Come on, don’t be shy. Name names………
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Do not believe everything you read especially when it comes to football. Athletico Madrid booked a training session at the Emirates Stadium prior to their recent Champions League match against Arsenal, aware of a problem with the Central heating system in both the home and away team dressing rooms engineers where booked by the club to rectify the problem.
The Madrid team turned up hours early for their prearranged session and so trained and left before the issue was mended, mended in good time for the correct time of their training session so no nefarious and wicked plan at all.
The players returned to their hotel usually the Ritz or the Four Seasons where they where spoiled like the big girl’s blouses they are with all the piping hot water they needed but no doubt this horrendous abuse of their civil liberties contributed to the spanking dealt to them by the way of the four goals in 13 second half minutes by a rampant Arsenal.
We don’t Bob. We don’t.
Only one PL game on Boxing Day. What is the world coming to?
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The Arsenal maintain their 7 point lead at the top of the EPL overcoming yet another lowblocking team initially with another set piece but then with a well worked team goal, David Raya has so little to do these days that he may as well work from home.
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They’re looking solid so far this year. This could be Arsenals season Bob…
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Ha! Good line, Bob.
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Well…I didn’t see that coming. A baffling, embarrassing performance. Gordon looked disinterested, Bruno looked knackered, Osula, Elanga and Krafth are totally out of their depth, and Botman and Burn looked leggy. Special mention should go to Pope, who directly cost us the first and third goals, and punches more than Mike Tyson. An utter shambles.
Eddie was not blameless, with some bizarre, panicked, substitutions, which meant our best (or least worst) player, Tonali, ending up at Right Back. It beggars belief. Just when I thought things were improving, we throw in our worst performance in 4 years. There, that’s off my chest. Champions League v Bilbao on Wednesday… 
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Well done to Nuno and the Hammers!
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Can’t disagree with any of that. After scoring after 4 minutes we really should have pushed on to kill the game off. I can’t believe how many passes went astray or how many times players failed to control easy balls.
It’s bad enough when one or two players have a bad game, but today the whole team were just so poor. They need to take a good hard look at themselves after that and stop this terribly run away from home.
West Ham, for once, were actually pretty good and fully deserved the win . 
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Absolutely. Bowen is a class act.
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Agree with much of your ‘rant’, a poor performance. Regardless, Forest would be glad to have Elanga back again! We’re not offering much along the right flank and none of our managers seem to want to give game time to Hutchinson. I believe he was a club-record signing in August this year.
Cracking matches for Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal.
Madrid seemed half asleep for much of the match
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As my heritage is from the blue side of Manchester there is one team I hate more than ManUre……but they did well tonight!
Trent A-A got a “warm reception” from the Kop :laughing
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They played well Suze, really well in fact.
As I’m from the red side of Manchester, ahem, I hope the best team wins when you play them on Sunday.
We’ve both got our work cut out with Spurs and L’pool at the weekend, that’s for sure.
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Not a vintage performance, but a definite improvement from the West Ham fiasco. 9 points out of the last 3 CL games, and 3 clean sheets is a bonus. Fantastic header by Dan Burn (even better than the Rumbelows Cup Final header) and great to see Hall back on the pitch. A good night 
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it really was an amazing header - it started off wide of the post and just curled in. A very decent run of results in the Champions League. Now, about Brentford at the weekend….
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Two ex Gunners came back to haunt us up at the Stadium Light firstly Hale Ender Daniel Ballard opened the scoring for Sunderland and our ex Captain Granit Xhaka now captain of Sunderland was brilliant. It was a cracking game of football and a point each was a fair result.
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Sunderland have been a real surprise since promotion and look a very difficult team to break down. Worrying words from a Toon supporter…
Arteta will likely be disappointed not to get the three points after taking the lead, but for the neutral (sort of) it was a good watch.
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