I have to say SORRY for not attending the match review yesterday, I headed back to New York and didn’t have the time.
However, I did take in the Blackpool game. Miserable on so many levels, right? I’m not talking about the football, but more looking at a half-empty stadium half-full of fans who’ve been absolutely mugged off by that weird looking owner of theirs (defo wouldn’t want to peak at his internet history, or venture into his basement).
I’m not much of a protectionist, but I have to say, when it comes to football clubs, I really think the UK government should get involved to stop dickheads taking over and destroying things. I don’t know how you go about doing that, but football really is so much more than a business. It doesn’t even work like a business (clubs almost never die either). It’s all for the people and the communities. To do what he’s done is an assault on the town.
The game wasn’t up to much. Laurent K pulled out before the game throwing our defence into a shambles. I was surprised he didn’t opt for one of the kids to step into his shoes, but there you go.
It’s hard to lose your mind over a game against Blackpool, but it was thrilling to see Joe Willock grab two goals. I was a bit gutted for Eddie, he’s a very exciting player but he made some bad decisions in front of goal. He did work hard though, and here’s the important point: at least he was finding the positions and the runs to miss. Goals will come. Wouldn’t it be immense to have a striker in the ranks who could deliver that came from the academy? NOT HAPPENED IN OVER 30 YEARS.
Iwobi also had a positive impact on the game and I thought AMN looked very good in midfield in that more advanced position.
My big hope with the latest batch of young players coming through is that we see some growth with them towards the back end of the season. We can’t fall in love with another group only to see them all fuck off to Hull, Swansea and Birmingham (god damn it, I miss you Fran Merida). We have to see some progress, otherwise some serious questions need to be raised about the state of our academy. The production rate has been utterly pitiful over the last 20 years. The club need to move away from excuse making when it comes to the academy. Making it work is about hiring the best people, giving them the best young players and having a coaching setup that can build them into smart footballers and good humans.
KIT TIME:
Hmmm…
I was not immediately in the firm zone when I saw them.
However, the computer kits look nicer and I’m sure they’ll look way better on a human. A very solid start and the colours feel right, I like the blue that they’ve brought back into the mixer and you know they’ll make them to a high-quality (please, no plastic badge).
The Denis Suarez story continues to rumble on. Part of me feels a bit miffed that we’re losing someone like Ramsey and bringing in someone who feels less effective. However, hard to say Ramsey has had an impact on our season up until now. It’s not like we’re shipping out a powerhouse contributor to the first team. We’re hiring in a better technician out wide who can knit midfield and attack together with more efficiency. So really, it’s an upgrade on where we are.
I have no idea what we’re going to do with the defence. It’s clear that LK and NM are going to be injured most of the season. Mavrapanos needs to hurry up and get back into the squad and hopefully prove he’s more than a 4 game wonder. We were all very excited about him when he played last year. He’s very big, he’s quick on his feet and he has a lot of composure about his game. Forget that red card.
More and more, it looks like the second half of the season is going to be about stretching old men way too far, or blooding the kids and giving an honest appraisal of how hard we have to work the pound notes this summer.
I’m gunning for all the kids.
I really do detest the muppets online who try and destroy teenagers because they’re not Leo Messi after two games. Players rarely come fully formed. It takes time to adapt to the tactics, fitness levels and technical expectations of the league. The guys can grow if they’re given the chance. We can’t be writing them off after a dodgy touch in the FA Cup. Young players grow. Thierry Henry and PV04 were in no-mans-land before they came to us, then they exploded. Why? Because they were given room to grow.
I’d rather have a kid with a high ceiling than an expensive journeyman who has hit their peak.
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments you beautiful people. x
Arteta was our man…My importance to the position of any management position is: Communication (langauge)
Experience in their field.
Emery fails in both categories, thats all.
Experience in their field… Arteta… position of manager…Emery fails… you are an idiot
RH: “How exactly do you go about being ruthless with two players who signed contracts just six months ago raptora??” By June 1, 2019 Ozil will be 1 year into his latest contract with 2 years left on it. Mkhitaryan will be year and a half into his contract with 2 years left. Is there a better time to sell two over 30 year olds with massive salary and limited contribution?! We won’t do it this winter, but if we don’t do it in the summer either, then surely things would look pretty grim in regard the vision of our… Read more »
Football goes around in cycles.
i think Arsenal are missing a trick- by not trying to build a team of predominantly home grown players.
Embellished with some overseas stardust
Akin to Louis VAN GAAL Ajax team- GUUILT, rikard, DENIS BERKKAMP, SEEDORF, klUIVERTM de BOER, van DE SAr etc
the talents here.
Lets be out there getting it!
Maybe the FA should announce some Brexit measures.
Foreign players have been a real negative for English football since the PL started.
Maybe a salary cap on foreigners, but not UK players.
Players like Cantona, Bergkamp, Henry, Pires, Hazard, Drogba, Aguero have held back a generation of UK talent.
I for one would prefer to see David Bently, David Wheater, Craig Bellamy, Andy Carroll and Seth Johnson fulfil their potential.
If the clubs dont agree to the FA proposals, well no deal is better than a bad deal.
It would be interesting to see how much money Arsenal have spent on Jenkinson
wages since he joined the club in 2010/11 season.
Frankly it beggars belief that a player of his ability level has last as long as he has
done at a club like Arsenal and has managed contract extensions and wage rises.
We must have spent something like £17 million on wages alone.
The club has absolutely pissed money away over the last 6-7 years.
I think it would be scary to see just how much we’ve wasted if someone did a detailed break down.
Celtic- won the European cup -with all players brought up in Glasgow
look at barcas success- puyol, busquets, messi, xavi, iniesta, cesc
bayern in their pomp
Juve now- with their Italian managers and defenders
Man u – scholes, giigs, beckham, nevilles(2), butt
Yeah I’m sure that’s relevant now. Sure a class of 92 is just around the corner right.
Emery can communicate well in Spanish and French with many of our squad and his colleagues.
His English is good enough at the moment and getting better: admittedly he has a very strong accent which doesn’t seem to be improving as fast as his vocabulary!
An absolute farce – we get Xhaka but miss out on Dele Alli
an absolute farce – we get Mustafi but miss out on Harry Maguire
an absloute farce we get Perez but miss out on Vardy.
How much money have we wasted, here?
Paulinho
Yes ,Ramsey has had the occasional game ( the cup final v Chelsea) where he has shown the discipline to play the centre midfield position but if you are honest you would agree that in a high percentage of his games he couldn’t stop himself getting ahead of the ball , leaving the midfield exposed…
Maybe it was our old managers fault who instructed him to play this way but for whatever the reason is, Ramsey has not done himself justice at the club and should feel disappointed in himself for not taking Arsenal on to greater success..
An absolute farce – we get Xhaka but miss out on Dele Alli
an absolute farce – we get Mustafi but miss out on Harry Maguire
an absloute farce we get Perez but miss out on Vardy.How much money have we wasted, here?
Same amount wasted on your education??
I think a 4-3-3 from now on with a Xhaka, Torreira, Ramsey midfield. Our CAMs are worthless so we might as well play it Liverpool style, albeit a far lesser version.
Gambon
“Players like Cantona, Bergkamp, Henry, Pires, Hazard, Drogba, Aguero have held back a generation of UK talent.
I for one would prefer to see David Bently, David Wheater, Craig Bellamy, Andy Carroll and Seth Johnson fulfil their potential.”
Yeah …the crowds would flock to see bently, wheater and Seth Johnson.
i think Arsenal are missing a trick- by not trying to build a team of predominantly home grown players. Embellished with some overseas stardust Akin to Louis VAN GAAL Ajax team- GUUILT, rikard, DENIS BERKKAMP, SEEDORF, klUIVERTM de BOER, van DE SAr etc It’s almost like you don’t realize that there’s literally a handful of decent English players out there and they’re already at big clubs and that’s literally it. No great generation of English players out there now it’s all in your head. This is what happens when you get a really lucky run in the world cup. It… Read more »
YEs because the quality of English players is right up there with the quality of Spanish and German players
I mean look at the all the success of the English NT the last few decades. Been lighting it up to be fair. I don’t really understand why Barca or real haven’t signed up Vardy. Or Jack Wilshere. A true English legend. I hear shawcross is going to juve to teach the Italians some English mettle and how to play at stoke in feb
Reading the 19th century, Little Englander horsehit from CG makes you realise why people don’t want to participate in this blog.
Yannick Carrasco
I mean, I’ve just read this rumour but I’m unaware of what price it’ll be at. He’ll be an upgrade on Iwobi, put it that way
Just think if CG had his way we would never have seen TGSTEL in an Arsenal jersey
Lord Bendtner
West ham at the weekend is a tough game .
Felipe Anderson and Anoutavic could cause us all sorts of problems .
Our right side needs to be on their game as Anderson is class and If they decide to use Andy Carroll (why not) then we may struggle .
It is a game where we have to control the game with possession , if we are loose in possession we will be punished on the counter attack …Anderson is the danger man….will Nasri start.
CG please come into the modern world.
Pierre
I agree with you on the last comment about Westham
They have transformed themselves in one window to become a flair team.
I wont be surprised if we get spanked on Saturday.
They will become really good when they can get Manuel Lanzini, Anderson and Nasri on the same eleven.
Porto’s Hector Herrera is available on a free this summer, he’s 28 with vast top European experience
Whenever I’ve seen him play he’s looked quite good and covers a lot of ground.
With Ramsey leaving I would’ve be adverse to this kind of signing. We need to be shrewd
They have transformed themselves in one window to become a flair team.
A flair team with a negative goal difference after 21 games played.Scored 29 in 21 matches. Some flair. They have lost 9 matches already this season in the league.
Only reason why that game will be tough is because we have incompetent defenders allergic to clean sheets.
This Charlie character has to be trolling right?
Gambon
No space for Francis Jeffers?
You can’t be saying Hector Herrera would be shrewd and then turn your nose at Dennis Suarez.
Croatia nearly won the world cup
they have 3 and half million people.
How comes they can do it?
And we cant,
Oodles and oodles of talent here:-
lets go and get it
lets harness it
We do not need (certainly – like what we have been doing for the last 5 years)
Buying Eleney, Paulistas, Perez etc (combined £45 mill)
I could 30 players better and cheaper in the championship , than that
Lichensteiner??
Is Arnautovic injured?
I’d rather we Spunked money on a Chikwueze than any other meh winger to be honest, has such a high ceiling and dwarfs whatever other options that gets spouted on here and would cost less now than in the summer
The British core did have potential but sadly, most of them failed. Injuries, and being overrated are what happened.
Arsenal will always bring in youth English players but how many of them make the first team is yet to be seen. They are not good enough- most of them. I do hope some make it.
however, this entire ethnocentric bias towards making Arsenal this English majority team with players and staff who speak proper English is ludicrous.
Then again, some posters on here have some extreme views
Azed
Jeffers’ career was runed by Thierry Henry.
Henry was a fairly good player, but his talent was no greater than Jeffers.
The more English players the better.
bennydevito,
Nah. Thought he’s injured as well because he got subbed in the 20th min of their FA Cup game, but apparently he was subbed as a precaution and had a bust up with Pellegrini when that happened. He’s okay to play.
i accept we pay our english players too much – and they can go off the rails,
but no one -will ever dissuade my argument- that the talent is here, and thats where we should build our spine around.
thats why bayern are after Chelseas precocious winger who mullered hector (albeit pre season)
Dortmund too with Sancho
hoffenheim with our Nelson
“You can’t be saying Hector Herrera would be shrewd and then turn your nose at Dennis Suarez.”
My bad, didn’t realise Suarez would also be available on a free this summer
however, this entire ethnocentric bias towards making Arsenal this English majority team with players and staff who speak proper English is ludicrous.
that comment itself is ludicrous!
Marko
You are such a little bitch. If an English man wants English players in his English team how exactly does that make him an idiot?
Who appointed you judge and jury you thick dub. You probably work in supervalue which is why you’re such a negative miserable arse wipe.
Ireland will never reach a semi final of any competition fluke or not. Never. You’re lucky to make a 3rd in your qualifier. So wind your neck in bitch
raptora
True, ” An act of criminal proportions”
When is the next AGM scheduled for?
Serious questions must be asked on the Ozil contract, the Sanchez debacle, Mkhitaryan wages etc. The owner and the board must be held accountable for allowing Wenger and Gazidis to push these ludicrous actions through.
To be honest, if it was up to me, I would ask both of them to return to the club and explain themselves in an open forum.
Has had, and will continue to have, a monumentally negative affect on the club.
Carts
My point is there’s more sense to a Suarez than a Herrera who’s coming in will probably mean less game time for Mateo..like him but not what we need
CG your English dream will never happen. Sorry the British core balloon burst for you. The team is global now, and we look all over the world for players that can help. Sure, we have made some shit decisions and perhaps there are some good young English players to pick up, but to insist that this is the only way, is baffling. Look at the big clubs- most of them are majority foreign players.
Keep dreaming pal.
CG please come in tonthe modern world
SF
What like sanfran? Junkie capital shit hole
Piss everywhere and homeless junkie mongs shooting up all over the shop.
Some modern world
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19DLS_d01kU
The modern world
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DwSCR16B5n4
The future
its not a bloody dream.
Its just the realisation -that you have more chance of succeeding in whatever league you are in – with more players used to the conditions that u play in.
CG
Jay Emmanuel Thomas, Justin Hoyte, Gavin Hoyte, Kerrea Gilbert, Henri Lansburry, Mark Randle, Craig Eastmond, Luke Ayling, Kyle Bartley
Batistuta
You’ve lost me, mate.
£20m on a literal non-entity in Suarez, who’ll just as likely diresupt Guen’s game time, as opposed to a free signing in Herrera who comes with more top game experience ?
Neither are renowned for their goal scoring exploits , but Herrera turns 29 in April so, where as Suarez is 25: so there’ll be little resale value with Herrera.
2 year deal with the option for a further year isn’t the worst , but what do I know
CGJay Emmanuel Thomas, Justin Hoyte, Gavin Hoyte, Kerrea Gilbert, Henri Lansburry, Mark Randle, Craig Eastmond, Luke Ayling, Kyle Bartley
Azed
So because Justin hoyte was pony that means Smith Rowe, Maitland-Niles and nelson are too??
Great logic.
Jay Emmanuel Thomas, Justin Hoyte, Gavin Hoyte, Kerrea Gilbert, Henri Lansburry, Mark Randle, Craig Eastmond, Luke Ayling, Kyle Bartley
i accept that lot were poor,
but thats down to poor youth recruitment and coaching as much,
CG
You’re dead right
Look at spurs since they started bringing through young talent
They’ve found some real gems. Maguire and Pickford too
Robertson at Liverpool
All from lower league
All better than what we have in our expensively assembled journeyman team
Leno (60k), Monreal (65k), Holding (40k), Mustafi (90k), Bellerin (100k), Torreira (50k), Iwobi (30k), Lacazette (100k). A total of 535k pw.
Ozil and Mkhitaryan – 530k.
Let that sink in.
Frimpong would be the first name on the team sheet.
Tony Adams to manage them straight to the top, like he did in Azerbaijan or wherever the fuck.
gambon, you’re right; if only we didn’t have Ljungberg then perhaps Jermaine Pennant could have been better, and if only we never had Lauren or Clichy then Justin and Gavin Hoyte could have made it too.
Look at holding
£2m. Better than the rest of our defence
Benny
And if only spurs kept soldado then they wouldn’t have found Kane 🤪😂
When is the next AGM?
So because Justin hoyte was pony that means Smith Rowe, Maitland-Niles and nelson are too??
UN
No but we’ve gone CG route before. Almost everyone here is rooting for Smith Rowe. Emirate earlier suggested that since Ramsey was leaving, he’s sport in the first team should given to SR.
A lot of people on here (Gambon since last season) have been suggesting the club gets Ryan Sessegnon.
Point being most of us want good players irrespective of nationality.
Un na nai,
Lol!
😂
Angel Di maria is , as we all know a magnificent footballer.
he cost MAn utd £ 50 mill
he just did not fit in with the speed of english football
so – its no point – saying english football is not different to the other leagues in the world..
“Angel Di maria is , as we all know a magnificent footballer.
he cost MAn utd £ 50 mill
he just did not fit in with the speed of english football”
What about Aguero, David Silva, Bernado Silva, Henry, Pires, Viera, Eden Hazard, Firmino, Coutinho, Mascharano, Tevez and a host of other foreigners that succeeded?
What about Aguero, David Silva, Bernado Silva, Henry, Pires, Viera, Eden Hazard, Firmino, Coutinho, Mascharano, Tevez and a host of other foreigners that succeeded?
off course- all fabulous players,
You forget one thing- they all cost a bloody fortune,
last time, I looked – we aint got a tanner!
so we cant go down that route,
Lets go British- cheaper and higher guarantee level
“What like sanfran? Junkie capital shit hole
Piss everywhere and homeless junkie mongs shooting up all over the shop.
Some modern world”
Unnai you are a wonderfully cultured English white man. Bravo….
clap clap
I don’t know why you guys bother.
You can point to a million examples of good foreign footballers but that’s never going to change the core issue of a racist allowing his discriminatory tendencies to bleed over into his assessment on someone’s footballing ability.
“You forget one thing- they all cost a bloody fortune,
last time, I looked – we aint got a tanner!
so we cant go down that route,
Lets go British- cheaper and higher guarantee level”
Now you are just trolling.
Coutinho cost 10M, Aguero was cheaper than Andy Carrol.
English players are far more expensive than foreigners.
Lets go British- cheaper and higher guarantee level
How can you take this poster serious after this comment
Hazard was cheaper to buy than ox was for Liverpool.
u are talking exceptions rather than the rule
Deli Ali £ 5million
Holding £ 2 million
Roberston £8 million
maguire £17 mill
I know most on here don’t agree but I really think Jamal Lascelle would be brilliant for us. Also Ben Chilwell and Harry Maguire and while we’re at it get Pickford too.
CG, very interesting that the hot bargains are now Brits.
Jadon Sancho worth £90m. Odoi might go to Bayern for £30m. Reiss ripping it up now a £25m player.
Spurs loaded with Brits.
Quality coming out of UK these days is excellent
Benny, Pickford was SO good at the world cup
we bought ox from saints for 15 mill- had him for some time and sold him for 35 million (our record ever sale btw)
ANOTHER REASON TO BUY BRITISH!
Good luck -getting a profit on Xhaka, Mustafi, perez, Sokratis, AND Even Amabeanyang and Lacacatte ( not disputing the last two players abilty) and they are the only shining lights in our colorless team – i add,)
its just we wont get as much resale money back on them (£100 mill outlay)
Deli Alli will make spurs a 500% profit
Kane 1000% profit.
the only players we have made real money in recent years:
gibbs
Ox
theo (slight profit)
coqeuluin (home grown)
As long as we don’t start targeting UK managers …fuckin hell!!
Pedro,
He certainly was and he’s right up there with Alison and Ederson on the fantasy football too.
No net money will be spent on signings this month. We were told so six weeks ago. It’s a sell-to-buy period again. So if Emery signs Suarez for £14 million, it will be because he’s got the cash by selling someone. To blame the manager would be unfair and foolish. It’s the owner’s policy, not his. And anyway, he’s inherited a squad of players that nobody much wants. Watching the Man C v Liverpool game, there isn’t a single Arsenal player Guardiola or Klopp would swap for what they have. Heart-breaking when you remember that not too long ago all… Read more »
Gareth Southgate in charge ASAP – and lets be at the vangaurd of British scouting. and recruitment.
Wolves should play their first team and knock Liverpool out of the Cup.
You are such a little bitch. If an English man wants English players in his English team how exactly does that make him an idiot?
Because English players are generally shit.
You can point to a million examples of good foreign footballers but that’s never going to change the core issue of a racist allowing his discriminatory tendencies to bleed over into his assessment on someone’s footballing ability.
Very true
Marko, bit a shit view to have these days.
There are plenty of excellent English players these days. World Cup semi-finals wasn’t an accident.
Gareth Southgate in charge ASAP – and lets be at the vangaurd of British scouting. and recruitment.
We’d relegated. 1000%
Jamal Lascelles? I think another poster talked him up as well.
Have seen him commit special kind of mistakes in every single game I’ve watched him play. Slow and heavy. with similar ball control to Cech. Would make Mustafi look like prime Maldini.
There are plenty of excellent English players these days. World Cup semi-finals wasn’t an accident.
It absolutely was. Any decent side you came up against you lost. But it’s the idea that you have so much domestic talent that you should have less foreign players is a total joke. You have a couple English players at City and a few at Spurs and that’s it. There isn’t this great wealth of English talent coming through either. It’s all in your head really. Take Kane and Sterling out of the English side and you’d see a difference too
Saying english players are shit -is like saying english bloggers are shit. Both are erroneous statements.
Its an absurd childish comment!
the only reason there was a downturn in the quality of English coaching is quite simple.
The money in surviving just alone in the Prem- meant pragmatic coaching and wheeler dealing management come to the fore .
British coaches with predominantly british players adorned with Overseas stardust is the way forward for Arsenal.
Marko
It absolutely was. Any decent side you came up against you lost.
I’ll agree with you. We were shite. And it was fortunate. But that doesn’t mean that we don’t possess good young players capable of playing in our first team or becoming world class
Nodody saw Kane or tripper or maguire or Pickford becoming as good as they are. But when given a change and the right blend of encouragement and good coaching then why not?? This arsenal side could do with a few more Ray parlour’s and Lee Dixon’s
Kane and Sterling were actually England’s worst two players in the World Cup.
Arsenal have had their fair share of English prospect come through Colney only to end up in the abyss Don’t get me wrong, many young British player looked like they’d go on to greatness only to end up in the lower leagues or whatever, but that’s life. To problem with the top 4 team, such as Chelsea and City, the expectation for success is so high that there’s almost little desire to play young British, or even promote them. Look at City, they have Diaz and Foden next in line, only for City to go and drop £60m on Mahrez,… Read more »
And Carts -thats why we HAVE TO BE DIFFERENT,We cannot go down their spending route. it should be our USP. Our mantra! Our stratedy,
(We have Silent Stan, remeber)
We have to be the club- where every British brilliant youngster and their parents wants to join the Arsenal- because they will get a first team chance.
And we have an elite coaching set up to match.
Raptora,
Are you sure? Every time I’ve seen him he looks good and was like grease lightning against Man Utd and was faster than Rashford, exceedingly strong and I thought his ball control was good.
A sausage-machine approach is not the Brit way, we’re inclined to be more hit-and-miss. It tends to make people more themselves than birds of a feather. And the most tolerant people on the planet.
If we’d had the French training regimes or as many football coaches at school as Spain, we might have produced as many top-notch players. Even so, I prefer our less regimented style.
England has won enough ‘junior’ world cups recently to suggest that with the way it’s youth development is pumping out quality players now it’s only a matter of time it will be able to piece together 11 blokes that can win another ‘senior’ World Cup, a bit like Spain did. My only concern is that in the future a good many will play their club footie with tottenham. And history proves that tottenham wins nothing.
CG
I agree, but Wenger was utterly pathetic at integrating young players (from whatever background) into the first team.
I can’t speak for the reasoning behind other teams besides the incessant desire for silverware, but at Arsenal when you consider how much we’d cry “austerity” you’d thing we’d have invested time and resources into scouring your next Alli, Pickford or Sancho
benny,
I don’t know man. Have seen him in around 15 games. Not my cup of tea. Could be wrong though.
Great job by the Englishman Milner there
Wolves score vs Pool. Potential upset on the horizon.
Great goal from Jimenez.
Gnarly
I don’t think it’s a grass routes issue
I think it’s a senior issue. They don’t get the the game time or the coaching at sernior level that other nations get in their domestic leagues
Now that the likes of Sancho and Nelson are going abroad I think we will soon see a massively improved england side
What a shame they have to leave the premier league for game time. Our loss is the bundesliga’s and hopefully the england side’s gain. Won’t be long before they end up in Italy and Spain too.
raptora,
Fair enough, maybe I’ve not seen enough of him and have had my standards lowered by the shower we’ve got!
Muffin man
Indian or Canadian today? Either way Milner would be an all time legend for either side. He’s a skid mark on the underpants of English football here
Arsene Wenger is not at Arsenal if you have not noticed.
i have no faith whatsover in this disparate trilogy Emery/raul/Diamond eye we curerently have in place.
i note – the very sensible and over achieving Brighton have taken Dan Ashworth.
We should go in for him and Southgate A much more suitable combo.
Carts
Bentley could have been a real player but his heart wasn’t in the game
i have no faith whatsover in this disparate trilogy Emery/raul/Diamond eye we curerently have in place.
But they’ve got exotic names
They must be great at anything. England are shit. It’s why we need the Eu. And polish builders and Romanian nannies and French/African/South American journeymen littering our league
Un na
It could be a good thing having young English players honing their skills in other leagues, it means they won’t play at tottenham, & ultimately pick up habits like ‘don’t win anything/can’t win anything’.