It’s hard to know where to even start after such a catastrophic evening. We looked to be heading for a comfortable win at Molineux after going 2-0 up but for reasons that are unclear to all, we imploded on ourselves and surrendered a 2-0 lead to one of the worst sides in English league history.
I will not recount every detail of the game as no one wants to relive it ever again, but we scored two well worked goals by Saka and Piero Hincapie. It was disappointing to concede so soon after going two up. Wolves were completely dead and buried at that point. But you would’ve hoped for some sort of control and game management. What followed was a complete mess. Giving the ball away, allowing Wolves acres of space, it was bizarre and totally out of character by our recent standards.
The equaliser was abysmal on so many counts. There was a complete breakdown in communication between Gabriel and Raya. Personally, and not that it makes the slightest bit of difference, but I think Gabriel was more at fault than Raya. If the Brazilian doesn’t get in the way that’s a simple catch and hold for Raya. It was a nothing cross and there was no Wolves player anywhere near getting on the end of it. Of course, Raya could’ve have told Gabriel to leave it and maybe he did, but you have to ask what on earth Gabriel was thinking. The ball squirmed out to the Wolves player, and it went in off the post and Calafiori in horrifying slow motion. There was barely time to react. Two points dropped without any shadow of a doubt.
So, where does this leave our title hopes? We are five points clear having played a game more than City. We have 11 to go, they have 12. We do of course still have to go to the Etihad in April. There is still time to pick ourselves back up but that’s now two wins in seven and that is a deeply concerning run of form. We have Spurs and Chelsea coming up and we can no longer afford to take anything for granted. We have made this title race so much harder than it needed to be. For what it’s worth, I still think we will get over the line but only just. These next two games are of paramount importance. I don’t like to make sweeping statements based off one game, but I do think whoever wins the League Cup final at Wembley next month will probably win the league. maybe some will scoff at that but the psychological boost of getting one over on City with two months of the season left would be gargantuan.
I do think City will drop a similar number of points as us. Of course, they do have previous when it comes to going on long winning runs at this stage of the season, but they are not what they were. The maximum points total we can finish on is 91 and its 89 for City. That all but confirms in will not be required to reach 90 points to win the title. I think it will be more like 85ish which was the standard amount from 2006-2016. The destination of this title is now very difficult to predict but we probably need around 28-29 points to win it. But who knows for certain? Not me, that’s for sure.
We are now entering the final 10 games of the season. Time to stand up now. Sunday will tell us a lot about the mentality of this team. If you can’t get yourself up for the Derby, when will you get up? Then it’s Chelsea. Time to wake up now. I just hope this team has the stomach for it.
Better late than never. Better never late, 21CG,
And with that I return to my “Mugabe Media Lockdown” until tomorrow, by which time my anger and frustration may have reduced from “Incandescent”to merely “Bloody Annoyed”.
Out.
At the same time, this has brightened my day.
Cheers 21CG.
CER, I’m afraid the cynical part of me now believes they were hoping to hold that one until after a triumphant NLD but have decided now would be a better time given what happened last night.
The news was known some tiime ago anyway, and confirmed by Bukayo’s celebration last night, so I’m not particularly impressed.
*also returns to brooding and Mugabe Media Lockdown*
Ah, 21CG, the word on the wind was that you were AWOL – delighted to see that isn’t the case. I’d pulled together this filler which is a bit redundant now but here it is anyway.
So what’s not to like?
It’s late mid-February and the Arsenal are five points clear at the top of the League. We’ve qualified at the pinnacle of the CL early stages. We’re in the final of the only domestic final so far determined. The likelihood is high that we’ll progress to the next round of the FA Cup and so will be in every one of the routes to silver knowing that we “have to be innit to winnit”.
So, thus far, so good and most would have smiled happily and would have ‘taken’ that at the start of a season. And so far, much of it has been good. Some of it has been very good but overall, there is a sense that despite significant strengthening of our squad in the summer, the new collective hasn’t surpassed (or even come close to matching) some of the super-skilful, synchronised, team performances that my memory tells me were hallmarks of the preceding three seasons (despite the pockmarks experienced in those).
With new signings aplenty, and Kai Havertz rebuilt and renewed, the season promised much and only the usual few found reason to complain and petition. It started well too with an away win in Manchester and a sound thumping of Leeds. However, the first inklings of turbulence ahead appeared quickly too. We decided to control the champions at Anfield, showed them an excess of respect and conceded to a late, set-piece worldie (the first of several). And Havertz returned to the surgery.
By end-October we were looking like world beaters, despite injury and form loss to, in particular, Starboy and MO8, we dropped points only to ManCheaty in a hard-fought home game that had Pep rolling his spittle at a disgusting rate. We exceeded expectations by downing the giant Hammers and Fulham, who between them had killed off our previous years’ title challenges, in consecutive games.
Then that old devil called late goal struck again at Sunderland. It wasn’t a mortal blow but the feeling that we’d recovered and then surrendered two points prevailed. That feeling was quickly dispersed by consecutive demolitions of the Spuds and Bayern. By this stage, the world and the bookmakers were taking notice and positioning Arsenal as favourites (or targets to enjoy seeing eventually fail – take your pick).
We bumped our heads on a set-piece goal for a draw against a ten-man Chel$ki team and then a fortnight later suffered our second defeat, succumbing to that same old devil, late goal, masterminded by Unai the master strategist at Villa. It was noticeable that we sought to win both games by controlling the play and creating a sufficiency of chances to be converted by our lethal strike force. We didn’t, and the strike force wasn’t. Doubts about Victor and Noni’s suitability as starters continued. Leo became our inspiration but sadly wasn’t injury resistant. Owen Goal looked like our biggest threat.
We enjoyed a great Christmas and New Year only to bump our heads again early in January against a weak champions team and drop two points by cooking up a similar recipe to that used unsuccessfully at Anfield, although this time without losing a goal. This game felt like a harbinger of difficult times ahead. We’d begun to horseshoe pass, our progression from back to front had slowed badly, enabling opponents to get back and get organised before our onslaught commenced. Control was the name of the game and not losing became paramount. Meanwhile, our captain’s form had flickered between ‘just OK’ and excellent, Starboy still looked off the pace and doubts surrounding Victor, Noni and, increasingly, Martinelli’s capability as a strike force to deliver the title were increasing. Key players began to tire.
January 17th loomed massively and brought with it the opportunity to build a massive, surely unbroachable, 11 point lead over the (alleged) Cheats. Despite four rock solid chances and a strong penalty claim we failed to score. And so began the time of rumblings and doubts and a suspicion in the minds of many that the title challenge that could have been nailed on had been surrendered.
Corpulent and largely impotent ManU were next and optimism for a home win was high. For 25 minutes we made the redmancs look like a team from a lower division and then the Zubi moment changed everything. And I think it was then that the team began to lose some of its self-belief and allowed the doubts engendered by the ghosts of seasons past to establish themselves.
The seeds were taking shape as omens of concern before our very eyes. Late goals. Control versus speed of transition. Don’t lose. And worst of all, Do not allow self-doubt to fester.
Leeds visited. We had to win and we did! Chelski were despatched in the Carabao. Sunderland represented a big banana skin which managed well. But Havertz, whose light had glowed encouragingly, was injured yet again. The strike force hadn’t dispelled doubts. We appeared to be no longer impregnable at the back. We weren’t playing brilliantly, but the points meter was ticking in the correct direction.
And then there was Brentford. Not a bad away point in most seasons, but not when the pace of the title race is beginning to boil. A draw felt like a defeat and then last night at Wolves felt much worse and brought forth the exact same simultaneous expletive from myself and my son, mine vocal his arriving simultaneously by text. Even the worthy, resilient traveller C100, bastion of the positive was reduced to an all-time first “and the team was shite”.
So the clock’s ticking toward High Noon. Find a way to put the Spuds to the sword and hasten St Totts on Sunday and I think we can go on and win the title. If that can’t be managed, we may well be competing for second place, runners-up again with all of the woe, bile and grossest of spew that will result and impact everything and everyone.
Mikel Arteta and his staff will have to steel themselves, reinforce their own self belief and then find a way to instil the calm, courage, confidence, burning desire to win and ability to play at their very best as a team as well as individuals in each and every one of the players. Our superstars need to turn up and do what superstars do.
The time is now. Win at Spurs and winning the title will remain a very realistic challenge. Win and the resulting oxygen and energy will help to propel the team toward subsequent successes, potentially even old Big Ears itself. Before January 17th, that looked like an entirely realistic prospect. If the squad is properly deployed and plays to the level that we know it can, why shouldn’t it now?
The alternative isn’t an option.
COYG and NLFE
BtM@4: Trev will have to add Tina to his collection of young lady friends.
A third reminder: the latest GHF Predictathon leaderboard has been posted. No need for most players to go into Mugabe Media Lockdown, as, on the whole, scores improved. You know where to find it…
Timely, sobering and thoughtful review 21CG!
I support Mikel completely, and I think he would mature into one of the best, and would love to see that happen with us. One not-so-minor thing he needs to get better at is to trust the players to find solutions on the pitch and enjoy that process. This was a match where ideally speaking the team would have self-managed, fixed things mid-game as needed, and have more communication.
They all wait for — except Declan who is becoming the de facto leader — some signals and words from the boss or the bench. And as a result don’t yet have the collective intelligence to autonomously respond fast and effectively to changing in-match situations.
When things go one of the hundreds of ways Mikel has anticipated— and his tactical and analytical brilliance means he is excellent at that — the team works perfectly for the situation at hand. There are times when matches become like this when your metronome makes basic errors, your rock of a fullback constantly loses 1:1, your technically perfect inside forwards can’t hold onto the ball. It’s raining and snowing and windy and half of the team is thinking about the derby in the weekend and just wants to get this match done. It’s not a situation you would have ever planned for and so there are no solutions, and it all looks horribly disconnected…
As Wenger used to say, football is all about the footballers. Maybe he went too far to the extreme of not building tactical plans differently against different opposition etc., but IMHO there is a wisdom in that observation that’s worth keeping in mind.
@5 Ned, I’m familiar with the refrain of “Alice, Alice, Who the Fork is Alice?” but unfortunately I know no one who’s “Living Next Door to Tina”. Perhaps you or Trev might enlighten me?
Hugely disappointing performance. I’m still trying to process it
Sunday and the Chelsea game will be very instructive. We must win them both
Doubt has crept in and we’ve seen this movie before
BtM @4, that’s a fine overview of our season up to this point. The players simply have to find their cojones on Sunday. We’ve been at such crossroads before, sometimes gaining the high road to glory, as in 1989, 1998 and 2004, more recently not. Sunday is the first opportunity to get the show back on the road and will demonstrate whether this squad has what it takes to shake themselves up and firmly consign that wobble to the past.
Thanks 21CG – a horrible report to have to write.
I do have to completely disagree with you about Wolves second. Gabriel had his head right behind that ball for an easy clearance. Raya had no need to come for it. If he was going to come anyway, he had to let Gabriel know and tell him loud and clear to duck and leave it – not clatter through the back of him.
A horrendous result from 2-0 up. Let’s hope the panic we saw was temporary.
To me some of our players look almost exhausted. More rotation ? Possibly, but that’s been hampered by injury. One player who certainly should have played more is Norgaard – ex Brentford captain, seems pretty robust and does a very good job. Zubi and even Rice look extremely tired.
Four players off in warm ups – Cala x2, Saka and Saliba is mad.
Havertz out for a year – likewise Jesus.
Major injuries to Gabriel, Mosquera. Calafiori, Odegaard again etc etc
The bigger question is what do we do about it.
It seems we are nearing a point similar to the squad Wenger had when all our young Brits were injured almost all the time.
You can’t compete on 4 fronts – and especially the PL and CL with a constantly depleted squad. There are actually no players I want to get rid of but have some reached a point where they just can’t be relied on. Remember Arteta: the greatest ability is reliability.
Sadly that would ask the question of Ben White, Calafiori, Havertz, Jesus, Odegaard …..
This isn’t an overreaction to last night. I put this in the bar a few days ago.
I don’t want to lose any of them but …..
Thoughts …?
The Premier League and Champions League is an absolutely massive ask of any team. I would have been quite happy to play squad players and youngsters in the domestic cups and concentrate on the two biggest prizes. Especially as we haven’t won either for such a long time.
I think a lot of mistakes are being made due to fatigue which is aggravated by the pressure of the last three second place finishes.
It seems like all through this season one department or other of the team has been having to do two jobs due to a spate of injuries in another department.
We started with most of our attackers injured or not yet fit, then a spate of defensive injuries took over. Now we have few options in midfield due to more injuries – and Rice and Zubimendi, in his first season of physical Premier League football, have worked themselves to a near standstill.
Our deep quality squad has in effect not given us many options to rotate, but just enough to keep going.
In addition to the injuries it must be said that Gyokeres and Eze have not produced anything like we hoped.
Sorry, I’m still angry and wittering on about last night.
BtM @7 – by all accounts, Tina is Simply the best.
Of course I only have Trev’s word for it.
Adrian Clarke:
BtM@7 @ CER@14: There is no alternative but to give you an audio-visual clue.
It has English subtitles in case the Welsh of the song is too unintelligible to the Gaelic speakers in the bar to follow.
Trev@11: I think your fatigue/under-rotation point is spot on. Also, unlike City, we didn’t bring anyone into the squad (let alone of the quality of Guehi and Semenyo) to freshen things up. I only dread to think what straits we would be in had we not deepened the squad last summer.
Nd@16- watched the Welsh language lesson. Great stuff.
Still can’t summon the bravery to watch Adrian Clarke, 21 CG were following the BtM principle- listening to Pravda while watching the game. That was quite harrowing enough.
I really like Adrian Clarke’s analyses. No bullshit, well explained and honest. Yet, I too cannot bring myself to watch this one. Nor have I tapped into Gunnerblog’s ‘On the Whistle’.
Arseblog’s overview was well pitched. However, this is the only place I can bear to revisit the horror.
Hats off for some recent seafaring stuff from BtM !
I’ll keep bailing while you write ….
Trev at 11, I find it interesting how our human nature views flit between what we think of players after a good or poor performance from the team.
We have always had a long list of injury prone players at Arsenal, players that we would’ve loved to have seen more of. Rosicky, Diaby, Wiltshire, Santiago just off the top of my head. And we gave had some more in recent times as you mention. I was also thinking about Calafiori and his absences since he joined and whether we should cut our losses. He’s a good player but he’s so unreliable and I’d be looking seriously at a replacement if it’s possible. I would also add that our captain could probably do with a new environment and we could also do with someone new in his position. He’s also unreliable and his form has been poor for a while. Jesus will go in the summer and I would keep going with Ben and Kai. Ben may be on his way in the summer anyway.
Form wise I’m frustrated with Martinelli. Maybe he’s fatigued but he doesn’t seem suited to the Premier league anymore. Of the new players Noni has been inconsistent and disappointing. I don’t think Viktor is suited to our team and would probably find more joy at a less pressurised environment. The others see. OK or better than OK at the moment.
I think we’ll see some freshening up in the summer which might even see Mikel moving on. That will be his decision though.
Santiago who was he?
The title character of a minor cult SF novel of the 1980s?
SP@21 – thanks for the response .
I certainly don’t want to lose Mikel Arteta who has done a fantastic job – and let’s not forget on an uneven playing field.
I would only add that I didn’t only post these thoughts after the Wolves game. They were really a rehash of something I posted a few days ago.
So 30% of season ticket holders who are fully in compliance with usage rules have been unsuccessful in the ballot for Carabao Cup Final tickets.
Their prices for the same season tickets will be going up by 3.9% next year. Plus for “big games” e.g a CL semi final, the minimum price (lower tier behind the goal) will be £90.
Despite Arteta’s warm words, fans come very low in Arsenal’s priorities.
https://www.arsenaltrust.org/feed/news/2026/AST%20-%20Ticketing-%20Arsenal-%202026
Many who read this blog will be well heeled. I count my self amongst them. I can pay these prices easily. But for those on minimum wage, or unwaged, not so much. For me we need to keep a proportion of tickets available to those.
See also this piece in the Times
Arsenal must not take fans for granted — it could kill revival of Emirates
https://www.thetimes.com/article/6d81f578-2da6-4dc3-bc53-0388e45c686a?shareToken=e9ef3ec4a2c751b232fe097a0bf89b38
CER@18 & Bath@19: **Distant sound of Jaws theme music**
Trev@various &SP@21: The intensity of the PL is taking its toll on the squads of all clubs, making player availability a competitive advantage. I don’t know whether our conditioning and rehabilitation regimes are better or worse than others. Any insight on that would be fascinating. As a ‘controllable’, I am sure both receive Arteta’s attention.
As we’ve discussed before, I don’t think he rotates and rests sufficiently, both between and within games (but I am not under relentless pressure to win the next game, every one of which seems to be a must-win).
Acknowledging that football is a contact sport and that some injuries will be random, I would value Trev’s expert opinion on the extent to which availability is predictable during recruitment, if at all. It is not unknown for players to fail medicals, but it is hardly common either. Equally, players with injury problems may be ruled out of contention long before it gets to the point of a medical.
Ned @27, the Jaws theme is far too melodious for that mood. The music from the Psycho shower scene fits the bill better:
https://share.google/tUREuh0KQ6Kp1QWM1
C100@25: If you are the US owner of a PL club, I suspect that PL ticket prices look cheap compared to those in US professional sports, and thus raising them is easy pickings. As you imply, it is a myopia that could cost them dearly in the long-run. Ironically, US sports teams put huge effort into trying to create the atmosphere at games that UK crowds create naturally.
Bath@28: 🙂
C100 @25 – agreed. Even a dozen or so years ago when we played Barcelona in the CL at the Emirates it cost me £225 to take my daughter – c9 T the time – to that one game. My season ticket at the time was priced at £100 and the one next door cost me £125 because that was the price the owner could have realise ion the exchange. Add rail fares, modest food and drink and the final bill would have been around d £265. How many fathers can regularly take sons and daughters at this prices ?
As it happened, I had just taken her to two consecutive league games at £75 each. So £300 for the both of us, plus another £80 in add ons. That brings the total for 3 matches to £645 – and that was around 12/13 years ago. I’ve lost track of current prices. I dread to think.
Blame autocorrect for the multiple stupid mistakes above – and trying to type on the phone 🤦♂️
Trev @32
Sort your typing out mate 😂😂
C100@25- the pricing situation is of course invidious. And becomes more so each season, However for comparison I thought I’d look at premierships prices for similar tickets to ours in the “cheap seats” behind the goal for some other London clubs- outside of London excluded due to the “London Weighting” factor we pay for everything. All prices in £ for general admission in the home ‘end”.
Fulham – Cat C 38. Cat A+ 69 in the Hammersmith End.
Chelsea – Cat G ( no really) 33, Cat AA 71 in the Matthew Harding Lower.
Them- website is impenetrable, in terms of an overview of matchday pricing, but from remaining games Cat B 71, Cat A 91.
Arsenal – Cat C 31.80, Cat A 78.
It would appear that, unpalatable as they are, Arsenal prices are not particularly egregious in comparison to a sample of clubs. And only one of those can be considered a competitor when it comes to the pointy end of the season. For me that says Arsenal is following an industry standard pricing strategy. I rather think that as the club has published early, Arsenal is attracting all the opprobrium, including from the usual bad actors with a vested interest in Arsenal bashing. Obviously I am not including you in that group.
Now I come into the bracket of able to afford it, but even so it’s expensive. As an example, the crew I go to games with has this season moved our pre-match boozer of choice as we have effectively been priced out. A typical round of 6 drinks can cone to more than £50. Another part of the whole matchday day experience being impacted by the general cost of living. At the end of the day, £250m player splurges, plus playing competitive salaries to world class players and the whole off pitch “pit-crew” have to be paid for. Not an excuse. But it is a reason, in a world where clubs are owned by nation states, venture capitalists, hedge funds and various other societal ne’erdowells.
Fancy for a moment that we are all shareholders in Arsenal.
We find ourselves in a situation where our board, acting in our best interests, has invested in our stadium, training facilities, playing and coaching staff, to the extent that our investment’s brand – Arsenal – is so close to delivering on its aspirational promise “The greatest team the world has ever seen” that we have:
– Hundreds of millions of fans worldwide paying TV premiums to watch our product at whatever local hour including zero dark thirty
– A waiting list in the tens of thousands for seasons tickets for the privilege of enjoying our product
– A multitude paying high multiples of the published ticket price for privileged access to every game and often flying across the world to enjoy it..
– Tens of thousand paying to be in a ballot for tickets for every home game. Failing – but here’s the thing, returning to pay again next time and fail again (WTF! that’s me)
We would be DEMANDING an increase in ticket prices and a steep improvement in the club’s performance in securing better commercial deals (or asking for the guy in charge of that to be fired).
The Premier League is a money machine for the savvy investor and of course, in our case that isn’t us, it’s Stanley. Shrewdly, he’s playing it cool, managing things forward nicely, he isn’t taking any dividends just being content with capital growth. He knows that a global super league is inevitable and he wants to have the very best stadium and most competitive sports brand on the planet – The Arsenal.
There will always be fans in the stadium unless there aren’t because TV feelyvision has supplanted the need to travel up to Wolverhampton on a cold dark Wednesday night and freeze your tits off before getting home at 1 am. TV audiences will by then drive revenues and Ai will be making the sights and sounds from the stadium hotter stuff than they are right now.
Meanwhile, until then I’ll be in the boat bailing hard and rowing too if deemed necessary – and the very good news is that Trev has dropped a hint he may be sitting in the seat next to me 🙂
Reality can be so very ugly, BtM.
A couple of our ex-Academy kids taking the road less travelled
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/20/six-britons-slovakia-football-former-manchester-united-spurs-everton-arsenal
CER@34: I bought a round of four beers at the Hudson Derby (NY Red Bulls v NY City) last season. It cost $90, including the 20% tip automatically added on.
When Miami comes to New York for an MLS game in mid-March, seats in the stands closest to the pitch range from $252 to $955 each (and this is in Yankee Stadium, the baseball ground, so not even a proper football stadium). Cheapest seats in the gods are going for $138 to $183.
Match tickets are dynamically priced in US markets, so these are market-clearing prices. You can get a ticket right now for the best seats for NY City’s game against Orlando for under $255, and the cheapest seats are being advertised for as little as $25. They haven’t even bothered to open up the seats in the gods, as there is so little demand.
For comparison, the $25-$50 seats in Yankee Stadium would cost around $150 if you were watching baseball (and a club-level equivalent seat could easily set you back $5,000 (yes, a five and three zeros).
Holy moly, Ned. Perhaps some of the price differential may be explained by the fact that there are relatively few US clubs in any national sport. We have a 92 club football league and that’s in a constrained area with far less population. Clearly , the US model is that to which the owners want to move.
For 90 bucks ( around £70) for 4 beers I’d want that to be served by The Bada Bing girls, frankly.
CER@39: Like London, NYC ain’t cheap, and it ain’t getting any cheaper. Even in an outer-borough Irish bar, you wouldn’t get much change out of $40 for a round of four decent draft beers these days, plus the expected 20% tip (the days of the tip being a buck a drink and the barman slipping you a fourth drink for free, are long gone), so paying double that at a sports stadium isn’t off the charts.
Don’t get me started on prices in Manhattan, where they have now slowed the pour on a Guinness to give you time to get your mortgage application in to pay for it.
It is the dynamic pricing model that I would most worry about being imported from the US. You’ve already seen the effect of it on prices for concert tickets in the UK.
Perversely, I think that, in the long term, matchdays will become loss leaders for football clubs, who will realise that passionate local fans who can get to games week in, week out are a value multiplier for their worldwide brand that will be exponentially more important than short-term resource optimisation of the prawn sandwich brigade.
I am proud to support the Arsenal and be a part of short term resource optimisation.
I am, aren’t I ? Blimey, I used to just turn up and sing ! 😳
Ned – I’ll give some thought to your @27 question. Probably a longish answer so it might take a while. It is logged in the memory banks though.
Surely, hiking the cost of the working man’s tipple is merely a public health measure to encourage a more healthy lifestyle and temper his tendency to overindulge in the demon drink. A truly worthy temperance measure, some might say.
Furthermore the pricing out of football fans – ultimately every fan has his pricing out price – must surely be another public health measure to restrict the transmission of bacterial and viral infections and nasty bitey things such. as fleas and ticks, by creating space on the terraces and in the stands which, when necessary, can be filled by AI when required for worldwide broadcast.
The powers that be only have our interests at heart, don’t they?
Just taking a peek at the preview for the Spuds game on dotcom.
Here is a quote from new manager Igor Tudor who has been hired to get Tottenham out of the mess they are in and show them the way forward:
“This is the start. I was working on a lot of things, not everything because football is not only about that. “
All clear then …?
Bath@44- I love Big Brother.
@36 CER, no market is a one way street but several current indicators in this particular market are pointing to what you describe as ‘ugly’.
And of course, like tariffs, one man’s ugly is the most beautiful word another man has ever heard, the very best word in the dictionary and it’s going to be so big and so beautiful and make ‘us’ all so much more wealthy than we’ve ever been……
(P.S. for the absence of any doubt, I am not that other man, but if I were to be I’d be laying out my dominoes now “100,000+ in the stadium, $500 – $5000 per seat, beer at $50 per pint, $gazillions TV revenues and $gazillions more from adverts.” It’s very achievable but needs two big teams in China, USA and ME to set the new Ultimate Global League in place – most of the stadiums are already there, Spain has done its bit, ours needs upgrading but Stanley has that in mind and some twat up in Manchester is trying to persuade UK Gov to build one there too. The AI piece is nailed on already but unlikely to be needed).
File under tongue in cheek. 🙂
Many a true word said in jest, BtM @47.
You had better, CER @46 – in this day and age.
Trev@42 & 43: 👍
Mightily impressed by Vincent Company in the video shared on Arseblog today addressing the Vini Jnr controversy. I assume Company will follow Pep at ManCheaty? Pity.
Well in for the half-ton, BtM.
Better Kompany than Arteta.
Is it OK to call Chelsea bottlers?
and Villa for that matter?
@51 Ned, I have no doubt that Mikel and Vincent are both being tapped up to discern their possible interest. The Kronkes will make it difficult to Arteta to leave. Bayern and Company may find resistance very difficult.
SP Bottlers both.
Kompany took Burnley down, hope he can follow-up at Cheaty
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