Is it wrong that the most joy I get from football nowadays is when ManU drop points

[Monty92]

You have no idea of my beauty, Monty. Which given your deep-seated insecurities is probably a good thing, Bignose.

Well if you must insist on pixelating those photos you send me.

[Ash]

Doubt it, not this year anyway. His history of winning trophies will give him a few seasons or two, unless he gets the players to do a Chelsea on him.

I spoke to a Man Utd fan last summer who reckoned that the Chelsea team has a thing in their DNA, as it were, that sees them turfing out managers that they fall out with.

[Luis Anaconda]

and Jose the Translator loses it with the media while displaying all the rage and paranoia typically associated with the mentally ill?

I did love his wetty last night. Insulting the Sky chap and storming off over, heaven forbid, the away team engaging in a little time wasting.

He's a grade A knob but lord does he do entertainment well.

It is entertaining but surely the most joy anyone gets from football is watching Mesut Özil with the ball at his feat

[World's End Stella]

It is entertaining but surely the most joy anyone gets from football is watching Mesut Özil with the ball at his feat

You seem to have misspelt 'Jose Antonio Reyes', Luis.

[World's End Stella]

It is entertaining but surely the most joy anyone gets from football is watching Mesut Özil with the ball at his feat

Thinking about this a little more, there was a time when it was really only the result I cared about deeply, how we played was nice and relevant and everything, but we were league challengers every year back then so it was the result I cared about mostly.

As I became convinced some years ago that we would never win the league again under Wenger, the reverse is now true. I wasn't bothered at all then we lost to Watford, because it doesn't really matter. I was more interested in seeing certain players play, whether it be because of their genius (Sanchez, Ozil) or because I'm interested in their development (Iwobi, Bellerin, Xhaka).

So yes, you're right. While the game is being played I watch it only for the players, once it is over I'm utterly indifferent to Arsenal's place in the table or who may or may not be suspended etc because we have no chance of winning anything other than the odd domestic cup. Hence I focus on something like the pleasure I get from Mourinho losing it, or Spurs bottling it yet again etc.

[Luis Anaconda]

You seem to have misspelt 'Jose Antonio Reyes', Luis.

I certainly misspelt feet :timegohome:

[Luis Anaconda]

Thinking about this a little more, there was a time when it was really only the result I cared about deeply, how we played was nice and relevant and everything, but we were league challengers every year back then so it was the result I cared about mostly.

As I became convinced some years ago that we would never win the league again under Wenger, the reverse is now true. I wasn't bothered at all then we lost to Watford, because it doesn't really matter. I was more interested in seeing certain players play, whether it be because of their genius (Sanchez, Ozil) or because I'm interested in their development (Iwobi, Bellerin, Xhaka).

So yes, you're right. While the game is being played I watch it only for the players, once it is over I'm utterly indifferent to Arsenal's place in the table or who may or may not be suspended etc because we have no chance of winning anything other than the odd domestic cup. Hence I focus on something like the pleasure I get from Mourinho losing it, or Spurs bottling it yet again etc.

Basically you've only come to see the Arsenal

[redgunamo]

I spoke to a Man Utd fan last summer who reckoned that the Chelsea team has a thing in their DNA, as it were, that sees them turfing out managers that they fall out with.

Yes, nibs in the clinical biology racket call it "John Terry".

Allegedly.

[redgunamo]

It is entertaining but surely the most joy anyone gets from football is watching Mesut Özil with the ball at his feat

People are saying he has feat of clay. That's some feet.

[Ash]

we have no chance of winning anything other than the odd domestic cup..

Furrins like you will never understand the true meaning of the FA Cup. :sniff: