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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10545 on: January 31, 2026, 05:35:52 PM »
Seems a weird thing to argue about.

Exactly, not sure why you are.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10546 on: January 31, 2026, 05:36:53 PM »
So we're agreed that Arsenal are good and also lucky as fuck, jolly good.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10547 on: January 31, 2026, 05:38:27 PM »
Glad you've seen the light after saying they weren't a cracking side, only lucky twats  :-*

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10548 on: January 31, 2026, 05:38:42 PM »
I’m not the biggest proponent of luck. Not saying you can’t get lucky like Darren Bent scoring by of a beach ball or whatever it was. But I think Arsenal really practice set pieces as a specific way of scoring and also putting defenders in the worst possible position through their movement and where they place the ball in the box. The amount of own goals is an anomaly but I believe the intent is very much there in how they try to get them. They force errors and those errors lead to goals. That’s by design.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10549 on: January 31, 2026, 05:40:50 PM »
Get in Bowen!

Online Tony Daleys Shorts

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10550 on: January 31, 2026, 05:43:05 PM »
Gary Player nailed the ‘lucky’ argument years ago.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10551 on: January 31, 2026, 05:44:01 PM »
See this is what happens when you don’t play your best team and you’re trying to build momentum. Often we’ve been guilty of not too many changes, but in the other hand we do go on these huge winning streaks which, I believe is a result of not tinkering too much with a winning formula.

Leaving Pedro out when he’s hit form is weird.

Offline adrenachrome

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10552 on: January 31, 2026, 05:44:45 PM »
East Laahnan!

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10553 on: January 31, 2026, 05:54:11 PM »
Palmer's Tonsure would be a great name for A Post Rock Monk-based beat combo.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10554 on: January 31, 2026, 05:57:27 PM »
So Chelsea are utter gash for 20 minutes so they call a team meeting with a fake injury. Cnuts.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10555 on: January 31, 2026, 05:58:43 PM »
Fuck off Neville.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10556 on: January 31, 2026, 06:02:07 PM »
Fuck off Neville.
[/quoteWhat’s he saying now?

Offline lovejoy

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10557 on: January 31, 2026, 06:02:55 PM »
I think Neville is a pretty good pundit.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10558 on: January 31, 2026, 06:05:58 PM »
That is a "you are getting relegated, mates" scoreline.

Sorry, but there is no excuse for calling Albion ‘mates’ in any circumstances.

Sincere apologies.

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Re: Other Games 2025-26
« Reply #10559 on: January 31, 2026, 06:07:16 PM »
If West Ham and Forest can keep getting point and Spurs league form carries on the same they will get sucked into the bottom which would be hilarious.

 


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