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In a strange twisted instinct this news makes glad that he is being valued. Because I certainly wish this club would value him a little more.

Was nice seeing a few of these scattered around on Saturday.

Wait, this is a permanent move? ... Ok.

That will just make you mad.

The other Louis V. in his life.

Going out to kick and roughen up Arsenal is what we did in 2005 in that 1-0 win Saturday was fucking nothing man. If that is what is now considered just looking to kick another team, then football needs help. We know that already though.

I wouldn't be too worried about the cards especially because the yellows picked up on Saturday have doubled our Premier League tally and they were almost all absolutely grotesque.

Well that's just harsh on Rooney. The guy has clearly worked hard on that aspect. Probably another reason why, as others have said, nature might be catching up.

I do agree with this. We lacked some very basic quality at times. First touches, passing, short or long. We were always going to be under pressure but did ourselves very few favours. Wijnaldum and Thauvin were the only two who were consistently good on the ball. I would rather we have pushed the group a little higher up and lost 2-0 but at least tried something to get some chances.

Shelvey booked after double incompetence by the linesman. Insanity.

It's been an ongoing trend since the start of the season actually I've noticed. Levels of softness shooting up. Fouls given for nothing. Fouls for playing the ball. Yellow cards for playing the ball... Today just went overboard with how we were involved.

I can respect someone thinking it was a red, but that's just crazy. Arsenal were all over us for the 1st 12 mins. I see what you mean as in what was the instant reaction, but there's no way going down to ten men for 80 minutes helped us.

I can respect someone thinking it was a red, but that's just crazy.

The level of inconsistency was surreal.

What I mean is that at times he got the ball then ran around with it not taking opportunities to make a decent pass, hesitated until he ran himself either into trouble or into passing back to Colo.

At one point the kid sitting in front of me looked at his dad and said "Colback is great isn't he" - Even though I thought he did well today, that's just not right.

The early kick off didn't seem to work well for Sissoko. Thought he was poor. Very lethargic and just seemed off the boil. Poor first touches, poor passing. Very little quality on the ball .

Certainly. Coquelin was just the more grotesque one today.

Coquelin, what a sad little man. All game he was at it. That free kick they got late in the game on the edge of our box.... His fall to the ground had three different stages to it. Seemed to get himself horizontal then hurle himself a few yards forward.

This for me. Slow in releasing the ball when he had it, but overall he did well today. There's no need for him and Anita to both be on the pitch though.

Even the Cazorla yellow was a disgrace. He wasn't going to give it, but it was Colo who talked him into it That shouldn't be happening. Anyway, Marriner couldn't just tip the scales like that so he made up a yellow for Wijnaldum.

I thought the yellows he dished to everyone for everything were even more infuriating. Once Arsenal were ahead in the last 20 minutes there were incidents of their players dragging ours down... But of course who cares now, no yellows given.

Haidara did well when it came to interceptions, getting back in front of his attacker and defending, but his lack of quality in every thing else was worrying. Poor decision making, and his passing and distribution was just flat out horrendous.

This and the Liverpool v Bournemouth couple weeks ago are shocking one sided shaft jobs from Premier League referees. Dangerous precedent here.

http://i.imgur.com/dgVci00.png :lol: