Tomorrow night. Its early Sunday morning where I presently am.

We also got an excellent fee for Ox. Could we improve in this area? Of course we could. Liverpool and Tottenham have done really well with player sales in recent years but have tended to have had players on lower wages. Might change for Liverpool now with their recent success. Man U have struggled every bit as much as us, probably worse. Bought Lukaku for £90m and sold him two years later for £60m. The Sanchez fiasco. Herera gone on a free. Smalling on loan as they couldn't sell him. And now they have DeGea on a monster contract and making terrible errors.

Defo shows why the US were ousted from the 2018 WC.

That’s my exact take as well.
He’s our player, the loan was over, it could be extended with renegotiation but given they refused to adhere to our fitness plan to ensure our own player was fit for us for next season and they wanted £2.5m for the privilege is ridiculous. If St Etienne were only thinking about the player and their cup final then they wouldn’t have been discussing a fee they weren’t even contractually due.

Wenger would have probably paid them to let him play, just like he’d waive fees for players out of loyalty. Time for us to be more ruthless

We have had the 'Can the U.S. be a football power' argument on here. I may seem biased but I will make the same assertion again. If football were to become as popular to the masses, the same areas we get out NBA, NFL players from, as well as the millions of immigrants that already have an affinity for the sport (Latinos, Africans, Caribbeans, eastern Europeans, not so much Asians but I'll include them), we would be a top 5 power perennially. No question whatsoever in my mind.

350 million population, extremely diverse, among the best athletes in the world (Olympics for example), more money than any nation to put into to the sport. 'Do the math'.

At the time I also said, if we did take the sport seriously, we would f*ck it up. It's what we do. We adopt it, change it to make more money out of it at the expense of the heart of the sport. America would have included water breaks or some form of break much earlier than we have seen now. Why? Advert revenue. We'd milk as much money out of the sport as possible to its own detriment. The NFL is unwatchable any longer from when I was a child. Average game was roughly 2 hours as a kid, now its towards 3. The Super Bowl, is a 4-6 hour entertainment event, its no longer a sport. May as well be the Oscars, Grammys, etc. The NBA has completely changed from what I knew it as. Completely unrecoqnizable, even from Michael Jordan's days. They have essentially eliminated the players from defending with rule changes. I hate to think what America would do with football. I got into football, specifically the PL because, at the time, it seemed much purer than American professional sports. I got back the feelings I had with the NBA and NFL and even baseball.

Sadly, the PL has changed over time and its not as fun to watch as it once was but still better than watching most American professional sports.

Mike Dean bugga........

Do we have a hope in hell. Moss surprised us but can't see Dean letting them get away with their normal kick'em in the air type play.

Sky's coverage
Souness: Get about them physically. Be aggressive. Make them worried about getting injured

Interviewer:Arteta 4 at the back? 3 at the back?
Arteta: No *walks off*

It's really *%^@ stuff from them. For all the razzmatazz it's inconsequential, petty , stuck in the past stuff.

So long as he's not got the final. Put on all 5 subs at 60minutes for anyone starting on 1st August

Your right utterly abysmal coverage.

Why not ask him something interesting rather than a question you know he won’t answer.

I saw people lamenting the loss of Clive tydsley as well recently which made me laugh. Really average commentator

Bring back John Motson and my favourite Barry Davies. Made football beautiful to listen to. Also Des Lynam was brilliant at presenting and his ad libs worth watching the bbc for alone.

In summary everything goes to *%^@ doesn’t it

Absolutely nothing in this for us. 10th is the lowest we can finish and 8th is the highest, neither of which positions mean anything.

Traditionally, Cup Final teams who have nothing to play for beyond their places aren’t exactly motivated.

Penalty helps.

Penalty...........................................

*%^@'s sake. Dawson smashes through Lacazette in the box. VAR checking. Looks like we've got it! Well blow me down! Classic nothing from Dean. VAR to the rescue

Mike Dean shook his head! What a nob!

A decision from Dean in our favour in our box. Mark the day and hour

Newcastle trying to ruin Liverpool's party leading 1-0

Looks like it is a 442 Arteta trying it out in a game that doesn't really matter for us? Holding a few shaky moments so far. Then a good block with his face!

Love that. Hard not to feel sorry for Watford. Think of Troy Deeney think of Deeney...

Strange game. Mostly being outplayed but deservedly 2-0 up.

Dislike Troy Deeney as a player. Sorry Sir Elton John and Watford, you're going down.

Tierney has scored. My thoughts are with Gaz at this difficult time

Uh oh Tierneys superb long throw was the assist

Somebody get Gaz a brandy. Must be on suicide watch at this point.

Arteta out.

I'm hoping Henry's assist record stays in tact.

The team defense is better. Also, our spacing for receiving passes when the opposition presses us at the back is better. We are able to get the ball out to the midfield and attackers a bit more rather than having to hoof it under pressure every time as in the past.

Aubameyang looking up for it today. Superb overhead goal.

Xhaka with the yellow card and a why me this is so unfair look. To recap he shouted "Oi!" to get the referee'a attention then shouts "*%^@ off!"

Yes Xhaka, that gets you a yellow card...

Souness saying at least 6 times Watford have been the better team. Yes thank you for that. But who do you think have been the better team Graeme?? Looking forward to someone asking Troy Deeney A. Who he whacked and if they came back for more, and B. Where were the cohones?

Don't let me down Arsenal

Compare and contrast with Ceballos a bit later. After conceding a foul that he thought was incorrectly given he limited himself to a “you’re joking” looked and walked away.

How many goals does Aubameyang need to share the golden boot?

Someone has to find a way to nobble Giroud before next Saturday......................

Right now he needs one more to draw level with Vardy.

Yes it does.....but not for every player as we well know.

Dawson is an oaf. A repeat of his penalty foul, this time outside the area.

Second shot at Tierney by Xhaka in the past few minutes. Ferocious pace on an intended pass.

Pépé has an unbelievable ability to drop a shoulder and lose a tight marker, unfortunately most of the times he does it, its when he's got his back to goal and he just shakes off the attention rather than actually beating the man

Might get some joy with a honey trap from memory

what a save from Martinez from welbeck

Martinez bails us out again. Living on our nerves here.