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And given the big money spend was Rice I can see why they'd be hesitant to do it again. West Ham took them to the cleaners there.

Wish interviewers had the balls to say "given you knew there was no VAR was it always the intention to dive for a penalty"?

Also didn't think the 1v1 was that bad. It was well defended. Would expect a goal more often than not but hardly a howler.

Good servant and all that (genuinely) but christ never play for us again please.

Just pay someone to take him.

He's backup LW, though I'm always less than convinced when he starts for us vs when he comes on for us as a sub. In a non-PSR world I'd happily have him assuming he's happy being the backup. But he's one of few players who we could potentially move on for a decent fee. Might be one where both parties are happy because I think he starts for mid table teams.

"We deserved to win the game by a mile" was so bullshit it broke the feed.

An assured performance there where we did what we needed to do without at any point stretching ourselves. I'm assuming the subs were pre-planned, though am dubious over the Barnes one. It felt much better in the second half when we brought our better players on and in that sense I don't feel like the second string covered themselves in glory though there were decent bits here and there. Conceding first obviously wasn't great but beyond that we were comfortable throughout. Even when behind I was confident.

I'm just waiting to here Arteta's interview. I don't know if this is healthy behaviour or not.

The penalty dive I assume.

Get in! I think. Instinct here is fuck Arsenal and Arteta.

Arteta looked like he was ready to burst into tears.

Havertz

Arsenal is a sideways move at best.

As you'd expect really. Would hope some of the players stepped up a bit more to try and stake a claim to being a first team starter but no evidence of that whatsoever today.

Trippier clearly onside there whilst the commentator tells us a player of his experience shouldn't be off.

Is Targett a footballer?

That's a strike.

Bloody hell.

Arguably though they're more likely to get a result from this than in the replay. Should be something like Spurs owe them half the hypothetical gate receipts for letting it get to extra time.

Tamworth had two great chances there.

Trippier?

He might find himself under pressure towards the end I think. They should get top 4 but I don't think they'll be challenging for the title or even clearly in 2nd place. Feels like last season was their shot. This time around it feels like a fixture anyone can get something from.

Because we were in Arsenal Added Time. Giving fouls against them is contrary to that goal. See also the Livramento booking when I'm convinced every one or their throw ins during the match took longer.