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Been good so far, I thought. A little raw but good coaching will change that.

All of the goals were Elliot’s fault, even ours.

Absolutely mental to say, but we’re still in this and could easily nick another. Great performance so far.

Rafa says that we cant compete with heavy spending Burnley. HOUND HIM OUT

BT with a great bit of Gallowgate Flags there.

0-0 at 10/1 looks a good price, hopefully we turn this into the worst spectacle ever.

Hope Murphy has a stormer.

Looking good. Haven’t bet today, with Newcastle almost certain to upset me later I thought that my heart couldn’t take the pain of losing money too.

Niasse who Everton have tried to ditch in both of the last two windows, saving them at present

Jose Mourinho in #mufc programme: "Today we welcome #nufc, a Premier League club which has quickly returned to its correct place Always liked Jose.

Has he actually signed yet? If Pulis gets the boot very soon (which looks likely) then I wouldn’t be surprised to see him ditch the mackems and go there.

That form.

People are overly comfy with their well worn narratives IMO. To never be accused of bottling, they'd have to never lose another game. Get beat by another top side, hah bottlers. Don't finish off a minnow one time in fifteen, hah bottlers. Well, nah they'd just have to actually win something Maybe if they didn’t have a history of crumbling to bits under pressure, the narrative wouldn’t exist. This is still a fairly young and new team so pointing back to past sides' failures is just Martin Keown level punditry tbh . They may win something yet. There are finite trophies and other good teams though. Last season they lost to Chelsea and Liverpool in the cup competitions, and won 36 of the last 39 points available to them in the league. Hardly congruous with a team of bottlers. If Man City go on to a domestic clean sweep this year, that won't make Spurs bottlers - it'll just make them not as good as Man City. I mean, jesus man. Losing to Chelsea and Liverpool in cup competitions only goes to prove my point further, that they buckle under pressure. They came 3rd in a 2 horse title race. They continue to lose games away to their competitors with a wimper. They continue to do well, up until there is the slightest bit of pressue on them. Man City probably will win the league and it will evidence that Man City are better, but why cant Tottenham win either cup this year? They wont, because of the above, but they should. They're bottlers if you believe they're outright better than Chelsea or Liverpool. They're not though. They're capable of beating each other on a given day and a two match sample size (that selectively excludes Spurs recently beating Real Madrid in a crucial game, I should add, plus all other banana skin games) is not sufficient to call them bottlers. The only reason you call them bottlers instead of, say, last season's trophyless Man City is because of a club reputation which is irrelevant in any meaningful way to this present team. Also Spurs finished 2nd, not 3rd. They didn’t like, they came 3rd. We’ll agree to disagree, we can only wait and see if they win anything (which would undoubtedly prove the tag wrong), which i don’t think they will.

7 now. Flying.

Cannot believe that they currently have 1 point from 3 home games against Bolton, Bristol City and Millwall

mackems Fucking hell.

People are overly comfy with their well worn narratives IMO. To never be accused of bottling, they'd have to never lose another game. Get beat by another top side, hah bottlers. Don't finish off a minnow one time in fifteen, hah bottlers. Well, nah they'd just have to actually win something Maybe if they didn’t have a history of crumbling to bits under pressure, the narrative wouldn’t exist. This is still a fairly young and new team so pointing back to past sides' failures is just Martin Keown level punditry tbh . They may win something yet. There are finite trophies and other good teams though. Last season they lost to Chelsea and Liverpool in the cup competitions, and won 36 of the last 39 points available to them in the league. Hardly congruous with a team of bottlers. If Man City go on to a domestic clean sweep this year, that won't make Spurs bottlers - it'll just make them not as good as Man City. I mean, jesus man. Losing to Chelsea and Liverpool in cup competitions only goes to prove my point further, that they buckle under pressure. They came 3rd in a 2 horse title race. They continue to lose games away to their competitors with a wimper. They continue to do well, up until there is the slightest bit of pressue on them. Man City probably will win the league and it will evidence that Man City are better, but why cant Tottenham win either cup this year? They wont, because of the above, but they should.

That doesn’t even make sense - Rafa has taken a team to a Euro semi final, he’s even won a European competition.

Birmingham winning, mackems in more bother as it stands.

Should already be off like, terrible decision.

Shock horror the goal comes from a parry by Pickford.

Everton Gew on Unsy.

There is rarely ever trouble at football these days, even in most derby games. If there is then it is usually a very small minority, which when you have 50,000 people all attending the same event (usually with a high proportion pissed up) then there is always potential for bother. I mean how many scuffles happen every Friday or Saturday night? There is always someone who pushes someone else too far.

Nah, it'll be because it's specifically Lacazette who Wenger keeps mysteriously subbing and dropping despite him being in better form than any other Arsenal player. I’d imagine he was substituted today because they were comfortably winning and it would be bizarre to risk him getting injured by continuing to play him. Booing any sub or managerial decision when you’re 2-0 up at home against your apparently more in-form rivals is totally embarrassing like, regardless of past decisions. Considering Wenger subs him every time, or doesn't start him, I'll beg to differ on him being saved from getting injured because the two don't line up. Whether you agree with the booing or not is another matter - I don't necessarily agree either - but there's more to it than it being because it was simply a conservative sub. We can't really pretend our fans haven't done the same either, it happened a lot in 12/13 under Pardew before the crowd was numbed into ambivalence further down the line. I stand to be corrected, but I dont recall our crowd ever booing a sub when we were beating the mackems 2-0 like. Regardless of whether he subs him every week or not, they were winning the game comfortably and the manager wanted to kill the last 15 minutes as Spurs were getting a bit of a foothold again - there was absolutely nowt wrong with the sub at the time. If they disagree with him being subbed or dropped previously, then voice your discontent then, don’t fucking cause a problem when you’re winning a derby match. Even if they disagreed with the sub today, then go and rant on ArsenalTV about it. A lot of us disagree with Rafa’s lack of us of Mitro, but I cant see us booing Rafa if Mitro played today, we were winning 2-0 and Rafa made a decision to take Mitro off. Some Arsenal fans have a huge chip on their shoulder with Wenger and want to bemoan every decision he makes at the moment.

Nah, it'll be because it's specifically Lacazette who Wenger keeps mysteriously subbing and dropping despite him being in better form than any other Arsenal player. I’d imagine he was substituted today because they were comfortably winning and it would be bizarre to risk him getting injured by continuing to play him. Booing any sub or managerial decision when you’re 2-0 up at home against your apparently more in-form rivals is totally embarrassing like, regardless of past decisions.