Arteta just needs to get the team to watch highlights of last season's match where we dominated them but were most unfortunate to lose.

I would rather they were in the semi's, its 2 extra games (not that it seems to affect them) but those 2 games would have been either side of our cup game against them. I also don't mind City winning the league cup each year - rather them than Man U win it. Lots of teams in the past have used the league cup win mid season to springboard them on to better things.

On the flip side, they were terrible last night, they were poor v everton (drawing 1-1) and also poor in the first half of the league game v Chelsea. They did play well beating chelsea 4-0 in the FA Cup but City are far from their best form right now. Or, to put it another way, how many of City's team are playing well at the moment?

Kalvin Phillips hasn't worked out at City yet, he's had long injuries so needs time but I was never convinced by this signing. It has become quite rare that City make a miss in the transfer market

We may get a sell on fee from a possible Guendouzi transfer to Villa.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football ... bpY8Ef9odY

Ødegaard has won player of the month for the combined Nov/Dec month

This is unbelievable.
Arsenal have been charged (again) for failing to control their players in the 34th minute of the FA Cup tie v Oxford. This was for the handball appeal, where is my recollection is correct did see maybe 4-5 players appeal to the ref but were very quickly dispersed to take the corner. No worse an appeal for a penalty than you would see in any game any day of the week. No mention of the clear referee error in failing to award such a blatant penalty.

These charges are going to stack up so they can find some way to deduct us points!

I hope the club go in with a ton of video evidence of other clubs doing exactly what we've done and never once being charged by the FA

This is pretty scandalous now

https://twitter.com/HarounHickman/statu ... 8268668929
this is the video - 4 players run to the ref. that's it. So 4 players around a ref now constitutes a charge - lets see the lack of consistency

It seems to be if a ref makes a terrible mistake, compounded by var (if its available) and the players complain then that will get you an FA charge in order to somehow deflect away from the awful referee and paint the protesting team as the criminals

We also have an investigation in to a yellow card received by an Oxford player with some suspicious betting patterns, highlighted more so because that player was allowed to get away with 3 bookable offences before he actually got one

That is a truly ridiculous charge. You'd see that - or worse - several times in most matches.

Sad loss. Dropping like flies.

Enjoy yourselves.............

Sad, but a great era to have lived in. I hope you have many more wonderful moments.

I don't think Shakira's break up with Pique was amicable.

https://www.givemesport.com/88103974-ge ... 8ZriX5RCK4

When maturity doesn't match talent.

Aubameyang; " when I arrived at Chelsea, I thought I would achieve everything I was eager to help my new team win another champions league trophy , in my mind I thought Chelsea was the perfect team for me but when I arrived I found everything is different, I even asked my agent if he can cancel my contract and find another team , the first day of training I arrived early only to find jorginho, kovacic, mount, pulisic and ziyech watching Bruno Fernández videos.

I'll keep an eye out if both Wolves and Forest are charged as they had quite the set to at the end of the penalty shoot out yesterday, lots of players, subs and staff involved - looked very much like failing to control their players to me.

Hi Rich,
Yes he could've been doing just that..on the take. It's possible.

A FIFA 'ruling'.
Couldn't give a toss what Stan Collymore thinks. He's salivating over this no doubt.

https://www.football365.com/news/arsena ... ifa-ruling

Feels like its time for the George Graham style team talk from the 1990/91 season. "it seems fashionable right now to jump on the bandwagon and get on The Arsenal"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JERdIAMmFNQ

Jaoa Felix red card first game for Chelsea.
Players surround ref but they won't get an FA charge will they.

Weird stat....Chelsea not in the top 4 at the moment.....Top 4 in London!

So he’ll get a three match ban - which takes a month out of his short term loan.

They’ve lost again. That’s bloody hysterical

24 points ahead of Chelsea with a game in hand.

It’s starting to feel like victimisation right now. Ludicrous.

Make that 19 points.

Still good reading though.

I’ll eagerly expect the FA charge for Fulham at some point soon. 5 players surrounding the referee arguing against a decision they disagreed with….

Oh and this is the same ref from our game with Oxford

We’ve made our final mudryk bid apparently. 62 million quid plus add ons

That’s a big offer putting a lot of stock in mudryk better work out

Now we can see why City beat Chelsea the way it did.

https://twitter.com/semthoma/status/161 ... E_ctLpKgmw
Here’s the video of the incident. This is at least equal if not worse than what we were charged with v Oxford. Protests certainly lasted a lot longer

It is no surprise to me to see Arsenal punished for something that no one else gets punished for and then to see an example of this in the very next game! Happens all the time. Martinelli’s double yellow, Xhaka being booked for multiple offences after committing one foul….the list is endless

Priscilla Presley now. Only 54 rip.

Done deal?
https://sallahsport.com/2023/01/12/happ ... ears-contr

Yeah right. I will wait for Arsenal.com

Isn’t it Priscilla’s daughter - Lisa Marie ?

Felix's red card has cost Chelsea approx £2.25m. When you total his loan fee and wages, he was costing Chelsea about £750k per game.

You are of course right.
Still sad though......

Funny hearing Chelsea fans singing 'We want our Chelsea back' at last night's game. Which Chelsea is that, the pre-Abramovic one where they had a car park in their stadium and were about the go bust before Roman spotted something from his helicopter?

Hi Rich,

I thought Felix looked pretty impressive before his sending off. Some moments of real class. Much better than I thought he might be given what I saw of him at Athletico.

No idea why Chelsea saw fit to spend so much money on a loan, though, if he's signed a new deal at Athletico and there is no buy option or likelihood of a summer deal.

I hadn’t realised quite what a good run Man Utd are on. It’s 8 straight wins. And W15 D2 L1 in the last 17 games. They are a lot better than when we lost to the way back in September. ten Hag is clearly having a positive effect.

Mudryk new bid is £62m fee (split across the length of contract of course, but a guaranteed fee) plus £17-22m in add ons

If the add ons are linked to winning big trophies and scoring lots of goals, or winning things like Balon D'or's then all good. You want to avoid the add ons being linked to apperances

Agree that ten Hag has them playing a lot better and they have a more settled team that knows what it wants to do and has some players (Rashford, Casemiro) in fantastic form. However, 6 of those 8 games won have been at home at the 8 teams they've beaten are: Villa, Fulham, Burnley, Forest, Wolves, B'mouth, Everton, Charlton.
We were told every day to not get carried away when we beat some supposedly easier teams earlier in the season, then we beat Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea. Lets see where Man U are after the next few games - and I do give them a very good chance at home to City. I'm really hoping for a draw in that game

Indeed, he did look quite sharp