It’s the sad reality of what football has become that this is what the eventual PL champions will look like - what an absolute circus football is when a side can set piece their way to a title, and they will be winning the PL this season because there are no worthy challengers.
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…and the pressure of being top is beginning to show :0)
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I’ve just had an embarrassing experience on another social media site. I referred to Arsenal fans as “Gooners” which I always thought was a friendly nickname for Arsenal fans.
I am now reliably told that is is modern argot for people who participate in extended sessions of masturbation.
Who decides this crap, and why am I never at the meeting when it’s agreed?
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Arsenal fans have been gooners since time began - in both meanings of the term so don’t worry Whip, you are correct either way 
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A quick Google does confirm the other. TBH, I’ve taken to googling in incognito mode as the slightest innocent query seems to offer up something rude. (And that’s even without my son taking the piss out of me.)
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So it’s an Americanism? “A prolonged edging session”, according to Anne Hathaway…
Yeah, I suppose it realates to that sort of look on one’s face during these moments…
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Probably. I still can’t convince my elderly mother that Americans think that “faggot” is a homophobic slur. She still thinks it’s a useless lazy person. I thought I had explained it to her, but now she thinks Americans find meatballs offensive.
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Gabriel played for Brazil yesterday and came off injured with what looks like a muscle injury
Shame
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In a friendly no doubt. Groin, could be back for the NLD, might be out a while. Might be a ruse…albeit his angst at coming off looked real. Califiori missed international duty too.
Arsenal are pretty well stacked with CB options with Mosquera, Hincapie, and Ben White available. Califiori can do a job there too.
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Yeah numbers wise they are more than fine and talent wise should be as well. Where it may hurt them though is he I think as much as anyone (maybe Rice with the quality of his delivery, especially on the inswingers) is central to their strength on set pieces. It might not hurt them defensively but it could blunt their set piece strength
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0-0s then.
It’s sort of what scuppered them last time
Some do. They are called “vegans”
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Chance for Mosquera to shine. If he continues playing like he did at Anfield, they’ll have found themselves a proper gem. That said, it’s not like they don’t have enough centre backs.
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They’ve got the injury if they don’t win the title now.
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned my ‘nonce’ story before, my understanding being that it was used as a word for ‘idiot’ (used that way in Australia).
That was an interesting moment in a new workplace, that’s for sure…
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yeah, found out really early on my time here that ‘Wog’ does not refer to Italian or Greek people in other parts of the world…
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Watch Fawlty Towers already.
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Eze at Palace was my favourite player in the league outside the biggest clubs in the league and I wondered if someone would go big for him and if he would be able to do it at a top club, or would he would forever remain an “Okocha” case.
You know, the level he’s been, his age, injury or injuries(?) he’s had, style, etc.
Obviously it’s not good for us that Arsenal look so balanced so far this season, but I’m glad for him. He’s an absolute joy of a footballer to watch. And he’s doing it so far in a position where I didn’t expect it.
Technically in small spaces, among the very best in the league. The bloke manipulates the ball like duck to water. So clean and calm like it’s nothing.