Arsenal v West Ham United, 20:00 GMT (26/12, Amazon Prime Video)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

We're back. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Hopefully pick up where we left off.

Come on Eddie. Need something from you now. :pray:

[Letters]

And on Prime, so I can watch. It’s a Christmas miracle!

[Mac76]

Come on Eddie. Need something from you now. :pray:

:haha:

All downhill from here I'm afraid

[Mac76]

And on Prime, so I can watch. It’s a Christmas miracle!

I'll be there in the cold watching us grind out a 0-0
.

[Mac76]

1Ramsdale
4White
12Saliba
6Gabriel
3Tierney
8Ødegaard
5Partey
34Xhaka
7Saka
14Nketiah
11Martinelli

Substitutes

16Holding
17Cédric Soares
21Fábio Vieira
23Sambi Lokonga
25Elneny
27Marquinhos
30Turner
35Zinchenko
85Cozier-Duberry

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal: Ramsdale, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey, Xhaka, Odegaard, Saka, Martinelli, Nketiah.
Subs: Turner, Cedric, Zinchenko, Holding, Elneny, Lokonga, Vieira, Marquinhos, Cozier-Duberry.

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Kehrer, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice, Paqueta, Bowen, Benrahma, Antonio.
Subs: Areola, Johnson, Fornals, Lanzini, Downes Ogbonna, Coventry, Emerson, Mubama.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Ah fantastic I thought we were the last game of the day

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Onside surely?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Not given.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

What's that been disalllowed for?

I clapped it ffs.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bowen booked.

[Letters]

Amazon Prime video is bloody awful.
My neighbour is watching and is obviously ahead of me. I heard him yell when Saka put the ball in the net then saw it about 30 seconds later.
And then the player crashed on my Amazon Fire thing and I had to reopen the game.
:doh:

[Letters]

Bowen booked.

Super, great, smashing.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Super, great, smashing.

*Super, smashing, great ffs

[Letters]

*Super, smashing, great ffs

:lol: I stand corrected

[Letters]

Pel to West Ham :rolleyes:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 Benrahma pelanty.

[Letters]

1-0 WH

:rolleyes:

[Niall_Quinn]

VAR? :haha:

"There appears to be enough contact to disrupt his stride pattern."

LOL

So when you wrap your arms around a player and pull him to the ground? Is that enough contact? LOL.

What a joke.

VAR is just a rubber stamp on cheating, like the cunt who dived.

[Marc Overmars]

That penalty was soft.

[Niall_Quinn]

Literally just tuned in and frat thing I see is everything that's broken with what used to be football.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

It may be my terrible, terrible stream of Amazon, but that seemed a very, very soft penalty.

Maybe disturbed the gulf stream :shrug:

[Letters]

That penalty was soft.

A bit, I mean there was contact and when you’re running it doesn’t take much to disturb your stride. Overall I don’t feel too aggrieved. Let’s see how we respond. We’ve been the better side.

[Niall_Quinn]

A bit, I mean there was contact and when you’re running it doesn’t take much to disturb your stride. Overall I don’t feel too aggrieved. Let’s see how we respond. We’ve been the better side.

There was no contact. And this is the problem. Some people actually see things just because somebody else says they should see it.

[Letters]

Feel more annoyed about the Saka “goal”.
Only saw one replay because my stupid Amazon app crashed, but I couldn’t actually see who was offside.

[Niall_Quinn]

Feel more annoyed about the Saka “goal”.
Only saw one replay because my stupid Amazon app crashed, but I couldn’t actually see who was offside.

Didn't see it. Just tuned in. But if Saka actually managed to get a goal, given how shit he is these days, it must have been remarkable.

[Niall_Quinn]

So poor by White. How is he playing in a PL team?

[Letters]

We are clearly the better side here but we are struggling to create much clear cut.

[Niall_Quinn]

Partey is so bad it's comical. I look forward to seeing what he does next, for the giggle.

[Niall_Quinn]

LOL - Martinelli! That's crazy. How shit?

It's fucking incredible just how bad these fuckers are. And they are top of the league!

Football is a giant piss-take now.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's one long party for Partey. Somebody has a good agent.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Pelanty!

[Niall_Quinn]

Didn't see it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

That will be reversed.

[Letters]

Nah. That’ll be overruled

[Niall_Quinn]

LOOOOOOOOL Never a penalty. WTF?

Guess what- VAR will now come to the rescue.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-1 HT.

[Letters]

And that is where VAR does it’s job.
Obviously in that instance I’d rather it hadn’t, but they should be getting stuff like that right.

[Niall_Quinn]

They didn't manage to spot the obvious cheaty dive though?

"And that, in fairness, is what VAR is for."

Cheating.

[Mac76]

Even I didn't think it would be this bad

We're totally toothless

[Niall_Quinn]

Well the PL is still a huge joke. Not.a single player on that pitch has a clue. And the officiating is worse than ever now we have VAR.

Okay, that's enough "football" for 2022. absolutely nothing to see. Will check back at some point in 2023.

[Marc Overmars]

The collapse :rose:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Well the PL is still a huge joke. Not.a single player on that pitch has a clue. And the officiating is worse than ever now we have VAR.

Okay, that's enough "football" for 2022. absolutely nothing to see. Will check back at some point in 2023.

Feel free not to

[LDG]

Meh.

Bit disjointed.

What’s happened to Martinelli?

[selassie]

Jesus christ that was absolutely horrible. We really need to step this up second half, we have nothing on the bench either.

[selassie]

The collapse :rose:

All joking aside you are probably right. The downgrade from Jesus to Nketiah is scary. The whole team looks off tonight, we look really shaky at the back too.

[Mac76]

What’s happened to Martinelli?

No-one's passing to him, that's what

Xhaka is shit, Eddie is shit and without Jesus the team has reverted to Wengerball

[McNamara That Ghost...]

HHH's theme playing. :haha:

[Letters]

Come on, you twats.

[Marc Overmars]

All joking aside you are probably right. The downgrade from Jesus to Nketiah is scary. The whole team looks off tonight, we look really shaky at the back too.

Just look shite in general tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good strike from Partey.

[Letters]

Just look shite in general tbh.

Bit of an exaggeration. We’ve been the better side. But we aren’t creating enough.

[Letters]

Good strike from Partey.

It was going wide, but was close enough to give the ‘keeper a fright.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

SAKA!!!

[Letters]

SAKA!! Come on!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MARTINELLI!!!

[Letters]

MARTINELLI!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wenget. :bow:

[Letters]

There’s only one Arsene Wenger :lol:

[GP]

It would be nice if McCoist could stop crying for 5 minutes.

[HCZ_Reborn]

There’s only one Arsene Wenger :lol:

Whatever has been said about him on this board that was uncomplimentary, it’s absurd that he’s stayed away for so long

[McNamara That Ghost...]

NKETIAH!!!

[GP]

That, is a goal!

[HCZ_Reborn]

Edward scores, and phones the missus

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I can't work out if that is just abysmal defending or a :bow: turn.

Probably the former, but still. Ooooh.

[Letters]

That, is a goal!

The goalkeeper had football pie all over his jersey :cool:

[HCZ_Reborn]

It’s almost like NQ fucks off and things pick up for us

[GP]

Saka is quite good.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

3-1 FT. :bow:

[GP]

Fantastic performance.

[Marc Overmars]

Excellent second half.

Let’s fugging go.

[GP]

https://i.imgur.com/FIduT8k.png

[Mac76]

Told you we'd win :lol:

What a turnaround

[LDG]

Scott Parker left out

Fair

[Letters]

The workrate off the ball is fantastic.

[LDG]

Parker is jittery. He’s either cold or coming off the back of a horrendous bender.

[GP]

You're a horrendous bender haha lol jk

[LDG]

You're a horrendous bender haha lol jk

So’s your face

[GP]

:(

[Niall_Quinn]

Feel free not to

Yeah, I do. Even without you granting it. And by return, feel free to pretend you are watching football.

[Niall_Quinn]

It’s almost like NQ fucks off and things pick up for us

Tone it down a bit, else you'll achieve minority status and have to dance naked in a parade for kids.

[Niall_Quinn]

The workrate off the ball is fantastic.

:haha:

You are a funny bastard sometimes.

[Mac76]

:haha:

You are a funny bastard sometimes.

Whereas you aren't

[Mac76]

FWIW, Odegaard got the highest points on the BBC Sport site - all a left-wing Communist warmist conspiracy ofc, but still i agree, he was brilliant :bow:

[Letters]

Whereas you aren't

:lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Yeah, I do. Even without you granting it. And by return, feel free to pretend you are watching football.

I am watching football, because I don’t have this delusion of a rose tinted past where football was much different from how it was now.

But when exactly was your golden age of football that today has fallen so far from ?

Bear in mind we aren’t talking about money, rule changes to offside or back passes, VAR but actually just footballers and how the game is played