Cf

He usually does like.

That's one of the stupidest yellow cards I've ever seen. Palmer successfully annoys the arsenal player by delaying the restart whilst not being blatant enough to get a yellow card. Madueke walks up and rolls the ball around a bit to delay it further and promptly gets booked.

I know this is what we should want but the sight of Arteta's tears is just too appealing.

It's not the be all and end all but I like the fact we have an English manager who is here on merit and not because he's English. I'd like to think as a country we can produce good managers and it's nice that we have one of our best. I also noticed earlier how much or our starting XI was English. 7 of them if my count is correct.

Cole Palmer FC nearly 1 up.

Sometimes just the fact we have that tool in our arsenal is enough. Makes us less predictable and harder to defend against. Has been the same problem with essentially not having a right hand side this season. Starting to see that slowly get sorted.

Making a sub at 97 of 97

And now we can relax.

Joelinton!!

I think the ball was slightly behind where he'd have preferred it there to give Isak the benefit of the doubt.

Omg Yates booked!

Earlier in the season I accepted feeling a bit iffy about Hall at LB as he needed to grow into it. Now I have completed confidence in him out there.

From a corner!!!!

Get in!

That'd have been some goal.

Willock needed to hit that. We generally just lack that cutting edge and can be a bit ponderous.

Murillo looked really overweight from the angle.

The fact he was looking right at it as well. Inexplicable.

So elbowing someone in the face is fine? Cool.

Could spend some time covering the teams about to play. Instead let's spend a few minutes talking about what our darts nicknames should be in some shit "banter" then move onto a feature about Arsenal. No idea why I put this stuff on.

If this stays like this and we win tomorrow then 3rd-9th will be separated by 1 point.

Doesn't seem like it which is odd.

I guess he escapes the red because the goal scoring opportunity wasn't denied?

Aged well.

The Villa one has to be given as a penalty. Especially with how fashionable it currently is to play out from the back. You can't just have defenders decide to pick the ball up and try again for whatever reason. Was lucky not to get a yellow because a more intentional handball you'll never see. (Being generous he might not have known the ball was live but it could have been and he intentionally handled it) Reading the comments from Emery and Villa afterwards on the BBC article it doesn't sound like they have any complaints about it. When the headline said mistake I assumed I was about to be watching a ref mistake but everyone seemed accepting it's was Mings'. The Arsenal one last season should have been given too. I wonder if that's what's caused refs to pay attention to this happening but I don't really know how common an occurrence it is.