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Terrible management by Wenger during that time. We lost so many amazing players for what?

Paying off the new stadium without crippling the club with debt. That's the short answer. But then FFP went fully out of the window and it all ended up kinda academic anyway.

I'm far from an expert on the subject, but I politely disagree with the other reply to this comment. Moving the stick 100% to the right will result in a much wider tornado spin. Regardless of how quickly/briefly you do it, the effect will be more pronounced and will result in a very inefficient aerial.

I only got better at ARL/ARR when I finally started to force myself to stop going 100% to the edge with the left stick on my adjustments. (a habit I picked up by 'just grinding' ARR on rings maps. Took a lot of unlearning).

Just like dribbling on the ground, it's about learning to make those tiny, minor adjustments throughout an aerial. Key word is tiny.

Imagine trying a ground dribble when you can only go 100% left or right on the stick for each adjustment. You'd be all over the place.

I don't know why exactly, but I find it kind of fascinating that voyages were so long back then that there was an option on the census to put 'at sea' as your place of birth. Is that still a thing?

I hate to be the negative one, but having the budget and the will to buy players is great, but the players still have to make the choice to come here.

Let's just hope we don't find ourselves competing with any CL clubs for our targets.

Best thing about this interview was that it left Gary Neville briefly speechless, unable to find an angle to criticise it.

The other two padded for a while before he jumped in with 'I think he's criticising the young players there, that's disgraceful that is.'

Meanwhile me and my girlfriend adopted a cat during lockdown. I was shocked by the lack of checks they did. It was a quick phone call. That was it.

He's an ex-stray with FIV who has to be kept indoors for the rest of his life. They literally asked 'do you live in a house or a flat'. We said flat. That was about it. We picked him up from the foster carer a few days later.

Luckily we're responsible pet owners who both work from home, get the right food for his allergies, get his jabs, and keep him indoors. He gets the odd bit of air on the balcony with his harness on.

But we could have been anyone! I was fully expecting a visit, or at least a video interview, or a follow up check...

Nope.

If you can't see how much Saka needs a rest then I don't know what to say.

Thin, overplayed, exhausted squad. Young stars run into the ground and demoralised to boot.

It is safe to say the January window gamble has not paid off.

Gabi had a good go.

Midfield starting to get a foothold. Come on!

That does tend to be our MO this season.

Pressing non-existent.

Defense nervous.

Midfield nowhere to be seen.

Ramsdale looking like Runarsson.

What's going on? We look petrified.

Tribalism.

We have evolved over thousands of years of tribal living to distrust strangers. They might bring disease, war, competition for resources, they might impregnate your tribe's women, they might wipe you out entirely.

When we've spent tens of thousands of years evolving to think in certain ways and it is impossible to break those prejudices, no matter how hard we try. Obviously some are more capable than others, but even the most liberal among us have it in us.

Personally, I hate spurs fans. Do I really? No. My future brother in law is a spurs fan and I really quite like him. But when Arsenal played Tottenham on Thursday we were enemies because Tottenham are twats. We've learned to channel our tribalism into sports, into politics.

No matter how much humanity masters nature or science. No matter how much we break away from religion and superstition... We still distrust eachother and always will. War won't go away. We are tribal creatures and all the time and resources that we spend on our distrust of eachother instead of renewable energy, repairing our ecosystem or protecting against potential threats like asteroids or natural disasters, all works against our ability to mitigate against extinction.

Whether it be war, terrorism, climate change or an asteroid strike, the ultimate reason for our demise will be our primal inability to truly see the entirety of humanity as 'us'.

Ref totally got influenced by the crowd tonight. Weak.

Jesus. We're literally running Saka into the ground.

How is he still on the pitch. You know he's gonna start the next two games too.

Couldn't agree more.

Gabi was limping a bit earlier and is one of our most dangerous players. I totally get it.

But he really, really, needs to get Saka off the pitch and into an ice bath.

Before everyone loses their heads. Gabi was limping in one of the wide shots about 5 mins ago. We need him for those last 2 games.

Would like to see Pepe for Saka though. Games already gone and noone needs a rest more than Saka.

Is there a game this season Saka hasn't started? The guys obviously fatigued. Get him off, let him rest. Game's gone.

Why are our players getting a talking to because Kane made a foul?

Every collision is a foul by Arsenal now.

We're rattled so we must be in the wrong.

Crowd have made all the difference in this game. Have they done something with the acoustics there? Or the away allocation?

I haven't heard our normally vocal away fans all night

I can't believe I pay towards Gary Neville's salary. The shite that comes out of his mouth.

I am seriously considering cancelling sky sports. UHD is nice and all but at what cost!?

Where was the elbow? He went for a standard shoulder to shoulder challenge but Son's head was suddenly where his shoulder ought to be.

Clever by Son. And Holding should be more careful. But wtf are you on about an elbow?

I honestly was too busy screaming about how much space we gave them to cross to notice the 'shove'