GeordieDazzler

His team have bottled their ultimate objective in both of the last two seasons. They bottled the top four, then the following season bottled the league from a commanding position. The league bottle came as previously pointed out via a game versus Liverpool where they were two nil up and cruising where Xhaka needlessly got involved lost his head and fired up Liverpool and the crowd. I think the Fergie/Mourinho/Conte (and now Arteta) hysterics approach has shown diminishing returns in recent times and all it does is put more pressure on the players and club. If they fall short of achieving again especially after spending all that money it feels like falling short will start to sink deep into the mentality there like it did at Spurs. In comparison we’ve had three crunch moments under Howe - Surviving relegation, the cup final, and top four and we’ve succeeded in 2/3 of them. It’s given the squad belief and confidence. Without projecting entitlement.

Good thing that Arsenal haven’t shown themselves as vulnerable to being wound up just before they play a team containing Sergio Ramos…

Boring second half

Would be hilarious if they missed it

I’m sure this game will calm the Arsenal conspiracy crew

Oliver wasn’t the VAR ref though

They played a fuller clip on Pod on the Tyne and he actually is pressed a number of times on what he thought the goal should have been disallowed for and avoided answering it.

That feels a lot like what happened on Saturday. Everyone in the stadium wanted blood after that tackle and the players fed off it.

That is fucking wild. Conspiracisim is fucking rampant these days, it’s a real societal problem

I think you are misunderstanding what I’m trying to say here. Narratives play a large part in football, real or imagined. I’m not saying that people in the game will listen to that specific podcast Arsenal believed the Atletico stuff, evidenced in how they approached the game. Ten Haag played into last season too before getting played off the pitch at SJP.

When is the next squad announced?

The hype around him seems to have died away a little but he’s doing as well as ever at Reims (they are fourth I think?) and they don’t have Balogun this year either. Probably end up at Brighton when someone punches De Zerbi.

I suppose it plays into our hands if teams fundamentally misunderstand what we are about.

He did to be fair and all the coaching team too. Plenty to hate him for but that’s not one.

Totally football show calling us Atletico Tyneside. Bore off you tedious football hipsters.

We’ve been in their head since that 0-0 last year, they thought they’d slayed that particular dragon in the SJP game last year but it’s just come back tenfold for them. Reading people compare us to Stoke or Atleti when we’ve hardly been shithouse FC at all this year. If that’s what’s in their heads every time they play us they’ll always be at an disadvantage.

Seems bully refs is just the culture of the club https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67328199

Luton have 7 players out. Could get nasty for them if Liverpool turn up.

Havertz went in to hurt the player and only failed to get sent off because he wasn’t successful in his attempt.

Happened twice didn’t it? One was clearly part of a pre planned routine from a corner iirc

Neville absolutely nailing it