Granit Xhaka (official)

[AFC Leveller]

I had a bus driver call the police on me last week
We had a bit of a dispute about whether I'd put my Oyster card on the reader (I had and thought it had beeped, apparently it hadn't).
He was being quite rude to me so in the end I got cross and said "Just drive the bus, that's your job!"
Bit rude of me but I didn't swear at him and I wasn't shouting, I was just a bit miffed by his attitude.
He ordered me off the bus! Fun that! I told him to stop being silly and others on the bus agreed. So he radioed through to get the police called
I did apologise to him as I had been a bit rude (he didn't apologise even though he had too) and he said "I don't accept your apology". Meh.
The next bus wasn't due for a while so I just stayed on the bus. Police bloke arrived and said "I've got better things to do than this". I said "I'm sure you have, I didn't call you!".
By this time the next bus was only a couple of minutes away so I got on that.

I fought the law and...well, I guess I lost
Bit surprised the police bloke sided with the driver, I guess that's their default stance to make life easy for themselves but unless someone is abusive or violent a bus driver surely can't just refuse to have someone on their bus because they're having a bad day. Meh.

London bus drivers are stressed out and....BORED! they want entertainment in their day and you were an opportunity too good to turn down.

[Niall_Quinn]

London bus drivers are stressed out and....BORED! they want entertainment in their day and you were an opportunity too good to turn down.

True, they quickly get bored of cutting up drivers and pulling out on them whether there's breaking distance or not. "Let the bus go first", is not a request, it's safety advice.

[Letters]

Edmonton is a shithole no matter what country you're in.

True dat.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has warned Granit Xhaka not to tackle in games for fear of the midfielder picking up yet another red card.

'I think he's not naturally a great tackler,' said Wenger.

'In his decision making I think he is quite intelligent on the pitch. But it's more the way he tackles that is not really convincing.

'He doesn't master well the technique. I would encourage him not to tackle, to stay on his feet. Tackling is a technique that you learn at a young age.

'You can improve it but when you are face-to-face with somebody, it's better you stay up.'

Regarding the busybody cunt at the airport who called the police instead of doing the world a favour and dropping dead:

'He denies it completely,' said Wenger. 'I have talked with him about it and he completely denies what happened there.'

So our scouts and and the vast bank of statistical tools and the manager's own appraisal failed to spot this rather fundamental flaw in our £32mill central midfielder? Is that an oversight. I think it maybe is.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has warned Granit Xhaka not to tackle in games for fear of the midfielder picking up yet another red card.



Regarding the busybody cunt at the airport who called the police instead of doing the world a favour and dropping dead:



So our scouts and and the vast bank of statistical tools and the manager's own appraisal failed to spot this rather fundamental flaw in our £32mill central midfielder? Is that an oversight. I think it maybe is.

It's like buying a leaf blower to replace your broken vacuum cleaner and then deciding six months later that it probably shouldn't be used to vacuum the carpet although you will continue to use it to vacuum the carpet.

[Marc Overmars]

He could probably get away with being a shit tackler if he had a decent temperament, but he's made a rod for his own back with his unnecessarily spikey demeanour. I remember he was fouled during the Burnley game, a nothing incident, but for some reason he decides to square up to the player afterwards. Absolutely pointless.

Nothing wrong with being aggressive, just make sure you keep your cool and don't keep drawing attention to yourself.

[Özim]

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has warned Granit Xhaka not to tackle in games for fear of the midfielder picking up yet another red card.



Regarding the busybody cunt at the airport who called the police instead of doing the world a favour and dropping dead:



So our scouts and and the vast bank of statistical tools and the manager's own appraisal failed to spot this rather fundamental flaw in our £32mill central midfielder? Is that an oversight. I think it maybe is.

Completely the wrong signing, had a history of being sent off I believe and now we find out that our manager doesn't want our DM to tackle because he's rubbish at it, you couldn't make it up!

Was somewhat puzzled when I saw up stump up a load of cash for someone I (and quite a few) never heard of, not too surprised to see he's not really up to the task we need him to perform.

Mind you this makes sense, Wenger likes powderpuff teams who can easily be intimidated and don't tackle, it gives him an excuse when a team roughs us up.

[Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie]

Your logic is exceptional, so Wenger isn't an incompetent he's actually purposely self sabotaging.

If you'd simply said Wenger had naused it up and got the wrong player for the position he wanted him to play than yeah fair enough i don't disagree with you

But no it has to be malevolence on his part.

[Özim]

Your logic is exceptional, so Wenger isn't an incompetent he's actually purposely self sabotaging.

If you'd simply said Wenger had naused it up and got the wrong player for the position he wanted him to play than yeah fair enough i don't disagree with you

But no it has to be malevolence on his part.

Where did I say that, all I said was Wenger likes teams that aren't physical, tackling isn't overly necessary to him, the fact he's told Xhaka not to tackle reenforces that. He didn't buy Xhaka to parade around intimidating the opposition with tough tackling, he bought him for his passing, it wasn't an incompetent decision in the sense that he knew what he was getting, it was however in the grand scheme of things when we absolutely needed a tough tackling dominating DM.

[Niall_Quinn]

How much have we spent in the last 3 seasons? We could have had 2-3 real world beating additions to the team, that elusive 2% we've been chasing for how long now? By "chasing" I mean running in the opposite direction whenever a Vidal pops up. 30-40 mill on him, 90mill on a striker. I think we'd still have money left over for a world class wide man. It could have been done.

Instead we did this.