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I think I’ll slightly miss Ten Hag.

I just watched that disallowed goal again. What a joke.

Yes. The other thing I picked up this week was that Arteta never once used injuries as a pre-emptive excuse. e.g in the pre-match presser:

on if he feels hard done by to have so many injuries:

This is the game, you know, obviously, we didn't want to be in that situation, but we are really lucky as well to have the squad that we have, to have the players that we have, to have the attitude that we have. When it comes down to reacting against a difficult situation and don't feel sorry for ourselves, face it. We are a team that we know how good we are as well and how difficult we can be for the opponent. And having that ruthless mentality in the team is something that I love.

Yet am I sure I noticed the usual idiots telling us off for complaining about injuries. That's why I don't give 2 tugs what non-Arsenal journos or pundits say. They relentlessly pursue a pre-determined agenda, no matter what.

I agree with your comment, apart from the first sentence. My take is that it was pretty even and if anything we had better quality periods of control. Neither of our goals were flukes or too against the run of play. I’d say that a team that’s goes ahead twice is mostly more deserving of taking all the points. We were pushing to add a third but got caught on the break with a below par defence. In addition, the stats were pretty even.

I can't wait for the forthcoming movie, The Grate Cheese Robbery, starring Chedward Norton, Tilda Stilton, Brie Larson, Goudafrey Rush, and Dwayne "The Roquefort" Johnson. With a special appearance by Robert Paneero.

Hi friends, as I really can't mess up my sleep patterns to watch a live game at 3:30am, I woke up and caught up on the match over breakfast. I didn't have great hope for this game, so I am very proud of the performance of the team. If we didn't have Bukayo and to a lesser extent Timber, it may have been a different story.

On the other hand, it's really disappointing to go ahead twice and then not go on to win…but again the mitigating factors of more players going down, balances that.

I agree with the sentiment that is going around that we don't seem to be catching any/many breaks that we need.

I don't care what pundits or commentators, or other fans say…they can write us off all they want. I do think that the trash talk, call it bias if you like, permeates through to the PL referee entertainment roadshow organisation though. I would use up a genie wish on firing all of the fucking PL refs into the sun.

Let's hope that we can hold on in the next few matches and then start to have as many players coming back from injury, so that we can progess the rest of the season like a coyote smashing train in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

My last observation is that I might change my middle name to Bukayo.

I’ve listened to this about 20 times, this weekend. I also think I recognise the soccer pitch in the video. It’s not far from where I live.

Thanks, I will have to give Peach Fuzz a listen1

A(nother) joyous Santi reel for you

Who’s watching the England game? How did Bukayo look when he was subbed?

Charles Watts says that his impression of the situation is that it isn’t serious and he should be OK for resumption of the season.

Hopefully it's one of the classic injuries that amounts to giving him a rest and that's he's good to go after the break.