That makes me wonder what has happened to American Gooner. He'd be very pleased with this. I hope he is ok.

I just remembered Jorginho leaving one on Guimaraes as soon as he came on, bit of retribution for the ridiculous assaults he put in on Jorginho last year

Was thinking this too earlier.

His application to the nut house has finally been accepted

He has to shoulder the responsibility. He should've changed it after 20 minutes. I expect somehow we address the squad issues in January. Otherwise all this build will be for nothing. If we are out of the title race then we should play with more adventure. 2 very difficult games coming up and I can't see us on that performance being able to challenge for the title. We are in a race for top four though.

Never mind Arteta, I’m furious too.

that's the story John ; I love seeing someone else getting their nuts in a knot .
Do a bit of yoga , go for a walk down to the local slag heap , go out into the shed and make a book case that'll calm the nerves .

That makes me wonder what has happened to American Gooner. He'd be very pleased with this. I hope he is ok.

If you saw my carpentry skills: they are not likely to calm anyone. I am currently in South America. The one EPL game they showed a replay of was our game. There were 6 other games on tv, many live from a number of countries.

Liverpool's next 7 in the league
Villa (h), Saints (a), City (h), Newcastle (a), Everton (a), Fulham (h), Spurs (a)

City's next 7 in the league
Brighton (a), Spurs (h), Liverpool (a), Forest (h) Palace (a), Man U (h), Villa (a)

Arsenal's next 7 in the league
Chelsea (a), Forest (h), West Ham (a), Man U (h), Fulham (a) Everton (H), Palace (a)

The away games against lower half teams are crucial for us, we need to find a way of getting back to the back end of last season's form where we strode in to other teams ground, silenced the crowd and dominated by playing on the front foot. We should be taking maximum points from west ham, fulham, palace at least.

we need to use this mini stretch of games to get back within striking distance because the other two have far tougher runs than us here.

https://x.com/samimokbel81_dm/status/1853344370021331098?s=46&t=fkwaCrtFB5yR-j6VVZXEoA

Edu set to leave Arsenal

Hi Rich,

The way we are playing what makes you think we will take maximum points against WH, Fulham and Palace.

All tricky places to go when not firing on all cyclinders. The sort of games where sometimes you just need someone to do something specially individually and all we really have is Saka to do that at the moment.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/nov/02/mystifying-culture-of-entitlement-has-left-arsenal-unable-to-ride-out-adversity

There is plenty in this article which is valid and that many Arsenal fans are asking as well.....but why is the headline 'Mystifying Culture of Entitlement'.....nowhere in the article does it explain the headline.

I cant see how anyone analysing Arsenal over the last 3 years can come to the conclusion that Arsenal (as a club, manager, players) are in any way entitled

Hello Rich. I was going to make the same post. It’s a really weird accusation as not only is it obviously untrue (a strong team work ethic is fundamental to Artetas Arsenal) but the article doesn’t really give any evidence for it. I think Johnathon Wilson is a really smart journalist and author so I was surprised he wrote something so weak.

Hello Rich. I was going to make the same post. It’s a really weird accusation as not only is it obviously untrue (a strong team work ethic is fundamental to Artetas Arsenal) but the article doesn’t really give any evidence for it. I think Johnathon Wilson is a really smart journalist and author so I was surprised he wrote something so weak.

Interesting that things don't appear to be going well for Mbappe at Real Madrid, he's been criticised for not doing his defensive work and having a bad attitude.

Quite often Headlines get sub-edited. I wonder if that happened here.

...Many moons ago we had a guy on here Cannon Balls...

Yes, I've heard journalists can write a piece and a headline gets edited by someone else - even if that's the case its a really strange part to the headline, as there was nothing in the article to suggest this could be part of the headline.
You could equally write a headline on City's loss v Bournemouth saying City were arrogant and took Bournemouth too lightly and assumed Bournemouth would just roll over for them. It feels like its the sort of headline the reactionary fan in the pub loves to read and would spout himself but has absolutely zero substance

The issue when we're trying to sign attacking players is we haven't been able to generally pivot to an alternative signing. We've seemingly snapped up all our first choices when going after defensive players and central midfielders but there is a long list of attackers we've been heavily linked with (by respected journalists) and just haven't signed anyone.

I think you've hit the nail-on-the-head Rich. It's all very well waiting to secure your no.1 or no.2 attacking target but things change so quickly in football. We needed more firepower and creativity and arguably have less with Martinelli seemingly unable to recapture his form of a couple of seasons ago, Nketiah gone and Jesus unable to provide a regular source of goals. Even Emile Smith Rowe offered a goal threat.

Yes, I've heard journalists can write a piece and a headline gets edited by someone else - even if that's the case its a really strange part to the headline, as there was nothing in the article to suggest this could be part of the headline.

Ah CB - those were the days - he certainly added a lot of interest to the forum. His duels with Daz were especially good fun. Where is our resident writer now? His work on Spooks and Strike was top notch, and a recent watching of Showtrial suggests he is still a sharp one - terrific telly.

I am currently in South America. .

These days the forum subsists on Rich's twenty five daily musings and the three or four who answer him .