From Norrie : defending deep & narrow Hi Myles, Your comment about West Ham defending deep and narrow reminded me of a Koeman quote about 11 years ago, where he claimed to have ‘found out’ Arsene by deploying those same…
From Haroon : goals conceded from outside the area Hi Myles, I’m sure I read somewhere that Peter Cech had not conceded a goal from a shot from outside the penalty in yonks. Can’t remember if it was in the…
From: Steve Gorac : inevitable As Sky suggested they were finally ready and we saw inside the dressing room, I had my doubts. Especially when that little plum Walcott got stroppy that Bellerin has his sprint record. Apparently holding said…
From Fiona : scouts and the bench The bench against West Ham was very strong. What killed us was Cech playing like Almunia, woeful defending and a starting 11 that looked like they had never played together. From Alex Marc…
From James Sanders : Follow up to David Rakison David Rakison’s note reflects my feelings exactly. Why does Wenger and/or Gazidis not have the killer instinct to get into the transfer market early and with purpose to fill the gaps…
From Ingham Walker : two comments Giroud and Debuchy are planks! Why change a winning formula? Walcott on the bench and Ozil wide with Ramsey in the middle? From Nasso : Swansea highest finish Last season wasn’t Swansea’s highest League finish…
From David Rakison : By now, we all know the definition of insanity Dear Myles, I have written to you during each of the last two summers to voice my dismay about how we are so close to creating a…
Kouyate 42, Zarate 57 —————————————————————– Giroud and Cech let Arsenal down badly today. Giroud isn’t good enough. I’VE SAID THAT FOR YEARS AND YEARS. And Petr Cech is never going in hard for a 50-50 ball like that. He doesn’t want…
Having met Slaven Bilic at Wembley on the night before Croatia played England, I liked him a lot and tried to follow his subsequent career Years ago, when Slav was thinking about what he wanted to do when he gave…
This season will be more interesting than last. Because nobody will walk the title, as Chelsea did last term. Most of us realised who would win the 2015 title & I knew it before my readers. How? Because I knew how great…