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Editor of - Arsenal blogging since 2004. See @jakemorristw for my work for BBC #newsnight

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It's been a little while... "who is our Freddie against Ipswich, our Wreh at Wimbledon" I had been pondering of late.

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Amen

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Credit to my 7 year old for the above tweet: he announced he was backing spurs in the cl final as better chance of us winning super cup

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Super cup semifinals:
Liverpool v Spurs
Chelsea v Arsenal

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That said, the big fear for all of us with children is, clearly, the risk of conversion. It's not something we've had to deal with before and I fear guards may be down. I can see it now: "We've been Arsenal since Chapman's day but the little one, he's gone, we've lost him..."

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The best I can say is that at least the glory came when I was young when football was absolutely everything and this is happening now when it isn't quite. Small comforts.

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The other small mercy is that my children are not yet old enough to truly be traumatised by what is happening.

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The only relevance of the height difference on the red card was that Deeney thought he could hide his elbow behind it.

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That's actually a really good individual goal from Aubameyang.

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Great win. This game and the two previous games v united at the Emirates a reminder of football's small margins

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Realised that for my unusually nervous 6 year old, Blackpool was to Forest what Yeovil was to Wrexham for me all those years ago.

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On Ramsey, I've long wanted us to tell a supposedly top player they're not getting a new contract. But he's the wrong one.

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Tragically, my Invincibles obsession is such that I didn't even broach watching tonight's game with my wife instead of TV with her because I feared doing so would jinx the chances of a Liverpool defeat.

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On the plus side we've experienced a woeful refereeing performance in a game we'd have lost anyway. Better than a tight one.

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@ccdaniels65 Third goal offside. How can their player not be interfering when the defender marking him is the one playing everyone else inside?

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Very readily accept we're second best but the refereeing has exaggerated the current score.

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@ccdaniels65 100% offside

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Emery is getting great things out of an imperfect squad. for us to be running at 81 points in this division is really impressive.

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I'd actually forgotten what it was like to wait until the other half was in bed and stay up well past my own bedtime to watch the highlights of the game I'd watched in full the day earlier. So thanks for that Mr Emery.

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meaning to say if City & Liverpool both go unbeaten the achievement is automatically voided under proper competition law. Just to say.