Billy Talbot

Precisely. He's right though. But that doesn't stop anyone thinking Martinelli is a c*** for doing that. In fact it compounds it.

Yeah, I really don't understand not trying to get a CB in. The only reason I can fathom is that we really want Guehi (he fits in so many ways including cover at RB like Gomez) and we either have an agreement with him for the summer which we think he and his agent will honour and we think he's ungettable at the moment. Otherwise it just makes no sense. We have two fit senior CBs and absolutely no cover other than Joe Gomez. We've been here before...

I thought we'd have to be a lot better than I thought we'd be to win the title this season. I got a bit excited by the first five games and the late winners. I thought that showed we had a lot more resilience than I thought we'd have given what happened to Jota. Then I think we hit a wall and started having some bad luck too. Then we got into a funk were we started conceding goals that we shouldn't and at bad moments. Then there's fitness issues that are at least in part attributable to the disrupted pre-season. We spent a lot of money but a load of it was replacements and not addition and we have not replaced our left winger properly and we're at least one top class forward down. Additions all need time and we churned too many to be really consistent even in isolation. We did buy another CB but there's some other bad luck, as is what's ultimately happened to Isak. I wrote this season off some time ago and I'm not blaming much of that on Slot. We're now in a place were we just have to try to make the best of it, finish top 4 and try to win a trophy. I think if we do that we've done well. I think Guehi would have made a difference and that's 100% on Hughes and Edwards.

Yeah, we just don't look fit. Especially in 2nd halves.

Yeah the strength and conditioning coaches need a kick up the a***. Though they should be afforded some slack because of what happened in pre-season. But next-preseason needs to make up for it or heads should roll.

gotta get on your horse and ride it.

Tbh I reckon the mowing is more accurate

Ha. Okay. Glad to know you’ve got my back!

So cutting. You should post some more jokes on here

Brilliant. When the chipped ball already exists and is already in use in the WC and Euros and before all this is done the broadcaster takes a punt on it and adds even more confusion. looks like my **** of a dead horse has some life in it yet.

What’s not clear from all this var PGMOL spin is who chooses the frame for the technology to work on and how. Then who chooses the frame that’s broadcast to viewers and if they’re different and why.

That’s never onside

That horse is a right c***

How the f*** is that not a foul on jones

That’s the still they went with. I think the ball is played later. watch the actual real-time video

You clearly have a different definition of “clearly” than I do. he looked miles off. Even he thought he was off and he’s looking along the line trying to stay on. the ball is a blur when it’s played my Jimenez and he’s “onside” by 1mm.

He really didn’t look like he was. he’s onside on the still. The ball looks about 6 inches away from Jimenezs foot

I find it very suspicious that despite Wilson looking f***ing miles offside the “semi” automated var finds he’s being played on by the stitching on a defenders sleeve. Who’s deciding when the ball is kicked there?

Yeah, but from another pov, where Isak places his foot is entirely predicable and not unusual at all so van der venn’s challenge is reckless and endangers his opponent. I think if Isak misses or the goalie saves it’s a pen and a red card.

there was a media narrative that we were scoring last minute goals and it wouldn't last.

Considering it's such a small sample size there are stats that will show anything. It's undeniable though that if you look at big chances created for and against and XG during the really bad run, we were on the end of some bad luck at both ends. Especially to begin with. The rot started at Chelsea where we could have easily won or drawn for instance. You make your own luck etc, etc, but when you're on a downward spiral that's the hardest thing to do.

there were plenty of people pointing out that the stats showed we shouldn't have won the games we did early in the season.

Yes, but the stats underlying why they’ve scored more goals and we haven’t scored more goals are outlying. we’ve been unlucky at both ends.

yeah, that's true but our expectations have been skewed somewhat during the poor run. Most of those games we finished with a higher XG than teams we lost against, just that we were conceding higher XG chances and they were being scored at a higher than XG rate and we were missing ours. We've started to concede lower XG chances and finishing against us has dropped somewhat accordingly but also from a higher than average rate. And we've started scoring a few more.

**** me, they'll claim anyone as a fan won't they... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C._supporters "other individuals"... you could put it that way...