Because I’ll never have the chance to post this again
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Forest now trying to emulate Spurs’ achievements of last season. Gave away a soft goal from a free kick that should not have been awarded and then failed to score in the last hour despite continual pressure. Credit to Sunderland though, especially their keeper.
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As someone else noted, Chelsea made the mistake of only buying one manager. Should have bought another 2 or 3 in the transfer window as cover.
Perhaps one who knows how to manage a football team through a whole match.
And ffs, can we just get a different keeper!
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One to treasure.
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I posted a similar table to some friends with a similar comment in 2015. 
You are allowed to dream, you never know.
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Big game up at St James Park this afternoon the points difference between Liverpool and Arsenal could have been as much as 8 points before yesterdays fantastic display by Crystal Palace but could be as little as 2 if Arsenal can do something they failed to do across 4 matches last season and beat Newcastle.
A huge test for Arteta and his shiny new squad Eddie Howe has shown that he has Arteta’s number of late and it will take a huge effort to overcome Newcastle. It will bring to an end a horrible opening 6 fixtures for the Arsenal and we will see if Arteta has learned from his mistakes both this and last season.
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Say what you like about the Gooners but they certainly know how to take a corner. Much the better team tbf.
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I’m biased obviously but I do believe the best team won Nick Pope was Newcastle’s man of the match by a long shot and that says it all.
Newcastle got their noses in front against the run of play and used their very physical presence to hold Arsenal off but in the end the best team won.
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It was a good match
Ian
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That was actually a huge, huge win for The Arsenal yesterday we could have been 8 points behind Liverpool this morning if they had won and we had lost, going a goal down at St James Park in the first half after only a masterful display by Nick Pope in the Newcastle goal kept us out and then scoring in the 85th and 95th minutes to win.
Arteta ended up with Declan Rice in the 6 and both Eze and Odegaard in midfield so fair play to him for throwing everything he had at Newcastle with both Havertz and Madueke to come back from injury we are building a strong forward line and Arteta finally decided to use it.
Newcastle though really strong defensively do look like they are missing Isak up top.
And Wissa. Arsenal were the better team but Pope, despite his heroics, wants shooting for that hurried clearance in the 94th minute just before The Cheats winning goal. Oh well, off to Belgium tomorrow for the CL 
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At the Palace/Liverpool match on Saturday I sat next to a really nice American guy. Turned out he is a writer for The Athletic which is owned by the New York Times and is an online football (or soccer🙄) website. He had come over from Washington DC to see our match and the Arsenal/Toon match.
I have to confess that I hadn’t heard of The Athletic so I’ve been looking at it today. On the opening page covering this weekend’s Prem action was this
The article says it is being a bit tongue in cheek but, bloody hell, what a time to be a Palace fan. They also had this chart of the longest unbeaten runs across Europe
This chart was before the weekend so it is now 18 for us and Liverpool and Real Madrid no longer in this table.
The articles in The Athletic seem really well written so definitely worth a look
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The Athletic has excellent content and some very good football journalists I read/watch it often David Ornstein is a respected journalist who my club especially trust if he posts on an Arsenal transfer, contract injury you can trust it as being true.
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Big improvement in the game against Everton last night. Our play in the second half was seriously impressive, Summerville and Diouf especially.
The Nuno Era has begun (sort of).
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Worryingly for the rest of us relegation battlers you could see the Nuno effect second half. Everton I thought were all (too much) about Grealish who is clearly a talented player but for me a boring one - get ball, slow down/stop, often turn back, lay ball off to oncoming player. Better when he goes beyond the fullback. And I don’t know if it was just the TV sound but there was little atmosphere in the new ground for me. WHU will be fine I fear.
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Liverpool loose again 1-0 this time in the CL Stamford Bridge on Saturday could be sticky!
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Can’t see it.
A frustrating afternoon at Elland Road today for The Mighty Whites.
They played well enough in patches, but the defence went AWOL far too often, allowing Spuds way too much space, and our attack were wasteful with the few scoring chances we had.
Something in the modern game which I find hugely annoying … … … there’s 15 minutes left, we’re a goal down, and we’re endlessly passing the ball sideways across the pitch, or, God forbid, back to the keeper.
Listen chaps, the opponent’s goal is 
that way, so is it too much to ask that we please start moving the ball in a generally forward direction?
Otherwise, the ref was the perfect model of inconsistency, whilst Spuds “game management” was an object lesson in time wasting, which went unpunished.
Harrumph.
Still. 
M.O.T.
Edit: With both of Spuds’ goals resulting from deflections from the same Leeds defender, you might well argue that lightning does, indeed, Struijk twice.
I get me coat. 
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Mistakes are costing us. A point v Fulham, 2 v AFCB & at least 1 today. Spuds have better players. Built to pick pockets we gave the ball away cheaply in midfield and were undone for goal 1. Deflection. Goal 2 our 3 fell over. Deflection. We conceded soft goals. Top teams make us work for ours. That said DCL has now missed 4 gilt edged chances in 2 games & Piroe missed a beauty today - mistakes. If we had a top striker we’d be fine. We don’t so we’re in a relegation battle. We knew we needed attacking quality but we failed to find it so Farke has to make the best of what he’s got, and he is. Final point, dark arts. Every team that rocks up at ER uses them. Spuds were especially bad and the ref did nothing. He had a shocker. But we’re competitive so we get a decent game which makes the effort battling through storms worth the effort.
Final final point. We don’t have squad depth, not unusual for a promoted side, so missing James & Gnonto hurts.
MOT.
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