I will say good day, but it actually is a miserable dank day which is matched by my mood.
I was minded to say “I’m done, I’m out, have a good life”, shut the blog down and live out what remains of my days as an occasional spectator of Arsenal and indeed, football.
Then I asked myself why I feel this way? How have I reached the point where I feel like throwing in my hand , getting up and walking away from the table? Well it will take some explaining and I apologise now for the self indulgence that will follow.
As a boy I had no affiliation to any football team, I was a Rugby League lad and my interest was in Wigan Rugby and snooker.
In my late 30s I had moved to Blackburn and married my 2nd of 3 wives, who was a Rovers fan, so she/we invested in Sky Sports. Now I like sport, so I would watch football if, and only if, it was a entertaining game.
Arsenal signed Dennis Bergkamp and I had heard he was a special player. So I started to watch Arsenal games to check him out. He was special so I started to take an interest. Then, then came Arsene Wenger, and I started seeing a team play the most beautiful, entertaining football I had ever seen, anywhere. I couldn’t wait to watch rhem and suddenly realised I had become a fan of this club that was 200 odd miles away , situated in a city that I had visited, and quite frankly, didn’t like one little bit.
I enjoyed watching and rooting for this glorious team so much that I became fanatical about it, suddenly understanding the “fan” bit of fanatical. I was hooked in a big way, even although I didn’t understand how the hell I had become so addicted. But addicted I was.
My drug of choice became Arsene Wenger, I admired everything about him, the art of his football, humour, intellect, loyalty …… well everything. He and his glorious band of brothers obsessed me.
Then I found the online communities of like minded people which I loved and eventually started this very blog. It was a great time.
Around 2010 the “Wenger out boys” had appeared and I simply couldn’t understand their ignorance and stupidity. I just couldn’t grasp how anyone with an IQ over 50, couldn’t see what a fabulous job he was doing with not only no money to spend, but having to sell players to pay off the fabulous stadium he had moved us to. This mob eventually became the majority of fans, but as we have seen with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the majority can be really stupid.
Anyway, around 2016 I resigned myself to the reality that with the American and Russian owners at war with each other, Ivan and Arsene locked in a power struggle, the fans and media making it all but impossible for Arsene to work effectively and with Arsene pushing 70 candles, the great man’s glorious time was coming to an end. At this point I was hoping and advocating for our club captain to work as Arsene’s assistant for his final 2 year contract and take over when he left us. That of course didn’t come to pass and Mr. Emery replaced my hero with Mikel moving to the oil barons in Manchester.
The Emery era was disappointing but mercifully short lived and my man Arteta was installed as head coach. What could go wrong?
I had noticed that after Arsene left the games didn’t mean as much to me, defeats didn’t hurt as much and the wins didn’t involve any of the art like football I had become accustomed too. My passion was on the wane it seemed. On reflection I think this was withdrawal symptoms from Arsene and a bitterness I held towards the fans, board and media for the way Arsene had been betrayed. But the appointment of Arteta gave me brief hope that the fire would be rekindled. I don’t care what anyone says, hope is never good, it invariably leads to disappointment. And it has.
I was deflated with the loss of our technical players, we used to watch the likes of Ozil, Santi, Jack, Aaron, Rosicky, Arshavin and now we just don’t have anyone like that. Yes we have some very good players, but the robotic style and the reliance of effort over technique makes watching rather like seeing an artist do paint by numbers and then having to sit and watch it dry. It does not entertain me even when we win.
My admiration for Arteta was lost with his treatment of Mesut and it’s been down hill since then. I don’t trust a word he says and his army of sycophants turn my stomach. There is no joy in the way his teams play football and therefore none in watching it. It’s more José Mourinho than Arsene Wenger without the winning stuff.
It’s reached the point where watching has become a chore, and it shouldn’t be like that. I have always cared about the ethos of the club and the loyalty that was an integral part of it under Arsene. I feel like one of the loves of my life has been stolen from me.
I am fully aware that this is supposed to be POSITIVELY Arsenal, but it’s far from that with me at the helm. I used to have wonderful people like Stew Back, Andy Nichols, Arsenal Andrew and Frank to guide me but they are all gone, and who can blame them?
If not for Mills, there would be nothing on this site, certainly nothing of positive value from me.
Anyway, I’m going to cart on until the end of the season than have a think. I hope something happens that revitalises me because this is no fun for anyone.
Thanks for your time.
Pedantic George.
Positively Arsenal 
George, best post you’ve ever written, or that I can recall. It doesn’t matter to me that its not flowing with positivity as its really honest, and to me that’s maybe even better? In some ways its the article of the season as it is so honest. Its easy to be ideological but seeing how it is and how it was, makes for more difficulties and its tougher to write about?
Many, many times in my life I wanted to walk from Arsenal, but couldn’t, but I have had many similar moments to how you feel, after the game I just didn’t look at anything and watched some films that take your mind off shite times. But don’t think Im not struggling to think of something for Forest! Grrr!
Its tough to write anything positive when you don’t feel it, even more so when the blog stood up for a positive look at the Wenger twilight years. And all those people, not just the ones you mentioned I miss them too, when your community falls apart, its horrible. You dont know their real names yet you were online friends/acquaintance’s for years. Then they’ve gone.
Im grateful for the words you wrote though as I didn’t feel alone, misery likes company (lol)? But it hasn’t just been me this season, its also was you, you dived in and helped when when I was forked, plus always great comments and insights from Ian, Eddie, Stew and Heady and every now and again some old friends from the past. Despite all, Ive really enjoyed reading everyone’s comments and having interaction with everyone means a lot to me. Its seems to have clicked better this season than for a long time on the forum?
Theres only a few of us and maybe we cant hold up to the standard of being on the sunshine bus anymore ( as a clf called us), but we do still have a small group and you do still pull in some folk on twitter, and maybe theres also some other traffic passing by? Can you get any feed back by the twitters?
If you didnt shut the blog down, where would the archive go? I trying to organise an exhibition which highlights lots of the pieces written here because its been way beyond the norm on football blogs. Plus I wanted to showcase of Stews writing and get in some kind of limelight as it still stands as a great testament to what football writing can be, way beyond everyone. Whats holding me back is finding other blogs from other clubs that have matched PA standard. But it is green lit.
Plus where would we all go? You guys are on twitter and it would mean I wouldnt see any of you anymore and my life would be worse off for that. Its sounds daft but PA did change my life, sometimes for worse but mostly for better, and sometimes for really good and even great, and that says something.
But I felt I made a lot of friends here and enjoyed what people have to say, as its always fascinating. Of course whatever you do would be right George as your the gaffer and we’ve been lucky that you set this place up at all. Ive been grateful for that.
COYG!
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Many of us feel the way you do.
I’m just wondering if the emotional investment into Arsenal is worth its while really
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great post george, PA has been a real boost for me since I arrived here, although I am the first to admit I’m a long way away from being an overly postively arsenal kind of guy, I would love noting more than to be praising Arsenal most of the time if not all of it, but, especially after my ill health in recent years, I don’t hold easy with bullshitting and the current Arsenal has far too much PR and not enough actual substance.
many of the big twitterattic accounts and big bloggers who hounded wenger out, totally derailed any chance Emery had, now are sycophants in regards Arteta, and before he left Edu. Some of them are also obnoxious towards any player, be he a senior, or one of our hale end lads, if they don’t bend their will to that of Arteta, anyone from Ozil and Aubameyang, to kids like Obi Martin or Heaven, they get bile aimed at them. Far too much is made of what when it boils down to it are meaningless stats like the most points in the calendar year, the most goals in a season, the most clean sheets, and don’t get me started on the Gus Hedges, or David Brent type aspirational speak, its all far too spursy for me. These sycophants cling to and extol these “achievements” of Arteta cos they don’t have any actual trophies to credit him with. And lets not forget how they love to remind us of the “complete mess we were in before Artea”, now that is not just with Emery, but they include Wenger in that complete mess too.
If you mention the money that Arteta has spent, and in a lot of cases wasted, they quickly trot out how much others teams have spent, but oddly that was not allowed to be an excuse when Wenger wasn’t being funded at all and others were even buying his best players of us.
I love how they profess their “faith” in Artea winning the biggest titles, soon, well when city falter, well maybe if city falter for a couple of seasons and liverpool falter, and and and, you get it, but their faith in Arteta actually does not include him beating the odds, coaching his way out of thin squad, or his generational modern tactics overcoming problems, no their faith in Arteta is that he will win the big prizes when he has outspent everyone else, and has by far the best team and squad, and pgmol decisions go our way, sort of doesn’t sound to me like real faith him in at all.
I seen a Rosicky goal the other day and it almost made me cry, both with sadness and rage, the sadness was that it was so breathtaking in its speed, one touch interplay, and attacking freedom, and that such goals were so normal to us under Wenger, and now it feels like it wasn’t an Arsenal goal at all. The rage is that so many of the sycophants keep telling us that Arteta ball is filled with goals like this, even better, and lets not forget even more often, after all we scored the most goals ever in a league season for AFC last season, never mind that 25 of our 91 goals came against the 3 relegated teams
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you know something that gets my goat, its this whole versatile player nonsense, where fans list our squad and put the same player in it in several positions as an option, like Tomiyasu as right back option, a CB and a Left back, they make 22 players into 30 or more. the fact is no matter how versatile a player is he can only be selected in one position at any given time.
We are told Arteta loves versatile players, and don’t get me wrong, versatile players have value, big value in fact, if used correctly.
But Arteta does not use versatile players correctly, putting Partey at right back, and moving the right back to left back and your CF to midfield, as he has done to cover for a left back being out, is not good use of versatile players.
Also the big advantage versatile players give you is in subs selection, but what we see from Arteta is four left backs in the subs, some of whom can if pressed by used in midfield or wide left, but that is not how you select and use versatile players. What a versatile players or two on the bench should mean is that lets say we have a guy who can play right back and right CB, and another sub who can play left back and left CB, well that should mean they are they only two defensive subs on the bench. That then should free you up to select extra midfielders and attackers, even untried youth players, who if things go well can be brought on in their natural positions, and not see us putting on Tierney or Zinchenko at left midfield.
And on that topic, why the fuck could Arteta not bring on Nathan Butler-Oydejei yesterday, we were a goal down, he was the only forward left on the bench, what is the worst that could have happened, really what is the worse that could have happened, we lose the game, oh we did anyway. Now what is the best that could have happened, the young lad unknown to west ham does something they didn’t not expect and he or we score and a new star is born, it might even mean if we sell him in the summer we get a few grand more for him, but Arteta who his sycophants tell us is oh so keen to give youth a chance, once more puts senior players out of position instead of a youth in his natural position. Arteta has a hierarchy of selection. Does anyone really think that Myles Lewis-Skelly would have gotten his chance this season if Calafiori and Zinchenko had stayed fit, or that Nwaneri would have got his chacne if Saka had stayed fit. Not a fucking chance. He’d still be “protecting them”, isn’t that the soundbite of his sycophants use, ha ha ha ha
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A really well written and poignant piece
Having been on that other blog when it turned toxic many of us were lost and frustrated and then came P.A. a phoenix from the flames of the Anti ARSENE ARSENAL.
George, back then you told me to wait and then this blog was ready. A safe haven for those of us who wanted to support not only our club but the beautiful game.
I grew up salivating at the amazing Brazilians and then watching the brilliant technical total Dutch football, I never imagined the club I supported since I was four would be able to play that way.
Yes Arsene won three PL titles and loads of cups and went through the season unbeaten but his real achievement that no manager in the PL has ever matched, was his ability to make the beautiful game beautiful.
I have gone through some really shitty ARSENAL teams (my first live game was in 74) and my support has never wavered. However with the onset of the PL and the commercialism that came with it brought plastic win at all costs and that’s all the matters fans.
The great 92 pyramid that English football is built on wouldn’t survive if all clubs fans were like that. Unfortunately the PL disease is spreading down the leagues and park the bus, paint by numbers robotic football is everywhere.
It almost has me romanticising about the terrorism of the days of hooliganism. You might have to run fast after the game and you could never where your colours to an away ground but football belonged to the fans because the millionaires, billionaires and the posh toilet boys didn’t want it.
Unfortunately football as a whole is stale. We are second in the league and in any season of my youth I would of been shouting from the rooftops but it just doesn’t seem that important any more.
My Mrs has been trying to split me from football for forty years and she’s closer now than ever.
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well ian its clear that its not your wife that is close to splitting you from the football, but the type of football we are seeing that is doing it. As you say the brazil teams, the total football of the dutch, a zico, a best, a cruyff, a maradona, dare I say a brady, and then the wonderful Bergkamp, they are what make you fall in love with the game, for God’s sake in my younger days I so admired Glenn Hoddle and his spurs team. Saka and Nwaneri are the only two current Arsenal players that make me sit up and take notice, I’ve marveled at Ozil, Rocastle, Merson, Wright, and Limpar all used to do things that would leave me breathless and there was so many players right across the division at that time, we had in the 70’s the mavericks, Charlie George, Stan Bowles, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh and my favorite non Arsenal player at the time Frank Worthington, could you imagine what these guys could have done in games if they had the protection forwards get now, their only concern now would be that like they had back then in their international careers they would not be trusted and would be left out in preference to the system and tactics. Odegaard has the talent to be a maverick, but he has totally bought in being a system player, its why he is our captain.
Sadly there is so little in football currently that would make you fall in love with the game, young fans follow the game now cos of the hype, cos of the ease of access to content, the interaction from clubs, not cos of the actual football. I’m talking EPL and UK football here in the most part, I have seen some wonderful open attacking skilful football in the European competitions and some of the European leagues, especially spain, this season. I admire how liverpool go about there game, its fast, its attack minded, its have shots, its give it a lash, I really wish we had that attitude to attacking play. Maybe we’ll get that when Arteta gets his players in, what
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This is my first comment to this blog and my initial reaction is please just take a break don’t give up completely. I know of so many people who are fed up with the current state of football – not just gooners.
We can all list some of the reasons for that. For example the dominance of the betting companies – how is it now “cool” to bet on the number of corners, yellow cards in a game etc. ? the hype, the punditry. the commentators – to them I say please stop reeling off meaningless statistics every second of the game. Do they know what is going on on the pitch.? BTW I am going to miss the Amazon Prime option to switch off all commentary and just have crowd noise.
But we still love the game. My wife calls it the park football challenge. Can I walk past a match on the local pitch without stopping to watch for a few minutes? No I fail every time.
To make this comment Arsenal related may I ask everyone a question? How did you feel watching the Arsenal in the latter George Graham years 1992 onwards ? Did you enjoy the football we were playing, i.e. 1-0 to the Arsenal!! Was it better than what we are doing currently? did winning a few cups make it better?
I am a glass half full person. I look at what the academy is producing and I feel confident for the future. Maybe with my blinkers on I ignore what is happening behind the scenes, who is making the decisions, why Edu left etc. Who knows anyway? and as for all the noise generated by so called experts I ignore it and get on with my life. I get angry and disappointed when we play badly then I move on.
But I cannot , and will not, give up on the team I have supported all my life. And I love reading positive comments from people like yourselves who love good footbal and support the Arsenal. So from a very selfish standpoint I am asking that you carry on in some capacity.
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Thanks George, and thanks too to Mills, Ian and Eduardo for these comments. I found this blog early in my ‘proper’ Arsenal supporting days, and by proper I guess I mean ‘strangely and probably unhealthily obsessed’. I’d supported the team since a truly dire 0-0 home draw to Palace in the 5th Round of the FA Cup in 1998 – a Palace supporting friend had tickets – and for reasons best known to myself decided to hitch my colours to the Arsenal. Although I followed the results and enjoyed Match of the Day highlights it was a very lukewarm and at a distance kind of supporting to be honest, so I didn’t really get to enjoy Arsene’s team in its pomp. Funnily enough it wasn’t until the season that Van Persie left that I began to support seriously, so in many ways my best Gunners team was all about Cazorla, Giroud and Podolski, though Walcott soon became a firm favourite.
But it was discovering Positively Arsenal that really got me feeling like a proper fun, and I shall forever be grateful for that. I would hate for it to disappear, and hope that it may continue. I am aware that for it to do so it will require more than just relying on the good will of George and Mills. Perhaps my favourite poem of John Betjeman is The Hon Sec, a poetic obituary to a one time stalwart of St. Enedoc GC: it’s very gentle but the last two lines have always seemed to me the best possible tribute anyone could hope for:
‘It’s strange that those we miss the most
Are those we take for granted.’
I would miss this site and the company of those who I have come to consider as friends – even if we do sometimes (oftentimes) have different views about players and coaches.
I saw the game on Saturday, having finally got lucky on the Ticket Exchange and was interested in my reaction. I get very frustrated watching on TV, frequently criticising everything there is to criticise and generally being the worst kind of negative fan. However, I didn’t feel like that watching live. I’d forgotten what a physical game it is, forgotten how much effort goes in, and forgotten too how skilful these Premier League players are. It seemed to me we were gradually warming to the task as the first half progressed, without looking particularly dangerous – although a couple of yards either side of the keeper might have seen a wonder strike from Calafiori set us on our way. Merino looked willing and showed for the ball nicely, and he had a couple of moments were he was almost on the end of something promising. But I did wonder why we took so long to get out of second gear – and then of course we conceded a bit of a sucker punch goal, which looked to me as much down to a lack of concentration as anything.
Come the second half we tried hard but never looked like scoring, and the sending off of MLS kind of confirmed not only our fate but also that the PGMOL were going to get him, sooner of later. Odegaard was utterly tireless, but so much going through him makes us far too predictable and easy to defend against, I think, and it would be nice to see passes played early and more crisply than is the case these days. I saw us beat Brentford 2-0 late last season doing just that, so I’m not sure what has gone wrong this year. Is it safety first from Arteta, or the players lacking confidence and no longer trusting their instinct? Maybe a bit of both.
So the season seems over in terms of winning the League, and right now it’s hard to imagine us progressing much further in the Champions. I haven’t looked too closely, but I suspect finishing in the top four might also be a stretch – and certainly so if we remain as dependent on 11 or 12 players as we are at the moment.
Anyhow, I hope the team can pick themselves up from this, and that March, April and May will give us a little something to shout about. Despite the result I enjoyed going to the game, and rather selfishly hope that it might be a little easier to find tickets for the remaining games if most fans have already given up.
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Lovely post Heady. I wondered how you were getting on at the game and also afterwards for the long journey home, but glad you could share a bit of it today, was interesting to read. I miss going, how different it is. I always enjoyed it if I was there, even if we lost, which can’t be said the same for tv/radio experience!
Perhaps one sign of friendship is having different views but still coming through the tunnel of discussion on the same side, not always easy but possible?
I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s posts in response to PGs article. Enough to make you feel a bit positive again!
COYG!
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If this is to be the end, or near as, then apart from the writing and comments people have put over the years actually meeting people in person will stay with me forever.
When I told family, friends and others on the way to the ground, that I was meeting a load of people I had only talked to on the internet for a few pints and a meal they all thought I was on my way to be mugged. What transpired was lots of friendships with like minded people and some like Steve I who I went on to go to games with many times.
If you told me I would be sitting with other fans from all over the world in a Lebanese restaurant when I first went on P.A. I wouldn’t of believe you.
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@johnw51
been through both Wenger and Graham eras and while I can say I enjoyed one era more than the other, I loved them both, great memories from both these eras for different reasons.
I can say both eras had peak highs and low lows. The good times I enjoyed and endured the bad. Both had teams that were great to watch and sometimes hard to watch for different reasons (graham football towards the end was stale and not very enjoyable, Wengers football towards the end had become a bit predictable, but much of Wengers era was the golden era of the club.
Every era is different, its hard to compare them to now. Challenging for a title 3 years in a row seemed very familiar during the Wenger years.
I try not to take it too seriously these days, I try to remember that football is a past time and most of the cast involved are all multi millionaires who are enjoying their profession and I have to go work every morning.
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Although we came second twice and are currently second I don’t think we were realistically challenging for the title in any.
At the same time I still think we can get through this round of the CL and maybe still hold on to second because this won’t be the same team for the rest of the season.
March is nearly here and hopefully the return of our best player
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john the final few years of Graham was a lot of poor football, mainly cos he had decided to by pass midfield and rely on Ian Wright goals for wins, Alan Smith who had been a golden boot winner in both GG’s title winning season had been reduced to a knock down to ian player, midfield had gone from Davis, Thomas to Hillier and Selley type players, the two title winning Graham teams do not get the credit the deserve for the football they played, some of it was wonderful, Marwood was throwback winger, Rocastle was class act.
and yes John the cups helped us ignore the poor type of football, and I will just add that the football did not have sterile possession, if that GG team had 70% possession it won the game at a canter, it had lots of shots, lots of action, it would not be going round in circles keeping possession to avoid the risk of conceding like we do now. If that GG team was losing it took risks to try and get a goal, it didn’t just accept the defeat or draw.
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gee I would say that the later years wenger football was far from stale, it always had attack as its prime objective, maybe the seasons were predictible in that we’d lose too many games that we should have won due to poor defense and in fact always trying to attack, even when a few behind, leading to so many of those big defeats, and I do think that these big defeats scared Arteta, and has made him so risk averse, its why he accepts defeat or draws cos he just will not risk a heavy defeat. We also had a big injury that derailed us be it another one for Diaby, or when Eduardo had his ankle ripped off, that not only cost us the title, him the best of his career, it also led to the likes of Hleb leaving us, or when Ramsey was out for the middle 3rd of the season and in the 2/3’s he was fit for he tore teams apart, or the season when Cazorla was out, we were playing such great football when he and Ramsey were there, but without either we dropped a level
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Ian I think we will finish 2nd cos the pressure is now off, and this team wins when the pressure is off.
as for the CL, I think that we might find it harder to get past PSV than say Real Madrid, cos again the pressure is on us in this round, Arsenal are expected to beat them, so don’t be surprised if we have one of those games in one of the legs. If we get to play Real Madrid they would be way out favorites, that would suit our guys very much.
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well Mills on the subject of having different opinions I do find it refreshing that unlike on some other blogs or especially twitter, we can come on here and be critical of the club, or the players, or Arteta, and not be accused of not being a fan, or of wanting Arteta sacked etc.
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One thing I meant to add was how spritely, fit and quick White looked when he came on. We’ve missed him on the overlap, and that might mean the Right winger (presumably Nwaneri) can at times play a little further infield, which in turn might get Odegaard into a more central position. There I go – starting to hope again, clinging desperately to the wreckage Ahab style.
Echoing Ed’s comments, it is remarkable and disappointing how often in the last few seasons (and I can remember something similar in a Champions League last 16 when Giroud was particularly profligate) we’ve failed to win games against opposition that seem easy on paper and when a win would see us properly challenge. Fear of winning is worse than fear of losing, and I wonder what the Sports Psychologists do about that
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@ Ian,
I disagree.
City started a dark arts narrative this season after we played them and Liverpool have only lost one game and their fans see us as their biggest threat. The team that beat us to 1st place twice had won 4 in a row (1st time achieved in the premier).
Our challenge may not have been successful but we did challenge.
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its my Birthday today, and I share it with one former Arsenal player that I know of, Eduardo.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ED!
Hope you’ve /still have a great day!
COYG!
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Gee, you may be correct however I based my judgement on the potential of the squads and personally I never felt we could beat one of best squads the league had seen.
We failed to beat the spuds to fourth place, we couldn’t beat city the season after we always have a few slip ups in us.
When we overhauled manure after they were leading by ten points we knew when we built Wimbledon midweek about ten games out.
I have never had that feeling with any of Mikel’s squads.
Obviously I would love to be wrong.
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Ed, Happy birthday and I hope give you a great performance tomorrow.
You heave and continue to be a great asset to this site.
I love your dedication to the youth set up which many fans don’t care about.
You also make me laugh when you want to as well.
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Happy Birthday, Eduardo: have fun and stay injury free as we still have a chance of the League if you remain fit and available!
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someone check, it looks like Arteta has hacked foreverheady account, but you are right, we still have a chance, and I have a chance of winning the lotto jackpot too, I might even have the better chance.
but as i said yesterday, I think Arsenal will beat Forest maybe even easily, and go on to finish second, as the pressure is off, and I’m more worried about PSV than I would be of facing Real Madrid.
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jeorge bird reporting that Chelsea left-back Marcell Washington remains on trial at Arsenal and trained with the first-team today.
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Mills is in the building.
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”wonderful”?
steady on !
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Arsenal scored 51 goals in 27 games, with no striker.
liverpool scored 66 in 28,
Man city 53 in 27
chelsea 52 in 27
Arsenal conceded 23 without white, and several make shift left backs,(skelly, timber)
Liverpool conceded 26
man city conceded 37 without rhodri
chelsea 36.
seen a headline (didn’t click it) Arsenal are the biggest disappointment this year. Last year we apparently bottled the league tho Liverpool were in top spot for longer and had a healthy lead.
According to the narrative we are having a shit season.
Seems like only Nottingham and Liverpool are having good seasons.
The league looks like it’s gone so the end of the season is a hard watch at the moment, will reserve judgement until it’s all over.
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