The thing with Chiesa, love him (me), or loathe him, he is remonstrating with pure passion there… We should pass this passion onto our other players in spades..
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That thundering challenge at the halfway line right near where I sat shows that he CAN do it.
He chooses not to or he’s been told not to.
Both are bad.
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Huh?
He’s a long-established tv pundit asked for his expert opinion.
About club football which he is well entitled to opine on.
What has what he did with France got anything to do with what he was asked about?
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Thats where I am at a loss with that stat as he also made a similar tackle in our area just after that challenge, so therefore, he won more than 1 duel!
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Sorry for the late reply, but yeah, I’m done with this shit. I won’t watch a minute from us anymore this season, and sadly, am just waiting for the inevitable to happen, probably quite soon after the Brentford game. But I won’t take any joy out of it.
I also don’t expect us to take the necessary two points from the two remaining games, so the outcome will all depend on Bournemouth, if they can continue their impressive run or not. Iraola is an impressive manager, and @Sweeting an impressive forecaster. 
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Because it was the perfect opportunity to mock this London borough boy as he seems to have been referenced as an expert? He is entitled to an opinion though of course.
His words state - “But football does not care about press conference answers, it exposes you on the pitch.” Hilarious, he manages to mock his own press interview on a discussion about Liverpool’s standards.
There was another post which interviews Liverpool fan Tony Cascarino. Maybe instead Henry and Tony need to sit down and have a conversation together about his adopted nations result back in 2009? And any standards they felt at that time, or since the dust settled.
And in the meantime, Slot has still won more premier league titles than Arsenals Arteta. He hasn’t got them over the line yet, but it’s took him 6 and a half years of whining … trying.
It would make more sense if an expert like Ian Rush gave an interview about standards, but not Henry, it’s just not for me, no thank you.
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Henry won the league in 3 countries, the CL, the Euros and the World Cup, but he isnt fit to comment on what it means to hold high standards? And because Arteta hasnt won the league?
This is deranged
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Good init 
- I standardise in mocking gooners.
It’s his left pointy hand and everyone laughing in the same picture that really done it for me though, never laughed so hard
First time I’ve ever heard that Tony Cascarino was a Liverpool fan…?
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Same, I saw the interview and he’s basically saying what everyone else is saying. But odd choice of ex-pro to ask this.
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Can we pls stop this time off narrative thinghy… It has absolutely no bearing with reality…
I understand the dissapointment with a poor season, but we don’t have to turn commonsense on tis head…
I understand where it’s from though. Like it or not, optics matter.
Optics are for the fickle minded and the unserious. And thats what leads club managers astray.
That’s whats led Tottenham Hotspurs on the brink of relegation…
Optics for instance would’ve led to a different decision re- Ngumoha vs Chelsea, with potentially very harmful health outcomes.
But hey, it looks good!!!
What rubbish!!!
Different discussion, which has already been had. Of course he needed to bring the lad off or he would get injured! The point being the Anfield crowd didn’t give him the grace/benefit of doubt because the manager-crowd relationship is now fractured.No matter what he does now it is being viewed from the most negative standpoint possible.
Regarding optics.
I agree with you 100%
They should NOT matter. But unfortunately most people ARE fickle-minded and unserious as you put it.
The 2 things are hardly comparable. 
I watched the Chelsea game a second time last night.
It’s the same old problems on how to gain an hold in-match momentum.
I thought we were really solid that second half after Chelsea had their goal scratched off, and we applied pressure around the ground, but then started losing control of the match when VAR reviewed Virg’s header off the bar and Caceido’s rugby tackle on him.
During that time when we had the momentum, we didn’t really use that or apply it well enough in the forward areas to create any real opportunities. The movement forward was a bit too timid.
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Totally agree, seems everyone expects a footballer to work 7 days a week, every week and no time off, but ask them to do it in their jobs hmmmmmm.
It’s not really comparable though, is it?
Top footballers, like those in our first team squad, do get time off, but they earn the same as a CEO of a major company, and people in those positions work seven days a week. A top footballer’s career is short, and they have a long time to enjoy the riches they’ve earned. It’s not unreasonable to expect our players to be working hard at this stage of the season. If we were doing well, and everyone was happy, nobody would mind them having a break, but when we are looking so lethargic and disorganised, it’s no wonder that some fans are disgruntled.
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