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I think it might be fake fyi
May 11, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I think it might be fake fyi
Which ones? I count Newcastle away, Bournemouth away, West Ham at home. That's less dropped points than the weird refereeing decisions have impacted.
The point is, without the refereeing decisions, you can get away with a few shite performances. Liverpool certainly have.
The point is, without the refereeing decisions, you can get away with a few shite performances. Liverpool certainly have.
April 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Which ones? I count Newcastle away, Bournemouth away, West Ham at home. That's less dropped points than the weird refereeing decisions have impacted.
The point is, without the refereeing decisions, you can get away with a few shite performances. Liverpool certainly have.
The point is, without the refereeing decisions, you can get away with a few shite performances. Liverpool certainly have.
My point is specifically about the cluster of injuries. Having (almost) all of your players in one area of the pitch out injured is worse than the same number of injuries spread around the squad. Fwiw, Arsenal have also had Odegaard and Ben White out for months each and Tomiyasu has played 6 minutes
February 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My point is specifically about the cluster of injuries. Having (almost) all of your players in one area of the pitch out injured is worse than the same number of injuries spread around the squad. Fwiw, Arsenal have also had Odegaard and Ben White out for months each and Tomiyasu has played 6 minutes
This proves my point though? Jota out in the second half of the season and Salah out for 6 games in the middle is not the same as a first choice front 3 plus a sub all out at the same time?
February 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This proves my point though? Jota out in the second half of the season and Salah out for 6 games in the middle is not the same as a first choice front 3 plus a sub all out at the same time?
Can't say I recall City or Liverpool playing months without 4 first team attackers last season.
February 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Can't say I recall City or Liverpool playing months without 4 first team attackers last season.
"In the space of a few weeks, four Arsenal players – Reiss Nelson, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and Tomi – have undergone surgery. Kieran Tierney and Ben White have also been under the knife since the summer." - don't forget Saka!
February 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"In the space of a few weeks, four Arsenal players – Reiss Nelson, Kai Havertz, Gabriel Jesus and Tomi – have undergone surgery. Kieran Tierney and Ben White have also been under the knife since the summer." - don't forget Saka!
I'm not suggesting he tried to break his leg. That doesn't mean it wasn't his fault.
And on Delap; that's not the point - nobody boos Delap for getting injured.
And on Delap; that's not the point - nobody boos Delap for getting injured.
February 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I'm not suggesting he tried to break his leg. That doesn't mean it wasn't his fault.
And on Delap; that's not the point - nobody boos Delap for getting injured.
And on Delap; that's not the point - nobody boos Delap for getting injured.
That's splitting hairs and in any case he had every right to reject that apology. It was an awful tackle and he was a teenager.
Booing Shawcross for breaking someone's leg is very different to booing Ramsey for having his leg broken. Shawcross was not the victim.
Booing Shawcross for breaking someone's leg is very different to booing Ramsey for having his leg broken. Shawcross was not the victim.
February 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
That's splitting hairs and in any case he had every right to reject that apology. It was an awful tackle and he was a teenager.
Booing Shawcross for breaking someone's leg is very different to booing Ramsey for having his leg broken. Shawcross was not the victim.
Booing Shawcross for breaking someone's leg is very different to booing Ramsey for having his leg broken. Shawcross was not the victim.
I think it's kind of up to the Stoke fans to stop booing a player for having his leg broken?
February 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I think it's kind of up to the Stoke fans to stop booing a player for having his leg broken?
The image of MLS thumping his chest just afterwards is burned into my mind. Hoping for more of the same today
February 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The image of MLS thumping his chest just afterwards is burned into my mind. Hoping for more of the same today
While being pushed by Richarlison in fact?
February 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
While being pushed by Richarlison in fact?
The pattern being incorrect or controversial decisions, at a rate that is a significant outlier from the League average.
January 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The pattern being incorrect or controversial decisions, at a rate that is a significant outlier from the League average.
#arsecastextra do you think there is any way the club or Arteta can make it impossible for Oliver to referee our games in future? Bonus points for doing it without triggering the sort of PGMOL retribution we saw after the Newcastle "desgracia" incident...
January 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
#arsecastextra do you think there is any way the club or Arteta can make it impossible for Oliver to referee our games in future? Bonus points for doing it without triggering the sort of PGMOL retribution we saw after the Newcastle "desgracia" incident...
But if there is a consistent pattern to those mistakes then perhaps something should be done to address them?
January 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
But if there is a consistent pattern to those mistakes then perhaps something should be done to address them?
In a deliberate stamp, sure. Not in this case.
January 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
In a deliberate stamp, sure. Not in this case.
Arteta puts a lot of weight on xG metrics. Many of our poor results in recent years have come in games where we "won" heavily on xG and he often points to that in mitigation. Do you think this comes at the expense of the intangible factors that decide football matches? Is it all a bit too Moneyball?
January 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Arteta puts a lot of weight on xG metrics. Many of our poor results in recent years have come in games where we "won" heavily on xG and he often points to that in mitigation. Do you think this comes at the expense of the intangible factors that decide football matches? Is it all a bit too Moneyball?
Yeah I remember thinking it was odd how little was made of that back when he was struggling at Chelsea. There was a really pronounced difference in his game pre/post illness and it took him quite a while to recover. Hoping this is entirely unrelated!
January 6, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Yeah I remember thinking it was odd how little was made of that back when he was struggling at Chelsea. There was a really pronounced difference in his game pre/post illness and it took him quite a while to recover. Hoping this is entirely unrelated!
I've been trying to stay optimistic, hoping that the marginal moments might start to go our way, but it's increasingly looking like it would take an all-timer of a collapse from Liverpool for us (or anyone else) to catch them.
January 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I've been trying to stay optimistic, hoping that the marginal moments might start to go our way, but it's increasingly looking like it would take an all-timer of a collapse from Liverpool for us (or anyone else) to catch them.
Absolutely. And (although this is straying a long way into the counterfactual) I don't think Trossard gets sent off if Rice doesn't.
December 1, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Absolutely. And (although this is straying a long way into the counterfactual) I don't think Trossard gets sent off if Rice doesn't.
It's all outcome-based analysis. The only reason that anybody is tried to justify it is that it happened. There would not have been a peep about "getting away with it" if Rice wasn't sent off.
December 1, 2024 at 8:16 PM
It's all outcome-based analysis. The only reason that anybody is tried to justify it is that it happened. There would not have been a peep about "getting away with it" if Rice wasn't sent off.