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6 minutes ago, Jason said:

Arsenal's last 7 league games' xG is rather "interesting"...

vs Sheffield Utd - 0.56
vs Man City - 0.9
vs Leicester - 0.72
vs Man Utd - 1.04 (1 = Penalty)
vs Villa - 1.47
vs Leeds - 0.86
vs Wolves - 1.21

They have an xG of only 11.1 after 10 league games this season.

Only Newcastle, Palace, Wolves, Southampton, Burnley and WBA have a lower xG than them.

It was like this for them last season, but people were conned by the cup win.

I called this from as far back as when people were comparing Arteta favourably against Frank!

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1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Mental if they punish Cavani for that joke...

I would not mind him being banned just so that Utd are at a disadvantage.

Obviously racist language should be punished. I know he argued that the term he used was not intended to refer to colour of skin but just as a term of endearment. I do not know if that is true. In the German language there are kinds of nick names that refer to colour (not skin colour) tho. But as a person of public interest you should stay away from language that is only in the vicinity of offending someone. Cavani as a seasoned pro should now that.

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18 hours ago, Special Juan said:

And just when you need a pick me up.....Arsenal:lol:

I'm not sure how representative Arsenal Mania is of the fan base as a whole, but they have the pitchforks out there about Arteta. 

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33 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

I'm not sure how representative Arsenal Mania is of the fan base as a whole, but they have the pitchforks out there about Arteta. 

And so they should, I know my brother aint stressing himself anymore thats for sure, he calls arsenal for Kroenke fc now, which is true really.

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Sixty-four balls, one velvet bag, a plastic bowl and the truth

 

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camera.png Mighty Marine are hoping to get lucky in the tombola. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images
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IT’S TOMBOLA TIME!

What has 64 balls and makes scousers from Crosby sweat? Tonight’s FA Cup third round draw, which fans of Marine will be glued to shortly after 7pm. One of those clubs you might hear one-man stat machine Jeff Stelling mention from time to time on Gillette Soccer Saturday but know precious little about, Merseyside-based Marine play in the eighth tier of the English Football League pyramid, specifically Division One North West of the Northern Premier League.

More used to taking on the unglamorous likes of Runcorn Linnets, Ramsbottom United and Pontefract Collieries during their weekly grind, Marine find themselves in the hat with the Big Boys for only the second time in their history; the other one being way back in 1992-93 when they got the match-up absolutely nobody had been dreaming of except perhaps their opponents, Crewe. This time around they’ll be hoping to get somebody a little more high-profile: Liverpool, perhaps. Or maybe Everton ... but any Premier League side will do.

Marine earned their place in the third-round draw the hard way, winning four matches to get this far, the most recent against the combined forces of Havant and Waterlooville with a goal scored in the last minute of extra time. Unaccustomed to such success, their players had no booze with which to celebrate their triumph, a state of affairs which prompted one of their players, Bayleigh Passant, to head for the local Co-op dressed like an orange highlighter pen in full goalkeeper kit and return with a plastic carrier bag of celebratory Tin.

Having been allotted ball No58 in the official FA tombola, Marine will be joined by fellow non-league sides Stockport County (49) and Chorley (53), as well as one of Canvey or Boreham Wood (60), who will learn their possible fate shortly before lining up to face each other on Jürgen Klopp’s favourite TV channel, BT Sport. Having been rescued from the bizarre weeknight magazine programme that is The One Show, the draw will also take place on BT Sport and will be conducted under the watchful eye of Mark “Chappers” Chapman, the hardest working man in sports broadcasting. Sixty-four balls, one velvet bag, a plastic bowl and the truth – the world’s most famous football competition is about to get very real.

LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE

Join Rob Smyth for the FA Cup third-round tombola at 7pm GMT and then hop on over to his minute-by-minute report of West Ham 2-2 Aston Villa at 8pm.

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“How do the British people say it? You have to show it on a windy night in Stoke. Today it is not windy and Stuttgart is not Stoke but Stuttgart is a team that plays very well in the last weeks” – Thomas Müller reveals that it takes 12 years for a Staffordshire cliche to land in Germany.

Thomas Müller
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“Re: the ‘greatest GOAT of all time’ (Friday’s Fiver letters). I was reminded of my old footy captain from college who, without a hint of irony, would begin every half-time blast ‘Right! For your FYI …’” – Marten Allen.

Send your letters to [email protected]. And you can always tweet The Fiver via @guardian_sport. Today’s winner of our letter o’the day prize is … Fin Crawford (aged 18), who wins a copy of The Got, Not Got Football Gift Book – Every Fan’s Catalogue of Desires, by Derek Hammond and Gary Silke (postage available to UK only, sorry – Fiver Postal Ed].

NEWS, BITS AND BOBS

Edinson Cavani has apologised for posting a message on social media that may earn him an FA ban. “I am completely opposed to racism and deleted the message as soon as it was explained that it can be interpreted differently,” Cavani said. “I would like to sincerely apologise for this.”

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