’t really surprise alot on here… But I’d wish him well and he should really consider his next decisions and don’t do another Sanchez on himself
This post was just a casserole of nonsense. Stopped reading it.
Good result last night. Good to see the kids being played.
Smith-rowe and Nelson look to be the 2 that have a real chance of making it. Sako is highly rated but a bit too early to judge.
The rest will get a year or two and a loan, but I don’t expect Willock, AMN or Nketiah to be Arsenal players in 2021.
Ramsey looks like another in the (very) long list of talented young players who never reached anything near his real potential at Arsenal due to minimal or poor coaching under Arsene Wenger. I’d be surprised if the club had received a £50 million offer for him given his inconsistency.
Arsenal have never achieved a player sale north of £40m. If a club had legitimately submitted an offer of £50m for Ramsey, it would’ve been accepted by the club without hesitation.
All that was bullshit paper talk; a rumour started by the hack John Cross.
2 new posts the same day ??
Pedro is on fire!!
“He once remarked on his resemblance to a vampire”
Did his son ever saw Tuchel ?? Nightmares guarantees!!
Here are some interesting stats published by EPL, which make interesting reading.
GOALS SCORED ASSISTS PASSES SHOTS
Aubameyang 8 Bellerin 4 Xhaka 1053 Aubameyang 29
Lacazette 5 Ramsey 4 Mustafi 830 Lacazette 27
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Kane 7 Eriksen 3 Alderweild 763 Kane 45
Lamela 4 Trippier 3 Trippier 608 Eriksen 18
So neutralise Kane and keep him out of penalty area and you are going to win
half the battle against Spurs. That was incidentally what happened last season
in home game. He was invisible.
keep him out of penalty area
———————
Yeah but Selfish Kane shoots from anywhere, remember that one against Ospina a couple of seasons ago?
Unai Emery Etxegoien Alza Virto Arocena Aizpitarte Expósito Etxeberria,
Now who is getting that on the back of their shirt?
http://fueradeserie.expansion.com/2015/08/11/personajes/1439276245.html
that is a good read too, once it is translated.
A bit older but Emery gets quite deep.
Danny
That may be the case but last season Kane made minimal impact in home game.
As I have already posted Spurs have won just one game at Highbury or Emirates
in last 20 years so even with Kane in team their record is hardly earth shattering.
“Emery transformed Lorca. A modest side, they punched above their weight for the rest of the season and reached a play-off final for promotion to the second flight. The crucial tie came against a team very close to Emery’s heart: Real Union. Lorca had to beat them over two matches to win promotion, and they had lost the first leg 2-1. Away from home, on 26 June 2005, Juan Carlos Ramos scored the decisive goal in a 3-1 victory with an astonishing 40-yard lob in extra time. Emery was so high on adrenaline he walked the 10 miles back to… Read more »
I really enjoyed the game last night. I thought the ‘kids’ played Emerball the way he wants the ‘first team’ to. There was nice close-passing along the sidelines [Guendouzi & Smith Rowe in particular] and in the second half the team continued looking for goals without giving up their defensive shift. Very encouraged 🙂
Don’t see our trend of starting slow changing this weekend. Holding does struggle when coming out to the left side. If we were worried about David Brooks, the two footed Son will give him even more trouble. He’s definitely getting one. This might be a game we win from the bench. Ramsey, Lacazette, Mkhitaryan and Nketiah have to be ready. Last year’s win in the same fixture was our best display of the season. Don’t have the same confidence this time around. Holding playing LCB instead of Monreal really worries me. Fast wide attackers like Son and Mané give him… Read more »
Yep Emery def a candidate for “The prince of Darkness”lol! But then again wenger was no oil painting! Who gives a monkeys? With regards to last nights line up you just know wenger would have unnecessarily played half the first team in one of his mix & match f**k ups with a guaranteed injury & fatigue for the next important match.what a relief for some tactical sanity at the club.Tremendous.
Surprise, surprise, Aubameyang has come out and said prefers playing through the middle,and the tone of it is telling as well: It’s clear he’s had enough of playing out wide to accommodate Laca.
So much for the all the Aubameyang is happy to play out wide guff from a few months ago. It’s clear it was just him just saying what he was supposed to say as a professional.
One of them will get moved on pretty soon.
If it is a back three, Maitland Niles at LCB as a wildcard? Very risky, but I also worry about Holding there. It may well be we go back to 4-2-3-1 for this game. We’re going to need to have a great game, Spurs have better quality than us in almost every area of the pitch which means that everyone at least has to drop a 7/10 game. If Ozil decides not to show up if Xhaka has a poor game and drops a mistake etc then we’re done for. If Ozil after 3 weeks of rest and having a… Read more »
Unfortunately for us, I think 3 weeks of rest are too much for Ozil, he will stay asleep… or he might be ill ??
The guest poster ripped off my comments about the Emery face department.
I said earlier to DM that “his face is sharp enough to cut an ice field in twain”.
Going with the mighty Gamboni on this…a menagerie of nonsense in the post.
The temp is below 5 degrees. Ozil is in Turkey…
Awful post. Not sure what dressing it up in irrelevant whimsy adds to be honest. But it is ammature writing I suppose.
Ramsey was being kept on by Ivan. The deal was probably put on by Ivan. As soon as he went the deal was pulled. If emery can’t get Ramsey to play with discipline in his system why would he keep him around on 200k. He isn’t inflicted with sentiment like the old guard before him.
Ramsay is fucking shit and apart from that one season 100 years ago, he has been: forgettable.
If emery can take his £200,000 salary and get a couple of decent chaps in, great.
Ramsay will never be in the Parthenon of Arsenal greats.
To be honest if Ramsey was playing as good as he was playing last season, he’s worthy to keep more so than someone like Mikki on a similar wage. The problem, or the way I see it, the solution is that if we can get rid of a player that Emery considers we can upgrade on in the summer, without spending too much dough, then so be it. It’s much better than stockpiling average, injury prone players, or players that you don’t see fitting well in your strategy. Imo the thing that not allowed us to sell Ramsey in the… Read more »
Amen Guns, technically poor for the money he wants. Inconsistent. Pads his numbers by playing for himself.
If Auba complaining about playing out wide then why not just put them both through the middle with good ole 442 formation? Laca a bit deeper to link up play because Auba clearly can’t do that at all just a pace babby to chase the through balls. Nothing fancy innit just proper no nonsense footy. We playing from the back anyway so why not try for a cheeky punt or two to him occasionally when the opportunity arises?
Sanchez is a mystery to me. It just tell that team chemistry and playing system is very important for a player to excel unless you are a superstar. I like Sanchez before he thought he is too good for Arsenal. I think Ramsey still likes Arsenal. His agent has shrew up the whole thing.
I think we’re seeing that Gazidis actually wasn’t that smart with his footballing decisions and was caught up in vanity projects. We should always be grateful that he was one of the people who got Wenger sacked, but I think we should also be grateful he’s gone. It now seems that the ridiculous Ozil contract may be at least in part attributable to him, the Ramsey offer seems attributable to him and I think we can now maybe pass a bit of judgement on all his whole Arteta plan. His footballing ideas were off a bit in some areas. Can… Read more »
Ddkings thanks for that excellent. BUT?
You must have met Bamford surely perhaps you could give a description of him.?
I imagine short perhaps 4’foot -Large head probably supported with a collar.
Cowboy boots to enhance Height and Machoness and a very large cowboy hat
and obviously two holsters for his Colt 45s.
How am i doing.
Only joking Bamford we realise your humour struggles and the States is a big place so you probably have never met. 🙂
That Bukayo Sako also caught my eye. He is only 17 years old. With only a few minutes on the pitch, he appeared to be quite fast and had an accurate left shot on goal. He has potential to become a fast winger like Sterling. Looks like our scouting department has really improved.
Interesting take on Gazidis…for me the jury is still out. On one hand he allowed Wenger to dictate the club’s vision and ideals and on the other hand he did get rid of him (10 years too late)…only to chase more cash elsewhere. Puzzling but understandable (everyone loves money) but also just plain weird. We will never know. He’s a snake. No doubt. But he’s a clever little reptile…I guess we’ll see what magic he can Hogwart up at AC Milan. Arsenal must learn from the past. The Ozil and Sanchez clusterfuck will go down in the ‘how not to… Read more »
This cat, Nelson is checking out 17 year old boys.
*frowns*
CA, Imagine being paid £2m a year and not being dominant or forceful enough to fire a manager that was running the club and its finances into a hole? He didn’t really fire Wenger, the manager fired himself… Even the backroom hires he made, which I’m grateful for, are odd… Raul S worked for Barca brokering deals for Messi and Neymar. He has no pedigree in fighting from a position of weakness Sven M is a great hire, I can’t knock it Darren Burgess was hired into a role that was already filled. The club totally fucking botched that. We… Read more »
Which is worse: Ozil’s contract or Jenkinson’s contract?
Joke Friday – A man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man: “You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it’s the best dock in town! But do they call me “McGregor the dock builder”? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scoarching weather, but do they call me “McGregor the bridge builder”? No! And you see that… Read more »
Azed, it should be a hate crime to critique Jenkinson
Pedro
I’m not criticizing Jenkinson, just asking an interesting financial /economic question.
Ozil at 350k or Jenkinson at 25k which is worse?
Azed
Ozil at £350,000 is one of the worst in football. You also have to factor in the £47m we paid for him plus his contract wages over the six he’s already been here, plus the next three.
It’s an obscene number which he is 100% not worth.
Jenks is a douchbag but like Iceland…cheap and nasty.
Cech couldn’t even play out from the back against a pathetic vorska and Ramsey is just not good and will never be good enough with his useless and needless hoarding of ball instead of just releasing a one time pass
We allowed Emery to come in with a band of coaches, giving him exactly the same power Wenger had… despite saying we’d move to a more club controlled operation.
Totally absurd and I don’t get the thinking behind it. Every coach in world football brings in his own coaching staff. He does not have the same power that Wenger had. And it’s more of a club controlled operation look at the hires behind the scenes and the restructuring.
GoH
Ozil has all the tools to be a great player, and he’s also marketable. In a perfect world were Ozil had the drive to succeed, that contract wouldn’t be so bad.
Even in this un perfect world, Pierre can give you reasons why the contract isn’t bad but I doubt there’s anyone in the world including Jenkinson who woundn’t tell you that Jenkinson’s contract is a fraud.
Azed
Ozil does not have all the tools. Some, not all. But the main one he is missing is what every single brilliant person has: determination. No matter how skilled someone is, without application of that skill and the determination to succeed they are just another nobody.
Ozil lacks fortitude and therefore will never be a great player. He’s also 30 now and on easy street at arsenal. He’s done.
@Guns of Hackney
Ozil had been at Arsenal for four and a half years before signing the extension. He signed a three and a half year extension in February this year. Still awful just wanted to correct that.
Ozil is not worth it at all. He has cost the club easily over 100M for not a whole lot.
His goals and assists are drying up and his numbers are just average now.
Biggest contract mistake ever.
We could have 3 really good players for his salary
GSF
“His goals and assists are drying up”
Have you looked at his “chances created” stat?
We debated the chances created stat a few days back. Its bogus.
Take a look at DeBruyne stats- that is closer to 350k pw
Even Ramsey had better stats last season.
IF Ozil made 70K pw I think the fire towards him would be much less.
70k might be gracious now
GSF
I’m just channeling my inner Pierre.
Azed
haha, im half asleep its still morning here and the coffee is not working
We need this fella. However he looks destined for City with all the Pep praise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-wV60tghVc
Great read, Jonathan.
Nelson The Sanchez saga will go down in the annals of history as one of the biggest cock-ups ever at AFC. The 13th January 2017 was the day Sanchez decided he’d had enough. We all remember. The 3-3 draw at Bournmouth was the trigger for Sanchez and his agent to finally sit down and review his options to leave. MC and Pep were his preferred choice but, because Arsenal( Wenger) were too slow/stubborn to act, the club missed out on a substantial fee and in return got Mkhitaryan in an exchange deal with MU. Sanchez went to a club he… Read more »
Jenkinson deserved his deal at the time he got it. We were all waxing strongly about his potential and his energy and passion. He got an an England cap too based on merit. He really lost his way but he could have been a very useful sqaud player for us.
Jenkinson deserved his deal at the time he got it. Unbelievable really. He deserved 45,000 a week over 5 years? He was a back up RB at the time and we were loaning him out to West Ham for the second season in a row. Holy fuck what a stupid decision it was at the time. Wenger has always overpaid and overindulged his British core of players and that only hastened them to being shite. Wilshere, Ramsey, Jenkinson and Gibbs overpaid nothing players who surprisingly enough spent many years at Arsenal sucking a living out of the club. Oxlade too… Read more »
Bamford “Tim Sherwood doesn’t have a single Arsenal player in his Arsenal-Spurs combined XI, btw. Biased, no doubt, but is he all that wrong, really?” The common consensus on le grove and in the media is that Tottenham have far better players than Arsenal and have done for the last 3/4 seasons and also have had a better manager during this period. This being the case ,the question needs to be asked ….why are they under achieving with such a strong team and manager and have Arsenal over achieved with such a weak squad and “clueless manager”. During this period… Read more »
Emery looks like a vampire as he stays up all night studying film of opponents. He coached Valencia- who has a bat on their badge
makes sense!
🙂
Im waiting for him to suck the blood of Pochetino on Sunday!!!!
45k? thought Azed said 25k. Bros cool temper o. If it’s 45k then it was too much but if it was 25k, it was deserved. He had his best spell with that loan spell, that was also when he got the cap.
I feel like some of the below — which comes from this morning’s other post — might generate some more discussion here, so I’m re-posting it. Bamford10 “Paul Merson has only Auba and Ozil in his Arsenal-Spurs ‘combined XI’. As damning as it is of our current XI, few here would disagree agree much with that, except that (Pierre aside) Ozil wouldn’t make their combined XI. The other difference is that the Lacazette crowd would probably replace Auba with Laca. Otherwise, while no one likes the situation, I imagine most would concede that Merson has it right.” Batistuta “Bamford I’d… Read more »
Hear, hear Marko.
It became a big problem where some players cottoned on to the fact that as long as you were sucking up to AW you were rewarded with game time and a fat juicy contract.
Who remembers Theo’s post match interview after the Palace game where he admitted that they were hungrier than they were. The fallout was pretty immediate as, if I remember correctly, he didn’t play the next few games.
Bamford
Who gives a fuck what player makes the combined team. As everyone knows, what happens on the day is so far removed from any pundit prediction or combined best team. At the end of the day it’s The Arsenal’s best XI vs Spuds XI that matters the most and what each team does on the day.
Fuck the Spuds. We are winning this game.
Bam why do you insist on taking the blog in whatever direction you want. I mean it’s honestly weird directly quoting yourself like your in an argument with you.
Leno Torreira and Monreal over Lloris Dier and Ben Davies.
My Arsenal Spurs combined 11
Leno
Trippier. Toby Vertonghen Monreal
Torreira. Wanyama
Erikson. Dembele. Son
Kane
Marko, after talking shit you still answered his question so why talk shit in the first place? He was just trying to make a conversation.
My combined 11
Leno
Tottenham back line
Torr Xhaka
Son Ozil Erikson
Kane
OR
Leno
Tottenham back line
Son Torr Erikson Iwobi
Lacazettte kane
TR7
Agree with your line up.
The only difference for me would be Torreira, Dembele in central midfield and then having Alli in there instead of Wanyama.
In terms of what they have done this season, really only Leno and Torr and Xhaka gets in for us in a one striker combo. In a two striker combo you can drop Kane deeper and play Auba or drop Laca deeper and point Kane.
But with the players they are/can become, you can make a case for Ozil and Bellerin in there.
No way Iwobi Ozil or Xhaka makes a combined 11. Come on man
There is fuck all wrong with my English teeth thank you very much
The thought of a combined Arsenal/Yids team is just disgusting
I was visited during the might by the Magic Mushroom Fairy as I staggered through the Otherworldly state of the 3am pee. ‘GuNZ,’ she said, ‘GuNZ, now is the time to put aside mind-bending substances and concentrate on the task in hand. It is the will of all twilight creatures that Arsenal beat Spurs 2-1 this weekend. Because we lack any earthly substance, we’d like you to pop down the bookies and put a cheeky tenner on for us’. I know this to be a true prophecy because the Magic Mushroom Fairy spoke with a Basque accent and had bad… Read more »
Really fancy our chances on Sunday.
GuNZ
You had me laughing here.
Unai “The Squid” Emery. Sounds like a gangsters name.
Let’s hope the Magic Mushroom Fairy is right and that we beat the Spuds!!!
Pedro Massive respect for going ad free on your blog. Makes it all the more glorious coming from someone who actually works in advertising. I’ll say one thing though, and no disrespect to you as you do have to earn your bread, but fuck advertising and all its brainwashing. I’ll say just one thing: At the end of the McDonald’s adverts you hear a whistling sound. If any one of you may have paid attention the volume is much louder. The aim being is that if you are out of the room, you will just hear the whising sound which… Read more »
TheLegendaryDB10, many thanks!
When you work in the game, it’s really not that dark. Generally, most work in it to do some good with their failed career in art.
Those two points dropped to Wolves keep looking bad as the season progresses
That’s my one criticism of the unbeaten run, Palace understandable, Liverpool too but Wolves at home was just us being careless.
Good
Sling the kids in soon
Well done lad
For fixing the elephant in da room
The leg
Are you mad
Ad free
Don’t you remember film ads
The Krays
4fuk sake
Marko
You’re super fucking weird, dude. I was simply introducing a topic that I thought might produce a bit of discussion. I thought it was a little quiet on here. Plus the other post’s comments were short-lived because of this post.
You’ll notice that my post did I’m fact produce a bit of discussion — including, hilariously, a comment on the topic from you.
And it also wasn’t an “argument” between me and Batistuta. It was just a discussion.
You’re a really weird guy, mate. Really unpleasant too.
RH – agreed . That was a match we should have won . They have lost to Cardiff today- think whatever you think
B10 agreed – it was a good initiation for a discussion- don’t worry Marco has been a perennial contrarian
You’re a really weird guy, mate. Really unpleasant too.
Partly accurate.
The best way to banish the two points dropped to Wolves? Beat Tottenham on Sunday and then Man United shortly after.
We need to be focused, be very careful not to make mistakes and make most of our chances and score when the opportunity presents itself.
Why not? Dare to dream!
@guNZ dont you mean Unai Calimery…served with mashed spuds….
Marko,
Your comment at 18:32:44 is absolutely accurate.
Spend any length of time in the States and you will find that most “Ivy League” graduates (Harvard,etc) have the sound of their own voice to rock them to sleep at night…critical analysis is important, however, the Ivy League actually believe they operate on a higher plane than others-then they try to convince you that they embrace little brown brother..they don’t. Stay England.
Speaking of Ramsey, here is a former stoke city player’s confession about his leg break. MUST READ!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/comments/a1n344/tony_pulis_hated_arsène_wenger_we_were_out_of/
Isn’t Dave Kitson that secret footballer whistle blower? No real surprise about Pulis and the orcs being deplorable cunts
Good post, kelvin.
Thanks for sharing.
Ramsey does deserve more credit than Theo or Ozil or the Ox. You can never fault him for lack of effort. But that big injury has hampered his career.
As much as that injury was terrible I don’t really think it hampered his career much His best seasons all came after the break i think? Before the break he was averaging about 2 goals a season. He did have a lot of potential but whether he got injured or not, he received zero useful coaching so it was never likely he’d fulfill it injury or not Also before the break he was just a kid with good potential, but apart from cesc, almost none of our youngsters from that sort of era amounted to much and I don’t think… Read more »
I’m not surprised about pulis. He and that kind of person is literally scum. Whilst arsenal were 100% the victims of that, I do wish we hadn’t been so idealistic about using small technical players in that era as well tho. The same kinda thing happened in my local 8 a side league where one soft team got kicked off the park and it ended in a brawl. They didn’t deserve it at all – but as well, against my team they never dared because we have a team that gives back and goes in solidly. Again, this was totally… Read more »