I'm not sure whether tonights 'forced' fixture is a hindrance overall for sides in the CL. No more than 10 friday night fixtures have been allocated and that for Sky to broadcast. I guess we are all in agreement that the friday night slots will be used to help EPL sides in the CL which come round so fast after a weekends worth of EPL fixtures so 1 of 10 has been eaten away by force apparently due to the EDL going on a rampage in Walsall on Saturday.
MU are at home vs Club Brugge on Tuesday. Surely they would have wanted the reverse, playing away with extra preparation. Having said that there wont be any need for another friday night slot to be taken with the reverse fixture to be played Wednesday the following week so Saturday 12:45 will do nicely for Newcastle at home EPL. I'm just thinking about the slots available and the need for the EPL to progress further in the CL.
In other news Arsene has quoted the word 'supermarket' which brings back fond memories of...
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Poor lackadaisical preparation for the game vs West Ham. Which is totally separate to the transfer market. The fact Arsenal are still short of players speaks for itself. The league has got a lot stronger. Wenger himself touched on it today that the quality in the lower part of the table has improved and that the points total to win the league could be lower this year. That doesn't of course mean teams can toy around and throw games, it means it'll be harder to beat teams. If Wenger stands still it'll be a top 4 competition again. Arsenal need to be better prepared for games and quality signings need to be had. He did say its intelligent to focus on performances than on miracle signings so you know Arsene, do exactly that! Why the screw up last week?!
The window is clearly going to hot up soon with moves triggering a merry-go-round and Wenger has always alluded to that during previous windows so why wasn't the team ready for the game vs West Ham. It's poor preparation even if transfers are waiting in the wings which of course are needed or its going to be a long hard season again! No crisis. Just no more of the same BS!
Off to Chelsea now. Eva Carneiro has undermined Jose Mourinho so he has got rid of her from the bench. He said "we need disagreements to improve. We work together and we improve together". During play Jose would have argued to the ref that Hazard doesn't need to go off, no medics, a big BS production would have surrounded it and the ref would have got slaughtered for doing what the rule states! Jose though would have diverted attention and got one over the morons while those with half a braincell would have known its total BS. All managers do it, try it on that is, exactly what Hazard and Jose done or were trying to do. Is the consistency there from the refs to get rid of the player from the pitch when these bs productions occur?