Calm down. I'm sure you understand the point he was making.

The club has the option to say nothing about it then, and let Özil's comments just speak for him, if they're so worried about bad PR. Distancing yourself from a comment calling out religious persecution makes it seem like the club finds the comments themselves problematic, which is just a bad look.

People with enough time on their hands to compare different things said on twitter.

There’s a reason to distance themselves. Sporting institutions including the olympics avoid politics at all costs. If not there would be no olympics and British clubs would be boycotted in Europe because of the falklands, Iraq and all sorts. Nobody’s ever playing a Russian team etc etc

Also all of this misses the actual point, it’s all made up anyway by Mesut as an excuse for him being dropped because he’s had a deckchair out during games for the past 3 years.

If the best man at your wedding is a dictator (not Borat) these comments could be seen as such.

Let's give Özil the Nobel prize.

This is slippery slope argumentation at its worst. It's perfectly possible to not distance yourself from the comments Özil made without having to completely boycott China, let alone Russia. I'm not asking the club to publicly condemn China or get involved in the general election. Just don't act like Özil said anything wrong, because he didn't. No action would've been preferable to wrong action here.

And this isn't about the decision to drop him - I have no problem with that and I agree it hasn't got anything to do with his comments. Still think the club acted poorly.

This is still completely irrelevant to everything being discussed now, so I'm not sure why you keep banging on about it. Yes, buddying it up with Erdogan makes it possible to see Özil as a hypocrite. But it has nothing to do with how the club handled his China comments.

More rubbish keeping. This time to let Newcastle equalise.

Sharp end though. A few errors before his.

Interesting team.

That looks like 4 at the back to me. Arteta May now think he’s has the personnel to play the system.

*%^@ Özil, come on you gunners

Agreed!

Really like seeing that midfield three, there's a lot of different qualities in there and hopefully it can give us a little more control.

Big game for ceballos this. You would have to assume he’s the creative option from that three picked.

Any live streams for the game tonight?

I usually rely on you!

Got £14.95?

I've got this. No idea whether its the game or not

https://www.vipboxtv.se/stream-arsenal- ... ity-live-1

Doesn’t look like it. Some interesting pop ups though. Never knew there were ladies who did that kind of thing around here!!

My links working

We just had a goal disallowed for offside after a corner. Not sure about that one - Aubameyang was clearly offside as Lacazette headed the ball, but made no attempt to go for the ball.

Ta Soc. I got some woman flashing her growler.

24/7 TV stream showing it on BEIN sports channel 11 HD - English commentary...

Playing well in the first 15 minutes, good movement and passing going forward

David Luiz getting loads of space to put some good balls in for Tierney and Bellerin, with no Vardy to worry about.

8 shots so far. That’s an improvement

Partey shields the ball so well

Tierney being released in the back 4 with 3 central mids to cover him. Maybe Arsenal fans forgot how good an attacking full back he as after a long time in a back 3

Lacazette misses a sitter

Bellerin and Tierney doing well. Luiz acting as a quarter back.

Ceballos needs to sort himself out and get in the game

Feels like we should be in front given the chances and dominance so far. 10 efforts to their 1

Showed pen and we wuz robbed

Only thing missing is we haven't really tested Schmeichel yet. It's definitely not one of those games where we look toothless though. And on the other end I don't remember Leicester creating anything resembling a promising opportunity. We are completely in control so far.

Ceballos first touch cross to Saka who loses it. would have been a great goal.

We need to score before they bring on Vardy.

Slightly worrying this. Leicester sitting back soaking it up and expect Vardy to turn up sometime in the second half. Let's hope we don't get mugged.

2 mins injury time

HT

Our 4 defenders have been superb and seem the only guys actually playing any football.

Lacazette blaming everyone but himself, Aubameyang invisible, our midfield unable to move the ball up the pitch

We've been much more direct than usual. Not so much of that aimless passing it around the opponents penalty area, a lot more movement and we've been quicker getting the ball to players making runs.

Watching the replay again, I'm even less sure now that the goal should've been disallowed. Aubameyang isn't trying to move for the ball, Xhaka is actually doing his best to avoid the ball, and he's clearly not in the way of Schmeichel.

It's a ridiculous decision and 100% a legitimate goal.

Not actually sure what Lacazette is giving us, quite sad to watch really.

What's your point.