Afternoon gooners!
I just can't believe what I'm hearing from the likes of Allerdyce and Pulis - criticising Danny Murphy for coming out and making some genuinely insightful observations about managers sending their teams out to 'play rough'.
You only have to hear some of the pre-match comments these managers make before they play Arsenal to know that this is indeed the case. As Murphy correctly pointed out, players don't go on the pitch to deliberately break someones legs but they do intend to 'ruffle a few feathers'. The hypocrisy is the hardest thing for me to stomach especially given that these managers deem it perfectly legitimate to crticise referees after a poor performance or indeed a bad challenge from opposing teams players. However, for some reason unbeknown to me one cannot dare say a bad word about a manager - ridiculous.
Danny Murphy is a good player and he plays football the right way. In addition, when a pundit on TV he articulates his thoughts far better than most so called experts. The fact that he pulled out of his pundit role for the England game in mid-week suggests that he may think twice about appearing as a pundit in the future which would be a great shame.
So Birmingham up next and although I would usually call it a home banker, I think we need to be cautious given our woeful appearance against West Brom a few weeks ago. One thing that does annoy me is the constant Hleb bashing that has been going on in the Arsenal blogs today. As I wrote in this article, he was a superb footballer who was crucial to our counter attacking style that propelled us to the top of the table in 2007/08. The fact that the season after he left for Barcelona was one of our poorest in many years tells its own story. I for one will not boo him tomorrow, he did Arsenal a great service and was one of the most gifted players I have seen in an Arsenal shirt.
Enjoy the game tomorrow.
Tenz
I just can't believe what I'm hearing from the likes of Allerdyce and Pulis - criticising Danny Murphy for coming out and making some genuinely insightful observations about managers sending their teams out to 'play rough'.
You only have to hear some of the pre-match comments these managers make before they play Arsenal to know that this is indeed the case. As Murphy correctly pointed out, players don't go on the pitch to deliberately break someones legs but they do intend to 'ruffle a few feathers'. The hypocrisy is the hardest thing for me to stomach especially given that these managers deem it perfectly legitimate to crticise referees after a poor performance or indeed a bad challenge from opposing teams players. However, for some reason unbeknown to me one cannot dare say a bad word about a manager - ridiculous.
Danny Murphy is a good player and he plays football the right way. In addition, when a pundit on TV he articulates his thoughts far better than most so called experts. The fact that he pulled out of his pundit role for the England game in mid-week suggests that he may think twice about appearing as a pundit in the future which would be a great shame.
So Birmingham up next and although I would usually call it a home banker, I think we need to be cautious given our woeful appearance against West Brom a few weeks ago. One thing that does annoy me is the constant Hleb bashing that has been going on in the Arsenal blogs today. As I wrote in this article, he was a superb footballer who was crucial to our counter attacking style that propelled us to the top of the table in 2007/08. The fact that the season after he left for Barcelona was one of our poorest in many years tells its own story. I for one will not boo him tomorrow, he did Arsenal a great service and was one of the most gifted players I have seen in an Arsenal shirt.
Enjoy the game tomorrow.
Tenz
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