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If she is, she's right. Pope looked like shit and Dubravka, who I still have not fully warmed back up to after his sojourn at Man U, has done nothing to deserve being dropped. You could feel the crowd's nervousness every time Pope took a touch, it's not like other teams will have failed to notice that.

Wilson was absolutely wretched, couldn't hold the ball up, looked softer than a muffin. Of course he hardly distinguished himself in awfulness, that entire half was truly diabolical. We've well and truly escaped.

Brilliant goalline clearance by Elanga there.

Better than Sturridge ever could've dreamt of being.

As if Kane would swap Bayern for Arsenal, not to mention that he's finished and would quickly get found out again in a team like Arsenal where his side wouldn't enjoy total domination of 90% of matches. I'm sure he'd be good for scoring penalties against Southampton though. They'll end up with Kluivert or someone of that quality.

Not a side we should fear in that draw.

Wretched display, not helped by horrible officiating. Of course, had Willock scored the sitter at 1-1, or either of the Isak/Tonali efforts gone in, this would've been a very different result.

Pereira should now be off, yellow on Gordon had it been given correctly, yellow here. One of the dirtiest cloggers in the PL.

Setting aside the fact that that was never a FK and was in fact a foul and booking for Pereira's challenge on Gordon, the marking there was literally nonexistent. Horrendous.

60m for Watkins, no thanks. Villa should be asking for something closer to 100m. Arsenal are over a barrel and everyone knows it, thanks to their friends in the media incessantly banging on about their striker problem.

Flagrant red shirt rule at play. Hembarrassing.

Lush all around, brilliant goal, and the shot from Isak directly before it as well.

Penalty in real time, replay shows it as well, commentators are absolutely in fucking cloud cuckoo land.

Yawn. Ever since the big-headed wanker gave us the "here we go!" on Joao Pedro I've had no time at all for him or his prattle.

The sun still came up yesterday, and on inauguration day 2029 the sun will rise that morning as well. We've survived worse than this tinpot dictator and his kleptocrat buddies. It's not like America hasn't been an isolationist corporate hellhole before. That was the entire post-Civil War period. Sure, it took us a worldwide depression and two world wars to fully snap us out of it, but we've been here before and recovered. The pendulum will come back around, as it always does. In the meantime, we just have to do as much as we can to minimize the damage. Stop buying from Amazon, stop engaging with any social media, stop paying for subscriptions to the Times or the Post, resist anything that originates from the people who are responsible for this situation. Many public interest organizations will be fighting tooth and nail against every executive order issued - donate to them, or volunteer with them (if you are in the USA.) Above all don't lose hope and accept this as "the new normal." They only beat us when we think we're beaten, when we think there's no alternative to Republican domination of the country based on tiny majorities in a handful of states that have been gerrymandered to fuck and beyond. There is. Labour's victory shows that a pernicious, media-controlling regime of thieves and charlatans can be overturned. We can do it. We will do it.

To me every time it reads "Get the fuck outta here," especially with the facial expression that goes with it. I've been in New York too long.

Sometime when you really want to boggle your mind, look at the astonishing list of ABSOLUTE FUCKING DIRGE that we signed under Ashley, and the fees we paid for them, and think about how much whinging he did about not being able to wipe our own noses or whatever the fuck it was. The extent of the no-namers that briefly wore our colours really has to be seen to be believed. We spaffed a hundred million pounds on pure dogshit trying to find bargains from France and Belgium because we once lucked into signing Cheick Tiote for 4m and wanted to replicate that twenty more times.

Matty Pattison made 10 league appearances for us - ugh. I'll throw Hendrick in there too as he was fucking awful and a classic Ashley signing. Siem de Jong, Henri Saivet the mystery man, Kenedy (second spell), Thauvin and Cabella...the list goes on. Geremi I actually consider better than several of those, at least at the start of his time with us.

Meanwhile, yet another article on Sky Sports about how he would be the perfect solution to Arsenal's striker problem.

Shola at Hartlepool, 2012. I remember very little of the match, but I definitely do recall a delightful little bairn on his dad’s shoulders loudly insisting “the referee’s a seal!” and giving the Vs throughout the game.

Plenty of pink seats on display too, can’t imagine why. It’s almost as if Arsenal are actually not a good team and have been riding the general shitness of the other “top” teams and living off the red shirt rule. Or maybe they just go off the boil every time they play us because the Saudis have paid them off. :shrug:

Of course it is, but they couldn't give it quickly enough. If that had been given to us they'd be at the fucking monitor for three minutes debating angles and intent.

The best team in the cosmos have somehow struggled to make much of an impact so far. Wonder why the greatest African ever to live, pipping #2 Nelson Mandela and #3 Mansa Musa to the title, has done exactly nowt. Maybe the bald Dutch genius Arne Slot, the heroic tactician and heir to Clough, can figure out why his side can't win a header against a 5'5" centre half.

Shitting it throughout the second half. Some credit has to go to Amorim for identifying the problem and immediately remedying it, but the damage was done (and it was his own barmy idea to select Casemiro and Eriksen in midfield against Bruno, Joelinton and Tonali - anyone could've seen how that was about to proceed.) But we've done it again. 3 points off 4th, 5 off 2nd, Eddie Howe's black and white army!