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Too old for grooming
Do you think the (lack of) quality of our opposition was part of the reason the crowd was so quiet? I'm not saying that whenever we play a poor opposition, our crowd should be quiet, but I can only assume that if we were playing a more prestigious team, we would be much louder, no?
Na, he got 10 goals in that attacking midfielder role last season, can't see why we'd change that. We also have yet to see him with N'jie and Son in the side.
I can wait...it'll probably be in a Man Utd shirt.Can't wait to see Dele Alli when he reaches his prime.
he's a defo a levy player - 5 million + add-ons = 35 million in 2 years time
i have to agree - surprisingly effective against Sunderland the other week for the short while he was on the pitch, but slipped back into the old rut at times yesterday night. Just before they broke on us and got the penalty Townsend had the ball in a dangerous area just outside their penalty box - at no point did he look like a man who knew what he was going to do with it and just ran into 4 defenders.
I just talk about one of the many ways.
Yes I think that is a fair point, but I have been at ' big' games where only the shelf and park lane make any noise
Maybe it's me as when I was young, being able to stand on the Paxton was a religious like experience
I was at the match last night (Block 32) and completely agree about how poor the atmosphere was in the rest of ground, plus the numerous empty seats. On a much more positive note, there were some very good individual performances.
I thought Tom Carroll was excellent throughout and he won the ball back, made some very tackles etc. in centre midfield on numerous occasions. I was really impressed with 'Sonaldo' and he is absolutely lightning quick, as well as linking-up nicely with Dele Alli, who again put in an excellent performance.
Feeling much more positive about the match on Sunday now and I would hope the two victories in quick succession will boost the player's confidence. #COYS
I thought Tom Carroll was excellent throughout and he won the ball back, made some very tackles etc. in centre midfield on numerous occasions. I was really impressed with 'Sonaldo' and he is absolutely lightning quick, as well as linking-up nicely with Dele Alli, who again put in an excellent performance.
Feeling much more positive about the match on Sunday now and I would hope the two victories in quick succession will boost the player's confidence. #COYS
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They'll do better in the next EL match when we play Glztshndtkj (insert more consonants here)
But not too old to groom eh Sammy.........
Anyway, how old is 'too old' for grooming in your book?
I think you're onto something... it's not necessarily a modern 'phenomena' but it's all to do with expectation...
Against 'lesser' teams, the crowd (especially these days) expects to turn up, see the easy win, no stress, go home, job done.
...and let's face it, there are not gonna be many games this season that we can just 'expect' the win... The thing is, the 'bigger/better' the team, the less opposition they're gonna meet who truly scare the pants off them, and likewise, the fans expect the win more often than they don't.
Now where you start to see that manifest itself properly is in teams like Man Utd and Arse, who, more often than not, turn up expecting the win, without any help from the crowd... so you get a dead atmosphere until the first goal (of many) goes in.
But if things don't go well, and they don't win, then those that haven't taken part in the obligatory early exodus, are moaning throughout and booing at the final whistle... in fact anything but singing and generating the atmosphere that might actually help their team do better!
Why else do you think that the atmosphere at supposed 'smaller' clubs is so much better? It's because the level of expectation at winning isn't there every week... they have to generate an atmosphere to 'do their bit'.
Hate to say it, and i'm only referring slightly to the 'bad old days', but unfortunately, fear breeds atmosphere. Whether it's a smaller club generating a hostile atmosphere to help cover the fact they're already resigned to the defeat... or, like us, somewhere in the grey area abyss of the Big Club without the sustained success to back it up, see ourselves as more unbeatable than we actually are against many 'mid/lower-table teams and write them off(at our peril) without feeling the need to generate an atmosphere regardless of the opposition... but the games that we 'deem worthy' of creating an atmosphere in are usually the ones we're scared of losing the most!
The 1882 philosophy should be adopted at all games!
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1882 might as well give up if thet can't out sing,
20 Kebab shop workers on a jolly?
20 Kebab shop workers on a jolly?
Yeah and Wenger says that EL teams should take responsibility for the coefficient crisis...
But we haven't been to the Emirates yet this season...
he's too expensive ...no chance!
740 Lei =aprox. 75% from a medium salary (from Romania) that here is around 1.000 Lei
how much is a medium salary in England? imagine that you won aprox 75% from a medium salary from UK...it's something ,not very much,but is a good earning.
I don't know lol I live in Romania.
