I am not really a fan of Mikel’s animated behaviour at the touchline. Arsene Wenger ruined us all with his perfect fit suits and the red tie, and used to be the calm and composed figure on the touchline. Arteta on the other hand, is totally opposite to that. Micromanagement often ends with the shouting on the touchline and trying to control every aspect of the game from the manager box.
At times, it’s frustrating to watch that but it wasn’t last night. You know why? Because Klopp isn’t a messiah and he has done the same to us at Anfield. You get what you deserve.
Does this look familiar?
I am sure Jamie Carraghar loved it when we lost at Anfield and Klopp did it for 15 minutes. Though, he is having a mental breakdown on Twitter now because Arteta did the same and because Martin Odegaard, a 25 year old decided to click a picture of a staff who has supported the club before he was born. After a WIN. At HOME. As a COURTESY.
So, yeah. Both Jamie and Klopp can fuck off because what goes around comes around.
Right, just wanted to get that off my chest first. If you want to have a laugh, don’t forget to check you know who on Twitter.
3-1 against Liverpool is always a thing to celebrate. Even after a loss, they still top the table so it’s not like we are beating a 11th position Chelsea (lol).
The first half was our usual self. We started well, scored one and then missed a few. A messy own goal made it 1-1 and some of us thought it’s going to be the same old story where we are going to regret the missed chances and the goal we gave. However, Martinelli forced an error out of VVD and Alisson and Trossard came from the bench to score another one.
Win keeps us in the title race. City has played 2 less games and of course they will make life tough for everyone else. There’s going to be 15 very important weeks for our lads, and there will be slip ups. Aston Villa / Tottenham are going to create problem, Man United is picking up their form, West Ham / Brighton can win against any opposition on their day.
The winner is going to be decided by ‘who manages the least fuck ups’.
Thanks once again for the kind words Tony…have a good one bud
Real Life disaster is averted, back to some shooting the breeze about Six Nations and Arsenal.
Six Nations, what a fabulous start and also watched the episodes of the Netflix series Six Nations – Full Contact when they filmed the 2023 tournament. At present the cameras are filming the 2024 Six Nations and hopefully there will be a Full Contact Season 2.
Arsenal is in a good position but could have been much better had Galaxy Brain not dropped 11 points from 15 in the run after X-Mas. I am still mightily upset about the players we brought in over the last 4 TWs. Rice is fantastic and we will see what happens to Timber after he is fit. Trossard is also a decent addition but with multiple competitions I can only hope that the duds our manager in training has brought in get shifted quickly.
Everyone marvels at the squad City has, we could have had a much better squad if there would be somebody at the club that can identify talent. City buys this top talents early on, loans them out and then puts them in their squad. Now every marvels at there bench filled with talent that would make the starting XI of most clubs. The amount of money that Artedu spent on Goal Keepers is just one area that supports the fact we have no talent spotting personnel.
Looks like le-arteta.co.uk is going the subscription route, glad I am here with some expats.
Killroy – just checked the above and yes – full blown subscription. Now readers have to pay to be insulted -mugs.
Killroy
Good to have you back mate. Hope things are on the up.
Not sure what the weekend’s rugby told us. Italy going to be slightly better? Competing with Wales not to finish 6th? England not as far forward as their client press imagined? I guess the strongest certainty revolves around Ireland’s GS credentials.
I think Arsenal-wise, the general mood on here is one of very guarded optimism following the miracles on Sunday, the main reason for which was the mess created by VVD and the GK. I’m not naive enough to think Alpha-tross would have scored were we not already in front.
There you go mate – back up to date with my jaundiced view of things.
Paying to read Le Grove? Nah, I think not…
Kilroy, good to see you and the 6 Nations should add to some decent sport. Brave move by Pedro. He should have done it at the height of the AKB vs WOBs I think we all would have laughed up to keep writing back then.
Now? I rarely go there and it’s lost all it’s good contributors. Hopefully, more will migrate here and make the wring easier to keep the content fun and interesting. Far less rambles from me.
KP, Alpha-Tross, one of your best mate, really laughing at that one – thanks.
@KP
Six Nations been absolutely fantastic. Round 1 results to my liking with IRE and SCO winning except the Scots should have gone for a try BP. Round 2 again for me 2 tests to watch FRA v SCO and ENG v WAL.
Here is an excerpt from a Telegraph article regarding Netflix’s Full Contact series.
“Six Nations’ Netflix hopes receive huge boost as series one proves a ratings hit.
Exclusive: Viewing figures in the UK, Ireland and France raise hopes a second season of the fly-on-the-wall documentary will be commissioned”
“Although Formula One’s equivalent, Drive to Survive – which was made by the same production company and the same executive producer, James Gay-Rees – has developed into the gold standard for sports documentaries, commanding nearly seven million UK viewers since its inception, it is understood that it took four series to match last week’s ratings of Six Nations: Full Contact.”
That’s it for me, until we can dick around again with the mismanagement of our Arsenal football club. We need a change to develop a squad that challenges City by smart scouting and investing. But most important we need to get rid of Pep’s cone boy.
Good to have you back and sounding off once again Killroy…as to your last comment regarding our organizational squad development model, I agree wholeheartedly…since our move, we’ve been more Ajax/Dortmund than City/PSG, due in large part to our hesitancy to spend, yet we never fully embraced a similar academy/recruitment model…I thought that might have changed once Diamond Eye came on board, but once the grifter Raul won the day, I knew that was off the table…even when our MIT was subsequently hired, following the emergence of Saka, Marts and ESR, I figured they might have reinvented our structural wheel, by using them as a means to attract the next generation of blue chippers, but not a single academy-developed piece has ever cracked the senior lineup as of yet…thus the chequebook managerial tag…Cheers
on a side note, the whole LeGrove subscription model gig is the functional equivalent of going down the street to use a pay toilet at a gas station even though you reside in a 12 bathroom mansion…that clown will do just about anything to line his own pockets
TRVL
Your comment about using a toilet down the road reminded me of a sketch by Bird & Fortune at a Secret Police mans Ball.
LG – Pedro thinks he is better than he really is. He probably spends most of day in front of a mirror.
Another sign that we have a brain dead talent spotting and transfer crew. Savinho Brazilian starlet about to be signed by City for 30mil. Where were our scouts and wheeler and dealers plus Edu? Instead they put money on Viera who is useless and helped Chelsea with the PSR financial issues by signing what they perceived to be Kai Bergkamp.
When Arteta was a mere coach Edu had more responsibility and made some OK signings such as Gabriel and Partey. Now galaxy brain is involved and the duds continue to walk in through the revolving door.
Arteta may have been licking Raul’s arse at the time but to agree to Cedric, Willian and re-signing of two trouble makers should have been sackable.
I wonder what Stan thinks about his decision to give Josh more power.
Fucking Villa look like an Irish Pub team with no clue what to do on the pitch, no urgency, giving the ball away at will and are shambolic to the max. A very frustrating game to watch and here I pay for ESPN+ to watch such a shitty match.
Norg—if Pedro were a porn star he would kick the fluffer out of the room and instead ask for a full length mirror and Jergens bottle…I guess i better be careful with my words or he might try to excommunicate me from this blog too
Marquinhos another failed signing by Edu is going back to Brazil. You can’t make this shit up with all the failed signings that are at best average but more likely poor.
Any thoughts on this lads?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13061707/Football-set-hand-referees-BLUE-CARD-new-colour-card-widely-used-50-years-revolutionary-new-rules.html
Refs will soon need to carry a brief case for their cards. Perhaps the players can be instructed to wear a barcoded tag and the refs can scan them.
Also it opens the way for more corruption and match fixing. I am all for more automatic or semi automatic decisions like the offside rule. In the EPL you need a ball that has the electronics in it. Seria A has the Adidas ball which does have the tech. The EPL uses the Nike ball which does not have the tech, therefore we wait eons of time to draw the lines to come up with a decision.
Respect is earned and the refs are doing their best to not earn it. Why did no one dare to confront Collina, because he had earned the respect of the players. Why do rugby players respect the decisions of the refs? If not, their team will be disadvantaged by marching the ball 10 yards closer to the try line or sit in the sin bin. The refs in rugby are not surrounded by players like in the EPL, the captain does the talking because they know better. It is a football player thingy.
Killroy-until the PL is willing to have a honest conversation about the state of VAR and the reasons why they chose to pursue a different course than other footballing/sports leagues, they will never get things right…it would be different if those other plans had failed in a somewhat similar manner, but it’s clear that the PL has adopted the most divisive video review format of any sport I can thnk of, so it begs the question, why??? to continue down this path, regardless of any proposed minor changes, will simply lead people to conclude, rightly or wrongly, that something nefarious is going on behind the scenes