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There’s nothing glorious relating to the system Arsenal beat Man Utd; Arsene Wenger will be spinning however Pulis would be proud.
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It’s agricultural
Tony Pulis would be proud.
Sanjit (Wenger would be spinning in his proverbial!) Randhawa, Kuala Lumpur
…Ruben Amorim’s first mountainous take a look at as Man Utd supervisor: Can he enact it on a frigid rainy night at Stoke? Sadly now not.
David, Ireland
Loving this…
Perceive the Premier League and 19 golf equipment indicate a devaluation of targets from corners to 0.75.
Ha ha. Suckers!
Eagle
READ: Amorim fails to cease Arsenal corners however Man Utd improvement is evident
American soccer is better
I address sport. Football, as I played it for 30 years has in any appreciate times been my favourite. However, watching Arsenal and their establish pieces has made me realise that American soccer is better. Arsenal don’t play soccer, their play special groups and American soccer special groups play is so great better.
Tony Clarke
Why turned into Foden on corners?
Watching Rice and Saka final night delivering corners from either side reminded me of factual what a sackable offence it turned into by Southgate to have Foden taking them for England in the Euros.
It boggles my mind encourage then how he would possibly per chance per chance well also be so out of contact alongside with his gamers’ strengths. Somebody looking for to remember him fondly and respectfully would possibly per chance per chance well also unbiased quiet be reminded of this.
The one tiny- however moderately obvious – oversight would possibly per chance per chance well also have value England the trophy.
Johnno. (Did Carsley invent the identical mistake ? I didn’t view his games. They had been international locations league. A man’s gotta have a line)
Man Utd clear lowest of bars
36 minutes into the match final night, the scoreline 0-0. Man Utd haven’t had a shot heading in the correct route, or touched the ball in the Arsenal field. Phrases corresponding to ‘ultimate shape’, ‘doing effectively’ and ‘supervisor will be happy’ are being light by Shearer in commentary. If ever you wanted reminding of what Man Utd are in the present day, it turned into summed up by these compliments which can per chance be in overall handed out to bottom half of and newly promoted aspects a ways from dwelling.
Taking a search at the line-usaI’d reveal that’s the worst Man Utd 11 I ever remember us taking half in, and the ambition in time wasting from the Thirteenth minutes onwards (did the ref now not e book Onana out of pity?) spoke volumes.
This turned into an actual males against boys performance. Many will repeat Arsenal wanting establish pieces as a job practically effectively achieved by Amorim, and his group. Ignoring the truth Arsenal would possibly per chance per chance well also unbiased quiet have been 1-0 up from one within 3 minutes. And the truth Utd’s easiest decent chance additionally came from a sequence portion.
This turned into an actual 7/10 performance from Arsenal, at best, and that turned into larger than ultimate satisfactory. Some murky decision making around the Utd field (Martinelli has been chief culprit this for a year now) and Havertz being wasteful with a clear lower chance, the scoreline flattered the away side. In hindsight, the dearth of great urgency one we scored the most predominant can be to hand at the present of year when the games come thick and immediate.
In summary, Amorim is now not any mug even if. He’s warned the fanbase about what’s to come, and supreme night he showed them why emphatically. Utd would possibly per chance per chance well also unbiased have ditched Ten Hag, however the defective outcomes and frustration will proceed for some time.
Jbrusty
What a ravishing sport of soccer.
Isak…I will’t remember many strikes as pure as his opener.
Gordon…had us for breakfast so persistently and such a scamper and achieve.
Salah….nothing wants pronouncing.
Kelleher…he’s been extraordinary even as Ali has been injured, his shot stopping is out of this world however he’s a number 2 for a cause.
Deliver on our favourite away ground at our favourite time to play….eek!
James Outram, Wirral
READ: Salah is now not an Ozil, Aubameyang or Hazard; Liverpool would possibly per chance per chance well also unbiased quiet bend over backwards to address him
We gave it away
Caoimhin Kelleher has been substantial for us, now not factual this season however for his entire Liverpool profession, so no aspersions forged his system tonight. But, (BUT !) he’s acquired to punch that clear. He’s acquired to. Absolute Goalkeeping 101 howler at that stage of the match with mere minutes left to scamper. In point of truth feel barely unwell enraged about it.
Level-headed, to streak twice in soggy, feral prerequisites and to come away combating with a point, it would possibly per chance well per chance well also be worse. We’ve gone and played uphill x2 the entire 2nd half of, once by system of the scoreboard, and once by system of the dodgy, tilted St. James’ pitch (you’re telling me that field-to-field fairway gradient in a scheme meets Premier League commonplace ?!).
And likewise you understand, we would possibly per chance per chance well also have a Biscuithands or the address between our sticks, however as an alternative we’ve acquired Caoimhin Kelleher on, and as a deputy option no much less. It in fact would possibly per chance per chance well also be worse. Depend thy blessings, rob the solitary, greasy point, rest and procure better, tear again.
Eric, Los Angeles CA (Salah’s achieved F-involved about an hour however come away now main the golden boot. Show mask him the dotted line already.)
…Liverpool followers. Believe of it as drawing with Citeh and beating Newcastle. You’re welcome.
Vinnie20Pee
O’Neil out
I have been behind him for all this time, all this season, all final season, and let’s now not dent it he labored wonders for us final season, even as additionally seeming to be a top bloke.
We additionally had a unpleasant scamper of fixtures at the beginning of this season, and I didn’t favor us judging this season on us taking half in the entire best groups in the league, and a 98th minute aim conceded to lose 2-1 against Man Metropolis. However, right here’s it, right here’s the closing straw Gary O’Neil desires to head, and he desires to head now!
This isn’t his fault entirely. When we sold Collins I hadn’t viewed him play an supreme sport for us so I belief no mountainous deal. Then we sold Kilman and never changed him, we sold Neto, we sold Nunes (who cares) and I know who we’re, we’re a club who buys cheap and sells excessive…that is attractive, however the owners no longer would like to invest that money from selling gamers into the club. They have to sell the club to anyone who gives a shit and f*ck off out of Wolverhampton.
Andrew Gorman
Man Utd and the rainbows
I in fact didn’t address the knowledge about the United squad dropping the rainbow jackets. That did now not invent me in fact feel ultimate relating to the group. But then, they’ve been consistently disappointing me for an over a decade now…
This entire part appears to be like to have sparked a half of decent debate in the mailbox even if, even as waking up an supreme few morons. I believe there’s a customary feeling among a definite portion of the inhabitants that “no person cares what other folks enact in their private lives” which invariably appears to be like to be blended with “leave the children on my own”. A extra or much less intolerance dressed up as intolerance when you can.
I believe Sam Morsy had every right to refuse to achieve on the arm band. I don’t agree alongside with his beliefs however he has a right to them. He’s now not impinging anyone’s human rights, he’s now not compelled to advertise LGTBQIA+ rights any larger than I’m compelled in 2024 to derive that there is a God.
However, in doing so he invites scrutiny as everyone else’s right to have an belief kicks in. That scrutiny turned into rightly applied by F365 and Mr Tickner. If he didn’t would like to face that scrutiny he wouldn’t have played or he would have extinct the armband – and I suspect invited great worse scrutiny in his nation of starting achieve for whom he turned into an Global. Them’s the shakes. He made his decision and can unbiased variety out the consequences. It’s murky that these beliefs exist and I don’t believe they’re acceptable however fortunately, the View Police is now not an actual part. Formally anyway.
And Mazraoui has precisely the identical in the present day to now not achieve on rainbow jackets and invite the explicit identical scrutiny upon himself. Over again, carrying the jacket is more likely to elevate a deal of hostility in his nation of starting achieve, for which he’s a most up-to-date Global. He would possibly per chance per chance well also have extinct the jacket or now not played, however he has made his desire. Over again, one I don’t accept as true with.
The Manchester United Team have made a entire hash of this even if. In attempting to enable Mazraoui to avoid scrutiny they have invited scrutiny on themselves. If supporting the establish off turned into crucial to fully different gamers they would have extinct it anyway. By picking a bunch mate, they’ve indicated that they had been all merely virtue signaling. In flip, if Mazraoui turned into that steadfast in his beliefs, it wouldn’t have stricken him to be the most easy one now not carrying the jackets as he would’ve defined it.
Pointless to tell, the gamers’ best miscalculation turned into that this wouldn’t come out. They’ve tried to stick together as a bunch in the leakiest dressing room and club English soccer has ever identified. To be able to are attempting and offer protection to a bunch mate from airing a questionable belief (which he’s achieved before by the system) they’ve managed to highlight yet one other spoil up right thru the group.
And that’s to tell nothing of any extra wound between the club and its supporters and the wider LGBTQIA+ neighborhood.
The sphere with letting other folks now not achieve on the armbands or jackets and then shielding them from scrutiny is precisely as F365 name it. It’s tolerating intolerance. It’s intolerance dressed as tolerance. In case you don’t would like to give a rob to homosexual or trans other folks then attractive. But you better have an supreme cause that you’re ready to insist.
The sphere for those other folks is that there isn’t an supreme cause except “belief”.
In 2024 that would possibly per chance per chance well also unbiased quiet be intolerable.
Ashmundo
(We had hundreds of mails on this field however most are pronouncing the entire identical things in completely different strategies. This one – relating to the Man Utd space – gave the affect moderately balanced so we can post this and confidently move on. Till the next time – Ed)