TIME FOR ARTETA TO DELIVER

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Well hello my darlings.

A huge game for Arsenal this weekend. Everton could very well give us a total spanking and make this the end to 2020 we didn’t deserve.

I’ve been doing the rounds with people this week. Things are not good for Arteta. He’s lost a lot of goodwill over the last three months and palming it off on being a new project simply doesn’t jive with most.

It’s bad decisions.

We’ve put too much faith in players that always fail us.

We made a horrendous decision on the contracts of David Luiz and Willian. The rumours about those two canvassing Edu to bin Mikel are probably untrue, but they perfecty capture the disgusting deal with the devil we did when we invited Kia to be our real Technical Director. Average people on big money trying to sway the direction of the club, this is what happens.

We are making poor decisions on the pitch. There was a clear vision for how we’d play the game last year. Now we’re shape-shifting every week and it’s all looking a little bit Emery. Arteta needs to work out what the fuck he wants to do.

We also have a discipline problem. Our red cards have been shit. Getting mugged by Theo is hardly trying to rip Neil Ruddock’s head off. Dumb mistakes by players that should know better. The most notable bit that many aren’t talking about is the junior players all apologised to the fans, but Granit Xhaka still hasn’t. Fuck him. Get him out in January and put his career at Arsenal in the waste disposal. He shouldn’t play for us again.

I’m also thinking about other mistakes, like letting Emi Martinez go. One of my good friends messaged and said we’ve stopped playing out the back. Emi was better with his feet, he was better at shot-stopping, and he dealt with setpieces better. He was on fire. Based on merit, he should have remained our #1.  We sold the wrong keeper… who is now sympathizing with Meust in the press right now. You reap what you sow.

We are in hell. Arteta should be gone. He has one chance to make this right. He has one chance to show he can do the coaching thing without City tools. If he doesn’t shape us up by the end of the month, why would you let him and Edu shape the January window?

Some people are accusing me of losing faith. Well, it’s been shaken since he landed the big promotion. He lost his way. He’s let his ego take over. He didn’t do what we had hoped in the summer. He tried to shortcut Arsenal to the top after seeing us fail doing that over the last 10 years. Those stupid mistakes our Technical Director let him make have sent this season careening off the road.

He can bring us back from the brink, I’m just not sure he’s shown enough this season to do it. How many more times can you write: ‘Today could be the turning point.’

It’s now on Arteta to restore confidence. The time for excuses is over. Let’s see some action.

FINALLY: Listen to my NEW podcast with Johnny Cochrane. It’s kind of an intervention. It’s like the comments section took over a human to talk sense to me. It’s a good listen.

If you like it, give him a follow at @iJohnnyCochrane. Also, check out his How’s your Father? podcast on Spotify.

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Sean Mukiza

1st

Globalgunner

So if by Monday he has not delivered. Then what?

Nelson

Pedro is still working hard. Respect!

Marc

You see Pedro says one thing but then goes and does a podcast with OJ’s lawyer – just how long will Pedro keep defending the guilty?

Sean Mukiza

Most depressing piece you’ve written on Arteta mate. Is this you Pete??? or is someone else writing the blog today?? Damn the intel you got must’ve been really depressing. Killed all my hopes Peter Wood. Hope you are happy with yourself :/

Gunnernet

People accusing you of losing faith Pedro? Can you even listen to yourself? Have you read again the first two paragraphs? You sound oblivious to me. Clearly you are in love with him.

andy1886

Prediction for tomorrow?

Tom

Andy
1:1 based mostly on hope Auba’s past his hoodoo and DCL having a day of.
Richarlison is always a handful but mostly a headless chicken.

My fear is the players have given up on the project though. Well, many have.

Paul O'connor

Even you must be sick of writing this stuff now Pedro? It is groundhog day again. I just think anyone at the club has got the balls to do anything about it. They haven’t so far and why will they now?
Everyone sit tight buckle up and stuck it up.

Danny+S

Andy

Prediction for tomorrow is Bellerin straight back in the 1st team, Willian probably to start also and a 2-1 defeat.

G8

Good effort Pedro, but you could do better
Call for the end of this horror show
You’re better than this
Arsenal is better than this
We deserve better than this
Sack him now

andy1886

Bit of a turn around today Pedro. Lots of issues that in isolation aren’t terminal but they all add up to one big cluster fuck. One point I’ve been banging on about is just what is the plan? Playing out from the back some weeks then others not. Completely agree Emi was perfect for that and Leno just isn’t. Then there’s the fixation with crossing which will likely be dumped sooner rather than later. As for Xhaka just why? Since our midfield is weak we need more bodies there, a 352 or some variation. You can’t just abandon the middle.… Read more »

Waldo

Boom – Bottom 10

raptora

Pedro is finally coming back to his senses. Late by around 2 months but better late than never.

Top podcast. Be sure to invite Johnny again. He is the voice of reason.

andy1886

Tom/Danny, agree on one thing, you wouldn’t bet on us scoring more than one, so we’ll need to keep it tight and try and nick the win.

One thing is guaranteed though, if we come away with any points at all the spin machine will be in full flow painting it as a huge success and claiming we’ve turned things around.

Snowkid

Sack race odds: Mikel Arteta cut to favourite to be next manager to leave

The Arsenal boss has shortened from 40/1 in just over two weeks as his side’s dismal campaign continues.

Think he is at 2/1 odds at some betting outfits

Rich

Balogun scored for the under 23s again tonight.

No Smith-Rowe, no Martinelli though,

Martinelli playing tomorrow, is surely too risky, hopefully he gets 60 minutes against City.

Smith-Rowe involved tomorrow.would be exciting, we need an injection of something,

Arteta may as well throw the dice.

Marc

andy

I can see that beast of mediocrity Iwobi getting a couple tomorrow.

Snowkid

Ha didnt think that was pedro writing the blog but thats the best piece thats been written in weeks

Expect for this bit

He has one chance to show he can do the coaching thing without City tools.

He didnt win a match as stand in manager with City tools

Snowkid

If walcott can score. Why not iwobi

Theo had 1 goal before facing us

Sean Mukiza

It is absurd how people land jobs in the football world, what the actual fuck mate. Edu, Arteta, Hussein Fahmy, Vinai and even Raul( with all the dodginess surrounding the Neymar deal) would get nowhere near the roles they are/were in outside the football world with their respective CVs. Stability & culture means fuck all when we are absolutely shite. Let’s rip it up and start again with competent & qualified people, can’t have these rookies making brainless expensive mistakes at the club. There’s a very Impressive guy at the city football group he’s called Omar Berrada currently COO there.… Read more »

Kaz


He’s shown us what he can do.

It ain’t enough.

So when we lowly blog commentors mention what a shit show it is under him and selling Emi Martinez was fucking stupid, we’re just neanderthals who can’t see the big picture . But when your “sources” within the club say it, it’s time to listen.

🙄🙄🙄

Anyway, I’ll be glad when you get over this Arteta crush, your blog has been suffering over it.

Kinda like how paininthearsenal got so stupid due to their Xhaka crush.

Dissenter

Marc
Leave my Iwobi alone
His low wage mediocrity helped us get to 5th place in Emery’s first season. He gave his all to Arsenal and fetched us good money on his transfer

I’ll take Iwobi anyway over this version of Willian.

Marc

Snowkid Pedro’s going to have to do a complete 180 on almost everything he’s pushed for the last 2 and a half years. You should of seen the abuse he gave me when I was asking what the fuck Arteta was doing player Xhaka post lockdown. All of a sudden Xhaka’s not good enough, anyone who dared to query whether giving the job to a guy who’d never managed a single match was basically told to fuck off we didn’t know what we were talking about. If Pedro can get his head out of his arse, eat down the enormous… Read more »

Marc

Dissenter

Better than awful isn’t really a great sales line!

Victorious

So if by Monday he has not delivered. Then what?”

Well then the waiting for this ‘delivery’ goes on..

Dissenter

Pedom
What are Unai Emery’s ‘short term fixes”
The only player that you can pin on Emery is Denis Suarez.

Dissenter

Marc
Iwobi was an academy player playing his way up…and the pan worked because he fetched us good money to justify all those minutes he got.
Ancelotti is playing him a lot these days so he can’t be that bad.

raptora

Arteta: … sometimes you do not always get the results that you deserve. There are a lot of games where we have deserved much more, we should have many more points, but at the end of the day, we did not get them.” I respectfully disagree. We haven’t dominated a single game since round 1. West Ham had more and better chances than us, hit the crossbar, we cleared from an empty net when Leno flopped the ball. Vs Sheffield, the worst team in the league, at home, we had our best 15 mins, played nothing before and after that,… Read more »

Victorious

Think we’ll win tomorrow, we always do well against teams like Everton, they’ll leave spaces behind, loads of spaces just like against United which also ensured an underfire OGS got a result to escape the sack

Arteta will be hoping for a masaive amount of luck against his former club tomorrow, I think he gets it.

Snowkid

Marc

The abuse pedro gave me when arteta was first hired and told him it was a terrible hiring etc he banned me from the site

Matt

So Richarlison is a headless chicken!? If running around and putting effort in makes someone a headless chicken then Auba is the complete opposite of that!!

jwl

“If Pedro can get his head out of his arse, eat down the enormous portion of humble pie that’s coming we’ll have a reset on here.”

Marc in case you havent noticed but it is not your blog so you dont decide reset. Perhaps Pefro will get tired of you being a belligerent twat for past couple of months and just ban you. That too would be a reset.

Chin up Pedro, we all mistaken opinions everyday but we dont have worldwide audience critique us all the freakin time. Good read today, will listen to podcast later tonight.

Aussie+Gooner

WoW! Has someone highjacked the blog or has the love affair ended?

Good win for the u23’s last night. Chambers and Balogun scored. No sign of Martinelli! Arteta has already stated that he won’t be ready for Everton, I hope he hasn’t had a set back. Perhaps Arteta was bluffing and he may be on the bench as an impact player – something we haven’t had for months.

A must win match (how many times have we heard that?) if Arteta is to see the year out. No excuses, no Bellerin, no Willian. Bet Mustafi puts in an appearance!

azed

The first goal is important tomorrow.

We get the first goal then we can defend and play on the counter.

We concede first then a draw is most likely our best result.

Marc

jwl

I wasn’t talking about for my sake but for the comments section as a whole. It doesn’t matter if I’m on here or not but without a reset the arguing with just continue with a new manager.

It doesn’t do justice to what’s always been the best comments section out there.

Snowkid

JWL

Maybe if pedro admitted he was wrong and didnt keep digging himself into a deeper arteta hole people would go easier on him

Hes became exactly what this whole blog was started and written to fight against

Just change AKB to now what pedro is MKB.

And remember at the end of the day its all banter and no one is being serious

Snowkid

Oh it was pedro who wrote today’s blog. He’s starting to see the light

Will he actually admit he was wrong all along and arteta was/is a flop from day 1 and much inferior to emery

I highly doubt it

Snowkid

When emery was sacked he had us 8th in the PL

We are now 15th.

Diabolical

MD-Gunner

From the Athletic Poll which keeper should be kept Leno 67% vs 33% have Ozil return to the squad in January 52% v 48%

To sort this manager mess you need to sort first the DofF first. Overmars in as DofF than select a manager.

Ustyno

No more generational coach in the post, there’s light at the end of the tunnel

Meanwhile Arteta is beginning to sound like someone on low battery

I pray we win tomorrow for the fans

jwl

Snowkid – Pedro is not man in denial, the problem you and a few others have is that you expect pedro to do cersei’s naked walk of atonement while we pelt him with rotten fruit and veg. ————– – Things are not good for Arteta. He’s lost a lot of goodwill over the last three months and palming it off on being a new project simply doesn’t jive with most. It’s bad decisions. – You can decry a point when we needed three, and that’d be fair. But for me, we’re in crisis and you have to take the joy… Read more »

McBright is Wright

We lose against Everton.
Losß against City.
Loss against Chelsea.
Then you fire the manager?
To what end?
So that we might win over Brighton?
Why can’t I just forget about this club?

Graham62

Got a bad feeling about tomorrow.

Think we may get a spanking.

3-1 or 4-1 Everton.

#ArtetaOut.

Graham62

McBright is Wright

Because it’s in your blood.

South African Gooner

Andy

*****his brother is his agent, another Anelka situation just waiting to blow up in our faces.*****

This Anelka,

The one:
We bought for £500 000 , who helped us win the Double and we then sold on for £23 000 000
And then spent a portion of the proceeds on Henry?

How did that blow up in our faces?
Wenger genius management.

(What a bizarre comment)

If Auoar is another Anelka- lets snare him.

McBright is Wright

Graham62: That’s the sad part of it. I am an old fashioned arsenal supporter. We are proud of our “Arsenal Way”. We are classy and cultured. We have groomed the best football exectives even United can only dream about. We walk tall with chips over our shoulder. So to see us making school boys decisions day in day out …from the board to the manager is shocking to say the least. And you know what’s worst? The fu*king lilies could well win this league. I can live with Chelsea winning the UCL… But my word!…..I can’t imagine white London in… Read more »

NJ Gooner

5-2-3 formation tomorrow with a low block. No James to pick the lock or Allan to protect against a counterattack for Everton. This augurs well for MA.

My guess? We lose narrowly. My hope? We sneak a goal, stay resilient, and Xhaka doesn’t play!

Light a candle.

Elmo

Still backing for Tets from areas of the media.

Guillem Balague writing for BBC:
Mikel Arteta: Why Arsenal have ‘no doubts’ despite worst start in decades – https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55325050

Says Tets will be given plenty more time, that he will persist with Xhaka because with such a weak, passive dressing room, there’s no alternative to playing the stronger characters, and that there’s a general acceptance at the club that the turn-around of the club is a long-term project.

gunnerram

There is a more reasonable article in the Atheletic from The Oracle which states the facts (and not sugar coating like this site) — Arsenal are in serious & mega decline!!!!

Unless we really do something in the next 4-5 matches to reach 25 points – the chances are we will be involved in a long relegation battle.

McBright is Wright

Gunnarram:
The relegation is fear most, the the relegation of Arsenal from the heart and souls of many fans. With the Covid 19 situation, and the free fall of Artetas Arsenal, disconnect from the fan base is getting wider.

Thorough

‘I’ m also thinking about other mistakes, like letting Emi Martinez go. One of my good friends messaged and said we’ve stopped playing out the back. Emi was better with his feet, he was better at shot-stopping, and he dealt with setpieces better. He was on fire. Based on merit, he should have remained our #1. We sold the wrong keeper… who is now sympathizing with Meust in the press right now. You reap what you sow.: Just thinking? The best thing that can happen to us is let Arteta lose the next game and the next till he gets… Read more »

Receding Hairline

Balague sticking up for a Spanish coach, color me shocked All of these speculations are kinda mute really, if he doesn’t pick up reasonable points from the next 5 league matches, and by reasonable personally I would say 9 points, then we are really in for a painful season. He can say all he likes in the press, I stopped listening long ago. Arteta: “I have experienced things in a year that in a normal job you would experience in eight or 10 years, but it’s been great. I want to believe I am much better as a manager” #Arsenal… Read more »

Marc

gunnerram

To reach your 25 points tally we’d need to pick up 11 points in those 4 – 5 matches which basically means winning 3 and 2 draws. Those matches are:

Everton A
Chelsea H
Brighton A
West Brom A (with Fat Sam in charge now)
Palace H

I really can’t see it happening unless there’s some major change in things.

englandsbest

Bad day, Pedro.

But giving up on Arteta would be a mistake. The dice were loaded against him from day one. We all knew that.

But he will learn from his mistakes. Guaranteed.

McBright is Wright

Arteta is not showing willingness to learn. That’s the worst of him still. Who does he think he is? Pep😆

Dissenter

Pedro
Your guest on the podcast influenced you a lot because he was very convincing in his Arteta opinions.

Chris

A very honest appraisal of the situation, fair play. I honestly didn’t think things were going to get this bad, despite mild concerns since the first few games of the season. However I do share the worries of others about what the clubs plan is, short and long term. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the club decides to dismiss Arteta during the next few weeks if results do not improve, but have no real plan on what to do next. The leadership at the club is invisible and anything Vinai says is just empty, corporate words. The… Read more »

jwl

“I have experienced things in a year that in a normal job you would experience in eight or 10 years …”

Receding Hairline – if he talking about covid and how it affecting players/club finances, that is acceptable, but if he thinks what he experience so far no other manager has, than he is deluded.

Snowkid

What bollocks from arteta

Snowkid

Chris

Going back to wenger is not an option at all

jwl

I think both Emery and Arteta fail at Arsenal because of players we accumulated under Wenger. The last few seasons under Wenger we had overpaid squad playing half assed football. What lond of plauer signs up for that? Other than Auba, i question every players work ethic bought by Wenger and still at club. They all need clearing out then rebuild can start in reality. I remember when Sanchez left a few years ago, the club were briefing to media that it was good he was leaving because his work ethic was much higher than rest of squad and he… Read more »

jwl

“What lond of plauer signs up for that”? = what kind of player ….

Valentin

Jwl, Arsenal is not failing because of the player accumulated by Wenger. Özil monstrous contract was signed on Gazidis’s order. Xhaka signed an extension and a pay rise a full month after Wenger left. Elneny signed an extension and a pay rise months after Wenger had tried to sell him. Leno arrived after Wenger had left. Sokratis was bought by Raul to bring more experience against Mislintat recommendations as he wanted Sôyüncü. Pepe was overpaid by Raul… David Luiz and Willian have been signed on Arteta’s request. Wenger left us with a top 4 squad, Arsenal just burn money to… Read more »

Nelson

“Arteta is not showing willingness to learn.”

But sometimes, he has to trust himself. Two weeks ago, he was influenced by fans’ noise and move Auba to the #9 spot. We lost every game after the switch. Both Emery and Arteta play Auba at the inside left forward position which suits Auba’s skill. . In the #9 position, he has to fight a CB all the time. And his header is weak also.

Auba needs a striker to make room for him. Also he should develop chemistry with Saka. Then we could attack the box with passes and not crosses.

Snowkid

Influenced by fans noise

The stadium has been empty most of 2020

Nelson

I am talking noises through the media such as AFTV, etc.

Snowkid

No one listens to AFTV. Bunch of clowsn

Snowkid

Clowns

Guns of SF

I hope Martinelli comes on as a sub, scores a Golazo and hits another, runs by Mike and gives him a nice big smile…..

I think Mike would have a melt down.

He just couldnt handle it!

Valentin

Nelson, Arteta was not influenced by fans noise. He was just in self preservation mode. The media were started to publicly questions some of his decisions. Watch again the press conferences and look at how awkward it was. He was just tetchy even and staring at people even on easy questions. His usual charm did not work so the easiest way (in his mind) to shut the pundits was to give them what they asked for. However he had not suddenly see the light, it was a ploy to give himself time. A lot of things that Arteta does and… Read more »

alexanderhenry

Pedro

‘How many more times can you write: ‘Today could be the turning point.’’

Plenty more times apparently:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55325050

Unless we get relegated arsenal are sticking with arteta.

Bojangles

“Wenger left us with a top 4 squad,”

Just shows how Wenger was under performing then, considering his last two seasons we finished 5th and 6th.

Mics_

Best guest on the pod in a long time, props to Pete. Calm dismantling of every fallacious reason Arteta followers put forward. I appreciated him pointing out that for some reason it’s just assumed that Arteta is a great coach when the evidence for that is just not there. No, it’s not “having too much trust in senior players who have let down three managers,” it’s making inexplicably stupid lineup decisions, exiling useful players, and playing favorites. No it’s not “the fans pressured Arteta to play this way,” it’s Arteta making stupid decisions out of arrogance. It’s not “Arteta is… Read more »

Nelson

Valentin
“the easiest way (in his mind) to shut the pundits was to give them what they asked for.”

He definitely got burnt this time. By asking Auba as the lone striker and Willock or Laca as a #10, the only thing Arteta’s offense could do were crosses. And Auba has a bad header. Actually, the fans were all correct if we had one or two good ACM.

Bojangles

Snowkid “JWL Maybe if pedro admitted he was wrong and didnt keep digging himself into a deeper arteta hole people would go easier on him.” Considering its Pedro’s blog who the fuck do you think you are to require him to admit to being wrong? You complained about being binned previously, yet since you have been allowed back you’ve done nothing but complain about the manager. You, along with a few others have controlled the narrative of this blog for the past month to the extent that a number of the more reasonable posters have stopped posting here. You can… Read more »

Guns of SF

I really hope to see Martinelli getting back into the rotation.
How we have missed a true attacker aside from the three we have.
All have been misfiring all season

He is not the messiah I get it but nice to see if he can offer some help.
His movements alone would cause the defenses to shift and move…

I hope he gets minutes tomorrow

curse

someone needs to explain to Josh, so he can explain to stan, that this team will require 3 players, minimum 2 in Jan. Right the ship, get europa, pray the tiny totts don’t win the league and wait for the exodus.

speak of transfers, Ralf would be nice.

curse

ing*

Guns of SF

Wenger always used 3 creative mids
We played beautiful attacking football.
Defense was ok… but we could outscore the opponent if needed in most cases.

Now its the opposite. but we still leak goals.

Not selling the dross in the summer was a big mistake Mike
Could have had Aouar and Partey last summer

andy1886

Snowy: Auoar is no 500k bargain that we could potentially sell for a big profit, we’re looking at nearer £50m. Even if he does well his brother will be agitating for a move to RM after 5 minutes, if he does poorly we’ve been robbed yet again. We don’t need a player with a dickhead brother for his agent.

Tony

Are we getting our Pedro back? Certainly hope so as I’ve missed the guy who could bring a smile to our faces with his brand of writing mixed with humour, the occasional flip-flopping and generally all round good guy Roy-Of-The-Rovers rallying pre and post games. Inspiration to finally confront your Arteta demons come in many disguises – this one being Johnny Cochrane. Will it last, though? Will Pedro revert to type? They’re the real questions. Come on Pedro no relapses or your recovery and pain will be well and truly lengthened, as well as feeding the minority Wenger trolls here… Read more »

Guns of SF

Then we need to get Buendia
no brainer.

ticks all the boxes

There are others out there… I need to see if Edu is doing work….

Jan will tell

Tony

Being reported that Luis Campos, Paul Mitchell and Marc Overmars are 3 of the men on a 5-man DoF short list while, as usual, hapless Vinai and co pin their hopes on our novice Edu.

Meanwhile what does Tim Lewis say to the Kroenkes?

Snowkid

Bonjangles

You Pedro’s muscle? Haha

shad

Finally Pedro has a come to Jesus moment and sees what we’ve all been saying..

I’m not sure I trust Edu nd Arteta to handle anything in the Jan window. The team is too rudderless and any further trades will be taken with a lump of salt. Let’s break the structure down in Jan, fire them and write off the season. Start properly again next summer.

Major_Jeneral

In the Emi Martinez question, what I am aware of as the status quo is that if the second keeper or player in a position is doing really well, don’t bring back the previous player yet. This is to encourage consistency in performance and competition. I was surprised that he was allowed to go, considering he had played really well(regardless of the no of games). Henderson at United have kept his place despite the return of De gea. Leno has not played well from the back this season. He is not comfortable with the ball at his feet and at… Read more »

China1

South African gooner

Anelka was virtually free he was so cheap. There was essentially zero risk.

Aouar would likely cost 50+m and his attitude seems temperamental. Could work out big time, but this is clearly a high risk gamble.

They’re not comparable in the slightest

Guns of SF

yea Aouar would be nice but the way things went down makes one think he was not really keen about coming here. I think if he wanted, Aulas would have allowed him to leave.

We nickled and dimed Aulas, enough to say that he will not be keen to do business with us again.

Edu paid full price for Partey with hours to spare.

Useless transfer negotiator he is….

I am telling you this, I want to see Edu do work. I want to see end result in jan,

China1

Personally I think Emi’s passing out from the back and it’s role in our form at the end of last season is being greatly overstated And I say this as someone who preferred him to Leno and wanted him to remain n1 But really we’re not shit because our keeper is a little worse at pinging pass around in area. There are 10000 things wrong at arsenal but this is really low down the pecking order Our whole strategy of playing out from the back doesn’t wrk anymore because we mostly just rinsed and repeated the same trick of playing… Read more »

Nelson

Walcott receives an England World Cup call-up!

China1

Man the world has gone fucking bonkers Why does everyone have to be offended y everything nowadays I saw there’s a new tv show coming out about a deaf guy and people are losing their shit over the fact the main character can actually hear irl Like get a fucking life, jeez. It’s called acting. Like, pretend. It’s not a documentary. I’d absolutely love to know how many deaf actors there are, who also happened to be perfect for the role and also happened to audition for it compared with capable and suitable actors who were not. But what’s the… Read more »

China1

Surely what everyone should be asking for is equal rights and opportunities and to never be overlooked based on some arbitrary point you can’t control It doesn’t mean you need to get preferential treatment Watch any modern British period drama and now they will typically cast some black people even in fucking 1400s Britain – sometimes even in some decent societal positions Is that historically accurate? No. Could they have cast a white person instead? Obviously. Should anyone give a shit if the actor is good and adds to the show? Ofc not. And I say this as an oat… Read more »

Tony

China I would disagree a little regarding Emi. His quick release with long throws and accurate long passes to a player – not long hopeful punts in the vicinity of players – made for the fast counter attacking Leno is unable to do. The play out from the back was much more precise where Emi would draw opposition in and then find closer midfielders last our defenders accurately who then transitioned the ball quicker to the forwards. I would say we’re missing that as much as Emi’s overall commanding his area and catching most high balls and then starting his… Read more »

Tony

China
I read yesterday that a UK judge has ruled against wokism say people have a right to upset others and now the pokiest people are up in arms.

The judge probably got an under-the-table payment from Don, Aubagine and the rest of his personalities.

China1

But Tony I think most of our goals with emi in goal still completely bypassed the midfield. David Luiz, Saka, AMN, whoever would launch those long balls to the LWF position and we’d hope for the best.

Only occasionally did we actually play out from the back, bypass the press, then break forward through the midfield and score due to superior numbers. It happened occasionally but most of our goals were a lot simpler than that and didn’t involve bypassing the press through any particularly special plays the back.

Tony

Wokiest*

Tony

*Wokiest*

Guns of SF

wookie

China1

Lol tony I just think it’s nuts Would the same people up in arms about a person who can hear getting a deaf role be up in arms if someone from the deaf community got a role as someone who can hear? They’d celebrate it like crazy – and rightly so. It would be a beautiful achievement and if they did it well it would be an absolutely wonderful thing to see and appreciate So why is it evil for a guy who can hear to play a deaf role? As well I seriously doubt that role will be easy… Read more »

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