In true Arsenal fashion itâs actually an excellent result. But feels like a disaster
Grealish was Abu Dhabiâs best player by a mile when he came on. He was only one that provided anything different. The rest were just programmed zombies.
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Good draw for Arsenal. Wouldnât have seen them getting a point at half time.
Unusual to see City so rattled. Twas only Arsenal
Nah, great point
Handy result for Aston Villa and longshot challengers like Liverpool.
Haaland is useless.
Pep missed a trick not getting Grealish on sooner, he is brilliant against low block defenses.
They were warriors out there, couldnât do much more
Timber coming off and being replaced on that wing by a 17 year old contributed to that
A real fillup for Man Cit-heh before the real bidniz of the challenge to their existence kicks off tomorrow.
Hopefully they are cleared.
Nobody wants to win titles in the boardroom surely.
âAnybody else in the world would have run offsideâ, says Paul Merson of Abu Dhabiâs first goal.
I very much doubt anybody else in the world would have run offside, Paul.
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City are finished
Theo Walcott has a lovely speaking voice. Heâd be excellent doing voice overs on road safety videos.
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Aside from being top of the table they have made a disastrous start
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Stan is correct on everything except that Drury was ever a super commentator. He always liked the sound of his own voice too much.
Tylerâs commentaries seem like a golden age now.
https://x.com/StanCollymore/status/1837921469571256827
Peter Drury is proof of how influencers, not production quality is dictating bosses in briadcast media.
He was a good âsteady Eddieâ for years, a super comms guy.
He then strikes up a rapport with McCoist and every teen were âoh, theyâre like lovely Uncles who love the game, Awwwâ.
That and that alone got him Number 1 at Sky.
People arenât stupid, Tyler for his faults matches great moments with spontaneous words that matched. Drury, you can tell has a page full of âwhat to say when xxx scoresâ and it comes across as inauthentic and scripted.
Sky needs to do an audit on the demographics of their audience and listen to them because during the week other than geekily watching bits of shows to see what theyâre doing, there is almost zero output that goes beyond clip-bait which industrially throws out clips on socials which maintains Skyâs presence. The reality is that numbers are tanking, people are sick of 4 or 5 clubs on a loop and to be frank, output that is just copying the big influencer channels rather than insightful football club, player, manager and regional content.
Utter fucking rubbish most of it and I know many agree. Itâs being held together by 3 or 4 pundits who occasionally and only occasionally now sadly are doing insight rather than comedy.
If I want comedy, Iâll watch a thousand great comedians. Give me football please.
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I missed the second half but a 7-2-0 formation would suggest Arteta failed the Test
Champions find a way.
Just catching up on the results of the day. Your heart would go out to Lego Man and Woolwich.
Rodriâs injury will put a serious dent in the 5 in a row