Leicester vs Arsenal 15.02.2024 - 12:30 KO GMT

[HCZ_Reborn]

From this point on, we probably need to modify our expectations. Having Nwaneri and Trossard as our only competent attacking options one having 3 league goals the other having 4 means that our ability to score goals is fatally compromised.

Even if Saka and Martinelli come back in March, they are unlikely to be match fit. We can therefore expect probably from now until the end of the season to be averaging a goal a game at most as opposed to the 2 goals a game we were averaging before. There may be games where we score 2 or 3 goals but that will be balanced out by games where we fail to score at all.


Away from home is where I anticipate the struggle for goals to be at its height. I think ultimately to secure top four, we have to accept that the title is over, not in thought but in deed. In that I think we need to prioritise not losing over winning, because going all out to win will guarantee defeat with most teams…given a) the fact that we don’t have an available recognised striker nor our first choice wingers b) our vulnerability to the counter attack even when that’s not the case.

I think even with Leicester this would be the best posture to adopt given how non existent our attack is that if Leicester or indeed any team scores first it is practically game over. So better we play for a 0-0 draw be cagey and see if they make a mistake that will allow us to scuff one in.

I hope I’m wrong, but the best I think we can hope for (and this is absolute best) is six wins from 14.

[Marc Overmars]

I think we’ll win but it will be a pub special.

0-1

[Mac76]

gosh - right date, right time, right order of teams... :faint: :lol:

anyway, this is easy - 3-0 Vardy hatter

[HCZ_Reborn]

gosh - right date, right time, right order of teams... :faint: :lol:

anyway, this is easy - 3-0 Vardy hatter

So I’m in a curious mood today

Do you genuinely believe I don’t understand the format, or do you understand I don’t particularly care all that much and yet despite this you’ll still labour on this point which makes you look like an autistic person, for an easy win.


For the avoidance of doubt this is a genuine question. It’s not a withering remark dressed up as a question. I actually would like to know.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

3-0 Butler-Oyedeji hat trick.



Just for balance

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[HCZ_Reborn]

3-0 Ade Akinbiyi hat-trick

[HCZ_Reborn]

3-0 Butler-Oyedeji hat trick.



Just for balance

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I’m showing my Neophobe side, but I don’t like all these kids with double barrelled names, it throws me

Time was having a double-barrelled name meant you were posh and probably slightly inbred

Now it’s just a recognition that parents are either choosing not to getting married, or the fathers surname appears on the birth certificate even though he’s an absent bum

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I’m showing my Neophobe side, but I don’t like all these kids with double barrelled names, it throws me

Time was having a double-barrelled name meant you were posh and probably slightly inbred

Now it’s just a recognition that parents are either choosing not to getting married, or the fathers surname appears on the birth certificate even though he’s an absent bum

I had that exact conversation this afternoon, on the back of our youth prospect Kone-Doherty. Swiftly moved on. Just incase.

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[Marc Overmars]

Some men even double barrel their surnames after marriage too. A colleague of mine did last year.

Some woke nonsense.

[Niall_Quinn]

Will be hilarious if Nwaneri starts on the bench, which could well happen. We're all assuming we're going to cobble together a front line, but there's just as much chance we'll draft players like Merino and Calafiore in and do that Pep ball thing that's so unproductive and boring. With the 3 we have available up top, none of them are good in the air, they won't be able to compete aerially so everything going to have to be on the ground. We know what that looks like.

Not looking forward to it.

Soul crushing, eye gouging 0-1 Gabriel

Depends who the ref is, of course.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Some men even double barrel their surnames after marriage too. A colleague of mine did last year.

Some woke nonsense.

Yeah it’s bullshit. My personal view is if a woman wants to keep her last name….fine with me, just don’t expect me to adopt hers or even put a hyphen after mine

[HCZ_Reborn]

Will be hilarious if Nwaneri starts on the bench, which could well happen. We're all assuming we're going to cobble together a front line, but there's just as much chance we'll draft players like Merino and Calafiore in and do that Pep ball thing that's so unproductive and boring. With the 3 we have available up top, none of them are good in the air, they won't be able to compete aerially so everything going to have to be on the ground. We know what that looks like.

Not looking forward to it.

Soul crushing, eye gouging 0-1 Gabriel

Depends who the ref is, of course.


For someone who is so predictable that you can almost set your watch by him, I have to say I genuinely don’t know what Arteta is going to do with the lineup….and to be honest I’m not sure I’d know what to go with in his place

I think where you and I are probably in alignment is that we don’t want to see Sterling anywhere near the XI


I’d probably go for something like this


Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Partey, Odegaard, White, Nwaneri, Trossard


So what I would do is play White on the right…not as far forward as Saka might play but in front of Timber because he’s a decent crosser of the ball. On the left have Trossard and Nwaneri playing interchangeably through the front and centre, with Calafiori playing the full wing back role behind them (Lewis-Skelly more comfortable when playing the inverted role but we seriously have to jettison that bullshit now more than at any time, and I think Calafiori is better on the ball)


I’m far from confident about that, but that’s probably the best I can come up with given what’s available

[HCZ_Reborn]

The referee by the way is Sam Barrott (no me neither) who apparently reffed the reverse fixture in September. Can’t remember anything particularly egregious (I think pundits wanted him to send off Calafiori but he didn’t, so kudos for that I guess)

[Niall_Quinn]

For someone who is so predictable that you can almost set your watch by him, I have to say I genuinely don’t know what Arteta is going to do with the lineup….and to be honest I’m not sure I’d know what to go with in his place

I think where you and I are probably in alignment is that we don’t want to see Sterling anywhere near the XI


I’d probably go for something like this


Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori, Rice, Partey, Odegaard, White, Nwaneri, Trossard


So what I would do is play White on the right…not as far forward as Saka might play but in front of Timber because he’s a decent crosser of the ball. On the left have Trossard and Nwaneri playing interchangeably through the front and centre, with Calafiori playing the full wing back role behind them (Lewis-Skelly more comfortable when playing the inverted role but we seriously have to jettison that bullshit now more than at any time, and I think Calafiori is better on the ball)


I’m far from confident about that, but that’s probably the best I can come up with given what’s available

I'd give the front 3 at least one chance to show what they can do. Nwaneri right, Trossard left and Sterling right through the centre. We'd be pinning a lot on White to play the whole 90 and especially to take on such a key, high intensity role. He'll need a few games.

I've laughed for years at the Sterling myth, about what a great player he is. For me he's always been shite, but there will be a degree of bias in that. Used to hate him diving around the place during his Liverpool and then, especially, City days. So let's assume there is something to that hype that has always surrounded him. This is his chance to show it, even a glimpse. Some reason to pin a hope on him to assist in dragging back the points on Liverpool. It's a long shot, like from here to the moon.

[Letters]

Time was having a double-barrelled name meant you were posh and probably slightly inbred
Ivo Graham (posho comedian, if you’re not familiar) was telling a yarn about a stag do he organised (badly, hence the yarn). On being asked whether it was a posh affair he said “there were more surnames than people” :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

I'd give the front 3 at least one chance to show what they can do. Nwaneri right, Trossard left and Sterling right through the centre. We'd be pinning a lot on White to play the whole 90 and especially to take on such a key, high intensity role. He'll need a few games.

I've laughed for years at the Sterling myth, about what a great player he is. For me he's always been shite, but there will be a degree of bias in that. Used to hate him diving around the place during his Liverpool and then, especially, City days. So let's assume there is something to that hype that has always surrounded him. This is his chance to show it, even a glimpse. Some reason to pin a hope on him to assist in dragging back the points on Liverpool. It's a long shot, like from here to the moon.

Sterling for me was a player who relied on pace, good low centre of gravity so he could be an absolute menace to deal with.

But the fact is the player who used to score against us (mainly for City) isn’t the player we’ve got. His legs have gone, I’ve seen him many times where he's trying to use trickery but he just isn’t quick enough to pull it off any longer and he’s never had much in the way of upper body strength to compensate. Guardiola knew what he was doing when he sold him to Chelsea he knew that he was done at the highest level.

Arteta, maybe because he knew him from when they were both at City thought he could work with him to get something out of him….but you can’t get blood out of a stone, can’t polish a turd (whatever expression you want to go with)

I have to say you probably do have a point about it being a bit much to play White for 90 minutes (on top of which a role he’s unfamiliar with)

[Marc Overmars]

Sterling is finished as a top level player but I don’t think we’ve got any choice but to play him now.

But you never know, this is his chance to prove that he’s still got something in the tank.

[Letters]

I hope we win, tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-4 tbh

All four Faes own goals

[HCZ_Reborn]

0-4 tbh

All four Faes own goals

Wout you talking about?

[Mac76]

Yeah it’s bullshit. My personal view is if a woman wants to keep her last name….fine with me, just don’t expect me to adopt hers or even put a hyphen after mine

It's bullshit to you perhaps but if both parties are happy to do it what's the problem? (and no I haven't personally done it)

[Mac76]

Wout you talking about?

He's saying Faes (who, to help you out a bit, plays for Leicester as a defender) will score four own goals, which means the result would be 0-4 - because you put the home team's score first when you list a result

And you know what an own goal is right? you should do, you often score them on here :haha:

[Mac76]

I'd give the front 3 at least one chance to show what they can do. Nwaneri right, Trossard left and Sterling right through the centre. We'd be pinning a lot on White to play the whole 90 and especially to take on such a key, high intensity role. He'll need a few games.

I've laughed for years at the Sterling myth, about what a great player he is. For me he's always been shite, but there will be a degree of bias in that. Used to hate him diving around the place during his Liverpool and then, especially, City days. So let's assume there is something to that hype that has always surrounded him. This is his chance to show it, even a glimpse. Some reason to pin a hope on him to assist in dragging back the points on Liverpool. It's a long shot, like from here to the moon.

Why does everyone think White will play, I know he went to Dubai but I thought he was still in the recovery phase of his op?

[HCZ_Reborn]

He's saying Faes (who, to help you out a bit, plays for Leicester as a defender) will score four own goals, which means the result would be 0-4 - because you put the home team's score first when you list a result

And you know what an own goal is right? you should do, you often score them on here :haha:

Fools rush in…..

What’s his first name?

[HCZ_Reborn]

It's bullshit to you perhaps but if both parties are happy to do it what's the problem? (and no I haven't personally done it)

:lol: I hadn’t even considered whether you personally had done it. Doubtless had you done so I would have made a remark along the likes of you being a cuck, but to be clear that would have been because it’s you not because I assume that of everyone who would adopt their partner’s surname.


Also saying something is bullshit and then explaining why I wouldn’t do it, isn’t a directive towards other people. Do what you want as long as it doesn’t affect me.


Case in point, a mate of mine is dating a woman who is polyamorous (she is to my understanding actually fucking another bloke). Now I think that’s bullshit…there’s no way I’d put up with that, but as I said to two other mates who were not happy about it “he’s a grown man, no one is making him put up with this. It’s his choice”

And no I don’t think adopting your partner’s surname and being ok with your girlfriend fucking another bloke are in anyway similar. The point is, I don’t expect other people not to do things I wouldn’t do

That’s your free Ted talk for this morning chief

[Letters]

Our kids' headmaster went double barrelled. But he's one of them gays so I guess that's a bit different as with two people of the same sex it's not clear who would take whose name.
Mrs L not taking my name would have been an issue with me, but I know lots of people who are married and whose wife didn't take their name. If it works for them then OK I guess.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I find it’s gay women who tend to get married more, but then there’s an old joke even amongst lesbians that going on more than one date means the next step is moving in together.

I know at least five female same sex couples who got engaged in less than six months. With the male gay couples, it’s more a case of pretending not to be jealous when one decides they want an open relationship.

[IBK]

Genuinely interested in how this fixture plays out, because it may set a kind of template for the rest of the season, and show us how the manager thinks his paltry resources are best deployed. It may also give us an indication of whether the team can function effectively at all against an opposition that should still be beatable.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Genuinely interested in how this fixture plays out, because it may set a kind of template for the rest of the season, and show us how the manager thinks his paltry resources are best deployed. It may also give us an indication of whether the team can function effectively at all against an opposition that should still be beatable.

Well as I said earlier, within reason I generally have a reasonable idea of what team Arteta will pick (there’s always the odd curveball or player that’s picked up a knock or the sniffles which wasn’t aware of) but I can probably confidently pick the back five but that’s it.

Will he swamp central midfield in order to leave an extra option going forward on the bench

Will he go completely rogue and play someone completely out of position up front (I tend to doubt it but can’t rule it out)


And from there, how will we approach games. If we were playing a tricky away game it might be expected that we would soak up the pressure and break, but a) do we have the players that can facilitate playing that way b) is that going to work against a team who instinctively likely to cede possession to us.


There’s a psychological factor in play as well, how will players react to the fact that there is going to be pressure on them to take the goal burden. Rice and Odegaard both players who have in the past netted fairly regularly but might they end up becoming hesitant…look at the chance Odegaard snatched at against Newcastle last week. Will he and Rice show for the ball ?

[Mac76]

Wout you talking about?

ah i see it was a 'joke'...

:tumbleweed:

[Mac76]

Genuinely interested in how this fixture plays out, because it may set a kind of template for the rest of the season, and show us how the manager thinks his paltry resources are best deployed. It may also give us an indication of whether the team can function effectively at all against an opposition that should still be beatable.

He'll probaby just think he can play Nwaneri/Trossard/Sterling for 90+ mins in every game for the rest of the season, because no-one ever gets injured when they're overplayed right?

[HCZ_Reborn]

He hasn’t ruled out entering the Free Transfer market

Which could be interesting

Wissam Ben Yedder has a good scoring record, he’s also a convicted sex abuser


There’s the very appropriately named Isaac Success (Played for Watford)


Kevin Gameiro….he'd have been great signing ten years ago

If we are feeling reminiscent, we can try Lucas Perez or Carlos Vela again

Personally I’m up for the 2025 equivalent of Wycombe Wanderers, where they advertised for a striker on teletext

[Letters]

I'd need to get some new boots but I am available.

[dazthegooner]

Well I was up for it but felt a slight twinge in me hammy (typical) was up for it as well :(

[Letters]

My passing is actually alright but I can't run for toffees and my shooting is...erratic at best - so I guess I'd fit right in :unsure:

[Mac76]

I can't defend or control the ball in tight spaces, basically am at my best at just running around, so I'm a like-for-like replacement for Zin

[dazthegooner]

Well your no bloody good then :lol:

[Mac76]

Well your no bloody good then :lol:

agreed

[Niall_Quinn]

Will we manage to scrape something up from the street in time for the next game though?

The free agent window can be difficult. Most clubs don't do much in this window (out of self respect). A lot of the players are already committed to other things like rehab clinics and bit roles on midnight podcasts. Can't see them wanting to come here unless they are guaranteed a starting spot.

Could also disrupt the summer transfer window. If we're spotted measuring up roadkill for a kit it might send the wrong message to potential transfer targets and comedians short of material.

Also these things just aren't that easy (this excuse works in any transfer window).

Also we have Merino who can play there.

I mean they wouldn't actually want to get paid, would they? We'll do something if we can but the last point might be the deal breaker. What's the point of calling themselves free agents if we have to pay them?

[Niall_Quinn]

We're kicking off at just after noon tomorrow and still no match officials announced, at least not on the PL web site.

EDIT: Actually, on a different page on their site ()think Herbert mentioned this now I think about it):

Referee: Sam Barrott. Assistants: Tim Wood, Wade Smith. Fourth official: Oliver Langford. VAR: Paul Tierney. Assistant VAR: Natalie Aspinall.

Some bird is doing the VAR.

[dazthegooner]

Yeah she can iron out any of the other's mistakes :blink:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Sterling; Trossard.
Subs: Neto, Calafiori, Zinchenko, Tierney, Kiwior, White, Jorginho, Merino, Butler-Oyedeji.

Doesn’t look like there will be a change to the system or how we play

We will carry on labouring playing Rice at 8 which will slow down our attacks. Additionally because of playing Sterling on the left and Lewis-Skelly behind him we will have zero attacking output on the left. And it will depend on whether Leicester double up on Nwaneri the way defences do with Saka.


Take away injuries and cunt referees, the way we set up in games has really proven to be the death of us this season. I can’t say I’m surprised, but to be so monomaniacally wedded to a system that doesn’t work all that brilliantly even when we have everyone fit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Leicester: Hermansen, Justin, Faes, Okoli, Kristiansen, Ndidi, Soumare, Khannouss, De Cordova-Reid, Ayew, Vardy
Subs: Stolarczyk, Coady, Winks, Mavididi, Daka, Skipp, Vestergaard, Coulibaly, Buonanotte

Arsenal: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Sterling, Trossard
Subs: Neto, Tierney, White, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Merino, Calafiori, Butler-Oyedeji

[WMUG]

My passing is actually alright but I can't run for as a result of toffees and my shooting is...erratic at best - so I guess I'd fit right in :unsure:

:good:

[Marc Overmars]

So important that we score first here. Chasing the game is going to be horrible with no options.

[Mac76]

So important that we score first here. Chasing the game is going to be horrible with no options.

That's exactly it, the starting lineup is entirely as we'd think but it's what he does on 70 mins is key (and he does have to do something, playing the first eleven into the ground is not an option)

For me he has to start getting Butler-Oyedeji into games, give the lad a chance

[Letters]

:good:

<_<

That and “being 50”

:oldboy:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

[Mac76]

Come on Arsenal. :bow:

:gp:

fucking hate Leicester btw

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sterling. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ndidi strike decent on the volley but easy for Raya.

[Mac76]

Ndidi strike decent on the volley but easy for Raya.

yes, indeedy

[Mac76]

Partey :doh:

[Mac76]

ffs how many times have we been offside already?

[HCZ_Reborn]

ffs how many times have we been offside already?

Collectively or just Sterling

[Mac76]

Collectively or just Sterling

Trossard and others too

meanwhile Partey is stinking the place out with dreadful passing and silly tackles

[HCZ_Reborn]

Playing Partey and Rice in their respective positions is the equivalent of putting your jumper on back to front

You are negating the things that they are good at, and expecting them to do the things they are less good at

Partey lucky not to be carded for fouling Vardy

[Mac76]

Leicester are kicking the shit out of Leo, someone needs to be booked next time

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Justin off injured, Coulibaly on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Joe Cole today:

Miles Kelly
Lewis-Kelly.

[Mac76]

Joe Cole today:

Miles Kelly
Lewis-Kelly.

there's a reason his folks made sure both his names had just the one syllable

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-0 HT. Terrible tbh.

[Mac76]

Not good but not unexpected

Sterling isn't working and Leo is much better coming in from the left than as a 9

We need to try the Merino up front thing IMO, put Leo on the left

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Arsenal you stupid shits.

[Letters]

Come on Arsenal you stupid shits.

:gp:

[Mac76]

I've tried to be easy on Sterling but this is so bad it's embarrassing

[Letters]

I've tried to be easy on Sterling but this is so bad it's embarrassing

What happened?

[Mac76]

What happened?

almost everything he's done has been poor, the Leiceseter fans are having a field day, cheering every time he messes up

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Unlucky Nwaneri.

[Mac76]

what an effort from Nwaneri

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sterling off, Merino on.

[Mac76]

Merino :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lewis-Skelly saved us.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ayew off, Mavididi on.

Partey off, Jorginho on.

Lewis-Skelly off, Calafiori on.

[Mac76]

Partey's been awful today

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Some strike from Nwaneri.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MERINO!!!!!

[Mac76]

Gooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Twice we've had players blatantly pulled back and nothing given.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

MERINO!!!!

[Mac76]

Merino 0-2 :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tierney on. :bow:

[Mac76]

Tierney on. :bow:

:gp:

[WMUG]

Who needs strikers, eh? :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

That’s actually hilarious and in a good way

Fair play to him, I say start him up front next week

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-2 FT. :bow:

On we go!

[Mac76]

Rice you tosser take a shot

[HCZ_Reborn]

Pretty rum performance all round to be honest Nwaneri aside (and Merino off the bench of course)

Sterling is a busted flush, it’s not poor form this is who he is now. He wasn’t great with Chelsea

Odegaard still off the boil. Rice and Partey not great

[Letters]

Our season continues to wobble on the brink of disaster but somehow we keep finding a way.
So far…

[Niall_Quinn]

We've just had the player we didn't need score twice playing in the position of the player we do need.

What to make of that I don't know.

The ref was great, his whole team were. Let everything go, including some pretty blatant stuff, but he was even handed. By the end most of the players had given up falling over at the slightest touch.

Nwaneri was excellent. Going to have to find a way to get him on the same pitch as Saka.

Unbearable first half. Second half opened up a bit towards the end as van Horsefaces mob got tired. Amazing second goal, Arsenal of old. Merino's finish was pretty damn fine too.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Our season continues to wobble on the brink of disaster but somehow we keep finding a way.
So far…

By 70 minutes in I’d reconciled us to getting no more than a point. We weren’t creating enough and fluffing the chances we created (although Nwaneri was unlucky).

[HCZ_Reborn]

We've just had the player we didn't need score twice playing in the position of the player we do need.

What to make of that I don't know.

The ref was great, his whole team were. Let everything go, including some pretty blatant stuff, but he was even handed. By the end most of the players had given up falling over at the slightest touch.

Nwaneri was excellent. Going to have to find a way to get him on the same pitch as Saka.

Unbearable first half. Second half opened up a bit towards the end as van Horsefaces mob got tired. Amazing second goal, Arsenal of old. Merino's finish was pretty damn fine too.

I’ve been of the view for a while that Saka can play in the middle, so it’s totally conceivable that he and Nwaneri could link up well.

Of course that’s a case of whether Arteta would do that. But I suppose with Nwaneri we don’t have to rush Saka back before he’s ready.

[Mac76]

Amazing second goal, Arsenal of old. Merino's finish was pretty damn fine too.

great cross from Leo, Merino in tons of space and took it really coolly :good:

[Letters]

By 70 minutes in I’d reconciled us to getting no more than a point. We weren’t creating enough and fluffing the chances we created (although Nwaneri was unlucky).

I wasn’t watching, as tradition dictates, but I was being kept updated.
I have to say before we scored I was thinking “HCZ woz rite” in terms of how much we are going to struggle with all the injuries up front. And it is worrying how much we laboured against the side which now have the worst defensive record in the league (although Southampton have a game in hand to reclaim that crown). Somehow this season we just keep finding a way. Head says we can’t keep on riding our luck but maybe we can muddle through till Saka returns. Nwaneri (sp?) is a ray of hope.

[Marc Overmars]

May as well start Merino up top the next game because the false 9 front 3 isn’t going to cut it.

An expected win today but hard to see how we are going to get away with it against the better teams.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Defensively we're so strong it will still give us a chance in so many games.

[Niall_Quinn]

Merino is now, statistically, the most effective striker in the league. His goals per 90 is 2, more than twice Salah's 0.93

If Salah keeps on going he'll get 35 this season, and if we keep Merino up front he'll finish with 28 goals. But Merino will only have played 14 games up top, so when that's taken into account Merino would actually get 76 goals in a full season, easily beating Salah.

[Mac76]

He's scored the same number of goals as Nunez apparently :lol:

[Mac76]

May as well start Merino up top the next game because the false 9 front 3 isn’t going to cut it.

It would be insane not to go with what works from the start next weekend, unfortunately with Arteta you just never know

[dazthegooner]

From what I gather Sterling should never be anywhere near the first team again maybe only to hand out the half time oranges (do they still do that or am I showing my age) :unsure:

[Niall_Quinn]

From what I gather Sterling should never be anywhere near the first team again maybe only to hand out the half time oranges (do they still do that or am I showing my age) :unsure:

He tried, but he's got no pace, no energy, no confidence, he can't beat players, a lot of the play broke down around him. If we don't send him back to the chavs it will be inexplicable.

[Marc Overmars]

Sterling. :lol:

His legs have completely gone.