https://www.theroar.com.au/2019/05/29/h ... formation/

while the Cuzzie Bros across the ditch watch it on regular Sky TV ........

I reckon we'll win this 3 - 1 Aubameyang , Lacazette and Welbeck ... Giroud to pull one back for them in the 87 minute .

Bernard PM'd me .... said look out for him if the cameras pan the crowd

... he'll be dressed in a pink " I love you Per " T shirt

Okay at times but can get a bit sketchy. But I live in an area which has pretty poor 4G so don't judge on me. Terrible that to see EPL I have to go with only one provider and looking at a phone sized coverage is pretty terrible.

Thanks for that Gaz, and I agree with your comment. Couldn't believe Foxtel dropped the ball so badly on the renewal when it was up for grabs.

One of the Arsenal flights also departed two hours late, hope Bernard wasn't affected. Shambles, how can you forget to fuel aircraft?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7081727/Chelsea-fans-stranded-Luton-Airport-lengthy-flight-delays-halting-travel-Baku.html

Sounds like Chavs have flown from Luton while we - Bern - used Stansted. Makes sense. Both airports are about 30 miles north of London.

Regardless of the numbers travelling, Thomas Cook must be laughing. How many passengers does a charter plane carry?? 350 maybe? It won't be 'silver service' on board. No hold baggage either. Few coaches at the other end and that's it. That's close to £350,000 per plane in a day. Wonder how much of that they have to dob to UEFA for the gig?

I'm worried that I am going to miss those goals and even worse, Bernard in pink. No coverage here...

European final, first one since when? 2006? Whatever, first time, not nearly as interested. If they score first, I'm turning off the tv. Yeah, I know...I know.

If we do lose, the only thing can soften it a wee bit is if Sperz lose big. Not that I'm happy with Liverpool with another European cup.

Pull yourself together man!

Čech plays, as does Özil. Sadly, Mustafi doesn’t.

Kante starts and so does Giroud.

Chavs are odds-on. Not sure about that. We should’ve won at theirs and we stuffed em at ours. If we hadn’t gone missing in the last six games, we should’ve finished above em.

Quietly confident.

Bernard PM'd me .... said look out for him if the cameras pan the crowd 

... he'll be dressed in a pink " I love you Per " T shirt

And Bernard will initiate a Mexican Wave with every Arsenal goal scored.


     

  

Getting tense now. Massive night for the club.
COME ON ARSENAL!

COYRs

Özil’s role is to put in an early reducer on Hazard.

Hazard is sadly carried off, more out of theatre than real injury, but Özil is sent off.

Happy days.

Let's do it! Come on you Gunners!

I feel sick

Pat rice!!!

Nothing on SBS over here so I can look at my phone for the next couple of hours. The big worry is it is too easy to lose your *%^@ and throw the phone if it is not going well. COYR

Btw don’t know if it’s been said BT sport showing it on YouTube. Still might be uk only. VPN would sort it out if you’re savvy like that.

Yeah only on Optus Sport I think. I just signed up with the NBN with Optus and they threw in the sport for me.

Scrappy so far. Hazard has launched himself, screaming, a couple of times so far but has (mercifully) been ignored.

We look more dangerous, but not by much.

Pen. For certain

All day, for mine!

Very marginal but the gk doesn’t get the ball and looks like he just clipped Lacazette. What is var checking? Should be a pen

Lacazette dived.

Lacazette running through, azpilicueta has a big hold of his shirt for the entire run. Why is that not a foul? It would have been a red card as well?

Xhaka skims the bar from 25 yards.

We’re on top need to make it count

and again

Lacazette is getting smashed.

Nice save by Čech too.

Thought Lacazette just hung his for the pen shout. Still just a pen for me. The shirt pull was ludicrous.

Emerson should be in the book for that no doubt. Very lenient ref

0 shots on target ...

Played pretty well tbh but the final ball is letting us down and we need to get Aubameyang into the game. Xhaka and AMN have been excellent, Özil too peripheral.

Chelsea have had some dangerous counters and look increasingly likely to nab one against our pretty ropey defence.

Yeah I thought so. Let’s hope Kante’s knee seizes up at half time. Lacazette working hard and holding his ground brilliantly. Fancy Aubameyang to get the goal though. Soon as he gets a sniff.

Difficult to enjoy it, so tight. We haven't been bad but a few ominous signs near the end of the half.

We have been the better side but Chelsea have had better chances. With all the space he's getting, it's a pity Kolasinac can't play football. Pretty poor game so far.

Pretty even given those last 5 mins with Chelsea on top.
2 big decisions for the pen not given and azpilicueta having more than a handful of Lacazette’s shirt when running through on the gk. the second one probably happens every game and is only evident on the replay.....but if var is only for goals, pens and red cards it could have been looked at. If it was exactly the same in the box everyone would say ‘technically that is a pen’

Notwithstanding all the bollocks of location, connectivity and cost, that is a seriously *%^@ stadium for football. Front row spectators at halfway must be 50m from the play. I’ve never seen such a big behind-goal zone.

The tv coverage is shite too because the cameras are about 5 miles from the pitch

Didn’t even review the shirt pull in the studio. Eidur Gudjonnsen pretending he can’t see Kepa’s head snap back as it hits Lacazette’s leg.

Maybe someone might ask Özil to shift his arse. We can’t do this with 10 men.