Tomo 21,751 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 3 minutes ago, Jason said: Nope. Arsenal have Southampton, Everton and Man City (League Cup) before facing us. I thought it was isolated to the specific tournaments these days cause didn't Jorgi play in the cup last season(vs Liverpool) while in the middle of a suspension? Blue Armour 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Actually, what's up with them? They looked like safe top 8-10 team this year, overhyped by some due to history, but still. Last year they had trouble with magicans like Mustafi, but I'm not buying that they regressed due to Luiz & Willian. Not registering their highest paid players in league looks like poor board management. Despite shameful results, I'm yet to hear someone yelling Artreta Out, when everyone is into sacking Ole, so what is it? Lack of individual talent in whole 20-men squad? Poor board with unexperienced yet liked manager? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 20 minutes ago, Tomo said: I thought it was isolated to the specific tournaments these days cause didn't Jorgi play in the cup last season(vs Liverpool) while in the middle of a suspension? https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/premier-league-suspensions-how-do-bookings-red-card-bans-work-in-/1e6awd5os0a031pri0kcq3eu0c Unless it got changed for 2020/21, suspension from straight red card applies to all domestic competitions. And Jorginho's suspension - caused by accumulation of 10 bookings - applied only in the league, which forced him to sit out of the games against Everton and Villa. https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1372099/Granit-Xhaka-red-card-Arsenal-news-Mikel-Arteta-Burnley https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-granit-xhaka-red-card-793641 Above two articles also mentioned Xhaka will miss Arsenal's next 3 domestic games, including the Man City game in the League Cup. So, he will be back for our game... Johnnyeye, Blue Armour and Tomo 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,493 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Leicester could rack up a good points haul this year and take one of the top 4 spots. Ndidi, Pereira and Soyuncu returning for them. Looks a more congested race for top 4 Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea_4_eva 1,182 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 No guys we need arsenal to get a bit better before they face us, you know how we love to give away points to teams that are on the worst forms. Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,493 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Thankfully every team is streaky as hell this season. Liverpool with a lucky pen to get a point at Fulham Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 It'll be Arteta's 1 year anniversary in the Arsenal job on the day we play on Boxing Day... Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Vesper and Johnnyeye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyeye 7,510 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 12 hours ago, Jason said: Heads need to roll if we don't beat Arsenal on Boxing Day... it would be so typical of us, we make shit teams look great. Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyeye 7,510 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Jason said: It'll be Arteta's 1 year anniversary in the Arsenal job on the day we play on Boxing Day... ffs its written already, altough we did spank them 6-0 on Wenger's 1000th game in charge, and dont be surprised to see that bald cunt Anthony Taylor as ref for this one. Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyeye 7,510 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 12 hours ago, iceboy said: SHIT CLUB and fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Few months ago TC posters rated Arteta more than Lampard....its so criminal looking how disjointed, disoriented, disinterested and abysmal Arsenal is..Lol Arteta the second coming of Pep... Arsenal is shit... killer1257 and Johnnyeye 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea_4_eva 1,182 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Saw a few rumours that the senior player that doesnt talk to arteta is david luiz lol. If it is, you know whose side his best mate is on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,393 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 Arsenal -- > Championship Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,493 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 4 hours ago, Jason said: It'll be Arteta's 1 year anniversary in the Arsenal job on the day we play on Boxing Day... they'll play like its their cup final Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,959 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 So only Liverpool, Everton, Southampton and Brighton can still have the 2,000 fans in their stadiums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomiswave 6,118 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 9 hours ago, Johnnyeye said: it would be so typical of us, we make shit teams look great. Its christmas mate, you know how we deliver pts to strugglers in this time of year. 9 hours ago, Johnnyeye said: ffs its written already, altough we did spank them 6-0 on Wenger's 1000th game in charge, and dont be surprised to see that bald cunt Anthony Taylor as ref for this one. I wouldnt be surprised one bit, then again they are all bent, they just take orders and perform accordingly. Johnnyeye 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,536 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 2 hours ago, Milan said: So only Liverpool, Everton, Southampton and Brighton can still have the 2,000 fans in their stadiums. Lasted what 2 games us anyway... Think said about Leeds dropping a Tier Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,224 Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 21 hours ago, NikkiCFC said: PSG also lost. Looking at tables in all top5 leagues is crazy. I'm loving it! I do not like the EPL table, as when you give manure, shitty, and villa their games in hand, we are 7th, almost 8 (shitty right under us on GD.) The fact Manure is likely above us is sickening. Those insanely numerous PGMOL robbery calls in their favour may cost us the CL next year. It is why I go so batshit crazy. It is so strange but I think I hate Manure now more than the bindippers and closing in on spuds. Victimpool now have nothing really to deny them anymore (now that they won the epl, but I still hate 99% of all scousers, most ar vermin). Spuds obviusly do have many things to deny. But I fucking hate the way Manure is being saved by the refs. None of the other teams in the EPL get the amount of dodgy calls week in and week out. Not pool, not shitty, not us, not arse, not spuds, no one. Only leagues where teams get this are Barca/Real in La Liga, and Juve (used to be AC Milan as well) in Serie A, plus Bayern (to a lesser extent, Germans are pretty fair overall, unless it involves war, lol) in the Bundelisga. PSG gets bad calls against them all the time, most of France hates them, save for Mbappe. Btw, I know I am pretty much the only one who rambles on about it, but GODDAMN us losing that fucking 2012 FIFA World Club championship. The dipper and manure cunts ALWAYS hold that over our heads, as they can claim world champions and we cannot. Fuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,224 Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Merci, gentleman Ged, et adieu Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Gérard Houllier at Anfield, the place he called home between 1998 and 2004. Photograph: Malcolm Goy/Shutterstock Scott Murray RIP GED Gérard Houllier never did win the league with his beloved Liverpool. Not technically. But he did win the FA Cup. And the League Cup. And lift Euro Vase after the Greatest European Final Ever. And the Super Cup and Charity Shield. And another League Cup. And he built a team that only required the addition of Xabi Alonso and Luis García, plus moving Jamie Carragher over a bit, there you go son, stand there, to win Big Cup in the Greatest European Final Ever II. And without his root-and-branch philosophical rebuild of the club, there’d have been no chance of Rafa going close, of Brenny going closer, of Jürgen going even closer before finally, at long last, getting there. Ged, who has died at the age of 73 after a heart operation, set Liverpool’s title ball rolling in the right direction again, all those years ago. History will mark his contribution. We’re chalking one up for him, put it that way. Gérard Houllier, former Liverpool and France manager, dies aged 73 Read more Ged’s greatest signing was Sami Hyypia; his most romantic, Jari Litmanen; his cleverest, Gary McAllister. All played their part in that 2000-01 treble season packed with memories. Safe Hands Sander lifting the League Cup with a 1950s-style Tiger-comic cry of “hooray”; Stéphane Henchoz performing octopus tricks on the goalline to set the scene for Michael Owen running away giggling, what was rightfully Arsenal’s tucked under one arm; Robbie Fowler wandering about Dortmund with Euro Vase while dressed as the title character from Gilligan’s Island. Oh, and that McAllister free kick against Everton, to which Ged reacted with a perfect mix of disbelief, delirium and delight, the football-loving little boy sparkling in his eyes once again. Beautiful scenes. Houllier could well have won the league in 2002 in any case. His team were more than good enough, and full of confidence after the treble-winning season, but their campaign was derailed by the aortic dissection that nearly took him, then aged only 54, way too soon. He was never quite the same force of nature after that huge scare, though that didn’t stop him going on to win a couple of French titles with Lyon, adding to the one he’d secured for PSG back in 1986, the first in the club’s history. Throw in his contribution to the great France teams of 1998 and 2000, developing the likes of Thierry Henry and David Trezeguet, and that’s some body of work to leave behind all right. Merci, gentleman Ged, et adieu. QUOTE OF THE DAY “My mate, my colleague, my boss. One of the greatest moments of my life was when we come together in 1998. Just to be in his company was an absolute treat. So loyal, so passionate and extremely fierce. Since we finished, at the end of every conversation we had, I told him I loved him and would always be grateful for him giving a wonderful partnership. RIP Boss” – Phil Thompson with a heartfelt tribute to the man he assisted in the Liverpool dugout. Good times. Photograph: Phil Noble/PA RECOMMENDED LISTENING The latest Football Weekly will be here soon. FIVER LETTERS “Back in the days before I worked on Big Website, my best mate had to undergo major heart surgery at Broadgreen Hospital in Liverpool and was understandably bricking it. It turned out the surgeon was the same man who repaired Gérard Houllier’s heart a year earlier. I wrote to Liverpool, more in hope than expectation, to ask if Houllier would perhaps pen a short note wishing him well as I thought it would help ease his nerves and do him the world of good. A few days later who turns up at his bedside to talk about all things Liverpool with him? Yes, Géd. What a man!” – Gregg Bakowski. “So the last 16 of Big Cup was drawn today. Remember when this was the Round of Arsenal? Heady days, Gooners, heady days” – David Maddock. “After enduring the Manchester derby, Crystal Palace v Spurs and Arsenal v Burnley, I’m just curious how long we all have to pretend that there’s any quality football or vague semblance of entertainment this season? P.S. I’m asking on behalf of a bored friend who has too much time on his hands and will be watching regardless anyway …” – Noble Francis. Send your letters to [email protected]. And you can always tweet The Fiver via @guardian_sport. Today’s winner of our prizeless letter o’the day prize is … David Maddock. RECOMMENDED SHOPPING Available at our print shop now, Tom Jenkins’s pictures of the past decade. There’s also this Pelé picture there too. NEWS, BITS AND BOBS The Big Cup tombola came and went, and it’s bad-ish news for Chelsea and Liverpool, while Manchester City got a kinder draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach. To Big Vase! Manchester United have drawn La Liga leaders Real Sociedad, while Arsenal will be overjoyed to have picked Benfica out of the hat. The results of the Big Cup tombola, in full. Photograph: Harold Cunningham - UEFA/Uefa/Getty Images Frank Lampard’s Chelsea manager Frank Lampard, who used to make intelligent runs into the box and has a GCSE in Latin, thinks more fans should be allowed back into stadiums. Won’t somebody think about the coffers of Big Cup clubs? Kiernan Tierney thinks the blame for Arsenal’s worst start to a season in over 45 years lies solely with the players. “There’s no way to disguise it. It’s terrible, to be honest” sobbed Tierney. “We have got a great manager and we believe in him 100%. The blame is on us, nobody else.” Borussia Dortmund manager Lucien Favre is now just Lucien Favre after the Bundesliga club sacked the 63-year-old following the 5-1 defeat to Stuttgart. Neymar knacked himself in PSG’s defeat and some guy called Leo Messi saved Barcelona: it’s all in our snazzy Euro round-up. And in USA! USA!! USA!!!, awesome ballers Columbus Crew won the local trophy. STILL WANT MORE? Gérard Houiller’s obituary, charting his journey from being a language assistant in Liverpool in 1969 to his managerial heyday. And here’s a lovely video tribute too. Andy Brassell on that Dortmund sacking and their temporary appointment of Edin Terzic, who according to the picture in this article, has just arrived from a Sum 41 video. Sum 41 vibes, right. Composite: Reuters/Getty Images Adam White and Eric Devin on how Lyon beat PSG, and the brilliance of young Brazilian Lucas Paquetá. Count ‘em, here’s 10 things from the weekend’s Premier League action. And Rachel Brown-Finnis has reviewed the WSL action here, too. Nicky Bandini on the demise of Fiorentina, and why romanticism between Cesare Prandelli and La Viola might not be enough. Casey Stoney, the Manchester United manager, speaks exclusively to Suzanne Wrack. Oh, and if it’s your thing … you can follow Big Website on Big Social FaceSpace. And INSTACHAT, TOO! THERE HAVE BEEN BETTER YEARS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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