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...and Lascelles has managed to get himself booked in 3 of them despite only playing in 1

Everton, West Ham & Southampton in the bottom three...

It’s weird the way some people think. Like everyone should play a certain way but only when it suits them. Football has always been a game where there’s more than one way to skin a cat, with the end result trumping the method. Oddly, if you look at Wenger, he’s made out as being someone with a philosophy based on playing the beautiful game. But that actually came in the second half of his time at Arsenal. When he had his greatest success, there was pragmatism combined with flair. When he arrived he kept the extremely solid back line and had bite in midfield with Vieira and Petit. Even Bergkamp could be a dirty bastard. The invincibles had Gilberto Silva, Cygan, Keown, Ljungberg and players like that too. In his ‘purist phase’, when he seemed obsessed with buying pretty no. 10s to play in every single midfield position, he did less well. Arsenal becoming the sort of team Bolton, Stoke and the like licked their lips at the prospect of playing. Yet he still brought CL football and trophies. But that wasn’t enough for little cunts like ‘Ty’ and they hounded him out for it

In love with his own voice, that lad. Respect. Game recognises Game.

Let's not get carried away.

Just had a quick look on one Arsenal forum and whilst 99% of the comments are anti NUFC spouting the normal shite you would expect from opposing fans one stood out " That was one of the most flawless defensive performances from a visiting side that I can remember. The discipline and work rate to keep their shape was seriously impressive. They were the third top scorers in the league yet they came to our ground and showed us massive respect by completely tailoring their game plan to not lose. Very disappointing result but we’ve come such a long way. A point against Newcastle given their form and trajectory isn’t a disaster"

not long got back and sat reflecting over a glass of wine. thoroughly enjoyed that, superb team performance, backed by a raucous away end. we've played all the top teams now and have been better than most and at least equalled the others. as for arteta and his tantrums, and to quote from a knights tale.... you've been weighed, you've been measured and you've been found wanting. we'll fucking muller you again at our place.

That little cunt is the very epitome of the entitled ‘big 6’ man child.

we did try to play our normal game - howe said as much. i don't think he set us up to park the bus, as some gooners are suggesting, but sometimes when you're playing a quality opponent away from home you have to adapt to the game situation, which we did brilliantly. there isn't a better defence in the league. i liked that howe was disappointed in his interview that we weren't able to influence the game as much as usual in an attacking sense. it wasn't through a lack of trying though. arsenal forced us to defend for large periods of the game, and we after the opening 10 minutes or so, when we were under pressure, we pretty much nullified them other than once chance which pope saved well. it was just a shame we weren't able to do better when we had our moments going forwards - partially a result of them all being knackered from all the hard work they had to do off the ball. a half-fit wilson up front didn't help either as he ran out of gas pretty much at the start of the second half.

Am sorry like but Arsenal fans are fuckin ridiculous

Howe is a seasoned operator who is not going to give anything unnecessary away unlike previous managers who try to placate fans by talking about bringing in two or three new faces. In each cases there's likely plenty going on under the water, but Howe gives little away which only strengthens our position. Bruce: Pardew: Eddie: Tindall:

Never mind a decent point away at Arsenal, I got the real prize..

Fingers crossed it's nothing trivial.

Played all of the 'Big 6' and only lost to Liverpool (arguably unjustly). Played 4 of them away from home and took 5pts back home. Scored 7 conceded 6 Best defence in the league, conceding roughly 0.6 per 90. Fifth best attack in the league, scoring roughly 1.8 per 90. Simple table showing where teams have picked up their points this season. BH P = Games played against teams who finished in the Bottom Half 21/22 season, TH = Top Half 21/22 BH Pts = Points won in games against teams who finished bottom half 21/22 The sides promoted from the Championship at the end of the 21/22 season count as Bottom half for this table. Stand outs for me are; Brighton, Brentford, Fulham and Wolves. Former two have taken the majority of their points from top half sides. Double what they've taken from the bottom half sides. 80% of Fulham's and 100% of Wolves points have come from bottom half sides. Breaking it down further; Splitting the halves into more granular bandings. First table is games played against opposition in each banding. And this second one shows points returned from those fixtures. Shows that Chelsea and Tottenham have failed to beat any of the sides who finished higher than 7th, so far. Aston Villa have only taken 1pt from the promoted sides.

🤣......what a bunch of daft cunts

How little attention has Botman gotten from the media btw? If VVD had been putting in these performances they'd be wanking themselves silly. Young defender with zero Premier league experience comes in and makes everything look so easy. He's an absolute gem.

Thats not fair on his career tbh. His Sunderland side were absolutely shit.

It’s genuinely hilarious how they just make stuff up, decide it’s true, get annoyed/laugh about it, and then just recite it as fact. So they’ve had 8 managers in the last 6 years, we’re on our third. In fact to put it into perspective if you ignore caretakers we’ve had 9 in total since Ashley took over the club (that includes Allardyce who was appointed before the takeover, and Hughton that was kind of a weird default appointment due to Ashley fucking about). In that same time span Sunderland have had 16 different managers (again not including caretakers), but sure we’re the ones that hound managers out despite the fact they’ve basically averaged a manager per year for 15-16 years. The best part is we don’t even bring this up! I’m only discussing it because this is the stick they’ve chosen to beat us with despite the complete opposite being true.

So he won't make his debut until 21st January, by which time he'll have taken £8.7m in wages from them.

The history (note very bottom, they were interested in Sportswashing in 2018 - a massive 4 replies worth of interest, until weirdly in 2021 after 3 years of silence they became interested in it again): 55,128 posts on Sportswashing, plus another 4 if you count their outrage at Man City.

I'm absolutely loving the bitterness of the supporters and management of Arsenal, Liverpool and Man Utd against the way we've played against them this season. My latest favourite is them complaining about how Tripps was at the ref every foul after a card. How quick they are to forget the decades of this their own teams have subjected referees through, and in much greater numbers than just their captain (who in Trippier's case consistently stopped other players from approaching the ref). The amount of photos you can find online of them doing it is staggering. Arsenal were brought up on a charge for doing this as recently as October ffs. Year after year we have watched as we meekly surrendered when we've went to these clubs and they simply aren't happy that we are now building something and have the resources to prevent their darlings from winning trophies or making the champions league as regularly. Who knows how long this will continue, the Saudi's may pull out/be forced to pull out before they can reach our stated target, but I'm just loving every moment of it as long as it lasts.

He hasn't been poor, far from it, it's just that in the last 2 games his focus has been very much on getting the ball back and due to the opposition' disparate strengths we've not seen the other side to his game. Against Leeds he lead the team in tackles, drawing fouls, was had a better dribble success rate than any other starter, completed more long passes than anyone else, only Dan Burn completed more short passes... it's just a different, less glamorous side to his game. To be honest, it's more like the player I thought we'd be signing. A lot of the ugly work. Against Arsenal he was, as Craig says, clearly tasked with keeping Odegaard quiet, but he still completed more progressive passes (ball passed >10yd towards Arsenal's goal) than anyone else in the team. Only Willock had a better pass completion%, and Bruno's passes covered more ground. Nobody put more balls into the final 3rd, or into the box. Nobody on our team attempted or completed as many dribbles as Bruno.

I think that, whilst he’s played deeper in his career (from what I can make out) he’d thrive further forward with someone of real quality plating in front of the back four. Also I think Joelinton not playing in midfield, whilst not harming the team overall, might be a contributing factor. Maybe a bit of a World Cup hangover too. With Brazil not fulfilling expectations and his not playing much on top of that.

He’s being targeted every game now and we have nothing else in midfield. He completely dominated the Leicester game, and he didn’t exactly have a bad game against Leeds (Trippier had a worse one imo) if our attackers had put chances away he could have had an assist or two. We’ve been screaming out for CM help for a long time now, Longstaff and Willock are both willing runners but on the ball they’re both pretty weak which means the opposition are targeting Bruno and allowing the other two space knowing it’ll take them a couple of touches to control the ball. We gave Saka similar treatment last night with Burn, Joe, and often Willock crowding him out. As Strawb says it’s a couple of quieter games imo, he wasn’t exactly poor in either game and if we bring in players anywhere near his level to help him it’ll open things up a bit for him whereas currently he’s being heavily targeted.

We've done shite against Newcastle, mind. Howe out.

It's a strange thing, Leeds did it to us and as far as I can see ALL our frustration was about how/why we didn't break them down and the chances we missed. We didn't go on and on about what Leeds did more than what we didn't do, that said Arsenal created feck all last night tbh, we had the best chances, and should have bloody scored.

A balanced Gooner? Blimey, even a broken clock is right twice a day! All joking aside, it's good to hear a balanced viewpoint. In contrast I'm impressed with how much Arsenal have come on since last season - mind you, I don't think we saw a true representation of them at SJP, they were still reeling from the North London derby loss. Who've they got next I wonder?

Howe doesn't have to, he just lets Mad Dog off the leash.

The performance of our defence is fucking incredible btw. 11 goals conceded and 5 of those were against Man City & Liverpool. Trippier & Botman have been outstanding acquisitions but Pope too. At £10m he's an absolute steal! And to think a load of melts on Twitter were up in arms that Howe dared to replace Dubravka with him.

Trying to look at it objectively I saw it as his frustrations boiling over when he realised his gameplan against us was all wrong and he was flapping about how to break us down. He said as much in his interview as well - "Newcastle haven't played like that all season...." To be honest, he should be taking it as a compliment. Arsenal ARE a fucking good side and, although we are too, we definitely did have to change our approach to contain them. The nonsense on Twitter from the knobhead Gooners is hilarious - what seriously did they expect? Us to go there, be one dimensional and play our standard game and most likely have our arses served to us? How on earth would that be demonstrative of good coaching?

Can Wyki buy another vowel please?

We’ve played 6 of the top 7 sides away from home now and have lost only once. That is remarkable

Once you've heard one of the cunts you've heard them all. Honestly, they can't even handle getting a pint in if you've been in one of their bars. I once squeezed past a rammed bar thinking I'll be here all day to have about four bored barmaids waiting to serve me as they all stood talking absolute shite about football to each other whilst holding various bottles of beer and alcopops in their hands trying to outspeak each other whilst carefully avoiding getting their whistles wet. And when they did speak about stuff involving themselves and nufc it was almost a full time job correcting their made up tales or woeful memories. (And that was the ones that used to go pre-Wenger! The ones post Wenger are the spawn of Piers Morgan and whatever the daft cunt who's on arsenal TV is called? Tubes, spoons or some other such shite?)

What is it they say about imitation?

Yeah, being frustrated that your team couldn't break down a perceived lesser opponent is one thing. Blaming that opponent for not rolling over to have their tummy tickled is entitled bullshit. Don't get me wrong, I look forward to the day we turn up at the Emirates and play open expansive football to make Ty and his ilk cry into their club branded pillows. But until then they should stop crying, and fuck 'em if they can't

"Newcastle are less than nobodys!"

My BOL who is a Forest fan 'loves Arteta's passion' and cannot understand why I think he was a cunt last night. He also seems to keep banging on about us and FFP. Arteta has done a great job at Arsenal. A slow start but you could see what he wanted to do early. Just took a bit of time to stamp his authority and get rid of the deadwood etc. But the behaviour of him last night isn't what you should be seeing. Pep gets animated, but he doesn't run around like that. Klopp acts a cunt and Arteta was like a Klopp Jnr last night. Come on Arteta, you're better than that. As for the FFP. Forest have spunked a load, don't have a title shirt sponsor and are in the relegation zone. How's that going to work if they get relegated? Are they relying on the parachute payments? Is it that much? Slowly certain pundits mention what a great job we have done. But when we upset one of the big boys the revert back to lazyness and talk about how weve supposedly spent big etc as if no other club in the league has money to spend.

What it proved was that our lads can adapt and play physical and defensive when required - it’s not always all about the high press. Arteta in the press conference bemoaning that we played differently against them than any other team. I’ll take that as a compliment thanks very much you angry Spanish arsehole. By contrast you lot couldn’t adapt at all - hence you couldn’t break us down. Man City’s title to lose.

I actually heard him talk the other day, literally gemmill's voice twin, it's actually uncanny.

It's against the spirit of the game to defend against your opposition's best players. I expect we'll be fined heavily for it and Howe may cop a suspension.

Ease up on Dougle man Craig- the poor lad got home from work tonight to find a note saying “ Your dinner’s in the fridge” Poor lad is starving

Managers they've had since they last beat us.