If you’re **** at something, it’s quite normal to not instantly become brilliant at it but instead improve slowly. I would suggest grinding out a 1-0 win at one of the best sides outside the top 6 is exactly the kind of progress we want to see. We’ve been totally **** away from home since before emery and there’s clearly a mental block that has carried over into his reign.

Surely, surely, any concerns that we are dull are mitigated by the fact that we are bloody great at home? I mean really, really good. We’ve basically beaten EVERYONE apart from Man City on the first game of the season and Liverpool who we were excellent against. And we’ve done so playing a style of high press football that people have been crying out for for years. We’re even the third highest scorers in the division, behind only the two runaway leaders.