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Morning all.
I have to say I’m most amused by the focus on Arsenal and the ‘dark arts’ after the game on Sunday. We’ve had a procession of Man City players come out to complain about it or, at least, reference it.
Manuel Akanji asked if Arsenal had mastered the ‘dark arts’: “Yes, I don’t think there are many better than them at it.”
John Stones in his post-game interview: “You can call it clever or dirty, whichever way you want to put it, they break up the game and it upsets the rhythm for everyone. They use it for their advantage.”
Bernardo Silva: “There was only one team that came to play football. The other came to play to the limits of what was possible to do and allowed by the referee, unfortunately.
“The referee allowed a sequence of time-wasting events. The thing that bothers me the most is having a lot of meetings with the FA at the beginning of each season. They tell us they will control this kind of situation and will stop them, but in the end it doesn’t have any worth. They say a lot but nothing happens.”
Nothing happens?! We literally had a player sent off for it! It also overlooks the fact that despite City going ahead, we played enough football to be 2-1 up at the break, and that second half promised a lot from us before the Trossard red card forced a change in tactics. Nothing happens. Get outta here.
What’s quite amusing about all this is the fact that Man City, and every Pep Guardiola team ever, has had a cynical streak a mile long. Even when he had players as brilliant as Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta at his disposal, they weren’t averse the kind of nonsense you’d see from Sergio Busquets on a regular basis. A brilliant player too, by the way, but someone who would dive, roll around, make fouls and disrupt the opposition’s rhythm at every opportunity. Even at 11 v 11, let alone playing an entire half half a man down.
And who do you think told him to do that? A man sitting not far away from Mikel…
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Publish date : 2024-09-24 06:36:36
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