Morning all.
The media clearly dislike Arsenal FC and will criticise the club at any given opportunity and they’ll lie, just because they think they can get away with it. The latest in the Mirror stinks of desperation, they want readers and they’ve lied in order to get them.
Chelsea had a packed stadium last night as they face Notts Forest in The League Cup they write, their fans right behind the team. Meanwhile, over at The Emirates, there were plenty of empty seats for our game against Doncaster.
Of course that means we fans don’t care but what they fail to appreciate is that Arsenal actually sold around 44,000 tickets, Chelsea sold around 41,000 so whatever kind of spin they like to put on the attendance, there were more fans in north London supporting their team than there was in the west of London. Oh, and I don’t recall seeing any scathing reports from the previous nights attendance at Wembley, do you? Yet didn’t only 23,000 fans turn up for that one?
Idiots!
Anyway, we won 1-0 thanks to a Theo Walcott first half goal. Far from the most convincing of victories I know but it was again one of those nights where Wenger threw a group of players together and seemed to just play them anywhere. We even ended up with a big striker in the centre of defence.
I didn’t watch the game but reading the reports this morning, it was the best. Doncaster turned up and gave it a go and they might have scored but for the woodwork but so might we have scored more but for the same. Ollie crashed an overhead kick into the crossbar. Had it gone in, it would have been talked about for a while apparently.
One surprise was seeing Alexis on the team sheet but I guess that was more about him getting his fitness levels up than much else. Unless that’s his reward for wanting out of the club. Who knows eh.
Jack Wilshere was the star of the night apparently. He played the entire game, looked after Reiss Nelson and earned the man of the match award. The downside was injuries as both Calum Chambers and Theo Walcott had to be replaced. How long they’ll be out for I don’t know.
Another home fixture was drawn for us later yesterday evening with Norwich being our opposition. The Championship side might be a bigger test than Doncaster but regards, a test one would expect us to pass with flying colours.
Come on Norwich, ‘let’s be ‘avin you…….’
Morning all.
Didn’t watch or listen to the game yesterday, went to the cinema and had “a night at the opera”. It’s not the same as the real thing, you know. Live entertainment usually has a distinct edge, turgid Arsenal excepted!
Saw the highlights on SSN at midnight. The only thing I learned from the limited display I saw was that Ashley M Niles is lightening quick and Theo knows how to finish, he can do little else but does have an eye for goal.
The mustard men next. Should be an easy win but, we’re talking Arsenal here where nothing is predictable and nothing guaranteed. Still a semi final place should be the pinnacle of our achievement, this year. Hurrah I say, with knobs on!
Miserable day here today, grey and distinctly autumnal.
Theo could have bagged a hat-trick Wavy…
Dead on here so I’m off, catch up later..
Morning all and thanks Rico.
I only saw the highlights too as I went out to play Ten Pin Bowling and discovered another game which Im` crap at, although it was most enjoyable, had the rails up down the sides, but even with that help was still crap at it, aparrantly I have great style and technigue, but my ain is shit ! hahaha………………………..had a go on the dodgems afterwards and that is where I excell…………my son now has a back ache from my pin point collisions !……….definately more exciting than the Arsenal highlights, although if Ollies overhead kick had gone in we would be talking about it forever !…………and why wasn`t he booked or sent off for his feet so high…..dangerous !…………..just being sarcy there ! hahaha
Morning Rico, good effort considering the apathy among us Gooners atm…
Morning All.
Girouds effort would’ve been a shoe in for goal of the season, but I’m pretty sure the keeper got a touch to it, so great save.
He hit it as clean as he possibly could.
Theo’s goal was pure brilliance.
The ball from Alexis was world class, and Theo’s first touch and finish were sublime.
Morning all 🙂
Yeah Rico, typical Press bias, trying to create a story from absolutely nothing.
As you wrote, what does the attendance at Wembley say about the hopes of the Spuds concerning selling out the New Slum every week?
No mention of that anywhere…
And what of Liverpool, the other darlings of the Press, not much written about their defeat despite the Scousers dominating, nor the underwhelming performance of Oxlade-Chamberlain?
Klopp, a specialist in failure perhaps?
But you won’t read that in the Mirror, or the Daily Andrex as it should be known.
Got me tickets for the Brighton game, should be a record EPL score to us, although I will be bricking it on the day !……………..if a bad day, I will at least be able to console myself with the knowledge that 6 pies and quadraple mash will be waiting for me at Kelly`s in Bethnal Green the next day !………………….I`ll take on all comers !……..loser pays !…………no apathy there ! hahaha
Cant seem to post it, but theres a good tweet and article on…She Wore a Yellow Ribbon @ 09:27 on newsnow………
Morning. Good post Rico, especially re the media.
That’s why fans need to stand up and be counted. We may not have the manager (or owner) that we all want, but it is what it is.
Things are looking ok atm. A draw away to Chavs, a win with our reserves against Donnie last night.
I agree with Sanchez being played, we are still paying him a lot of money every week. It won’t do him any harm to start on the bench now and then either.
News today says Pep is now interested in a swap for him in exchange for Sterling, so it may be back on again for three months time. Until then, we should play Sanchez IMO in every game.
Sterling could work out OK for us, if he feels wanted, plus he wants to live in London.
Pep and Napoleon look like the smug cats that got the cream. I’d like to see one of them take on a challenge with no money to spend, ie Crystal Palace or Birmingham, and actually earn their dosh.
For whatever reason we speculate about, Arsenal do not have unlimited cash reserves, so we have to accept that and take what good results our little Goonettes can hammer out against the moneybags.
If and when we do get a new manager, let’s hope he sweeps the place of the old hangers on, starts afresh, and is given a decent amount of money to spend. I can’t see it myself. Who would want to work under Stan the man?
Until then c’est la vie.
Rico, accepted the media likes to have a go at arsenal, but I genuinely think that it is our making. Compared to other top flight teams, we are always giving them something negative to write. I am not supporting outright lies as the one you highlighted but we (the management) recently have this body language of not caring whatever happens to the arsenal brand. Is it with the players contract mess? Or the unexplained acceptance by the board that to be regularly hammered 10-2, 8-2, 6-0, 4-0 etc is normal. What of the fact that we all know that Welbeck, Walcott, Coquelin are accidents waiting to happen. Or do I win any price by stating that Ramsey, Kolscieny, Wilshere, will soon join the treatment room. The point in all these, is that despite arsenal’s well known perennial problems, we make the same mistakes repeatedly that it annoys. Yes, if we the ardent fans feel like this, your guess is as good as mine what others will feel.
Post of the season, Meerkat.
Little point the article boasting that we have more fans than Chelsea or Spuds. You will be telling us next that grass is green. We are well aware of that. But our club is nowhere near as well run as those two others, or virtually all clubs in the Prem, with the possible exception of Palace, who change their manager like most change their socks. Nothing can seriously change for the better while Kroenke and Wenger remain and THAT is what you should be telling those of us -and incredibly, there are still some- WHO ACTUALLY REFUSE TO FACE THAT CLEAR TRUTH. While these harmful men remain, all else is just fiddling around the edges of what REALLY matters!
Jon, you’ve taken the post absolutely the wrong way.
The author is hardly a Wenger and Stan lover, yet has been fair minded enough to point out the fact that the media are blatantly biased against the club.
Obviously you’re not.
Yeah, the rumour concerning a Sanchez/Sterling swap has raised its head again.
I wouldn’t mind Sterling, he isn’t a patch on Alexis but he’s still a very good player, who Wenger has wanted since he was at QPR…
Maybe City are seeing the prospect of having Alexis snatched from their grasp in the summer as the motivation to tempt Arsenal with a player exchange in January?
ManUre and Real Madrid are sniffing around for a summer move and Sterling is very much a bit part player at the Etihad now, so it would benefit all concerned.
Wenger would/could also see it as a more cost-effective deal than €100m for Lemar?
It could of course just be lazy journalists rehashing an old story, yeah I know, hard to believe isn’t it…?
Rumours-it isn’t even in a transfer window yet they’re still about, hey Kev lol
Maybe as Gooners we should all (if it aint already happened) lower our expectations to what this team or any future team will achieve whilst Wenger and especially Kroenke are in charge .
I know a few on here think it will change for the better (?) when Wenger goes (and I am one of them as I think there are alot more better coaches out there), but at the end of the day we all know that the BIG money teams will always have the upper hand and that is a FACT since Chavs were formed in the early 2000s and the state wealth of Mansour City that followed ……………………………Wenger is short term , the long term evil is Kroenke !…………if as we fear he is in it for the long haul, then we will never see the days of Wengers first ten years again or for a very long time and we all deep down know this.
We really are trying to piss over the moon if we think it will be any different any season that comes, you could copy and paste any comment of the last few years again in god knows how many years and it will be the same, the only bright spark is if you like a good moan………..and dont we all…………….. then Arsenal is the club to be at !……………………..like any club below the two Mancs and Chavs we only have hope and are destined to be disappointed, the Big 3 dont have hope, they have expectations, taking out the Leicester anomaly, who have won the Title`s since 2004 ?…………………and who is confident that some other club can break that monopoly in the next same amount of years ?…………………………….MONEY is the power and it`s been said a thousand times………………………Kroenke has yet to put a SINGLE penny into the club…………..does any one think that ManC and Chavs would have won much if their owners had done the same ?………….not put a single penny into them clubs ?
God I cant wait for Wenger to go, but even if we got say Simeone, he would still be playing catch up !……………………yep give us Bourinho or Pep Piggy Bank, but they would also struggle without the funds to buy the very best !…………………………….we cant buy our way out of trouble or averageness………the Big 3 can !.
I shall write to Kroenke to see if he will invest in Launceston Ten Pin Bowling Club ………………..as I am shit at it and just the perfect match for his expectations as the club makes a profit !.
Why, thank you Scott. ?
Yeah the rumour mill never lets up. They say that RM were showing interest again the other day, but their superstars ( Christiano) said they don’t want Sanchez at the club. Talk about precious players laying down the law. Same with the new Paris Prince, demanding to take penalty shots, and wanting rid of anyone who dares to argue with him. Lol, what’s the game coming to??
I’m not convinced that the Citeh players would be too happy with Sanchez either. He will warm the bench most of the time IMO. However, like all of us, I won’t relish seeing him line up against us in his new colours. I wonder what reception he will get at the Ethiad?
Very true LCM, they don’t coach the players they have, they buy the finished article no expense spared. Yet they are idolised as Messiahs. Christ, I reckon any of us could do what they do, pay top dollar for coaches, scouts and players, then just delegate and stroll up and down the touchline taking the plaudits at matches.
All these managers and players talk different languages, gawd knows how they give team talks. That’s why they have to wave their arms about a lot, pointing and using sign language to those on the pitch.
I could do that, lol.???????⚽️ My dogs can’t speak English, but they understand me?? Go fetch the ball, stay, fetch it, give the ball to me, NOoooooo, yes. There.
Sorted.??
Hahaha……………Agree completely M`kat……………………………..I watched Pep Piggy Bank getting all agitated on the line against WBrom, his arms and hands were working overtime, but I bet the players took no notice……….too busy playing to look at the touch line !………………..hate to be a winger or WB, FB, youl`d get it in the ear from an irate coach on the line being the first in shouting distance !
My dogs only give me the ball back with the bribery of a bickie, like footballers …………………….easily bribed !
Afternoon Kev, all.
Jon, just for your info, I have absolutely no time for Wenger whatsoever. The bloke is destroying our club. Just behind him sits Kroenke who if he had a pair would have sacked the old Frenchman long ago, or certainly not renewed his contact.
My point is merely about the media and the way they twist stuff to suit their agenda.
I really don’t need to be told about the battering etc we’ve taken or the other stuff as like you, I’ve seen it…
I didn’t suggest we have more fans by the way, just more seats filled….
Oh, and another thing. I just don’t get why fans laugh at Pep etc for their touch line antics, not all the time we have a man about as good as a cardboard cutout in our dugout.
Still, I guess it’s easier to ridicule others rather than look at the bloody mess our club is in..
Thanks Scott re earlier, you were spot on, I hate them both ?
Oh dear, not the Pep shit again.
Yep. Seems so.
Must be a slow news day then Rico.
Isn’t it always Adam.
If referring to my Pep Piggy Bank comment, my actual aim (which is better than my Ten Pin Bowling aim) was that whoever the coach/manager on the touchline is, I dont think players have time to understand what all the flapping or arms and fingers are about, might as well sit down like a cardboard cut out for all it`s worth !……………..I only see a few seconds of Peps Piggy sign language and probably like the players had no idea what the fcuk he was trying to purvey !
If you`re on the pitch and have time to watch the hysterics on the sidelines then you`re probably not concentrating on the real stuff that matters on the pitch !………………..only time I ever looked at the manager was to tell them to sub a fcuking useless player and sometimes it was me !……………..”come on boss, take me off, I`m playing fcuking shit !” hahaha
Some on the line like Conte are kicking every ball like a mime artist !……………….hahaha
Might be shit, but it`s an opinion !…………and I thought saying someones opinion was rubbish was not good, but saying it is shit is OK ! hahaha
We have a new coach then, Jamie Cureton..
LC. I never read your comment.
I doubt it was about your comment Lc, just about the Pep thing in general.
True Rico. It’s been done to death on here.
Thanks for clearing that up, Adam, but if you did think my comment was shit it`s OK as it would only be an opinion that my comment was shit ! hahahaha
Rico,…….not that it may have been aimed at me, but I know exactly what shit ( only an opinion) our club is in,so better I let off some steam at ridiculing other teams management and players if I can as they are undoubtably the enemy at the end of the day and it`s undoubtably in any of our DNA to ridicule The Spuds……………I mean if we cant ridicule them we might as well give up ! 🙂
Envy Adam… 😉
Fair enough Lc but I guess I just think we have our own problems to worry about. Pep, Poch, Klopp etc etc all seem to have something which Wenger lacks…
LC. Pep seems to attract comment. Some pro, some anti. We all have our view of him. I used to see him often at the Emirates when there was talk he might succeed Wenger.
Also, it aint just about Mr Guardiola, I think a few on here are basically saying the other thing which is done to death, that whoever manages one of them Big 3 will probably win the league as it`s all about the money…….shit that`s been done to death as well probably, then again which subject on our failing club has not been done to death ?……………………and although I know you wont like it, but it`s a satirical thing………….the only thing I want done to death is …………………….it begins with a …….K……..can you guess ?
😆
It is about the money, but only up to a point, otherwise the Galacticos would have cleaned up.
I think it was a little while back, Adam, that it came out that Guardiola wanted to come to Arsenal and was lined up, but Wenger signed another contract !………….yes, I would have welcomed him, but I would welcome anyone at the moment !
Would you welcome Mourinho LC?
Whats to worry about ?………we`re on a roll, we won last night !………….there`s no denying what a great club Donny Belles used to be !……….a big scalp historically !
Absolutely, Adam……….dont know like a lot of the others big spenders whether he could make it at Arsenal, but we need change !………………dont suppose he had the most money at Porto or Inter, but still delivered, so out of the so called top managers, he has done it at lesser clubs so called clubs .
I’d welcome anyone too right now Lc, just to give control back to the board…
It wont happen, but I think Mourinho would get he`s biggest hardon if he came to Arsenal and made them win the EPL or CL where Wenger has failed !…………it would be the most intersting appointment to say the least. hahaha
I reckon Mourinho is jealous of everything to do with Arsenal. Yep, I also reckon it’s the job he craves for….
As an amusing sort of fantasy,?…………………………….which blogger would you like to be Arsenal`s manager ?…………………………..I must say I always find Goonsters posts quite hyperactive and frenetic………….could he translate that at a press conferance ? hahaha
Rico………………..It would be the ultimate “get one over Wenger” for him if he managed us to CL glory…………….I`m sure he fantasize`s about it !
🙂
I’d have to go for Lee myself. His player assessments over dinner are unforgettable. Kev will agree I reckon.
Afternoon all,
Forest fans took over the pubs in Earls Court judging by the singing reverberating around the streets pre game & the amount of horse shit on the streets this morning.
Didn’t get up to The Arse last night, was totally knackered after playing the tourist that day!
rico
If The Arsenal is the elephant in the room, Tottenham is the pimple on its Arse? Pluck the media!!!
I agree Adam, Lee for me too. You and Kev as his coaches and Wath as assistant manager…
I’m sure he would Lc. But the thing is, he’d probably win it…
I’d have to have you coaching defence Rico. ?
Lee’s verbal performance as some geezer toiled over a mangal will live with me forever Adam. It was a night to savour.
Comes across that Gnarley doesn`t want to go back to Launceston !……………………he`ll be deported after the first bad result, untill then he can stay ! 😆
🙂 Gg…
Really Adam? 😉
Definitely Rico. You don’t take any crap from anyone. ?
Good point Adam… 😉
Typical Walcott,scores a good goal then disappears.We have now beaten consequently the bottom side in the PL at the time in Bournemouth, The bottom side in The Bundesliga in Koln and the nineteenth side in Division 1 who haven’t won in 7 games before last night with an admirable draw against Chelseaa sandwiched between, which was a good performance and in fact unlucky not to win. All three other games despite the scoreline we were very very poor.our so called second team is weak and none of the youngsters looked impressive.How we can play in 4 competitions with this squad is impossible.AW has to prioritise surely. The team is hardly reconisible as The Arsenal.Very worrying and that’s being realistic.
Sorry but i am not impressed at all.
I’ve missed your positivity Kelsey… 😉
But you’re right..
I’m off guys. Have a good week and be nice to Wath.
Night all…
Sorry Rico but it isn’t getting better.I alwats say I am a realist and as a business model our club stinks,not the club we once knew,
Sure contract negotiations can be protracted and agents can goad players to where they earn the most but I know Martin you are very liberal in your views but we are just not running the club as a challenging club for honours and we already know Sanchez and Ozil who I openly admit when on song are a class above others are going.Lacazwtte has a huge burden on his shoulders and Giroud ,is he really happy to be playing a cameo roll when in the Summer he was strongly linked with a move away.I have said it many times the essence of a good team is a good hard no nonsense defence that play for each other,not the odd one or two players who generally are consistant but spend a lot of the game covering for others.Why doesn’t AW see that.our style leaves us to be cut open on the counter attack practically every game, regardless who we play.
rico, don’t get me wrong, I like Wath but when are you back, me Mum had to wait 9 months for me , hopefully it won’t be that long ! Nite matey.
Don’t worry Micko am sure you drove ya Mum mad for 9 months… you only gotta wait for 5 for Rico 2 return….. Now go to bed, you know you need ya beauty sleep..!
Assistant manager to Lee, fuck that… I ain’t ducking the flying hairdryers..! I’ll be stadium manager…. that could be lots of fun.
LCM, 2.34pm.
LOL, yeah my dogs are always up for a bit of bribery and corruption. I’ve been out all afternoon teaching them some more English.
The only thing is, they’re not all that at Charades, they keep falling over when gesticulating with their front paws.
I just can’t see le prof scampering around, blowing a fuse and playing ‘Charades’, he’d look like John Cleese on crack.
The French are so laid back and reserved compared to these hotheaded Latin types. Mind you, Wenger did clip Napoleon around the ear. Hahahaha.
I don’t think he would want to manage Arsenal, Manure has always been his ambition. He thought he was Fergie’s natural heir and was gutted when David Moyes took over. Second choice then, back to Chelsea.
When LVG was stuttering, the self-styled ‘special one’ left Chelsea, and waited in the wings.
The little Portuguese may have proved himself managing a couple of clubs back home, but he surely couldn’t do it in the EPL, or the lower leagues in the UK, without loadsa money?
Morning Rico and All
Watched the game live TV stream
Jack run the the first half kept going
second half.
Reiss not in the game learning how
to chase for this one.
Sanchez great ball for the goal.
I love Sanchez..but his nut is
somewhere else.
Arsene should have sold him,
big mistake.
You can’t compare the chavs and spuds
with us.
When it comes to a big un..we come out
in force…..Just ask the old boys on here.
Fred, just ask the old boys… you obviously referring to Grandad Kev then with that comment. I did smile at the nice little draw that W/ham got in the next round of that silly little cup…! could be rather festive that one..!
Reiss learning the game is one thing Fred but the continuous use of players out of position “to learn” is pathetic, isn’t that was youth games and the like are for so they learn..? when a young player comes into the first team play them in their best position for christ sake otherwise we have seen time and again they have a poor gate get slaughtered by the media and the fans confidence shot to pieces and takes them months to recover all because Froggy wanted them to learn a new position. Does my head in..!
Morning All
Morning Wath, yeah 63,000 at Highbury is a bit different from 59,000 at the Emirates, football lost itself when it lost the terraces.
I can’t see the Scum selling out their sparkling new stadium every home game, unless they go down the tried and tested Arsenal route of announcing tickets sold as opposed to the true attendance. It’s all smoke and mirrors.
Also depends on safe standing Kev and if they do tens of thousands of “cheap seats” just to get bums into the place although then again they are all bums eh…!
It seems that Wenger has set Jack Wilshere a kind of ultimatum, in that he has to stay fit to earn a new contract.
I guess on the surface that that makes a lot of sense, why offer a player a new deal if he is likely to spend more that half of it unavailable?
The problem I have though, is that this scenario was never the case with Abou Diaby, no sir, his French protege always had his contract renewed and he was injured a darn sight more often than even Jack, if that’s possible…
A fit Diaby and a fit Wilshere would have been outstanding, but unfortunately for us and Arsenal that never was the case.
One answer would be a pay as you play contract, but no player at 25, is going to sign one of those. And I dare say that Jack and his representatives will be looking for a hefty pay increase, even if there is no logic for such an increase. The days of earning an increase in football through your efforts and performances on the field are long gone.
I haven’t a problem with Wengers stance over Jack, even though I’d like him to stay, but it’s the double standards.
Anyway I’ve got a nice cup of Yorkshire tea to bench press.
Wath, I’d love to see safe standing at the Emirates, tbh where I ‘sit’ in the ‘singing section’ (PR crap) we all stand anyway and it does create an atmosphere of sorts, but terracing is the answer to the lack of support in the ground.
Morning all.
Kev, there were plenty around at times ready to tell us Diaby spent his time in the medical room while receiving no pay at all.
Can anyone confirm whether or not this was true?
I think he was paid Scott, as per his contract, but when he was offered a ‘pay as you play’ contract in 2015, he didn’t accept it and left.
He has had a similar injury plagued time at Marseille, so they’ve let him go too.
Scott, I think you’ll find many of the past comments regarding Diaby were ironic and not factual.
It was tragic what happened to him and also let’s not forget Rosicky who also spent an inordinate amount of his time at Arsenal in the physics room.
All I’m saying is that it was never an issue for Wenger to renew the contracts of Abou and Tomas, but for Jack it seems a bit of a big deal.
Haven’t Marseilles released Diaby from his contract Meerkat?
Maybe he’s just finally learned from his errors-it’s taken a while 🙂
Ah yes Meerkat, I see you’ve mentioned that, that’ll teach me to read more thoroughly.
Wenger and learning from his mistakes is a bit of a stretch Scott.
Favouritism is more than likely the reason.
Also the fact that a Jack choose to join Bournemouth last season.
Funny that under Howe that he managed to avoid the kind of soft tissue injuries that were so much a part of his Arsenal career.
Arsene maybe had his nose put out of joint?
Kev, we can’t blame Wenger for the medical staffs problems.
We know he does listen to them, contrary to popular belief lol
Remember Ox being taken off a few years ago when we lost to Utd 2-1, and Ox was our best player?
The old “you don’t know what you’re doing” chant had a run out…..
Months later, the chief medical officer stated in an interview that he’d told Wenger to not give the kid more than an hour or so, and that’s exactly what he did, yet the “knowing” masses abused and criticise Arsene when all he did was followed the advice on offer.
Well Scott I’ve heard different, what I heard is if AOC had been left on to complete the game then Arsenal were liable to pay Southampton a few million in add ons etc.
You pays your money, you takes your choice.
But I do recall Arsene using both AOC and Theo in a League Cup tie at Sheffield Weds on a cold winters evening a few seasons back. Theo hadn’t warmed up properly and wax sent on where by he pulled a muscle and was out for about 6 weeks. AOC also injured himself, another soft tissue injury, in a pointless cup game we lost.
Welbeck is out for at least a month, maybe more, but Arsene still risked Giroud and Alexis in a League Cup tie this week. As it is Walcott picked up an injury as did Chambers, unfortunate I know but why not use Akpom?
Kev, I saw the guy say it, so all I can do is take it as read.
We all know Wenger makes some very strange calls, but I can’t see how he’d ignore medical advice, and if he does, how the club would keep him employed.
Wath go back to Fab,he played him
on the wing.
Arsene reckons it’s education for young
players,for some maybe,it has to go right
from the off.otherwise the confidence is
lost.
Kev It’s for all to see injuries to players
we will only know to what extent when
Arsene moves on.
We are a listed company,yet we can turn
down 60 million for a player,then give him
away for free.
What loophole is that.
Why he risked both Giroud and Alexis is beyond me, Kev lol
That was another clanger.
I just everyone’s favourite German, Herr Klopp, interviews and the pressure is clearly showing.
Long may that continue 🙂 🙂
Akpom? The old man from Alsace just doesn’t think he’s good enough and won’t give him playing time unless he’s absolutely got no alternative. Nketiah. Is far too young so he won’t be played either!
New post up
Both Sanchez and Giroud need to be match fit, so need full games if they are to be any use to the first team. Perhaps that is why he played them both. No doubt it was a decision reached by consensus with the players and the physio.
No excuses then if they let the side down when played in EPL games. He can’t come out after a loss and say it was because they lacked playing time.
Decisions, decisions! Who’d be a manager eh? You’d never please everyone, unless you won (convincingly) every game.
Kev, I see you’ve had an early Xmas present. TfL have withdrawn Uber’s licence. They, apparently aren’t ‘fit for purpose’ too many inside cab assaults!
And good riddance.
The crrowd of course were not privvy to the conversation and it would appear neither were the players.All we and the then captain saw was the best player we had performing that night being removed when we had them under pressure. So does that mean that tactics are premeditated or just done on the hoof ?