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geordie_b, I swear you were a rational, normal poster. Now you're expecting us to have brought the game to Man City. Howay man. The tactics tonight were almost spot on. It nearly paid off. I can almost guarantee we'd have been torn apart had we gone for them.

Never seen anyone put more backspin on a football since Heza.

Are you for real, man? Fucking rectangle.

Rafa is the man.

Someone check on Maddy.

Merry Christmas N-O!

Merry Christmas, Alan, you fucking rectangle.

Hilarious stuff. This is possibly my favourite way to watch interviews now. Gerrard is such a bitter little arsehole, as well.

How so? He seemed to say that they (Amanda's army) want Rafa with some conviction, almost as if he had spoken to them himself. We're all just desperate to make positive inferences about absolutely anything though.

Atsu's meg for the second goal. Diame absolutely nailed that finish as well.

He didn't actually say that last bit, people. They had a Christmas lunch instead.

They asked them? Fair enough.

I thought we weathered the storm reasonably well in the first half. Arsenal are always going to dominate possession so it was a massive shame that Ozil caught that volley so sweetly. Towards the end of the second half I thought we played pretty well and could have easily snuck a point, if we had a killer instinct in the final third.

He was shocking for the goal today, like. Standing still while Ozil had all the time in the world to watch the ball and lash it in.

If we get some signings in during January, definitely. You keep banging on as if the season is done, it's not.

right Read my post again. As a captain I’m saying that he could have told his home truths a few weeks ago. As a player he’s not the finished article yet.. but plenty of years to improve. But as far as being a good captain goes.. he needs to step up the plate now. You're an absolute nutter.

Tl;dr.

Surely with every defeat a takeover becomes more of a reality, in that Ashley would have to cut his losses or risk losing even more by holding out?

How's October 2016 treating you? You little doylum.

Despite all the money spent on it. I know, I know, we were limited in the summer and loads of decent deals were scrapped (Tammy etc.) but the signings made are just complete wastes of money. Rafa has spunked millions on utter crap. So bad. Who do you want as manager then? Which superb manager do you want in? "Not my job to decide that."

Howay man. We're not even half way through the season yet with a transfer window to come. It's desperate but not absolutely nailed-on yet.

Oh do f*** off man. Why are people constantly forgetting the true cause of this s***. 10 years in the making. Maybe so but the squad is performing below what you would expect. A lot of that’s on Rafa. Look at what Dyche has done at Burnley or Howe at Bournemouth. This is just completely the wrong way to look at it, man.