Match Thread | Arsenal vs Man City League Cup (22/12/20)

[RandomJ]

Wonder if Pep will make more than one sub tonight.

 

[citytill1die84]

It fuckin is believe me absolute shocking

I think you're lying pal. The Derby for starters was much worse.

 

[stan bowles]

Yes, but at least Bernie is trying and shows commitment, Mahrez is just a fucking pansy.

Can't say I noticed. They're both contributing nothing. Bernie's a nice guy though so everyone loves him.

 

[bluealf]

Culture for the great unwashed, fella. All part of the service we provide on here.

Shame about the other 99,400 or so then :)

 

[whp.blue]

Is there extra time tonight?

Straight to pens

 

[Cornish_Blue]

Mahrez doesn’t get subbed.
Pep will keep him on the pitch, we might as well play with 10.
Gundo needs to come on for Rodri, Torres or Sterling for Mahrez.

 

[the plasterer]

It’s very rare that I utterly dislike a player wearing our shirt, but I just don’t want Mahrez at our club any more. I just can’t stand it when someone is being paid over £100k per week yet doesn’t give a toss and can’t be arsed giving 100% and getting stuck in. Really winds me up.

+1

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Is there extra time tonight?

I hope not, just knock us both out and let give one of the others a bye

 

[nellyonthewing]

As someone else has noted, the difference in the quantity of posts after they scored, compared to after we scored, is comical. Some are just waiting for a chance to wade in on us. Have a look at the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling....

"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

If we took our chances.
If we moved the ball quicker
If we took mahrez off.
Less of the stiff upper lip Marmaduke Ponsonby Smythe.

 

[big gaz]

Whoever tackles the little **** next needs to do it with the force of a charging rhinoceros.

Paul Sinfield ?