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Hazbro
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Londoner. POC. ADHD. Not a YouTuber. Not that board games company either.
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Anyone who read Arteta’s comments knew he was actually saying the right and moral thing, that fixture congestion affects all teams and clubs have to work together if the powers that be keep piling on more games in order to protect the players. Arteta has always prioritised player welfare.
Honestly, Welbeck makes *much* more sense than Henderson. He’s on fire this season, and other than Kane there isn’t an England qualified striker in better goal scoring form. Whereas England are pretty stocked with younger talented midfielders.
I don’t think Clive was suggesting Mourinho invented it, I think he was actually making the same point as you, that teams are more organised now and Mourinho was a manager who showed with Inter that organisation alone could beat a much more talented Barcelona side.
Think a lot of our fans are taking Slavia and Brugge lightly. There’s a reason they’re in the Champions League and Sunderland needed the playoffs to get promoted. Not saying they’ll be easy to beat either, but I think a lot of our fans are too dismissive of clubs from “lesser” leagues.
The other way around for me. Take a draw against Sunderland knowing Liverpool and City play each other and someone (maybe even both) is dropping points. But if we lose tomorrow night, we likely have to beat Inter or Bayern or face an extra two games in February. Brugge away won’t be easy.
Absolutely, and like I said, he definitely had his daft moments. Just wanted to point out that his cards record can be misleading.
Nope. We’d be 6th or 7th without set pieces. They’d be 14th without Haaland.
Brugge have been brutal in this year’s competition too. They battered a Monaco side who drew with City.
Vieira got a lot of bogus cards, and players would deliberately target him to try and get him sent off or carded. He clearly had his moments of poor discipline but they were fewer than his number of cards would suggest.
I think it’s a valid question. Only Vieira comes to mind as having the complete game Rice does and there are things (set pieces) Rice does that Vieira didn’t (admittedly he played in a team with Dennis and Thierry so set pieces were covered).
Once again, some absolutely sublime writing by @amylawrence.bsky.social. Evocative, original, creative, facts seamlessly woven into a beautiful narrative (a much nicer use of that word too). Many of her colleagues could learn from her:

www.nytimes.com/athletic/676...
Arsenal don’t give a damn
“I think the first half was one of the best that we've played,” said Mikel Arteta of a display of dominant relentlessness
www.nytimes.com
I’m moving to Hertfordshire soon!
I mean…Alonso won 4-0…
Nobody plays us that way. They see what we do to teams who do. That’s why winning against blocks (even if it’s via set pieces) is such a big deal; it forces a rethink, bc if you’re gonna lose either way, why not at least try to play entertaining football while you do?
They do it deliberately.
6 and 7 points clear of our main rivals…seems like they need to rely on someone else more than we do. Even if they win their “6 pointers” against us, it’s still in our hands. Honestly, if we don’t do it, it won’t be because of another football club. It’ll be injuries and referee nonsense.
Stephen Merchant was always the talent. Karl Pilkington was also far more likeable and relatable and I think the pair of them made Gervais seem both funnier and less of a knob (like it was an act rather than his real personality). Ever since the trio drifted you’ve seen the real Ricky Gervais.
What I find most irritating is that it’s not that he can’t write better and more insightful stuff. It’s that he chooses not to and chooses to often take the easy way out. I think that as he’s become a more mainstream journalist, he’s succumbed to the same lazy stereotyping as the rest of them.
I have my moments.

But seriously, avoid his stuff like the plague. I believe he’s actually an Arsenal fan, but he’s never really liked Arteta, and I think it colours his writing.
*Looks at the article to see who wrote it*

*Realises it’s Michael Cox who hasn’t had an insightful tactical analysis since Mikel Arteta was still an active player*

*Immediately closes the article*
I mean, we’re 1 behind them but we’ve also played 3 of our hardest games with Anfield, SJP and OT out of the way. City at home too. So it’s not unreasonable to think we might.
I wouldn’t say he cost way less than some of those. Marmoush was £59m, Solanke £55m with £10m in add-ons. Gyokeres was £54.8m with £8.5m in add-ons. Close enough to both of those imho. The others were all a lot more though.
So we’re a little behind having let in 3. Thanks 👍
Alisson probably is the best GK in the league right now, but absolutely not the best the league has ever seen. Meanwhile no Odegaard, Madueke, Havertz, Jesus right now, and we’ve also spent time without Saka. We lost Saliba to injury *against* Liverpool.