Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
I'm afraid Emery worked us out at half time and Arteta didn't do anything to change things. Jorginho should have been on by the hour mark.
It was watching endless test cricket on the telly as a student that showed me. Bannister, Boycott, Benaud et al. Catches win matches, they always said. The whole team works so hard all day long to create opportunities, that not taking them when offered is practically a capital offence.

Now, let me just ask you this: You're a cricketer, a batsman; would you tolerate a hapless, ****-handed, butter-fingered slip cordon in YOUR team? Would you?!

Well, it's the same in the soccerball, innit. As Thierry said the other day, when everybody (me) was clamouring for more and better strikers. We don't need anybody, he said. We just need to take our chances because when we don't, we're so good that that's the ONLY time we struggle.