Pure clickbait. Gotta stay relevant, eh Merson?
Of course, after talking utter guff in his article he ended up saying, “So they could be mid-table, but you could also say they haven’t started playing yet and they have won every game. That’s the sign of a very good team”
Um, yes…exactly 
Im not sure why the let Merson make comments when hes just snorted the devils dandruff.
Merson is always wrong so the good thing is this is a positive.
Also I’m trying to work out if he classes a free kick 30 yards out as a gift and if so that means every set piece goal Arsenal score is also a gift.
Points are often exaggerated in the media, but there is nothing problematic in saying that Wirtz hasn’t performed really well so far. I’m not worried about him (yet) though. Some players need time and I’m pretty sure he will come good, but it’s not the media’s job - to be silent/patient and give time.
He says we’ve been gifted 6 points. I didn’t say a word about Wirtz and no one else did.
Please tell me where we were gifted it? The job of the media is to analyse and report things that happened. This is just the opinion of someone who I assume thinks a free kick from 30 yards is a gift? The penalty was a bit of a gift but then if no one else gets a penalty this season in such a way then perhaps it will make sense.
I was referring to Nicol.
Was it in any way not a penalty?
The only way that you could be “gifted” a result is if someone threw the game. Given the players reaction, I think he knew that he had inadvertently messed up.
It was a gift from the player being utterly stupid, but as I said with the rest of the post if you don’t see similar penalties this season I’d be shocked.
I heard him saying that the other day, and found it odd. Not sure it’s enough to unleash a mediastorm now, but even to me, it seemed insensitive when I heard it.
Jordan is just a sanctimonious twerp, but the second one is total score board pundity. Them even being level was a huge disconnect from the way the game unfolded. The late goal only righted that balance
Who?
Simon Jordan
I meant the bloke above from America.
A no mark journeyman who inexplicably has carved out a career as a pundit
Who is JoyPaulin and how exactly were we lucky?
We missed chances to finish the game and if Salah hadn’t missed it easiest of the lot, it was game over. Madrid scored one offside goal and the second was a wicked deflection when Ali had the shot covered. So, how the fuck were we lucky?
Im not sure but I heard someone say he was a no mark journeyman who inexplicably has carved out a career as a pundit
When you score 3 goals against AM, not sure that counts as lucky
To be honest I’m not sure there’s a pundit I actually do like. Punditry all seems to have descended into one of three categories.
Honestly, the best insight and discussion of the games comes from podcasts these days. Give me Andy Brassel or pretty much anyone from Football Weekly and it’d make the TV coverage all that more interesting because they’re people who are genuinely interested in and study football whereas all the TV lot are just there based on their playing reputation. Doesn’t matter half of them can’t string a sentence together let alone a coherent original thought.
I tell a lie, Ian Wright is a decent pundit when he’s not covering England. Opinions that aren’t set in granite, a personality that draws you in and a humility that is sorely lacking in most other ex-players turned pundits.