Hello all.
In this last podcast of the year we make the most of the optimism that is currently awash in the Arsenal fanbase and look to what we might get from the City game. I’ve boldly gone for an Arsenal win, against my better judgement.
Have a good day and a great New Year, Thanks to everyone that read this blog, listens to the podcasts and contributes in the comments. All the best.
Pedantic George.
Positively Arsenal 
Cheers PG and Shotts for the pod and HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone!
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Excellent again Shotta and George, I hope you two and everyone on here has a brilliant new year.
It was interesting listening to points you were putting out which brings us to a really interesting game.
Many of the recent games I new we would win no matter how we played obviously excluding the West Ham which I thought we could win but was surprised by how well we played for the whole 90 minutes.
Tomorrow’s game I believe we can win and like George said at home we should be frightened of no-one. The game could answer many questions or it could be a real Jonny Nash and give us more questions than answers.
If city are vulnerable at the back itv could be a real high scoring game although our player of the season so far could have a massive affect on the outcome.
So after reading my synopsis on the game everyone can tell actually I have no clue what’s going to happen but I am looking forward to it which proves in itself we have improved massively so I hope everyone really enjoys it.
Have a great night tonight wherever you are and remember it’s an early KO so don’t sleep in to long COYG
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Ben Dinnery
@BenDinnery
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Arteta confirms the club have allowed Aubameyang to leave for AFCoN. “We had a letter from the national team asking permission to get the player, and [as] the player wasn’t going to get involved, so, for his fitness and to keep competing, it was the right thing to do.”
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Happy New Year to one and all and let’s hope the boys aren’t as hungover tomorrow as Sczcs and Podolski were against Southampton a few New Year’s Days ago.
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Well. I’ve woken up in 22 so there’s a start really looking forward to today’s game and getting more confident by the moment.
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Just about woke up. My new years wish -I prayed Ian’s prediction come true.
Winning today will create the ultimate good feel factor.
More importantly I think beating teams like City, Liverpool and Chelsea (though Chelsea are very beatable and should have lost handsomely against Brighton), will give us serious street cred in pulling of transfers. (Though we all know transfers is about money no matter what players say about winning trophies blah blah you throw them enough money you almost certainly get them to sign)
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I thought we had three players out with Covid but it seems it’s just Mikel and Eddie.
To be able to name the same side again is very good another positive going into the first game of 22 COYG.
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Stuart bloody Atwell oh dear
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Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, White, Gabriel, Tierney, Partey, Xhaka, Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli, Lacazette.
Subs: Leno, Smith Rowe, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Soares, Pepe, Tavares, Lokonga, Elneny.
Ederson, Cancelo, Dias, Laporte, Ake, Rodri, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Mahrez, Jesus, Sterling.
Subs: Steffen, Walker, Gundogan, Grealish, Fernandinho, Kayky, Mbete, Palmer, McAtee.
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1-0 to the Arsenal, Saka with a great finish after a fine passing move
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Oh my word we have played ever so well and what a fine goal by Saka too.
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need to put away one of these chances we are creating to really put city under the cosh
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We could be 2 or 3 up! Martinelli has been tearing them apart. But can I just say Partey – that’s a storming first half from Partey!
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HT: Arsenal 1-0 Man City
Saka with the goal, and what a fine goal it was, a great finish after good build up play. We could easily have been 2 or 3 ahead, we have been that good this half. City have not managed an effort on target but did have some near misses.
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Best half of the season from the team and possibly probably Partey’s best 45 in the shirt.
What a run by Martinelli.
Arsenal piercing opponents of late with both both Saka and Martinelli shredding opposing full backs.
Both Arsenal full backs outstanding the Emperor at times dominating the right side of the pitch and Tierney’s pass for the goal was so good it made the City defence look dazed.
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A great start let’s hope they can follow through in the second half.
Happy new year!
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man city given a penalty cos it was xhaka that made the challenge, fucking disgrace, xhaka was right about how he is treated compared to others
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Yet another one of those refs
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1-1, pgmol are openly bias, there is no two ways about it
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BT plundits embarrassing themselves with their douchbag attempts to make up the rules of the sport on the non foul call against Saka
The studio presenter shut down Ferdinand for questioning the lack of a simple penalty call not called for a review by the VAR officials in the first half.
But as expected he’s called over by the officials for a less obvious shout when the call is against.
You can’t ignore the handicap.
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ake clears off the line and martinelli missed the rebound
now we are a man down as Gabriel gets his second yellow in a couple of minutes and he is off, PGMOL strike again, people need to wake up, the whole thing is corrupt
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Wow the BT plundits are demanding a yellow for that and claimed that the foul on Martinelli by the Coty player who clumped him was not even a foul let alone a card.
Incredible scenes from the broadcaster today belligerent lies they are bullshitting out of their Arsenals and from a certain perspective the craven weirdness of their efforts is kind of funny.
I don’t envy the professional athletes.
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Mike Riley is going to be so pleased at Stuart Attwells perfromance today, openly siding with city
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I’ve seen what I wanted to see.
An Arsenal team that can play football against the best.
At home, with this handicap on shameless display called out by the fans in the ground it has to be acknowledged how much harder it is to play away this season with fans back
We know how it is with the handicap even if the admission of the obvious is beyond those who have a vested interest.
eg Everton who should of been down to nine,
today at home City could’ve had a pen against and arguably lucky to have ten on the pitch after the “slip” before they had a helpful hand.
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city have not had a player booked today, yet AFC have had a double yellow red, and four other players yellowed too. Its beyond a joke
lacca off esr on
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Am just sitting here seething with rage!
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Orbinho
@Orbinho
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Five yellow cards and a red for just 11 fouls today for Arsenal
and he has only given 3 fouls against city, laughable
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Attwell has form with us.
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As if it’s not enough to play a team that costs 10 trillion and has made a habit of poaching the best players from rivals just to kill the opposition, you then have a rotten inept and patently corrupt referring system in place!
Wots the point of the game????!
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elneny on for saka
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markyb which of the pgmol lot don’t
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The Yorkshire Handicap!
They can find a willing official from Australia.
But hardly one from the most populated part of the UK that produces footballers like Sterling, Saka, Rowe, Kane etc.
Crikey. Ozzie rules or Association rules who knows! Clearly no one at BT.
That it takes such blatant weirdness to keep the league leaders in touch with the Gunners takes me all the way back to 2015 haha.
The team have come a long way since the Liverpool match I hope they don’t lose a little focus after this experience and keep on going.
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VAR say he got the ball first, and the pundits agree
https://twitter.com/i/status/1477281689994997766
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6 minutes of stoppage time for us to win it
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for fucks sake Rodri who should have long been off wins it for city deep in injury time,
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I thought it was a pen on Odegaard first time I saw it. The commentators justification that goalie got the ball because the ball changes direction is bollocks. Odegaard was trying to control the ball by wrapping his foot around it and the first contact clearly shows ederson got his foot first and the force of the tackle diverted the ball.
Clear penalty and a sending off
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laughably the ref finally books rodri cos he took off his shirt celebrating the goal, that taking off his shirt worth a yellow but not all the fucking fouls he committed all game long, pgmol are corrupt, let no one tell you differently
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For fucks sake!!!!!!!!
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the brain dead among the fan base will blame Xhaka and maybe Gabriel for this defeat, but will not have a word said against the pgmol game managers, its why this shit goes on year in year out, our own fans won’t let themselves admit that the pgmol is corrupt
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Gabriel now suspended, Partey and Eleney off to the ACN, as is PEA, and Eddie has Covid, so squad hit for upcoming games, we play Liverpool in the fist leg of the CC cup semi final on Thursday.
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@eduardo792
VAR was brought in to reduce mistakes and help the ref to make more accurate and correct decisions, the problem is it being run by the same people who made clear and obvious corruptible decisions so no change there.
Jokers, until people realise that this is a a continuation of the scam of corruptible reffing nothing will change. ANways well played the lads, have not watched them much since the start of the season but improvements look to have been made so congrats to Atreta and his team on that.
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can anyone tell me when was the last time
we got a penalty as soft as the city one today
we had an opponent sent off as easily as Gabriel
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gee you may have thought that was why VAR was brought in, and indeed that was why it was brought in to other leagues, but Mike Riley and his PGMOL mob have made it clear that VAR is there to “back up the on field officials decisions where possible”, now does that sound like its there to “reduce mistakes and help the ref to make more accurate and correct decisions”
gee you have to remember that many of the officials complained to Mike Riley last season that their on field mistakes had been highlighted by VAR and they were not happy about that, and that refs who had VAR overturn or correct their decisions, then in turn when they were on VAR went out of their way to even up the score against the guy who had shown them up, and would overturn one or more of their decisions.
The PGMOL see themselves as Game Managers, not Match Officials, they do not seek to get more correct decisions, but to “protect the EPL brand” and of course keep the PGMOL in charge.
by the way, how could the PGMOL ever embrace VAR when they have been telling people for nearly two decades that they barely make a mistake to begin with, what was it Mike Riley claimed, was it 98% decision accuracy, at that sort of rate there is no need for VAR, and either they just want to protect the lie, or more worryingly they believe the lie.
Jared Gillett the VAR man today, a guy brought in from the A League in Australia, but Mike Riley can’t find a South of England Ref or London Ref that is good enough to be hired by the PGMOL, sounds legit does it not.
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how many players will hold an opponents shirt in the penalty area this round of fixtures and how many will be given as a penalty, likely dozens of shirt holding incidents, likely xhaka the only penalty called, that is the problem
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I am still seething with rage.
Anyhoo watching the spuds game v Watford. Wot a dreadful game. I have to say we are definitely better than both Spuds and Man United.
Spuds have no clue on the ball. I thought Norwich were a poor team but this Watford team is something else.
And the commentators chocking on themselves as the half comes to an end that spuds should have been given two penalties!!!
This should be an easy win for spuds but boy are they a dreadfully unimaginative team.
I expect the pgmol to revert to normal order though and find a way to ensure they win
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Chris Wheatley
@ChrisWheatley_
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Stuivenberg on Gabriel’s yellow card:
“He made a remark to the referee. A normal comment. The players confirmed that and he gave a yellow card.”
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@ eduardo792 well said.
100 percent correct, funny how the premier league had such resistance to VAR and then when they were forced to implement it did “on their own terms” rather than follow the direction given by FIFA.
Shocking how people can not see that the people implementing Var are the problem but see the technology itself as a problem, lots people are gaslighted.
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‘Jared Gillett the VAR man today, a guy brought in from the A League in Australia’
Is that the same TWAT who somehow found a Chambers foul to dissallow an Arsenal goal against was it Palace? bent as a nine bob note. I’m so fed up with it now I barely watch
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Technology all around the world is used to get the correct decision not just in football but in every sport.
The PGMOL was dragged kicking and screaming to bring it in and so they changed the rules on its application so they could continue their corruption.
The idea someone who has every camera angle and who’s one job is to make a decision can use a get out clause of no clear and obvious error (in other words I don’t want to make a decision) is ridiculous and embarrassing.
We don’t have to comment on our performance because the world could see we were the better side, we were in control of the game and Aaron was coming out to the half way line just to get involved.
I have said on twitter and will repeat it here the premier League cannot call itself the best league in the world while it has an officiating body which is such a joke.
The world and his wife demonstrated against the superleague because it would of been a corrupt league bit what’s the difference if our own league continues to be so corrupt.
Most people involved with English football believe that corruption couldn’t happen here and have always been blind to the continued bias of an officiating organisation that continues to operate in the shadows and will never show any transparency.
Today I am chuffed with my team but the game has disgraced itself today the EPL is bent and any winners medals will be tarnished.
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I hope Richard Garlick is kicking up a fuss with his former Premier League colleagues. The subtle approach clearly has not gotten us anywhere.
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