Wrong side, goes to ground, catches the player.
Pen for any other side in world football.
Why does it have to be stonewall for us to get one?

Once he’s wrong side you’re pretty much done if you go to ground.

What LW upgrades are even out there for us?
Kvicha is obviously the dream but he’s isnt leaving PSG.
I’m just not convinced by Leao, Gordon or basically anyone Weve been linked to.

Some good players up there but the prices they’ll want from us for Tonali, Gordon or Livramento will be miles clear of what they’re worth.

Was only a matter of time before “selecting a winning team” became an issue.

Must be a sympathy vote. It’s a red and a pen

Meanwhile we’re still getting crucified for taking corners

Let’s not be too hasty Philippe.

Feels like the season finale tbh.

Pricing yourself out of a move, even to PSG seems a touch greedy.

This the guy who was at Monaco?

An even better analogy would be Tyson jacked on steroids or able to bring a baseball bat into the ring.

And rather than any sort of praise for even finding a semblance of a way to compete, you’re being critiqued on your fighting style and mocked for not finding a way to win.

From @theathleticfc.bsky.social analysis of Arsenal’s finances and more pertinently, comparison with that of ManCity!! The chasm in wage bill between the two is significant even now!! Kudos to the team and the manager to still compete with City year after year!!

It’s like trying to fight a prime Mike Tyson with one arm tied behind your back.
Then the smirking ringside journos writing sanctimonious think pieces slagging you off for losing on points after 12 rounds.

It’s all lost in the pointless net spend arguments but the correlation between wage spend & league position is always the most accurate marker for success.
The complete failure of almost everyone in the media and pundit class to acknowledge it is what makes the evaluation of Arteta so disingenuous.

Different rules for City here too is it?
What. A. Surprise.

All depends how Rice & Zubimendi hold up.
Any injury or big fatigue drop off there is the only thing that details us imo.

Remind me again who’s been responsible for the most 4 goals hammerings in the PL this season?

Still no word on Rodri I take it.
Prob just wait until the start of next season so it doesn’t hurt them in the run in I suppose

What are people expecting in a lower league away cup tie, in a swamp, while we rested the entire MF?
Professional job while getting some very young minutes for the academy.

Crazy, he’s another one who was basically never injured before we signed him.
Recovered from a bad one at 18 but fine since.
PL intensity is another level from anywhere else.

I’m sure that’ll prompt his usual rational, well balanced approach

Ironically anyhting they do on time wasting or corners is only going to help us further.

Between City and Abramovich’s Chelsea, it’s nearly two decades of the PL wasted because authorities didn’t have the balls to do anything

A couple of weeks moaning about Arsenal at corners and we might need a rule change.
Over a decade of financial doping at City.
Tumbleweed.

Really depends on fatigue. That Merino’s injury has really hurt us in terms of Rice / Zubimendi shouldering all the minutes.

I expect both teams to drop points in at least 2-3 games. The intensity of the PL and the schedule is absolutely brutal.

“Unstoppable Cobra” thwarted by admin.

Without the CL teams it’s a joke comp now.
Reckon Coventry would have a good crack if they were in it this season.

For years they laughed at our snapped legs and told us to toughen up.
They haven’t stopped publicly pissing their pants ever since we did.

A man whose tongue was also firmly lodged up Mourinho’s arse for playing a far worse brand of football.
As for City, amazing what a few quid can do to garner positive PR isn’t it.