In all seriousness, I think the levels of delusion, paranoia and conspiracy muttering is now getting quite dangerous amongst football fans.
A dip into social media reveals that there isn’t a fanbase in the league who don’t have a proportion who believe that the games authorities are uniquely targeting them with the intention of stopping them winning games of football, and every team ahead of them in the league is only there because they have been favoured by the officials.
Its been the case for years. We have our own fans that believe the officials are out to get us, but every other clubs fanbase thinks the same.
We spend so money the attract the best players in the World, I don’t understand why we are not doing the same with our Officials. We should be going out and paying top dollar for the best officials in the World.
It would solve the problem of local club bias.
I’d be surprised if any other team’s case were as strong as ours, though.
My team for this match :
Allison
Bradley Konate Virgil Tsimikas
Szobosz/Mac Grav/Endo
Jones/Elliott
Salah Nunez/Jota Diaz/Chiesa
[60mins/30mins]
Should have enough to overcome Villa.
They would say so. Which leads me to think how fucking unhinged some of them look, and wonder if we look like that to fans other teams?
Having said that, there is a certain air of desperation to some of the comments I’ve seen, and a weird refusal to see the evidence in from of their own nose. I recently came across an Arsenal fan (a particularly unhinged fanbase) who still refused to accept that Havertz handballed that disallowed goal.
Especially with fifteen players.
I count 16!
He clearly explained what the oblique represented.
I think it will be
I think Macca looked fucked towards the end of the game on Sunday, and I’d like to see him come on with thirty to go. Last game was the first one in which I think we lost the midfield battle, so we need energy.
I appreciate the shouts for Bradley over Trent, especially as Trent seems to have a tough time with Rashford, but I don’t think Slot would drop Trent.
I think that Slot will continue being cautious with Jota, and Nunez will get the nod. I think Villa’s back line is really ticking with injuries so Darwin is te better bet to unsettle them further.
The first Time this season we lost the midfield battle was against Arsenal. Where we managed a very fortunate 2-2 draw.
No copying in evidence, looks like your own work. Gold Star @Mascot
We simply MUST win this one. Next game is City, tough tough game.
We could get very nervous on the field in the bext few games and…
We only have ONE prem game in the whole of March.
Winning this would be massive and give us confidence for the following two.
I’d gladly take 7 points from these next three games - a win tonight, draw against City, and a win against Newcastle at home next week.
Anyone thinking Arsenal are going to win every match from here until the end are fooling themselves, they’ll drop plenty of points along the way.
I’d settle for 6. What we don’t want to be doing is drawing 2 or more.
Come on, Reds. Raise hell.
I agree with what you are saying, but the sequencing of these games matters. If we drop points here the cracking up narrative is going to go into hyperdrive going into the game against City in ways that really has the potential to start becoming a self-fulfilling story.
From their perspective, and the people who want this to be a real race, a draw tonight puts Arsenal only 5 points back (giving their points for a win against West Ham already). The hysteria of the lead being potential only a 2 point lead if we then lose against City will be off the charts.
EXACTLY my thoughts. We MUST win this. We cannot let dashford score, all headlines news for tomorrow.
The writers probably have a selection of these healines ready to copy and paste dependent upon the result.
Is Cody definitely out of tonight’s match?
Sounded that way yesterday.