Apparently this is hump day. no longer Wednesday. I think I will stick with the latter. It has been a mixed one and included getting another opportunity at getting to watch the Arsenal women in action on the FA WSL Facebook page. You can, as I type, see the full match here.
It was an absolute joy to watch too as the Gunners turned in a very impressive to performance to comprehensively defeat a Liverpool team on their own patch and cut the gap between the clubs to just one point. Next up for us is Yeovil at home while Liverpool travel to Manchester City. Hopefully that gap is about to be overturned and we can set our sights on second place Chelsea who are six points clear of us tonight.
The first goal came from a saved penalty that rebounded to the taker, Vivianne Miedema, and she made no mistake with her follow-up effort. Just before half-time our advantage was doubled with a long range wonder strike from Dominique Janssen. Not to be outdone Lisa Evans also produced a memorable strike to put the result beyond doubt just after the hour mark.
Bookending that performance the attention fell on our currently homeless neighbours. This morning the mainstream media appeared to present yesterday’s comments by Pochettinyclub about tricking referees in a less than critical light. I’m sure you have read them by now but typical of the press coverage was this piece in the Guardian. The presentation of the piece without criticism was of course a huge talking point on social media. Ahead of a potentially explosive derby on Saturday I hope the PGMOL officials have taken on board the inference that cheating is not only condoned, but demanded by the aforementioned Pochettinyclub.
To be fair even Gary Lineker felt compelled to be critical of the Tottenham manager’s comments, and another former goalscorer, John Aldridge, went further in the Irish Independent here. Given Lineker’s Tottenham affiliation and Aldridge’s bitter memories of Anfield 89 I think we can safely say it isn’t only Arsenal supporters feeling something unsavoury is happening at the homeless neighbours.
Talking of the neighbours the FA Cup 4th round wound up with them beating Newport County 2-0 in a replay and by and large resting the team that is likely to start on Saturday at Wembley. There was a brief appearance for one who may well have suffered an illegal and totally embarrassing hack of his cloud account. It would be a blow for him to miss the big match at the weekend.
And with that it is time again to dream of seventy-one and two thousand and four, of winning league titles at the Lane in colour, of signing Sol Campbell for less than the one pound that Ken Bates paid for a bus stop in Fulham.
Sweet dreams are made of this.
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Nice to see the ladies doing well without their star player, Kym Little who has been seriously injured and I do not know when she will return, The Dutch girls in the side are very talented as is Jordan Nobbs. But I still miss Emma Byrne in goal- can you say that nowadays? ?
I think it depends on your reasons
for missing her TTG 🙂
Thanks for the post / articles
Guv’nor.
Nice to see a surge for the Ladies
team, haven’t watched them for
a while.
And I’d already read Poch’s
nonsense – it should be pinned
to Taylor’s wall pre game.
Hopefully, he’ll be thinking
“I’m not going to let the rotten
spuddies con me”
Yes you can TTG. I miss her too. ?
Since they’re going to dive anyway we might as well hack them down properly. Channel Peter Simpson I say.
Dirty old men panting after young flesh.
You might think this were a bar or something. 😉
I put it out there on Twitter than a sp*rsy player may have cheated and my mentioned exploded with angrier and angrier customers. I had a good laugh at their expense. Hope AW hammers away at diving in his presser this week.
Sounds normal to me, bt8. It would be more worrying if old men were panting after decrepit flesh. Give me Kate Beckinsale any day. Or night.
Cheers H!
Nice one Guvna. Drinkies on the bar. ?
Kate Beckinsale is a crap keeper Chris.
She’s UnderWorld Class.
*leaves swiftly*
Hope we win this one.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42927831
Didn’t know it were possible for you to leave a bar swiftly, GSD. What with that costume and all there could be danger of knocking over other people’s drinks without due care, surely. 🙂
Bath @14. I’ll have one of those diminutive drinks you’re offering.
I watched the Everton game again and my main impression was of Mkhitaryan looking like he had been shot out of a cannon in the first 30 minutes, so quickly was he moving. Good thing Ramsey and Ozil were up to speed. Shall we send the Spuds into sorry submission?
I saw what you did there, Ned. Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, Holic 🙂
You’re right BTM and I should
know, I’ve travelled the world
and the seven seas.
Everybody’s looking for something, OM.
;), BTM
?
Just nobody mention Tunnel of Love, okay!
Not so much about the power shift
in the NLD build-up this time.
I wonder if that bloke will name
his joint 11 again…..
Anyway, Nacho fit is good news.
Ans as I simply don’t trust Osp I
hope Cech makes it. Danny is
probably fit but not sure he even
makes the bench now.
So long as he doesn’t make the field, Matt.
Let’s hope AW has the nerve to revert to what he used to say was his preferred format, 4.4.2.
Cech
Hector, Musta, Kos, Nacho
Rambo, Ozil, Jack, Miki
Laca, O’Bomber
Yep, no Xhaka or El Niño, no DMF at all. Just my choice, so no way it will be the starting XI.
Chris,
My own would be
Cech
mus, kos, nacho
hector, jack, elneny, kola
ozil, auba, mkhi
But i’ve just dropped a bloke
who scored a hat-trick last
week and no chance of mine
either
I expect the same starting XI as
last week
Apparently Spuds are going to rest Deli Ali and Harry Kane, and go with Dan Goodfellow and Tom Daley instead!
I’m right with your team, OsakaMatt.
Elneny seems the most likely of our wandering stars in central midfield to actually sit back and defend a bit.
Sorry, Chris, but a back four, so only two centrally, with that midfield would be suicide.
Aren’t all of the straws in the wind blowing in the direction of an Ospina start consequence of a Cech calf?
I don’t think ‘Elneny actually sitting back’ is the answer, Trev, particularly with the tank exposing our left side. I’d go with Chris’ team and expect Jack, Mkhi, Rambo (who can all press and tackle) to press and tackle leaving OLO to stress Spuds’ defence.
It doesn’t matter what we think anyway because Arsene will start Xhaka 🙂 . I think also AMN with whom I have no problem.
A good game to win and I think we will by a two goal margin.
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