Lush Vlad

Squares bar and then a protein bar for me

Yep. Wired to the moon. Not sleeping for a long while. May as well just stop up. Baby will be up soon I’m sure.

Really happy for Murphy. But if that shot went in….. The finish for the first, which was offside by a cunt hair, was outrageous enough. But nearly putting it top corner on your weaker foot like that. Wow.

Yeah. Sounded really good over the TV. It rarely sounds good on the box. Even when the atmosphere is half decent in the ground. Neville was very complimentary. Was saying how Arsenal were struggling with it.

That interview, man. What a guy. I’m never going to be nasty about him again. What a lovely fella

Just come in to say similar. Finally, post and in

Ohhhhh Lord. Fabian Schar.

I would personally still have Pope back in. But at the same time, he’s not really done anything wrong? I don’t think he was flappy at all and had a solid game.

Rice genuinely seems like a hard but fair player. I reckon Schar sticking to him like glue made him have a complete head loss. Was carrying on like a right cunt towards the end.

TBG finally got his wish. He played in midfield……. Sort of. Well, may as well have been up front at times

Sat here feeling a bit melancholy. Whilst also buzzing inside. My Dad died two weeks ago today and he was a Gooner. I would have been enjoying some light piss taking with him now. Still got a whatsapp from him that made me smile at the time over how aggro it was This was after an hour in the first leg: “Not watching. Tie is done. Good luck in the final 👍⚽️x”

Captain Shithouse. Set the tone with that. Wanted to fight every cunt in red and white

He’s been poor on the ball and with some of his daft challenges of late. But we really do take his off the ball work and running for granted. Not Hall’s fault at all. As not many players can do what Big Joe does and play 3 positions at once. But I thought he struggled positionally a bit at times that half. Seems like the Joelinton/Anderson slightly wider at LCM then LB out of possession role for Hall tonight. Pretty niche.

Went bananas for Isak’s goal. Even though I thought he looked off. I’ve been far more reserved since VAR has come in. Didn’t celebrate Murphy’s. Almost felt sweeter

Almost picture perfect. Another goal on the break so that I have some fingernails left would be lovely. They’ve had one great chance, another decent one and their flurry of corners. We’ve been solid otherwise.

Plus Burn v Martinelli is far from ideal I think Trippier and Hall will tuck into midfield at times in possession. But Hall won’t be playing there in a 4-3-3 I wouldn’t have thought.

I reckon they’ll start Martinelli and Nwaneri.

True. They didn’t need to be their usual Stoke’like self against City though. Mainly due to big mistakes from City and some good fortune. But they barely relied on set pieces at all. I’d rather we stuck with our same system and think we’d manage the game from open play much better that way. We’ll find out what the team is in 27 minutes. I should probably just wait until then to comment

Yeah. Trippier and Hall would be coming into midfield a bit I would have thought. But I’m guessing they will have been drilling this and Howe must have liked what he saw. Whilst I don’t like the look of it on paper and I think it sends out the wrong message psychologically. This isn’t like the Pardew and Bruce days of just changing formation on a whim and almost week to week. If we were to go with 5 at the back. You’d like to think it has been drilled extensively over the season at different times in training.

Not read anything about the game at all today. But that would be a bit odd. Seeing as we haven’t done it much under Eddie since his first season. In Howe we trust. Even if it is 5-5-0

Punters are certainly keen on the Goonbags chances. Was 11/2 Arsenal to qualify and around 1/7 or 1/8 for NUFC. Now trading around 2/7 and 3/1.

Had a quick chat with Mick Quinn on Sunday. As he drinks in my local. He is adamant that Saturday was just the players having one eye on this game. Whether meaning to or not. I mean, they’re professional athletes and we’re gunning for Europe. So I doubt that, myself. I also know Quinny can be a wafflebag. But as an ex-pro he would know better than most.

The fact I will have died of a heart attack before the winning penalty has gone in

I’m in a team meeting all day. My boss and one other in said meeting are Arsenal fans. Unbearable. Get me out of here and back home for the game.

Don’t forget the Oxo cube garnish.