3 minus 2

Loved this comment

'important we pick up 3 points from these low end of the division teams'

????

2.0 to the Tottenham 2.0

2 nil to the tottenham 2.0....

Oh wouldn't it be sweet to bang a few more ki In the second half...

Woops meant to post this at half time... 70 mins and no change plenty of arsenal possession.  Only one save from Hugo.. says it all really ..

5 hours ago, balo said:

Will be a tough derby for sure,  Arsenal with some confidence after last night. 
 

But this season they have a tendency to follow their Europa lge triumphs with a <deleted> prem displays...

Hart to start? ... NOT the best news I've had recently.????https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/dec/04/joe-hart-in-line-for-spurs-league-debut-against-arsenal-in-place-of-hugo-lloris

Toby back in training.. but probably to early for him to start... HOWEVER. Good to end on a positive.....

9 hours ago, Kadilo said:

Fortunate to get a point. Hart showed why he has not got a regular slot at top level. Makes some decent stops then blunders on the basics. 

Think that applies to nearly ALL of our fringe player's.. good then have brain fog/ lapses.. And imo it doesn't help playing players  'out of position' I know the theory But I still don't see ANY of the supposed benefits of playing lucus who'se a right footed winger on the left and bale whose left footed and a left winger on the right.. it just doesn't work well..

Got the result/point that was needed .. ..

NONE of the fringe players did their prospects.of starting at the weekend any good..  

All round POOR performance..

Next up THE big one ...

Hopefully the team will step up a level.. I'm sure they will.

Half time and a pen with the last kick of half, bale has drawn us level.1-1  not that we ANYWHERE near deserve it ... .. poor all around ..  can't think a battle we won... Outplayed EVERYWHERE.. son needs to come of.. Ali will give it a better shape... Bale continues to disappoint down the RHS and lucus playin down the left struggles... <deleted> Jose!!!

6 hours ago, balo said:

Have to say Rodon did a great job last night, first game and looked like he could not do anything wrong. 

Yeah.. thought he looked the part, jumped ahead of Sanchez in the peckin order... Shame  Sanchez is a crackin player but he has his lapses and EVERY game he screws up..got away with it under poch.. but NOT under Jose Toby put his early season stutters away and was playin really well,. So rodon will  have a way to go to displace him...BUT he's got the shirt atm.  So who knows  ... rodon was a Bit lucky that giroud didnt punish the weak header bac to Hugo.... Still.... He got away with one on his  full debut.. terrible thing..

On 11/27/2020 at 9:19 PM, Jack Hna said:

Looking on this. 

And now your 50%wrong ????... With plenty to go..

9 hours ago, jellydog said:

I remember Peter Cech had a fractured skull. I don't remember if he had surgery. Best of luck for Raul!

He reckoned the injury  changed him and felt he was never quite the same again..

20 minutes ago, wilai said:

I think that honour still belongs to The Artillery Ground.....Owned by The Honourable Artillery Company. Situated in The City of London near Moorgate/Finsbury Square. I played there a few times. Nice place.

Mate.. some of the 'roughest' council estates I've seen are in South West London hidden under the guise of them being 'wealthy boroughs '... And trust me when I say I saw more than my fair share when Thatcher did her best to cane social housing.brixton thamesmead hackney were true horrors..but hey .. I presume I'm talkin to a 'scouser'.. with little Lebanon in tow...

38 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

 

  Its more of a West Ham/ Millwall/ Charlton kind of thing .

"Chavs" from the Kings road Chelsea , playing on the Worlds most expensive (real estate  terms ) football pitch ?

Chavs,  it ain't a geographical or economic thing,   It's more a statement on behaviour.. and Chelsea fans 100%  fit the bill..

21 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

 

   Everyone knows that Chavs are from East London .

Chelsea are South-West London, the posh/rich part 

EVERYONE knows chelsea fans are chavs... Except Chelsea fans ????

 Promised to be testing and that it was ... GOOD SOLID defensive display .. well drilled. And well executed ...  not many will reduce the chavs to so few chances from so much possession.   Asked b4 the game would I have take a draw and a clean sheet.. then 'yeah' defo... However a little more composure in front of goal from bergy  and from lo celso in added time.. we were 3 on one!!!! ... And we could have nicked it.. sayin that I would have banked on giroud  chipping Hugo with the chance he was offered. 

One thing we can take... The players are REALLY buying into Jose's system.. according to him, he reckons the dressing rooms <deleted> that they didn't win...  GOOD SIGNS

Half time plus 3 ... And Abraham's misss 2  decent chance/ X's ...thankin giroud ain't on.. from a neutral as u could be.. i'de say the pendulum is gonna fall spurs. Way  on the break...but hey it's footie ... So anything can happen

3 hours ago, wilai said:

Yep; I heard Rodon is in instead of Sanchez. Don't know whether it is injury or form related.

Doesn't surprise me,  Sanchez has  f...'d up...2 many times...And aurier instead of Doherty... No surprise either. He deserved it 4 the display v city .. he gives a GOOD attackin option .plus sissoko has stepped  His defensive coverin  for aurier up a notch .. so it sort of works reasonably well.  sayin that aurier IS prone to convention lapses  so watch this space!!!.

On 11/27/2020 at 9:19 PM, Jack Hna said:

Looking on this. 

Which makes you  over a third of the way to being wrong ????..

3 hours ago, RonniePickering22 said:

I can't guess the team at all beyond Sonny Kane Hojbjerg and Ndomitable.

 

Anyone?

Hugo.  Diet and Sanchez  sissoko  think he'll go Doherty  and regilion. And bergy up front ish.   Think he'll give Ali a shout on the bench. Wouldn't surprise me if he didn't give the Welsh kid a game over Sanchez.  anyone else but Chelsea   think he would   but we'll c

4 hours ago, RickG16 said:

That's fine, but millions around the world do think he's a hero. Let them remember him in that way.

 

If you disagree fine, you've had years to do that. The days after someone passed is the time to button it.

 

Just the fact you call it "UK football" suggests to me you come from a country which doesn't understand football culture the same way that we do in Europe or South America. That's fine, but you should recognise it and allow people to remember a footballing hero.

What that man said

4.0 at a canter.... Don't think Hart touched the ball until the second half.. .It was so one sided and the Bulgarians were out of their depth v hard to say anyone's performance warranted a recall to the starting 11.. in fact,  for many itn highlighted why they don't start.. Bale has lost SO much pace,  but he actually went passed their lb,  3 maybe 4 times and had to bring it bac onto his left...which made his spacial gain redundant and  looked clumsy and the X's were <deleted>.. and then we had our right sided attacking player on the lhs  lucus , he's a little gracefully two footed ... but <deleted> Jose play bale on the left and lucus on the right...the pundits raved about Ali and he looked great .. and in the oppnants half, he is,  around their box.. he's amazing, a class act.. wherehe ain't so great is in the center of the park and in and around our defence .. which under Jose's system he'd need to do and last night wasn't called to do. .... or the other option is for him to play up front and that'll mean displacing son. Anyways it was a good run out for the fringers, and a couple of youngsters made their debuts .... On to the chavs... Who.. I reckon, next to Liverpool, are the most likely challengers for the title.. and traditionally we don't do well against.. like the city game .. the first goal is gonna be crucial...

Weird.. but bale"s starting for the second 11 tonight.

I saw him Inn in a testimonial at White Hart lane l.. cant rememberr if it was Glenn hoddles or Stevie Perry man ...even so,  out of all the great players I've see,  greaves law Gaza  hoddle romario  Ronaldinho Mathews .blah de blah.   next to Besty.. who I have a long standing personal grudge against ..despite iit being a friendly for want of a better term seeing   maradona Goas  down as the biggest feather in my football watchin lifes hat...

9 hours ago, RickG16 said:

Not bothered reading it but what is the general reason for the bitterness?

Ex pats mate. especiallly UK ones  in Thailand   .. nothing better to do  than find fault and let it fester into hate   and honestly they don't even see it.. from my exp  NOT the most evolved social group..

This is the ONLY time I'm gonna say this but I write songs/ poems .. it's just a diferent way of writing ..

Sentences end at the end of A line and move onto the next line  .  Here your  expecting a full stop ... I put a gap

7 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

 

  No denying he was a brilliant football player and a World cup winner , but he was also a cheat .

  I can accept losing fairly , just dont like cheats

cheating  IS a  moral relatively

In the 70/80's I saw PLENTY. Of players fired up by..  amphetamine?   seemed to be pretty acceptable att.. lynford Christie... Gained ?? X amount of seconds on his best. Almost  Overnight.. in the 80's /90's the Brazilian ronaldo bulked up so much that he was musculariy  unrecognisable..

Wenger introduced sugar soaked in liquid caffeine as half time topups

And today in the prem t I see trainers give  players pills and sniffy things  during the game in years I'm sure that'll be banned 

  . My point is it's easy to make moral judgements in retrospect.. not so clear or easy at the time. Irrespective of his issues  .. he was one of THE all times great.. and should be remembered  as such..NOT for his problems..