Ted Hughes wrote:Earlier in the season, after we played Arsenal, people were talking on here about us dropping points v our title rivals.
I said then that what Arsenal had actually acheived was creating a two point gap between us & our actual title rivals Utd, as they would fucking bottle it completely & hand them a victory, as they always do.
Arsenal are the absolute worst kind of Premier League team, who shit out v Utd & raise their game v others. They are an ally of Utd in the title race.
Tbf to them though, they did give it 15 mins out of the 90 & had the ref sent off Cleverley, just perhaps they may have got something.
Apparently, the ref let off Wilshire when he could possibly have been harsh & booked him, so that meant he had to let off Cleverley for a lunge from behind which is a yellow card on any pitch v any team anywhere.
So presumably, Balotelli would have been let off too & nobody in the press would call him a liability after the game ?
I'm afraid I agree with most of what you've said there, Ted.
Whenever we play at Old Trafford, the script already seems to be written. It's a cut and paste job. Have a little bit of tidy possession, make a stupid error, Rooney scores, come back into the game with no actual real thrust, score an own goal. I almost wish the rest of the footballing world doesn't watch any Man Utd-Arsenal game at Old Trafford (or the Emirates, for that matter) seeing as how embarrassingly one-sided it is. With a bit of luck, maybe even Sky will stop broadcasting this fixture soon.
When we were vying for titles, I (and many other Gooners) used to blame Sam Allardyce (and any team he was managing) to lay down and die when they played Manchester United. They'd allow them to express skill, space and speed. No heavy challenges whatsoever. It was a spooky coincidence, further villified by the way both Allardyce and Ferguson character assassinated Rafael Benitez. Arguably, we're doing the same now, casting a reflection on the eventual destination of the title.
We've played three, in my opinion, fantastically tight, tactical games against you last season and another this term. You're a better side than that lot from Salford. Why is it that we can't play the same game against them?
"If you asked 100 people, 99 would say Adebayor was wrong. The 100th would be Mark Hughes." Arsene Wenger
