Burnley leading Spurs 1-0. Just over 10 minutes remaining. Go Burnley!

Burnley beat Spurs. Yay!!!!!!!!

Nobody wants 4th.

A win tomorrow would be superb but a point is absolutely essential and not the end of the world as a result

Spurs bought down to earth with a bump. The lucky last minute winners don’t hold up when you’re fundamentally not playing well, these things are not sustainable and catch up with you.

4 defeats in 5 games for Spurs

Thing is our goal difference in itself is plus 10 to their minus 1. Unless they utterly batter us at their place then that’s worth a point on its own.

https://youtu.be/Dvxh9PkyesQ

So Liverpools 2nd penalty, Mané is clean through on goal, Ayling puts a hand on his shoulder pulls him back and then trips him without ever making an attempt to make a tackle or play the ball. The rules are that is a penalty and red card - it is the thing Luiz was sent off for 3 times for us. Once again an example of the benefit of the doubt being applied to others and Arsenal being treated with the full weight of the laws.

An arsenal player would get a straight red for that

Strong Mourinho vibes about Conte’s post match interview.
“Tottenham called me to change things” “I am open to every decision because I want to help Tottenham”
“4 out of 5 defeats is not good enough, this doesn’t happen to me”

doesn’t sound like a man who is committed to the job. Sounds like a ‘Tottenham are to blame rather than Conte who can only do so much with what he has inherited’

This is an important point. Goal difference matters throughout the season, with every goal scored and conceded in the first match having the same impact on goal difference for the season as goals scored and conceded in the final match. That’s why I’ve never gone for this ‘equal top’ claim, or equal any position, unless the goal difference of the clubs is genuinely identical with the same number of goals scored and conceded at any point in the season.

Arsenal still have fifteen matches left and Tottenham have fourteen remaining. So it’s not impossible for them to overturn our advantage. But an eleven goal difference is a significant lead for us to have and if we maintain it, that’ll become an increasingly important advantage for Arsenal.

Such a self-centred person

I'm on your team G7 ... well done ... the Straits Times must have some decent journalists

Okay let's quickly sort out this mish mash .
[1] Expansionism my arse .... he is protecting Russians ... why has he sent troops only into the Donbass / Luhansk . Why aren't tanks streaming across the border towards Kiev .
Nothing to do with America it's common knowledge they organised the 2014 Midan coup to get rid of the democratically elected Yanokovich .
[2] Ineffective it maybe but that wont be how it will be painted in the US UK media .. ""Biden faces down Putin , crippling sanctions Russia back s down ""
His poll ratings will sky rocket .

[3] Are you kidding ...Biden is stupid to the extreme .

Throwing in 2 trillion $$$ into an economy that was already thriving ??? = inflation

First day in office , THE VERY FIRST DAY ..he cancelled the Keystone Pipeline ... 22 ,000 US jobs lost ...... so no oil from Canada but now imports it from Russia .......??????

He's allowed 2 . 3 million illegal immigrants to cross the Rio Grande

James Baker US Secretary of State promised Gorbachev on the USSR break up ...NATO will not move one inch eastwards . Since then Poland , Hungary , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Rumania have been admitted ; along with US troops and missiles .
Look at the hysteria that erupted when Krushchev threatened to do the same in Cuba . If you cant see Russia has a legitimate beef then God help you .

[4] I don't know what alternative media you are referring to ...... but anything would be an improvement on what you are currently digesting

Winner scored by Mee.

What I am noticing is that all of a sudden Burnley has become a tough game. Over the last couple months they have drawn with us and Man Utd, "only" lost to Liverpool 1-0 and have beaten mid table Brighton and top 4 challenger Tottenham. They are likely going to stay up at this rate, currently 18th. They have Chelsea next weekend.

Mourinho is toxic. Completely toxic. You put up with it in the past if you hired him because he got results. The 'Special One' moniker is gone. He's tarnished. Even if he starts with good results he eventually goes bad. Sometimes by his own mouth and attitude, ruining his own players confidence.

If Arteta was to go, I wouldn't want Mourinho even if he wanted to come for free. I'm happy to see him humbled.

He’s speaking about Tottenham in distant quotes it’s not “us” or “we” it’s “Tottenham”

This is happening sooner than I thought. This summer I reckon especially if he doesn’t get top 4

Thank the lord we didn’t get this a****** would have been a disaster

Hoping we can put some distance between us and the challengers so we have some insurance against an unexpected bad result such as a loss to a bottom half table side.

And if that comes to fruition, and Chelsea messes up, we are in striking distance of 3rd. Imagine that? I'm afraid to even think it. Arteta should get manager of the season for that achievement.

And as you all know, since the EPL started, with one exception, Leicester in 2017, no team has won the PL without finishing at least 3rd the prior season. So, we finish third, next year win the title. Easy peasy.

Anyway, I think I said a couple weeks ago, its not that we are playing particularly well, is that all the challengers have not been playing well.

Games in hand, yadda, yadda, Wolves are actually our closest challengers for 4th.

Golly. Beginning with point 1, will you actually admit you are completely wrong?

Otherwise there really is no point discussing your other steaming hogwash.

I was actually considering a flutter on Burnley ... stirrings of life in the corpse, and huge bananaskin for spurs after their downing of City.

I think any of the bottom seven could realistically go. At the moment their positions, games played, points won, and goal difference (GD) is:

(14) Brentford 26 games, 24 points, GD -15.
(15) Leeds 25 games, 23 points, GD -27.
(16) Everton 23 games, 22 points, GD -12.
(17) Newcastle 24 games, 22 points, GD -19.
(18) Burnley 23 games, 20 points, GD -8.
(19) Watford 25 games, 18 points, GD -22.
(20) Norwich 25 games, 17 points, GD -38.

I reckon Watford and Norwich will both go. In 18th place, Burnley are currently in the relegation places. But if I was a betting man my money would be on them surviving. Not only are they picking up some decent results and have played fewer games than everyone except Everton, but I suggest Dyche’s football philosophy might be well suited to relegation scraps. An almost modern day Mr Allardyce?

Furthermore Burnley currently have the best goal difference of the relegation strugglers. Almost to the level of it being worth an extra point on everyone else except Everton who, along with Newcastle, are one of the two sides I’m most confident will stay up.

Apart from Norwich and Watford, the club who I’d say could well be in most danger is Leeds. Only Norwich have a worse goal difference than them and the sole fellow struggler their hammering at Liverpool last night made their goal difference worse than was Watford.

Sure, Leeds still have a chance of getting out of trouble, but I can see them joining Norwich and Watford in the Championship next season.

https://tbrfootball.com/very-soon-mikel ... few-games/

Unselfish or toothless in front of goal

https://www.football.london/arsenal-fc/ ... n-23200754

At least 1 experienced midfielder to come in this summer

Straits Times is only good for collecting my dog's poo. Worst journalism I've read. Skewed, spinned etc etc, to bring forth the agenda of the gov,ment.

Ramsdale
Tomiyasu White Gabriel Tierney
Partey Xhaka
Saka Ødegaard Emile Smith Rowe
Martinelli

Would love to see this line-up tonight. Let the youngsters get at Wolves from the go.

Best of luck, Oleg. Stay safe, moose man.

The biggest advantage Burnley have on all the rest is an actual ability to defend. If I had to put any money down on any of those 7 teams to keep a clean sheet I’d be picking Burnley every time.
Similar to our chase for 4th and the advantage I think we have over all the others (bar Wolves) is the ability to keep clean sheets. You just need one moment to win a game. Get your nose in front and have confidence you can hold out and win

Where does Salah currently stand in the greatest Prem players of all time? I think Henry is top, a combination of goals, assists, skill, trophies and just being utterly unplayable makes him first. Most of those now apply to Salah, he needs a few more domestic trophies which he’s got a very good chance of getting this year.
19 goals and 10 assists so far this year.

I think Henry had a 24 goal and 20 assist season, I can’t think of many who have come close to 20+ for goals and assists since

I wonder if Abramovich and Usmanov are amongst the oligarchs who will be impacted by these sanctions?

Hi Darren,
That and other factors occurred to me about those two. Especially finances related to Chelsea and Everton. Both are billionaires, so sanctions may not impact club monies too much. No doubt it's a bit of a concern currently to the clubs anyway.

But then again....Abramovich could be removed from Chelsea's ownership.

https://metro.co.uk/2022/02/24/chelsea- ... -16164648/

Don’t bank on it Darren. Those evil oligarchs own or control large chunks of our capital city.

Sanctions? That horse has long since bolted.

Usmanov doesn’t own an English club, so it’s more a question that’s relevant to Abramovich and Chelsea. Usmanov’s business partner Moshiri owns Everton, but last time I saw an estimate of his wealth he had £2m. A bare pittance compared to City’s Sheikh Mansour, Abramovich and Kroenke. And indeed his business partner Usmanov who doesn’t own an English club.

If Britannia had bollocks, Russia would have a firm grip on them.

No Emile Smith Rowe or Tomiyasu in the squad at all

Very unexpected.

Tonight’s ref has given 15 penalties against arsenal and only 5 for in all his time refereeing us.

Emile Smith Rowe is sick, not covid and Tomiyasu still recovering from his calf complaint

That's what I thought yesterday. But I wonder if Putin has simply gone too far now.

Pity, I would have loved to see us giving Martinelli a start up front.

Let's hope that Lacazette gets a goal and finds a bit of form.

Pity, I would have loved to see us giving Martinelli a start up front.

Let's hope that Lacazette gets a goal and finds a bit of form.