Unai Emery reversed the fortunes of last season’s openers with his second win in two games. For a brief moment, we are/were top of the league.
The game boasted lots of positives as the club looks to settle a squad of new players. David Luiz and Dani Ceballos earned starts, Auba moved out wide with Lacazette through the middle, Reiss and Willock retained their places.
The first half was pretty bland from a footballing perspective, but ultimately, I think you just have to accept that Emeryball is never going to get you off your backside. My main critique of our style is that we’re very predictable, more so than last season since the club added better ball players to the squad.
We are militant about playing out of the back even when it’s not working for us. Burnley penned us in our own half and it felt like were constantly turned the ball over needlessly. Liverpool will eat up that sort of approach if we don’t put a bit more variety in our build-up play.
The second slight bugbear is the lack of urgency in our game. We give the opposition all the time in the world to reset as we meander the ball forward from wide positions. I don’t think there’s an excuse for slow and methodical in year two.
That said, we’re more interesting when we do click into gear. David Luiz certainly has a lot more authority in defence than we’ve seen over the last ten years. He’s an attacking threat and the opposition knows it. His passing wasn’t elite today, but there’s a lot of variety in the balls he plays. He’s no 5 yard pass merchant.
I thought the passes that came off were excellent. Additionally, he’s a talker and an organizer. When you’re up against it, say what you will, but I’d rather him on my side… and I’d certainly rather him over Mustafi.
Back to the game. The deadlock was broken by Lacazette. He picked up a front post corner, used his weight to lean into those around him, then slid the ball into through Nick Pope’s legs when he was falling to the ground. Very Lacazette.
Something that’s very Arsenal, conceding sloppy goals. Ashley Barnes, the new Kevin Davies, managed to squirm between Luiz and Guendouzi to poke home.
The second half saw an immediate change, the manager introduced Nicolas Pepe. His introduction gave us a little more control out wide and a lot more know-how.
The football sped up a little, generally driven by the hugely impressive Dani Ceballos. He serves two purposes for me, firstly, he does all the things Mesut Ozil doesn’t want to do (turn up to work). He presses, he pesters, he tackles and he makes himself known. He dropped 7 balls recoveries and attempted 5 tackles. Secondly, he’s a better technician than Aaron Ramsey. He’s grown up thinking about the game differently, so hopefully he can give us a little bit of the best bits from both players. I have to say, I am super impressed how quickly he adapted to the pace. He touched the ball 97 times and created 4 chances.
It was the Spaniard that shut down a counter with an aggressive press, Auba picked up the ball, drove at goal, drilling a low shot past the impressive Pope. Our striker really is one of the most potent forces in world football at the minute. He looks so confident and so fit at the minute.
I’m not sure Emery’s defensive subs did much to calm the game. We looked nervous and it gave Burnley a bit of wind in the last twenty minutes. Bernd Leno had a very poor game, he was targetted with high balls into the box all game and it affected him. For me, if you’re going to flap at a ball with a single fist, don’t do it half-hearted. He’s usually so calm, the game reminded me of when Bolton were shooting from corners at Fabianski. I hope his coaches can nip this in the bud and it’s not an ongoing issue.
Mike Dean gave the game an extra 1 minute 40 and that was that, 3 points and an excellent afternoon in the sun for the fans.
Conclusion
A largely positive day at the office. I think we’re in for a shock against Liverpool next week if we don’t button up. We’re still shaky in defence and I think some of our play of the back has a touch of the kamikaze about it. Against rapid opposition with clinical finishing, we could be in a spot of bother. They haven’t been great against Southampton, but they have some many players that can decide a game in a flash.
I’m also hoping we can start to offer a little more variety to our play. If the gameplan is clear, it’s easy to counter. When we have great central players, why not use them?
The positives… Willock looked very good today. He’s rough around the edges, but you can see he’s going to be a very important player for us over the next few years. He created two chances today. Reiss has to impose himself a little more in games. It was notable how much more of a threat we were when Pepe came on. You have to take your chances, he has to keep pushing forward. That said, I thought his tackle early on was great and he was a shoulder away from a good goal.
Also, from a numbers perspective, we created chances. We had 9 shots on target, a huge improvement on last week. Dani Ceballos found an Arsenal player from all 6 of his corners (wow). Pepe, Willock and Ceballos had 11 successful take-ons between the… we’re running at players. Great to see.
Big week ahead…
Pedro August 18, 2019 00:38:35 Jamie, footballing philosophy has been around for years. It’s not a new thing. It’s always sat at the heart of the game. — I get you, Pedro. I’m just saying I don’t remember anyone coining a playing style or club goals as a ‘philosophy’. I genuinely only remember the word popping up when van Gaal burst on the scene at Utd and started giving Powerpoint presentations (namely his exploits as the Holland coach in the WC) to a room full of journos. No one can argue against Ajax’s Total Football playing style in the 70s.… Read more »
Ishola It’s a little shortsighted ( and offensive ) to think I’m gonna defend Pepe because he comes from French football. It was the same with Guendouzi yesterday, I simply stated he had a decent start to the season when everybody was targeting him and got called out for that. He was in the PL team of the week just last week and now I’m told he’s shit. As for Pepe, he lost the ball once in a dangerous area and that didn’t have any consequences. He’s a dribbler I mean he’s gonna lose the ball at times but his… Read more »
All about going wide with Spurs…makes it a shame our full backs will not be ready but we will have to make do. The team should watch the game yesterday and see that City were able to get at Spurs whenever they wanted by playing wide. Either Maitland Niles or Monreal bring the ball forward, Dani Ceballos needs to then sit in the pocket of space between full back and CB and look to get a ball into the box quickly for Aubameyang and Pepe or slide one in looking for their run. Walker and De Bruyne did that brilliantly… Read more »
Jamie It can be coined numerous ways, but inherently the very elite managers have had an identity with which they see their teams performing under. Approaches vary, but there’s always a baseline or principle ideas behind every top coach. To say it’s puzzling what we want to be isn’t a dramatic statement, it’s simply made as such by characters like Receding who feel the urge to go to battle at every waking opportunity. I mean a couple of guys posted what RvP had to say about Emery’s approach and in he chimed with the hottest take of 2019 – Fergie… Read more »
This is the clip an inbred Manc mate of mine sent me after Utd recruited van Gaal. He thought they had just signed the most cutting-edge dude in the game:
(Dutch with English subs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7Bk7fhbb4
Can’t wait to see what this place would look like when we actually lose a game
CC –
I’m totally with you. I guess I just find the term ‘philosophy’ a little pretentious, which is 100% ironic coming from me, admittedly.
Clubs have goals (financial and sporting), coaches have particular playing styles, some clubs recruit coaches/back office based on historical club principles (La Masia, etc). Not sure how anyone can argue against that, irrespective of the word used to encapsulate it.
Emery the Mr unpredictable needs to set our team up in a fashion that naturally brings out the best in every player. The pepe’s dispossession is something you would hardly see happen to city’s and Liverpool’s wingers except they are defending and it won’t be in that fashion. Pepe had no business going that low to pick balls across to our front players, he’s a front player himself, an outlet but our midfielders just sometimes enjoy useless side passes that in the end puts us under pressure. Neither Mane nor sallah would be found trying to bring the ball from… Read more »
What’s that ginger bitch complaining about? Is it the incident with Barnes and Kolasinac? And yet the cunt doesn’t have a problem with him jumping knees and elbows first.
I think that’s how civilization is developed. Many years ago, there was still no university. People start to sum up life experience based on the need and observations. Theories are established with beautiful names. Football has become so important to the mankind nowadays. It is natural that the knowledge will be summed up under different names such as philosophy or project or system, etc.
Marko –
The MOTD analysis showed a clip of military background man Dyche throwing a fit when Guendouzi seemingly went down easily:
About a minute in, then the pundits talk about Dyche’s complaints for a few seconds at the end of the clip:
https://streamable.com/0b4ss
Jaime it’s such an odd thing to see on the sky sports website front and center considering their was no real contentious issues yesterday. What a moaning cunt honestly.
Un na naaiAugust 18, 2019 11:17:33
LMFAO!
Marko –
All ‘military-style’ men are moaning cunts. Truth hurts.
“I mean a couple of guys posted what RvP had to say about Emery’s approach and in he chimed with the hottest take of 2019 – Fergie didn’t have a philosophy.”
That’s not actually correct Fergie did have a philosophy – it was to win.
Other just as annoying Vic
So strikers can’t miss any chances to be considered elite and wingers can’t receive the ball in their own half?
Please impart more of your football knowledge on us mere mortals
I’m shocked Pierre hasn’t been on here slagging off Ceballos.
Marko
Dyche just can’t handle being beaten by us. Last season they tried to kick lumps out of us and we kicked back – he didn’t like that, yesterday we simply outplayed them.
He’s talked up as some great manager – he’s pretty average.
Also I see people are still hung up on this whole style and philosophy nonsense. It’s basically going to be never ending until Emery is gone and then I wonder if it becomes so vital if a fan favourite like Vieira gets the job or god forbid an unworthy like (Arteta). Truth is if we’re not winning every game (especially the first two of the season it seems) with any discernable patterns of play and convincingly it’s going to be a problem for a select few on here. Sad really. FYI Arsene Wenger actually didn’t have any philosophy that was… Read more »
SidAugust 18, 2019 08:15:00
Man city easy to beat, cloag the middle play the counter, with tierney and pepe it can be done
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Yep they’re easy to beat, that’s why they’ve got 198 points in the last two seasons. Idiot.
There three main points of contention and neither MOTD nor Sky sports mentioned them. Ashley Barnes jumped deliberately with his knees into the back of Guendouzi and did not even got a card for his coward assault. He can even use the usual excuse that you need your arm to balance yourself, because lifting your knees like he did has a detrimental effect on the height of the jump. The second contention point was when Ceballos avoid three tackles who were nowhere near the ball. At least one of the Burnley players should have received a yellow card for deliberate… Read more »
I can see Ishola is focusing on that one incident of play where he tried to use his skills to get out of a situation in his own half but it didn’t come off. We’ll just forget the things that he did do right in what few minutes of his Arsenal career he’s had so far. Lad you need to relax sometimes
Mike Dean shouldn’t be allowed to ref an Arsenal game I think we can all agree on that
Freddie L, read to understand, don’t just read to argue and if you can’t understand or disagree, just move on or be polite in calling people out. I’m not being responsible for your dearth of comprehensive ability
Vic
That was pretty polite to be honest, didn’t calk you a cunt even once.
What is there to understand? You’re just another AKB clinging on to the ghost of Wenger trying to nitpick and find fault with anything the new regime does, you’re not unique, just boring.
Just yesterday you said if a striker only scores 40/100 chances he can’t be considered elite, guess what, there is no elite strikers now then, or ever for that matter. Your point about a winger collecting a ball in his own half is equally as stupid.
40 out of 100 chances? That lads a god not a striker
Marko Don’t agree with your analysis that Wenger got lucky as I believe he arrived with a really useful knowledge of European football, despite the (short)time in Japan There was no luck in being able to give the Board instructions to buy an unknown sub at AC Milan – Vieira- before he had even arrived Wengers problems later included being too egotistical sand autocratic as a result of being at Arsenal too long That also included being completely out of touch with the transfer market and how to assess players It also included making the decision 10 years into the… Read more »
Leftsidesanch
Re: 11:09 post.
Totally agree.
Le-grove has become CGrove!
Le-fudging-ridiculous.
I do sometimes wonder if the 10 year later Wenger would have even signed Vieira?
Marko
Even godhood isn’t enough to qualify for elite status apparently.
think Auba has 25% conversion rate which is right up there with the best in the world but turns out they’re all not good enough.
What a time to be alive
Marc
“I’m shocked Pierre hasn’t been on here slagging off Ceballos.”
A Very poor attempt at trolling ..a good troll always deals in facts and is honest.
Pierre
You can’t divert what you do by calling me a troll. Everyone on here knows what you are and what you do.
You’re going to hate Ceballos because he’s going to stop Ozil getting near the pitch so as always you’ll be picking up any tiny mistake he makes and trying to make it into a big thing.
Also waiting for you to repeat your usual that Emery doesn’t like skilful players.
I was wrong, it was 23.6% conversion rate last season
https://www.foxsportsasia.com/football/1050977/messi-ronaldo-fail-to-make-the-cut-as-the-top-five-players-with-the-best-conversion-rates-this-season-have-been-revealed/
4th best in Europe, better than Messi and Ronaldo. Not elite though…
Northbanker
Actually there’s a good chance he wouldn’t have. One of the things that changed with him is he stopped signing players who had big personalities.
Wenger didn’t like any form of confrontation in his latter years with the club.
Some people are really reaching to be complaining already
We’ve got 6 points from 2 games when half our expected first 11 haven’t played or have only had small contributions. We’ve had kids like willock guen and RN as mainstays, new players still settling in, established players injured or lacking in preseason time
Theres clear room for improvement but the 2 games have been a solid job well done from arsenal overall. That’s not good enough for certain posters…
China
I agree but if you look at who’s moaning and what they’re moaning about it explains a lot.
Marc
Still trolling…
I love the way Ceballlos plays the game, exactly my type of player who brings other players into the game, excellent at maintaining possession and switching the point of play .
Nice to see him get a couple of assists.
@ FL, you can’t speak beyond your scope and neither can I. That you keep failing to understand a fellow isn’t the fellow’s fault. I believe you don’t only watch arsenal’s matches, city play out from the back don’t they? Yet you hardly see sterling neck deep into their half to pick ball. If your outlets are being occupied in your own half, then what’s your escape route? Can we be set up in a way that we can at least minimize mistakes? Yes. Is it wrong for me to crave for our perfection? No So, what’s your problem? I’m… Read more »
Pierre
In that case I apologise I didn’t think you’d be happy to see Ozil shown up to be a lazy, weak player who has no place in the modern game.
Hopefully we can both enjoy Ceballos having a great season.
Just yesterday you said if a striker only scores 40/100 chances he can’t be considered elite, guess what, there is no elite strikers now then, or ever for that matter.
@FL, I dare you to bring this quote out if this was what I wrote.
Bring it out
Jamie Yea that’s it in a nutshell, the terms are pretty meh but the gist is that top managers have a picture of how they want their teams to play and the question with Emery is what his idea is when realised. Obviously you’ve dribblers like Marko that think it’s just Emery getting the “philosophy” treatment, another sunshine bus ticket holder over there. Doesn’t matter who the gaffer is it’s pretty standard, for any success to be a achieved, to have a baseline of what you’re all about. Seems when pushed ours under Emery is to be flexible and unpredictable.… Read more »
Marc
Apologies accepted.
Though your ozil comment was a blatant attempt at trolling.
Vic Credit for a measured response. Guess I’m just tired of reading the same tripe from the usual suspects that just found their critical thinking cap a year ago. Still think you have ridiculously high standards for a striker when Mbappe who had the highest shot conversion rate in Europe still only scored 1 in 4, a couple of % better than Auba. There are not and has never been a striker that scores as much as you think they should measured over a full season. Then we would have the golden boot winner on a 100 goals. Oh, and… Read more »
@FL, can he do better? Even nketiah can do all that. How are strikers really fading away from football…
For all the goals he scored as a point man being fed, he shared it with Liverpool’s wingers. That’s good enough. He’s indeed a god.
That’s all from me about this discussion.
Happy Sunday
Doesn’t matter who the gaffer is it’s pretty standard, for any success to be a achieved, to have a baseline of what you’re all about First off always nice to see you Charles cunt as always. My point was that the vast majority of managers don’t have any specific philosophy or in this case baseline (big huh there) they are all flexible and not very specific. I would say that there’s literally two or three managers who have this baseline (lol) or philosophy. Literally Pep and Klopp and maybe Poch maybe. Anyway point still stands such a narrow and rigid… Read more »
There’s nothing wrong with playing out from the back
But Arsenal don’t look comfortable doing it or very good at it
They kind of advertise what they are going to do when they have a player either side of the keeper
Cebolla- The Jury is Still Out!
CG still haven’t decided if he likes onions and he’s ancient, what a sheltered life he must have lived.
Just had to check and yes Watford have lost their opening two games of the season conceding 4 and scoring zero. Huh
The problem I have with us playing out from the back is it starts so deep and the entire defensive unit is so deep that any mistake leaves the opposition with a goal scoring chances right in or around the area
We used to rarely play long balls and play out from the back very successfully with our best possession based teams and it never required to have the entire back 6 or so in and around our own penalty box to do it
HillWood
That’s the advantage of having David Luiz in the team.
He can ping a 60m pass upfield with ease, similar to VVD at Liverpool.
He picked out Auba with a beauty yesterday.
China the playing out the back thing has become a bit too deliberate. The central defenders line up either side of the goal Keeper and the madness begins
Glad the fans cheered when Leno decided to go long. Playing out the back should be something done when the opportunity presents itself not obsessively
Marc, stop trolling. You spend more time talking about other people than you do about the actual football.
Marko, Arsenal Wenger absolutely did have a philosophy. It was to his detriment. You are throwing out a fact to defend Emery.
CG, behave or you’ll go in the bin.
Watford are still to score a goal this season but a certain poster thinks they are still better than Arsenal
What does buy Watford goals even mean ??
Marc, I really couldn’t give a rats arse what you think about the quality of the comments section.
Can’t a coach adapting his lineup to nullify the strengths of whoever the opponents are be termed a philosophy?? I think some are using that word in a context that suites their own argument. Valencia always played a certain way under Unai, same with Sevilla. Maybe after 22 years of one philosophy it would take a while for another to take shape to be significantly noticed. Last season the complaint was too much cut backs by the fullbacks, something I still think we will see more of when Bellerin and Tierney are fit, two wins out of two this season… Read more »
Pedro
So you’re deleting my comments?
Marko I already answered that factoid of yours. Who the manager is isn’t the subject being talked about, that’s your way to try and make it some Emery agenda. It’s not, he’s simply the manager and due the critique. If Arteta was here and had delivered the exact same thing I’d be asking the same questions, because it’s a fundamental ask of a manager. ‘What are we about under you?’ It gives us an idea of whether we’re tracking towards improvement, and doesn’t roll the dice against external factors of the season that contribute to where we finish. Same reason… Read more »
Is that Luke Freeman, the former Arsenal prodigy, playing for Sheffield Utd?
I remember there was buzz about him for a while lol
Wonder if Danny No Goals will line up against us when we travel to Watford
Yes Marc, I am.
Apologies Guv.
CC, agree.
Where does this football go?
It looks like we’re going to be more militant about playing out of the back and we seem to want to build play painfully slowly from the back.
It’ll be very interesting to see if he lasts past this season if the football is still bland.
I saw that our xG numbers were bad again as well…
Lolz “I don’t give a fuck about the blog or the comments…roar” “Don’t bin me” Anyone who’s anyone on here gets binned. Take your medicine and come back even more abusive. On to the football. If Arsenal can keep a relatively fit team (ahem) we might do okay providing Emery finds a better combo up front. I know the fashion is to have Auba on the wing but I’m not so sure…we just paid £72m for a winger. And don’t they occupy the same side? Correct me if I’m wrong. I’d always go 3 up front. Always. Our defence is… Read more »
Also my wife wants to install a dado rail on the ground floor of the house…and paint below the line, gloss. And change the kitchen decor…
I’m still in agony.
Guns, can looks nice if you get some Farrow & Ball on it…
Peter, you goddam stylish mother fucker! Our house is 90% top to toe F and B. Cost us £1000’s in paint but holy hell…it really does piss over conventional crap, doesn’t it.
She’s never normally wrong on the interior design front. I’m going all in and agreeing to it. And she has threatened to do it personally.
Yeah,
‘Dulux is the same’
Get fucked. Pricey for sure, but worth it.
Dulux, Crown, Johnstone’s.
The Ramsay, Ox and Theo of paint.
Pedro I couldn’t say. Personally last season was uninspiring from that perspective and left me with questions about what peak Arsenal is all about under Emery. Hard to gauge what we’re all about, we more closely resemble a middling side going with the flow on a game by game basis vs an elite side who play their game and have different tactics in reserve should the situation call for it. Early in the season I’m happy to put the points on the board, but how we go about it just doesn’t smack of a long-term key to success. Think it’s… Read more »
CC
Echoed. Ergo, we need to play to our obvious strengths and go all out and all in. We WILL beat 8/10 sides…probably, with this approach but get utterly whacked by the elite sides. Seeing as we won’t play elite sides more than 6 times this season, it’s worth a punt.
I’d rather us go down in a blaze of glory than lose 1-0 in an absolute stinker.
We have the tools to do some good this year but Emery strikes me as a bit passive.
CC, be interesting to see how he makes us tough to play against for the Liverpool game. Playing out the back like we have been will be ruthlessly exposed.
Been thinking about that Freddie promotion.
In any line of work… who goes to their boss and suggests a swap of roles, junior to senior?
Wonder if there’s something deeper there.
Think we have to rationalise this defence issue a bit more – we have played what is really a makeshift defence last 2 games and we are assimilating together a lot of players who have little experience of playing together throughout the team. The defence will hopefully be Bellerin-Holding-Luiz-Tierney and yet only one of those is currently available and he’s only just made his debut for us. So let’s get a bit real about how well they’re playing. Adding to that is that Burnley will prob be a top half team and will give a lot of discomfort to a… Read more »
Is that the same xG stats that had Burnley winning the game yesterday. Only save of note from Leno was from an offside. If lumping crosses into the box is an expected goal then that stat is flawed.
WTF is xG?
It bugs the fuck out of me!
She’s never normally wrong on the interior design front. I’m going all in and agreeing to it. And she has threatened to do it personally.
Guns
What a dream. Wish mine was like that. Just give her the reins and retire to the smoking room for a nice Cuban and leave her at it.
My Mrs just points the cleaner at it and still complains. Poor old next door neighbour doesn’t have a fella and she flirts her own flooring, puts her own fence panels up. She does the lot.
“In any line of work… who goes to their boss and suggests a swap of roles, junior to senior? Wonder if there’s something deeper there.”
The only thing deeper is FL’s dingle in Emery’s starfish.
FL hasn’t earned the promo.
Guns this squad now what are our obvious strengths???
Because take out Ceballos from yesterday’s game and it becomes unwatchable.
Welbz will probably score a hattrick against us in the most painfully ironic of ways
One off his ass when he wasn’t looking. One off his crotch when trying a bicycle kick that wrong foots Leno who never expected such a fuck up was even possible and one off the back of his head when a cross comes in but he was busy thinking about how much he enjoyed scoring the previous two goals
Un That had me laughing. 1. I don’t have a smoking room or smoke anymore. 2. If she threatens to do something my spidey sense starts tingling…I will end up doing it because she knows how OCD I am and if she makes a mistake, I’ll get the pillow case and the oranges out again! Joking!!!! 3. I do loads for my neighbours. They are 77/80. Very fit and able but we do each other’s bins etc. They feed me wine and I cut the hedge. It works out. Their children are also a doctor, a solicitor and personal trainer.… Read more »
RH
The front three mate. That’s all.
I concur. We stink the place up most of the time but…if up too works, we should do okay.
Also, conceding 6+ goals against the good sides will be amazing to watch.
Our obvious strengths are we have 3 extremely dangerous attackers and a very effective CM in Ceballos who will make things happen if given the ball regularly. I know arsenal aren’t title winning vintage but there’s actually quite a lot to be more positive about with this current arsenal side We have more attacking prowess including genuine width. We have a quality AM for the first time since santi’s legs went many years back. We have willock who is rough around the edges but has a lot to offer. Guen is doing pretty well so far. Luiz made a fuck… Read more »
Has anyone heard from Vic Vic?
Last time he was on here he was so depressed he was contemplating suicide
China. Do you remember? Is he ok?
RH, the same xG stats that correctly predicted the mirage that was Emery’s first 22 games last season.
Pedro Yea found that an odd role reversal. I can’t shake the idea that Bould is just clinging onto a comfy pay packet at Colney, no idea what he brings to the party. Freddie in 12 months has shown more use, maybe that’s harsh idk. Yea see that’s what puzzles me about us, if playing from the back was a hallmark of new Arsenal you’d think we’d have it down at home against lesser sides. We struggled every single time we tried it last term and we’ve started in the same manner. Liverpool away will be interesting for sure, they’ve… Read more »
I do loads for my neighbours. They are 77/80. Very fit and able but we do each other’s bins etc. They feed me wine and I cut the hedge. It works out. Their children are also a doctor, a solicitor and personal trainer. This covers most of life’s problems. Guns Yeah I used to but one complained about my shed to the council that it was over sized (it wasn’t) and the other tried to stop me from putting her fence up as it had blown down as she wanted me to pay to have it 6 inches further into… Read more »
Why would we be conceding 6 goals against all the top 6 sides?
We are now playing a formation with two holding DMs instead of one b2b or endlessly floating player.
We also have two new defenders who are better than the players before them.
We also now have someone at n10 who actually shows up on the pitch rather than making us a man down.
Meanwhile Chelsea are getting worse, Utd are nothing special at all and spurs haven’t changed much since last year when they barely finished above us despite you thinking we were shit
Oh here he is, ‘earth isn’t round…Emery told me’…
Un
Was that whole shed thing a euphemism for your penis?
Read it back. Lolz.
Un na I don’t remember. We have so many people using variations of the same few names that I don’t even know who is who
Vic Vic, victorious, vikingz or whatever are these not all the same person
We also have about 3 people with variations of emery’s name and several guns as well
I really can’t keep up with who is who
Guns
😂
Maybe before I tied the knot!! Not any more.
Charlie who would that be?
China
Exactly. I’ve been wholly criticised for what another ‘guns’ said. They had an umlaut…I don’t.
Anyway, no one should joke about anyone committing suicide. It’s the internet and a lot of people are unhinged.
A couple on here are certifiable.
Pedro, In any line of work… who goes to their boss and suggests a swap of roles, junior to senior?Wonder if there’s something deeper there. I think that the failure to qualify for the Champion’s League shook the management and his star is shining a little less brightly to Raul and Vitesh. The something deeper is that Emery leash got a lot shorter. When last season he was pretty much able to choose whoever he wanted as player (Suarez, …) And coaching staff, it looks like this season he was pretty much at the periphery of things. I have been… Read more »
Un
Getting married was the best thing I did until we had wonderbaby.
Jesus Valentine, take it down a notch. It was rhetorical and didn’t really need an answer.
Un has admitted that his penis is a shed.
Peter is into Farrow and Ball.
China is a homosexual.
It’s the blog of honesty. Not answers.
Pedro I didn’t need an xG stat to see the faults in the 22 game unbeaten run same way I don’t need it to say Burnley didn’t have a chance in hell winning that game yesterday.
Guns
I would advise any young man to hold off until his 30s man.
I gave it up in my prime cos my Mrs was incredible and didn’t want to let someone that good slip through the net
Last one before her was Brazilian and let her go back to Brazil and was a bit gutted over it.
Was a lot soppier in my 20s. Once you’ve had a couple of kids you slip right down the pecking order until the goldfish is laughing at ya!!
You end up an open wallet!! Can’t wait til the kids are teenagers….
Wouldn’t change a thing though
The old butterfly effect
Think, one five knuckle shuffle at the wrong time and you get a completely different child
The life you know and love would never have existed
Un
I was early thirties. I didn’t need any more tail. My wife was, is amazing. If she can put up with me, she’s earned her medal. She makes me better. Gave us wonderbaby. That’ll do me.
Middle age suits me.
Guns
That’s the right way to do it. Especially these days