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The knee, bounce, half volley? Yeah, a bit. But there’s another one where he suddenly just bodies someone, takes it a few strides and then buries it from 25 yards. From the other side of the pitch. At home, I think, around 2000.

Playing into our left back zone 🫣

There’s definitely an Henry goal around 99/00 this reminds me of.

Did not get that from Sterling last season…

Mad whack eh?

Mad whack eh?

“And Saka has pulled a hamstring sitting on the bench”

All I ask tonight is for no enforced substitutions.

You know the injury crisis has hit when you need 1930s stalwart Wilf Copley on the bench.

Every year, without fail, about this time, I’ll run out of ideas of what to cook and end up making a stew. And then I think ‘why the hell haven’t I been making stew; they’re amazing’.

Anyway, moral is sometimes you forget what you have. Come on Arsenal.

Or what the Conservatives call ‘wife’

A gift as much from the defender as the ref. Clear simulation from Wirtz, but insanely dumb from the defender.

Liverpool have been terrible, and that penalty is an absolute gift.

You may hydrate only if you do so exactly as long as a standard advert break.

The Salah situation is unstable as soon as the club brings in two new guys who are clearly meant to be the star players. Reminiscent of Henry leaving when the team was becoming built around Cesc and RvP.

Also players will drive monster trucks.

It’s really crazy. Top athletes are off the scale in terms of pain tolerance. You will always be able to exploit them by pushing them beyond what’s possible.

And if we’re going to use the ‘people who have it hard should get more sympathy and money’, then I’m all for it being applied to people actually deserving of it, like refugees.

Apologies for amplifying this FB slop, but this kind of exchange is really dumb. No amount of money is making your muscles and joints recover faster. No athlete can maintain peak performance over an extended period of time. Pushing your body is no less excruciating if you are paid lots of money.

When you have to stand half a mile from your house and the photographer still can’t fit it in the shot, you’re not going to evoke much sympathy outside of Telegraph readers.

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To be honest, I never once noticed that she had a jockey. Just assumed she moved of her own accord.

At one point in the game I assumed Zubimendi had gone off without me noticing, as Odegaard was on the ball in his position. Then the camera panned and I saw Zubi standing redundantly behind him. @clivepafc.bsky.social pointed this out in the pod. Surely not Arteta’s instructions. Weird.

Ok I saw the Liverpool score. Ha.

I’m not looking at the other scores because I’m like that. But can’t stop thinking that if we’re only emotionally comfortable as fans when our team is in zero jeopardy — no shots conceded, 5 points clear, etc. — then we’re just going to have to get used to this as it is a title race.

I’m off to not think about football for a few days.

So frustrating not just that the defenders all got injured at the same time, but also that the attackers haven’t had the time to get settled back in. Almost the entire team has had to change, right when we were on a fantastic run of form. It’s just crazy bad luck, again, again, again.

We’re still top of the league. City also lost there. When you build a team from the basis of a solid defence, you will lose games when you don’t have your defenders.

If Hincapié has a right foot we don’t concede that goal. Just clear it man.

Can’t handle so many injuries. Rest, reset. No chance of winning anything when constantly without our best players. Give Rice the next couple of games off because if we lose him we are done.