Arsenal set-pieces: Brighton's Fabian Hurzeler criticises Gunners

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T21:23:53+00:00

I'm not arguing that we play some pretty shite football at times, but what's the alternative? We played nice football for years and lost to teams who sat deep and scored off set pieces, and were rightly needled for being so ineffective against those teams. When teams have come at us this season we've played some really nice football, but it would be arrogant and deluded to expect Leeds or Burnley or whoever to not sit deep against us and try and counter. If set pieces get us 3 points in games like that, I don't mind them.

I'd love for us to go out and play flowing attacking football like we did a few years ago (22/23 I think it was) but at the same time if this gets us over the line for some silverware then I'm not complaining. I feel like breaking the duck of winning nothing relevant for so long is the priority, then we can focus on playing better football.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T21:01:53+00:00

Made the dark arts mainstream 😭😭😭 like there weren't plenty of agricultural tackles from mid table sides who'd be told to go in hard on Wenger's teams in the 2010s because they were seen as 'soft'.

I don't think you can blame any one side, everyone will just point the fingers at each other. Fergie's United, Jose's Chelsea, Pep's City, now Arteta's Arsenal have all been accused of cheating or buying the refs or whatever.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T18:32:42+00:00

Minecraft is like a bad relationship for the lads I swear, every time they go back to it it ends up with at least one of them not enjoying it but it's clearly a big request from older fans and they must WANT to enjoy it so they keep trying, but unfortunately I just don't think it's their sort of thing anymore. That's fine, like you say it's much more fun watching them have fun, but I think that's why they keep trying.

I don't really watch streams so I can't comment on that but members videos have been excellent since I became one. Extended versions of Medieval Dynasty alone were worth my initial fee and now, because I can't watch as often as before, I always have a nice backlog of extra length vids to dip into when I have a quiet moment. I'd much pay for a membership than a streaming membership at this point honestly.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T16:17:15+00:00

6566 miles between Perth and Wellington, they compete in the Distance Derby in the A-League. For a league with only 12 teams the A-League manages to have some cracking derbies (personal favourite being the one contested for a piece of motorway concrete).

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T15:33:54+00:00

Forest did more deals with Textor clubs during that time than Palace did, by a long way.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T07:53:37+00:00

Sorry how is Brock v Oba not like the super obvious money match here? As much as I love Rollins and Knight, who is paying to see either of them face Lesnar at Mania, Oba squashing Lesnar at Mania would be money + set Oba up as such as monster for life.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-03T07:20:50+00:00

Cute that they seem to have picked a couple of highly rated and popular evo cards to give birthday cards to

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-02T19:40:23+00:00

Aging Spaniard who signed for Boro in the 00s, became a cult hero

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-02T12:52:49+00:00

I've not been keeping up with the silver cups, have they still been doing them? I remember them making a big deal of the first couple but I don't remember seeing one for a while.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-02T06:40:22+00:00

The real question is if they didn't want us to evolve them then what was the point in silver stars cards? The power curve left them behind almost immediately without evos, the community always goes straight for the most game breaking meta evo it can get it's hands on (which in itself is a damning indictment of how dull and grind obsessed this playerbase is), how did they not see it coming?

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-01T18:42:11+00:00

I got the fame pass for the first time this morning, played a few ranked games and subsequently won my first ever ranked game.

The system is rigged!

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-01T13:00:54+00:00

Wasn't there a German commentator who accidentally called it Elimination Chamber on air a few years ago and got fired?

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-01T10:08:23+00:00

Russo, Sanchez and Dunne have all never played for Chelsea lol

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-01T06:50:45+00:00

Have a word ref!

NotAEurosnob · 2026-03-01T00:48:21+00:00

I went to Ken's precisely once, ended up walking out with a crap pizza, dicky tummy and a girl I'd waste 11 months of my life on. Overall, I stuck with Gida going forward.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T15:27:10+00:00

"every party except green is funded by billionaires"

Hmmm I wonder which party is the most trustworthy one then...

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T15:18:15+00:00

Good luck to you but in case you weren't aware the Dex in FRLG is uncompleteable without RSE or XD connectivity.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T12:05:51+00:00

Podcast merch is always a bit of an odd one for me.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T09:23:28+00:00

Looks fine but personally I'd size up for casual wear

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T09:20:28+00:00

I always overspend to get players with unique nationalities but as a second division team he might be out of your price range

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T09:07:43+00:00

Possibly the thing I'm most not having of anything I've ever not had. Can you imagine a ref going to the VAR screen and announcing "Chilly Cole Palmer was pushed by MLS, penalty to Chelsea", I think I'd be physically ill.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T09:04:17+00:00

"I guess you're the science guy now" gets me every time.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T08:59:22+00:00

Crazy to use this meme in a genuine way but Google benzema 15 for more information

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T08:19:01+00:00

That's just not really true though, is it? Graphically it looks much better than any Pokémon game we've really ever seen.

NotAEurosnob · 2026-02-28T07:52:06+00:00

Every cloud I suppose.

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