I don’t tend to attack officials, but in a game of paper-thin lines, every decision counts. Today, things did not fall in favour of Unai Emery’s Arsenal. Two penalty decisions ruined an almost flawless execution of a peak-Mourinho-Chelsea game plan.
The first decision came when Xhaka gifted Spurs a freekick in a dangerous area. The well-delivered cross flew dangerously close to Harry Kane 8 yards out, Mustafi identified the threat late and leaned in with a nudge the ref saw. The penalty was awarded, but on closer inspection, it was clear that our defence had held its line really well, with Harry Kane clearly offside. Even worse, the linesman was behind the play half a yard. The penalty was never in doubt.
The next penalty fell our way, Mikhi released Auba who was bundled over, the decision was no doubt dubious, but the award felt fair if you’re of the ‘it evens itself out’ mindset. Auba took the kick, taking a straight line run-up, Lloris guessed right and palmed the ball away, Vertonghen then ran back and blocked the second wave attack, clearing off the line. Again, on closer inspection, it was clear that Jan had encroached dramatically into the area. There aren’t many things you need to pay attention to on the penalty, so it’s baffling this was missed. You get the feeling there are important rules and those that are deemed not so important.
You have the two sides of the VAR coin on full display here. If the refs have assistants in the cloud, both penalties aren’t given. Sure, you lose some of the excitement, but ultimately, do you really care if the result is just? If the season finishes and Arsenal miss out on Champions League by 1 point, is it fair? I would always prioritise a fair result over excitement. Also, interested to see how VAR affects the dark arts of Spurs next season.
The shame of the bad decisions is it ruined a mostly excellent tactical execution. Emery started with Ramsey and Lacazette. He left LT on the bench. We opted to give Spurs possession so we could strike on the counter. The plan worked really well, Arsenal broke up play in their own box, Xhaka released a quick long ball to the halfway line, Spurs made a mess of the ball, Aaron was released, he powered through, took the ball past Lloris and narrowly squeezed the ball into the empty net. World class composure. I always think of Theo when players break on their own like that. Banter years PTSD.
We had some great chances to further our lead. Lacazette blazed a cut back shockingly wide. Iwobi got the better of Trippier, making space to curl a shot at the top corner, Lloris with a cat-like jump to deny him.
The subs at halftime made sense, Lucas was brought on to bring more solidity. Emery took Ramsey off fairly early for Ozil and Lacazette was switched out for the pace of Auba.
Our sharpshooter from Gabon didn’t have a great time of it, he fluffed his lines in front of goal and took a particularly shite penalty considering his quality, but it is what it is.
1 point is no disaster away to a very good Spurs side, but there’s a good chance that slip will cost us in the run for top four. Particularly if the result doesn’t go our way when we welcome United next week.
Overall though, we had a strong game. We accepted that going toe-to-toe with Spurs wasn’t going to bring home the bacon, we set traps for them all day and we defended like we actually cared about the clean sheet. Our players pressed like demons, they camped outside our box and all took personal accountability for doing their bit. Nacho was excellent, Kos used his experience well and Sokratis was a thorn in the side of Harry Kane all day. I really love the Greek, he’s a proper warrior, you’d never give him a parking ticket, would you?
Ultimately, it’s hard to account for players like Mustafi and to a lesser extent, Xhaka. You just know the German cannot resist making dim decisions. He’s always in there with an unsneaky nudge or a rash slide tackle. He simply cannot resist it, he started early yesterday, he makes the refs hyperaware what he’s up to and then decisions go against him. There’s also no obvious excuse, he doesn’t lack pace, he’s not young, he must have been told about this by coaches.
Xhaka is a slightly different beast because most of his poor expressions on the pitch are because he lacks pace. He’s constantly a yard behind the play and the only way he can counter that is with niggly fouls. The challenge you have with the Swiss is his ability to move play forward is unchallenged in the league, that long ball to the halfway line gave us an opening (even if it didn’t make its intended target directly). The club has to be looking at this as we head into the summer.
Next week is huge. I think it’s fair to say that Arsenal certainly do have a squad good enough to sustain a top 4 challenge. We’re right in the mix and it’s now March, it’s not in doubt. There can be no complaints we don’t have the squad. We are more than capable of beating United at home, I am even more certain of that after we nearly pulled off a masterclass against Spurs. If Southampton can get at them, we can.
The squad cannot feel sorry for themselves after being robbed today. We have to come back fighting and take the game to United. They have a fast frontline and two players that are expert at finding them on the break. We need to be smart and counter that threat. We also need a really fucking big performance from our two strikers to make up for today.
A few additional shoutouts. Bernd Leno is really starting to look like a good keeper. I don’t think the team has adapted to playing out the back, so it’s hard to judge his impact there. However, his double save was world class. We finally have a keeper that is capable of stopping the unexpected. That’s so valuable to the defence.
Additionally, let’s give Iwobi some props. He had a very good performance, he created chances, nearly scored, defended well and made a nuisance of himself. I also thought it was another superb game from Mikhi who is starting to look like value for money. He’s ambitious with his passing, he’s working hard for the team and he’s proving a far more decisive of late.
It’s all about United. This is essentially our #Top4 cup final. We have to come away with three points. Especially after United just beat Southampton with a very late United-ish winner.
Right, see you in the comments xxx
I believe gambon is taking the Pochetino approach to looking at yesterday’s game as in if Xhaka is sent off early in the game everything else is changed. Depends on whether or not you actually think that challenge is an obvious red or not
The Xhaka challenge was a yellow card at best.
It wouldn’t have changed anything because Xhaka is used to living on a yellow card.
I predicted on Friday we would win yesterday and if we didn’t I would be pissed off and that’s how it has turned. A missed opportunity. We are on an upward curve at the moment and need to make hay while the sun shines. I suspect we will have a collective dip again before the end of the season and get turned over at Watford or Everton. Top four is gone but I don’t think it will take much for to get us really in the mix for it next season. The average level of footballer is pony in Europe… Read more »
Benny Maybe, maybe not. Read your Twitter feed: there are refs who think Kane’s pen was a pen, refs who think Auba’s pen wasn’t a pen, and refs who don’t think the encroachment was a big deal. Not to mention there are matches we’ve won or drawn on account of questionable calls that went our way. VAR would take those away. I will never understand people who spend their time talking about what might have been had this or that decision gone a different way. That’s the game. Them’s the breaks. Sometimes you benefit from bad calls, sometimes you don’t,… Read more »
In the second half they basically created feck all so yeah you could easily surmise that if the flag went up we most likely would have gone on to won
Marko,
Robertson cost Liverpool £8m and he has definitely improved Liverpool’s defence.
How much did Chillwell, Maguire and perrieira cost Leicester?
Lascelles and Schar cost Newcastle?
There absolutely are £10 – £25m bracket defenders out there that will improve us, we just need to scout better.
The point is, if Kanes penalty wasn’t given, the last 15 mins play out completely differently.
In fact, every aspect of the game from the very first time VAR was used play out completely differently.
We couldve won 4-0 or lost 3-2 or drawn 2-2.
Bamford,
Yes I get your point but if all the correct decisions went everyone’s way the year Leicester won the league we would have actually won the league and that is massive.
Benny
Yeah, I don’t accept that at all; Leicester City were better than us, and they won the league because they were the best team in the league that season.
Sorry, I meant to say there are refs who DON’T think the encroachment was a big deal.
It’s going to be interesting having FOUR teams vie for the 3rd and 4th spots. Sours will get sucked in as soon as they play their big games away against and City.
United have an advantage because they are the only one in the group off four that won’t have European football soon.
Besides that there’s a lot to play…lots of football to come.
We may have a better picture by April 1st but it’s really too early with 9 games left to go.
QNA
Not enough in what sense? In the sense that we should get more for those players? Or in the sense that we need to generate more cash than that?
gambon,
Yes that’s a fair point too. Kind of like sliding doors (the movie) and parallel dimensions.
The linesman was incompetent end of.
Bamford,
Whether you accept that or not is irrelevant, and I don’t dispute Leicester weren’t the better team, but if all decisions had been called correctly we’d have had more points.
Pierre,
You’ve referred to this point; are there any links out there that can back this up?
At the end of the day we can’t go back in time so it’s pointless anyway, I’m just glad VAR will be in next season to make sure the best teams win the prizes and not lose them because of bad decisions.
The top 4 is a 4 team race, Spurs and Utd with the advantage. I do think Spurs and Chelsea have the trickier set of fixtures. It could end up completely different. All teams will drop points.
Bamford. Not enough for those players.
At the end of the day we got a good point. A win would have been pointless anyway if we are unable to pick up away wins for the rest of the season. Get a win at United and this point really should be enough to get us top 4. As much as the refs fucked us over, they have been doing that for years. What’s new. We have ourselves to blame. Why has Auba been taking pens. I’m no football genius but it’s obvious to me he isn’t the man you want taking pens. Should have been Mkhi. Even… Read more »
If Liverpool don’t win the league this season, then they may have to wait another 29 years😁
Benny
Yeah, again, you are stating that like it’s an objective fact. It isn’t. Who did that analysis? Might different people have reached different decisions? Further, to gambon’s point, when you change a call in a match, every moment in that match that followed that moment would be different. Therefore you can never say how that match would’ve ended. All you can go with is who was the best team on balance, and on that there is no question: Leicester were the best team on balance that season. I mean no offense, but your claim is some Untold shit, IMO.
Thelma Walcott (look how fast I can run mum substituted)
What an abysmal player he is.?
A player like so many others at Arsenal kept to long when all could see how bad they are.?
What an enticing game
I love derbies for the intensity
Benny
Go easy on this referee conspiracy theories you’re throwing about.’
The referees made mistakes…it’s not some vast conspiracy network .
I still think Jordan Pickford owes this game a howler
There’s always a free gift he bears for these games.
James. wood
discussing about player…. well, I couldn’t believe my eyes when Toulouse introduced one of wenger’s old pal into their match against Lyon….
I’m still in shock…. f*ck**g yaya sanogo
Marko
Yea we get it, you don’t understand how any player that doesn’t cost 50 mil improves us. You just happen to be wildly out of touch, almost to the point it’s painful engaging on the subject.
United don’t have one CB worth talking about, so that should tell you all you need to know about big money. Our most expensive CB is car crash at times.
Again, you talk VVD but he cost 10 mil from Celtic, which is the point being made here. We need to accrue the talent earlier in the cycle.
United still play City and Chelsea and are away to Wolves and Everton like us. Chelsea also play Everton and Leicester away Wolves at home and Liverpool and United away to come. Spurs have Southampton Liverpool and City away and play Everton at home. We’re still in it
Klopp was an idiot for saying that Everton will play the merseyside derby “like a World Cup final”
He was the one celebrating the last minute earlier fixture win like he won the Euro lottery.
Again, you talk VVD but he cost 10 mil from Celtic, which is the point being made here. We need to accrue the talent earlier in the cycle. Right. And how many years did it take for him to realize his potential? Say we do that now sign someone like Kamara at 19 from Marseille and he’s expected to what straight away? He might end up being a top class CB in the next few years but now to walk in and fix our defence? Because let’s be honest here you both want instant improvements but from players that have… Read more »
We need a player like Gomez
Advantage City
That’s why you p[lay the game
there’s still 9 games left and some are already counting us out
Liverpool had the league to lose and were 5-7 points ahead recently.
Today they are second even though they haven’t done much wrong.
Don’t tell me it isn’t their year…I refuse to believe that
Dissenter
Talk about giving the Everton players something extra to go for. That was almost as stupid as the Poch saying the Burnley match was a must win.
Still plenty of football to come but the form of Liverpool compared to that of City’s means they’ll likely lose out
Only a point in it but its advantage City.
Marko
Salah doesn’t look right – last thing you need as you enter the final run in is for your top scorer to hit a poor patch.
They just threw away a 7 point lead…Pep won’t let go now and I expect more dropped points for Liverpool anyway.
Marko VVD was quality the moment he arrived, because Liverpool spent 75 mil on him last year doesn’t mean that was suddenly his level from then on. He would’ve come into our side and been first XI quality from the off, and he’s not the only one out there to follow that path. Again, you’re ignoring the realities for some juvenile xbox shite. Arsenal don’t have 50 mil to plugs gaps where you see fit all over the squad. Remember you’re the same guy that calls or 10/11 new players and now they’ve got to be 50 mil or what’s… Read more »
Receding
You wouldn’t be surprised if the Scousers had a mini collapse now. Interesting what they do going forward if they do fuck it up, Klopp will get next season of course but if they don’t win the PL next season either I think he’ll be gone.
Their midfield is way too negative. Them playing Fabinho and Henderson is like us playing Xhaka, Guendouzi and Torreira it’s too much. Gotta play Keita gotta show confidence in him.
Agreed CC,
Robertson cost Liverpool £8m and has improved their defence and attack instantly.
DD kingz
17.41.20
Can’t believe he is still plying his trade.
But there
Is a raft of Sanogo’s playing imagine
all of them in the Same side it would make it a .
“Sanogo area.”?
.
VVD was quality the moment he arrived, because Liverpool spent 75 mil on him last year doesn’t mean that was suddenly his level from then on. He would’ve come into our side and been first XI quality from the off, and he’s not the only one out there to follow that path. This is pretty similar to the point I was making a while back when I was criticizing Wenger for not signing him from Celtic and lo and behold you were arguing differently then. So when Wenger should have been making these types of potential high probability type signings… Read more »
Yea Marc…I see them bottling it big time, Klopp got his selections and sub’s all wrong today.
I think I’m with Gambon on united.. They worry me a lot. We need to beat them to slow their momentum. People going on and on about the officials yesterday, they wrongly awarded a 90th minute penalty and Aubameyang bottled it, the referee isn’t the reason we left that game with a point
City will win the league, I thought they were the favorites even when they were 10 points behind. Liverpool attacking players lack poise with ball at their feet. Mane and Salah together make too many poor touches/bad decisions to enable Liverpool get over the line. In City, Bernardo, KDB, David Silva and Aguero are precise with their touches, make better decisions and loose the ball less frequently. Van Djik alone has kept Liverpool in the title race but it won’t be enough in the end.
Salah has not hit a bad patch, rather he scoring 40 goals last season was a fluke. He is a dangerous player with his dribbling and pace but never looked like he was going to be a prolific goalscorer season in season out.
Receding
ManU are getting results but we don’t know if we’re looking at the old Fergie ManU – between them cheating, being lucky and ref’s cheating they’ll get top 4 or if they’ve had a bit of a post Mourinho boost plus a bit of luck. Outside of us they have Wolves and Everton away plus City and Chelsea at home. It will be close purely because the Spud’s are now drawn into it.
United will take their chances it’s as simple as that. Will we???
Again, you’re ignoring the realities for some juvenile xbox shite. Arsenal don’t have 50 mil to plugs gaps where you see fit all over the squad. Remember you’re the same guy that calls or 10/11 new players and now they’ve got to be 50 mil or what’s the point. Deluded I’d like to stress that I’m not arguing that only 50 million signings can improve the squad and that’s what we need to improve but I’m a realist and arguing for common sense. Common sense for me looking at signing young prospects and looking for gradual improvements for example not… Read more »
Sanches [Spurs] has to be retrospectively banned for that stamp on Koscielny
What a shitbag
There was no need to do that.
Is Southampton go down, I would go after Ward- Prowse.
gambon
What happened to Arsenal shitting themselves…
Dissenter
Southampton won’t go down at least not this season. It’ll be the current bottom three.
if my our beloved arsenal could be a little more clinical in every department of the pitch…. we wouldn’t be arguing about making top 4…. I’ve never openly criticized, but from now onwards till the end of the season…. he would be held accountable for how the season end up in May….. he(emery) needs everybody on his side,the fans and supporters, players and staffs, i see no reason leaving out Ozil from the squad anymore( not that he’s proven his critics wrong but for the fact that every single players is needed), even the spud fans on le-grove are needed… Read more »
“even the spud fans on le-grove are needed to achieve our objectives for the season.”
You really are incredibly dense.
“This is pretty similar to the point I was making a while back when I was criticizing Wenger for not signing him from Celtic and lo and behold you were arguing differently then“ If in doubt, just pull a lie out your arse and serve it up as fact. I called for VVD and Wanyama when they were both playing in Scotland, my Dad is a Rangers fan and I’ve grown up watching the Old Firm. So you’re wrong, as usual. “Charles you criticizing the manager for not improving the defence inside a matter of months and then saying that… Read more »
@mark 18:45:05
You never criticized once Wenger for not improving the defence with obvious reasonably priced good prospects and now you’re demanding his replacement to not only do it but improve upon it almost instantly.
lol…
they never once criticized wenger for not buying a decent DM for more than half a decade after song went to barcelona…. but now, they want Emery to organize an athletic Madrid-like defence at arsenal……
#mctheeeeeeewwww…. when you see a Spurs fan in an arsenal blog, you instantly recognise them.
ddkingz,
Excellent contribution
We should disembowel Emery and hang him on the halfway line with his small intestine.
Pedro will soon give you a guest post
Keep up the good work.
Dissenter
Not sure that was a well directed insult. He’s so thick he’ll think you are paying him a genuine compliment.
Klopp – The wind didn’t help us. What a sore loser. The unwatered pitch, the refs, the mother nature – all are out to get him. Both teams played under the same conditions, you douche. You and your team didn’t get the job done. Still remember him complaining last season after a draw with West Brom how they needed points more. What does he expect teams to do, roll over and take it from behind?
Klopp just blamed the wind for dropped points
Say what u like about Emery being bland and all but he isn’t one for making excuses.
Pochettino believed they were better in all aspects of the game yesterday for instance
Upstate
Clearly you aren’t aware of the standard scouse mind set – Always the victim, always someone else’s fault and they are never to blame or at fault.
I recall Jamie Carragher slandering Arsenal when Chelsea got thrashed by city. I’m disgusted by how these scouter pundits [who dominate English TV] can still clam to be objective when they are so openly partisan
We wont get any rest for the next 1000 years should Liverpool win the league.
At least with city, we can keep hating them for oil state money.
With ‘pool, their league of pundits will beat our heads in
Marc
I can’t stand a thought of that lot winning the league. If City win it, so what. Another one for them, and a week later nobody’s cares/remembers. But if Pool somehow get their hands on the trophy, we’ll never hear the end of it. And fucking Klopp will be even more smiley and smug than he is now which is almost impossible because he’s already the most arrogant douche out there.
Scouter’s are vermin. I’d happily see them all killed.
Bennydevito As requested. By SAM MORGAN 23rd May 2016, 7:20 am Updated: 27th May 2016, 1:36 pm ARSENAL fans took plenty of stick last week for their celebrations after overtaking rivals Spurs on the final weekend of the season. But the Gunners should have been applauded as CHAMPIONS if officials had done their jobs properly. SunSport’s panel of experts have looked at every game over the course of the campaign to bring you the Premier League table as it should have looked. We have analysed all 380 matches to determine the goals that should not have counted, the ones wrongly… Read more »
God it’s insuffersble here sometimes
Scouter’s are vermin. I’d happily see them all killed.
Benny d
You gonna report that for hate speech? Or does it only count for lefty pet minorities?
If in doubt, just pull a lie out your arse and serve it up as fact It was true though. I was arguing why didn’t Wenger sign VVD when he was at Celtic and you came up with some shite about how everyone not just us missed out on his signing back then and something along the lines of how could we know how good he would become. Basically one of your classic examples of making an excuse for Wenger but then claiming that it’s not an excuse. So then what is it. You’re so slow. Here it is one… Read more »
“You gonna report that for hate speech? Or does it only count for lefty pet minorities?”
Doesn’t count if it’s true.
The only club I hope never win anything come from Haringey
Marko
Unlike you to completely rehash a previous conversation as something different….
The argument was against your claims that VVD was ‘obviously’ destined to be the player he is, which you did as a means of slating Wenger. I replied, as did others, saying that VVD clearly wasn’t that obvious if he was bought by Southampton and not a top 6 side.
But I’m done for the day, you continue to be the biggest whopper on here and frankly idk why I waste the brain cells lowering the tone to your level.
Walcott, oh Walcott
If you need proof how Wenger’s legacy in there second half of tenure at Arsenal, just take a look at Walcott.
The argument was against your claims that VVD was ‘obviously’ destined to be the player he is, which you did as a means of slating Wenger. I replied, as did others, saying that VVD clearly wasn’t that obvious if he was bought by Southampton and not a top 6 side But he was obvious cause people were scouting him at the time and you can see it now. And some of those teams at the time didn’t need to sign him they could have obviously waited for him to come good and afford to sign him then and we couldn’t.… Read more »
“There’s not a manager in world football who could address our defence and have us challenging inside a matter of months with 10-25 million players. Just unrealistic“ Sums up exactly what I said (and others, Banford, Benny) to you at the very start of this. You have your dick hard for big price tags, end of. We improved with 4 players who all cost less than 25 mil this past summer, but somehow it’s unreasonable to expect improvement on the pitch given that fact. Instead that’s only reserved for when Emery buys 50 mil players. Never mind if we have… Read more »
Pierre
SunSport
“Not only did Arsenal deserve to finish top of the pile, with Leicester
actually worth only second place, but neither Manchester
City nor Manchester
United should have finished in the top five.”
You have been a victim of a cruel April Fools Day hoax lol
That’ll be 8 better players signed for less than 25 mil, but Marko won’t expect improvement because improvement only comes after the 50 mil barrier has been met. Brilliant Is that what I’m saying? No at the core of what I’m arguing about is patience. If he was signing 50 million players to the defence like you I’d be demanding obvious improvements in that area after 6 months no excuses. A 34 year old free RB and a 17 million CB is what we got in that area and you are demanding improvement after 6 months you didn’t get it… Read more »
Don it’s a long running character assessment with regards to you. Not one single thing you say
“We did? But I thought you and others have said “zero improvement”? Hmmm“ Improved in terms of personnel, can you honestly not follow a conversation? The crux is dead simple and exposes your ridiculous logic for all to see. You think Emery requires patience because he signed 4 players less than 25 mil, when “If he was signing 50 million players to the defence like you I’d be demanding obvious improvements in that area”. So your argument disregards the fact the four players are better than what we had, and instead focuses on their value and how that apparently correlates… Read more »
Un na aka battle angel
Haven’t you heard that this is a blog of love?
Behave your self and fall in line.
Going to be an interesting game by game scrap to the finish line: 3 – Spuds 61 points 4 -Manure 58 points 5 – Arsenal 57 points 6 – Chelsea 56 points Our football might not be exciting or pretty and have little vision, but Emery is keeping us in the mix. I’d say barring the Wenger apologists, AKBs or whatever they call themselves, the rest of the fans would have been very happy if they were told we’d be in this position with 9 games to go and still in the EL cup back in August. Those knocking Emery… Read more »
Dissenter
Ease off on the blog moderator police thing.
Poor Un has a rare form of Tourettes type affliction where he actually speaks words rather than sounds and twitches and where he has no social skills’ filters or speech etiquette when uttering words.
Tony
I was just trying to gently nudge him off that path.
Dissenter
I think subtlety is lost on UN.
Probably need to up the ante to penetrate Un’s rhinocirous thick hide.
Your initial comment made me chuckle though.
Lol Don being Don again, waters still wet…
Un Battle AngelMarch 3, 2019 19:42:08
Scouter’s are vermin. I’d happily see them all killed.
Benny d
You gonna report that for hate speech? Or does it only count for lefty pet minorities?
>>>>>>>
Report it to who? Might do, what’s it to you?
Pierre “wanyama arm/elbow in the face of Lacazette..no action taken. Sanchez kicked Kosielny whilst he was on the floor.no action taken. Danny Rose studs in Leno’s chest …no red given . Danny Rose blatant diving ..no action taken Lorente elbow in the face of Kosielny ..no red given.” Spot on. Not to mention Pochetino somehow got out of a touchline ban for getting in Deans face the week before. Kane also headvutted Azpilacueta, he should have also been banned for the Arsenal game. And then of course the Kane offside for the penalty and Vertonghan was miles in the box… Read more »
Pierre
I think I have stated on this blog before, I don’t think there is a conspiracy against Arsenal per se; rather the EPL is in a way scripted.
That’s why, season to season, we seem to get strange runs of good or bad luck with referee decisions.
And yes, they NEVER even out.
It is just such an un-mathematical thing to say. How the hell can a small sample of 36 events, even themselves out naturally?
I wouldn’t mind getting in another player like sokrates, someone with experience who is a bit older, and cheaper but who can replace the very old kos. At the same time get in younger CBs with potential like holding and play them as back up or in the cup games. They can learn for a season or two and then slot into the main CB role when the current CBs get too old and then bring in more young CBs with potential and the cycle continues.
Dissenter
Tongue in cheek mate. Just a little wind up.
Dissenter Ease off on the blog moderator police thing.Poor Un has a rare form of Tourettes type affliction where he actually speaks words rather than sounds and twitches and where he has no social skills’ filters or speech etiquette when uttering words. Tony Come now This is the internet. Saying that with such an allegedly severe disability then I’ve nay done too badly for myself in navigating the world. But hypocritical when Marc is making worse comments about a group of people though right? Check the below comment MarcMarch 3, 2019 19:31:33 Scouter’s are vermin. I’d happily see them all… Read more »
For the record
I don’t condone violence against anyone
I’m strictly anti war.
Just an experimental exercise
“Tottenham are a better team than Arsenal, and Chelsea, right now. Yet they have lost to both this season — plus Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Wolves, Watford — every team in the top eight. Arsenal haven’t. They have lost to the majority of the biggest teams — Manchester City, Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea — but not the Europa League contenders. And they are back in the scrap for Champions League places, a point behind fourth-placed Manchester United who visit the Emirates next Sunday. United are in better form — and were comprehensive winners in an FA Cup tie between… Read more »
Un
Pub banter, just joking bro.
I’m sure your moral compass is decent.
Tony
I know mate. Nothing you say is taken in anything but grace by me. Even the Jack Russel comments m.
Receding
Yes I’ve always enjoyed reading Martin Samuel. It’s all for nothing though if we don’t turn the screw
It’s another two points dropped against a rival this weekend just like we did against Liverpool 1-1
Chelsea 3-2
And the draw against untied before Xmas
We need to be more ruthless in front of goal against our rivals.
Taking off lacazette and Ramsey is early was a bad move for me. They were our best goal scoring threats.
RH
“t Arsenal have improved under Emery. He also delivered a memorable speech at half-time on Saturday”
Unless I’m mistaken , the article implies that pochettino not Emery gave a “memorable” speech at half time .
“Unless I’m mistaken , the article implies that pochettino not Emery gave a “memorable” speech at half time .”
You are mistaken
“telling his players he didn’t want them to approach the second half as if defending a lead, ”
We were the ones with the lead so it could not have been Pochettino
Pierre
They both did.
Read the article fully.
Emery may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but he’s capable with regards to our current level in the footballing world.
I’m personally waiting for summer to see the type of players we recruit. It’ll go a long way in revealing his plans for us.
One thing I give him tho is that on his day, he sure knows how to drill a defense.