Match Threads Arsenal vs Spurs - Match Thread (Carabao Cup)

[UbeAstard]

The last 10 minutes of last night's game were my favourite 10 minutes of football ever. It seems like we have those tactics used against us time and time again in games we're losing, and it was so sweet to use them effectively against our biggest rivals.

I didn't like it actually and I think some of it is cheating and is deservedly punished by cards.

 

[rez9000]

Alex Scott is knowledgeable and articulate and has plenty to say after every match that is worth listening to. She's proved herself in a long, overwhelmingly successful career and now she's a competent commentator who is growing in confidence.

You're going to be all smug when Glenn Hoddle says "we" after a Spurs match and then you're going to make sexist and abusive comments when Alex Scott does the same for her club. That's called being a fucking hypocrite.

I think it's great to have a woman footballer who has a star player's proper understanding of the game and comments on the men's game from a position of knowledge.

And I think you're bad fucking news.

Well said. Although she does drop the odd malapropism in there from time to time. I think that's because she's nervous, being still relatively new to punditry. Sure she'll get better and she's already far better than some of the ones we get.

For instance: the word lackadaisical. It's one of those words that makes English such an interesting language. A lovely word. It has one 's' in it. Not two. Just one. Lack-a-dais-ical. It is NOT lack-S-adaisical! Heard it pronounced that way by Jamie Redknapp, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville! Even if she were the worst pundit in the world at least she doesn't mangle individual words in an effort to sound clever

 

[rez9000]

if only Sissoko could shoot. I love the guy but any other player would have buried that chance in the first half.

The weird thing is, his scoring record before he came to us wasn't monumentally terrible. For Toulouse, he got 20 goals in 192 and for Newcastle, he got 11 in 118. So, very roughly, one goal every ten games.

For us, he's scored one goal in SEVENTY games!

 

[ernie78]

Just had to watch that second goal for the umpteenth time. Cool as feck.

The pass then the deft outside of the boot flick, it’s all beautifully filthy.
If Suarez had played that pass and Messi finished it people would be wanking themselves to death over it

 

[Sweetsman]

Excellent aim, to be fair to the lad.

Long enough toss that he had to take into account both wind and coriolis effect, as well as the speed at which Dele was moving, while accounting for general unanticipated human movement. Nevermind The fact that it doesn’t look like he could see the pitch from behind he adults.

Quite impressed.

NBA career? He's not going to be coming to football for a very long time.

 

[F_AN2CE]

The weird thing is, his scoring record before he came to us wasn't monumentally terrible. For Toulouse, he got 20 goals in 192 and for Newcastle, he got 11 in 118. So, very roughly, one goal every ten games.

For us, he's scored one goal in SEVENTY games!

We are in for a treat soon

 

[Sweetsman]

The pass then the deft outside of the boot flick, it’s all beautifully filthy.
If Suarez had played that pass and Messi finished it people would be wanking themselves to death over it

Suarez probably did and it explains why that Liverpool supporter may have gone blind.
NB that isn't the reason he went blind

 

[rez9000]

Piers in Spurs garb. actually cleans up better than one would expect.

There's a desperate need for disinfectant.

For the shirt, that is.

 

[Sweetsman]

Well said. Although she does drop the odd malapropism in there from time to time. I think that's because she's nervous, being still relatively new to punditry. Sure she'll get better and she's already far better than some of the ones we get.

For instance: the word lackadaisical. It's one of those words that makes English such an interesting language. A lovely word. It has one 's' in it. Not two. Just one. Lack-a-dais-ical. It is NOT lack-S-adaisical! Heard it pronounced that way by Jamie Redknapp, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville! Even if she were the worst pundit in the world at least she doesn't mangle individual words in an effort to sound clever

Thank you for pointing out the mispronunciation of the word. It's been driving me mad, to the point that I was starting to wonder whether I was saying it incorrectly. "Stay concentrated" is another annoying phrase: I think of evaporated milk when this is said.

 

[rez9000]

Thank you for pointing out the mispronunciation of the word. It's been driving me mad, to the point that I was starting to wonder whether I was saying it incorrectly. "Stay concentrated" is another annoying phrase: I think of evaporated milk when this is said.

I'm on the verge of turning off the sound when I watch a game on TV because the commentators drive me up the wall with their misuse of the English language.

Putting the former players aside, aren't these commentators supposed to be journalists? Isn't language one of the fundamental resources of their profession? Why are they so shit at it?

 

[Sweetsman]

Alex Scott is knowledgeable and articulate and has plenty to say after every match that is worth listening to. She's proved herself in a long, overwhelmingly successful career and now she's a competent commentator who is growing in confidence.

You're going to be all smug when Glenn Hoddle says "we" after a Spurs match and then you're going to make sexist and abusive comments when Alex Scott does the same for her club. That's called being a fucking hypocrite.

I think it's great to have a woman footballer who has a star player's proper understanding of the game and comments on the men's game from a position of knowledge.

And I think you're bad fucking news.

FAO @degoose and @Roberts84

 

[Sweetsman]

I'm on the verge of turning off the sound when I watch a game on TV because the commentators drive me up the wall with their misuse of the English language.

Putting the former players aside, aren't these commentators supposed to be journalists? Isn't language one of the fundamental resources of their profession? Why are they so shit at it?

I think they may have to tone down their language skills when next to former footballers. Some print journalists have had advantages others haven't. For example,Henry Winter went to one of poshest private schools in England, but he's well known for toning this down in his accent.

 

[thebenjamin]

White Christmas.

 

[rez9000]

I think they may have to tone down their language skills when next to former footballers. Some print journalists have had advantages others haven't. For example,Henry Winter went to one of poshest private schools in England, but he's well known for toning this down in his accent.

Didn't know that. Whatever the reason for it though, it does make my teeth itch.

 

[gilzeantheking]

Arsenal have apparently identified the thrower

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46630294

 

[WalkerboyUK]

Arsenal have apparently identified the thrower

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46630294

LOL, the twat legged it after throwing the bottle...

 

[hughy]

I didn't like it actually and I think some of it is cheating and is deservedly punished by cards.

Not bothered. Dele running the ball in to the net and winding them up further had me giggling.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

The weird thing is, his scoring record before he came to us wasn't monumentally terrible. For Toulouse, he got 20 goals in 192 and for Newcastle, he got 11 in 118. So, very roughly, one goal every ten games.

For us, he's scored one goal in SEVENTY games!

Seventy appearances. I reckon the majority of his first fifty appearances were as a substitute, often a very late substitute.

 

[rez9000]

Seventy appearances. I reckon the majority of his first fifty appearances were as a substitute, often a very late substitute.

Aaah! Good point, well made.

 

[rez9000]

Cool story bro

Are you at it again, MB? What is it with you, do you have nothing better to do then throw shit grenades and then tell everyone that they're being 'boring' when they react? Jeez.