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For a while there, I was the fat kid :-)

:-( I?m so disappointed in him.

passed to the fat kid at school to try and help him with his self esteem. And when he invariably messed up I would put my arm around his shoulder and...

If we could keep everyone fit, we'd be sorted. Imagine having Willy and Gabby together at the back. Triphop and Hinchappy both look very good, but...

Managers never are, unless they score enough goals. And such individuals are not easy to come by.

For me, it's ALWAYS theirs to lose. This is our first season with a "billion-pound" first team squad so we still don't know if it's the RIGHT...

Well, it is in their hands..... :-)

It's a new thing this year that you get all your 2nd leg ties at home if you come in the top 2. That's what we want.

Didn't Liverpool smash the league stage last year and then go out in the first knockout round though? I'd rather we bumble along under the radar and...

I thought we'd already blown it this year? City's title to lose now and all that...?

I didn't say he was the problem. Just that I think Arteta prefers Havertz. And so do I.

For God's sake, it's only December. We didn't have Kai to allow a gradual introduction, he's been playing with different players every week with our...

Exactly. Forwards sometimes get selfish and take a shot when there was a pass for tap in, but it's never they won't pass to a specific player. ...

Not if the scarecrow has 2 defenders on him and he knows how to drag them out of the way so that B, Noni, Leo, Gabby, Odin and Easy can keep banging...

Admirable research! So, in the last ten years, the rule seems to be that the only way to beat City to the title is to start fast, get ahead, and...

Yes. Thank you, MM. Time flies, dunnit :-\

Okay, I've done the research... Below shows the perecentage of the total point tally to win the league at the halfway point of the season. Red,...

I think we signed a striker to shut people up. I honestly don't think that Arteta is a big fan of the out and out centre forward. The plan was to...

Does make a clear point about how you should not pay inflated prices for players in these secondary leagues, regardless of how impressive their stats...

I never buy into all this 'so and so won't pass to so and so'. It may have been true at school where you don't pass to the fat kid but I don't...

That's just not true. In those games before the injury when he was playing well, Vik dropped deep into the right channel and played some lovely 1-2s...

So he stands there and attracts defenders? 60 million is an awful lot of money to pay for a scarecrow. I think we will see a change now the...

But many people have said that one problem last season was Kai going to the right and cramping the space for B. And others, like Shearer who knows...

Maybe start complaining when we haven't just won our 6th game on the trot in the CL, toping the table with just one world class goal conceded. ...

Agreed. I remember a Gooner cover with a cartoon of Titi saying "Why does ze manager keep talking about banjos and the arse of a cow?" Just...

It's not that, Wes. Even in the purple patch you mention he was still showing the concerning traits that he had before joining Arsenal. I've...

It was his first start coming back from injury. The 2-3 games before he got injured, he was looking exactly what we needed. He was making space for...

That makes sense. We're on 18 pts, so one win makes us 21. 3rd place is 13 pts, so 2 wins is 19. That's good to know, but would still like a 100%...

Hmmm it was all of 6 weeks ago that Gyokeres had two of his best performances for us and scored 3 goals in 4 games. He has spent the majority of the...

Correction. We've got to win the last game. That guarantees us top two. P.S. I didn't know that :-)