A merry Christmas to you too Judith along with warrior who for all these years has kept a promise to a friend although from recent reports is being extremely well paid.

Also a big thanks to all the regular posters on here that help fulfil my daily Arsenal information dependence. I would like to be more part of the discussion but alas I am terrified of public speaking.

A merry Christmas to you too Judith along with warrior who for all these years has kept a promise to a friend although from recent reports is being extremely well paid.

Also a big thanks to all the regular posters on here that help fulfil my daily Arsenal information dependence. I would like to be more part of the discussion but alas I am terrified of public speaking.

Late to the party here. Happy Christmas all.
Oh and all the best to Judith, Rog and those involved in keeping the Gleiber forum exquisitely going.

On a side note, Spurs-Palace game called off for tomorrow. Stevie G now has Covid.

Given the billions of words and opinions expressed about football in general and Arsenal in particular it would be quite remarkable to say



something original although Bernard does tend to be off-field.

We’re all more than happy to have you on board. Think of it as Arsenal mates having a chat down the pub.

Given the billions of words and opinions expressed about football in general and Arsenal in particular it would be quite remarkable to say something original although Bernard does tend to be off-field.

We’re all more than happy to have you on board. Think of it as Arsenal mates having a chat down the pub.

I can’t see any info about today’s Tottenham game being off. It still looks to be a goer.

Must admit I didn’t know what ‘off-field’ meant. My initial assumption was that it refers to views that are something out of the ordinary, although I’m not really sure why mine are.

But I looked ‘off-field’ up and it apparently refers to sportsmen (and no doubt sportswomen) whose behaviour off the field makes their success in sport unlikely. The example given was George Best, although equally relevant will be the likes of Paul Merson, Paul Gascoigne, Tony Adams and countless others. So now I’m even more puzzled how the term ‘off-field’ applies to me.

It was a tongue in cheek way of saying unusual. An example being that there are no other forumites who support Germany. It brings some variety and entertainment so thank you for that.

An example being that there are no other forumites who support Germany.

As explained, that’s what I initially presumed it meant. But apparently it means sportsmen and women with issues in their lives, such as addictions, who still achieve in their sport.

BBC Sport (a website I see as highly reliable) say the only Premier League games called off at the moment are Liverpool v Leeds and Wolves v Watford. Nothing about Tottenham v Palace being off yet. That may obviously change, but at things stand you seem to be right LTG.

Now it's just been reported the Dec 28 match between Leeds and Aston Villa has been postponed. Makes sense Stevie G has Covid.

Basically all our right backs have covid so we are playing Ben white there. Surprised he’s done that and played holding rather than Tavares in that position

It does seem massively unfair that we play Sunday and then Tuesday whilst Wolves will go into the Tuesday game having had 10 days rest. It feels like we will have to rotate considerably for that game and we all know our levels drop when we do that. Plus the risk of injury is ever present with only 2 days between the games.

Wolves will probably suffer similar disadvantage later in the season when fixure congestion causes them to have to play several games in a short space of time but other teams will benefit from that, not us.

Not sure what the answer is.

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