I’ve dug out Richarlison a lot down the years, but now concede that in this moment he is quite honestly one of our most important players. One of the only ones out of this rabble that really understands and has the fight for the situation we find ourselves in.
Football is the real winner today. Man Utd score unbelievably high quality goals and play expressive football. The way game is meant to be played.
Arsenal lump it in the box and hope for the best. Arsenal’s title challenge is the most anti-football the league has ever seen.
I've had the privilege of watching world class players (or borderline) play for my club. So even when we were shit I'd regularly be entertained, whether it be moments of individual brilliance or winning games we weren't expected to win.
Well, now we're shit without any players that are on this calibre. Games are a chore to watch, there's no one we can pin our hopes on to give us hope. We now have 10X the expectation from both inside the fanbase in the media since I started watching as a kid. Being thrashed in big games could kind of be swept under the rug 15 years ago, not now. And winning them? It was the best feeling on earth.
Say all you want but we are watching the long shadow of Daniel Levy’s endless austerity unfolding before our eyes. I’d have setup like this too, but we just don’t have the players. Most players we signed in the last 20 years were good deals from money strapped clubs or gambles, Arsenal went and spent £100m to fix a midfield problem and ditched their keeper Ramsdale when Levy would have kept him.
Zero desire to actually compete from the top. Huge 2 transfer windows ahead for the Lewis family.