davidwilliams
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@TAFKASB What’s happened to the Coventry supporter who was always front row?
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@henrywinter @DizzyJB Couldn’t beat Real Madrid though.
Standard in PL this season poor
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Never mind the symbolics. Arsenal lit a fire at their training ground as a motivational image. But it was Manchester City who brought the fire to the game. City dared more and deservedly won. Better principles - more attacking. Better team - more leaders. Better manager - more adventurous and experienced. And so it’s advantage a fired-up City in the title race.
Pep Guardiola and his big-game hunters can smell wounded foe, can sense victory will be theirs. City have big players relishing the pressure in the biggest game of the season. Bernardo Silva outstanding, small of frame but huge of heart. He’ll be hugely missed as ball-winning player, creative player, team player and role model. Rodri commanding. Haaland pouncing when opportunity knocked. Cherki dribbling and dazzling. O’Reilly so young but so mature in his positioning and decision-making. Guehi a top defender and leader, such a massively influential signing in January.
Arsenal? Second again? They need more than fire now. They need City to slip up. Guardiola’s side do still have to go Everton and Bournemouth but they have the belief and the momentum. They know the way to the finishing line, it's a muscle memory.
Arsenal tried hard. They were gritty, good pressing first half, some promising counters but they dropped off, invited City on and Pep’s men need no second invitation. Arsenal invested heavily this season, and will doubtless do so again this summer, as the years of hurt lengthens since the Invincibles. Arteta needs more flair as much as fire. He also needs a re-think on his approach.
His subs will come under scrutiny. Arteta inexplicably kept the fading Odegaard on. Odegaard embodies Arsenal’s nice, neat football but doesn’t hurt elite opponents enough. Arteta could have moved Eze central not taken him off.
Arsenal will argue fine lines, Havertz had a huge chance at the death, but were fortunate that Gabriel was not sent off for pushing his forehead into Haaland’s. If/when the fire is fully extinguished, the Arsenal inquest will be long and painful. It sounds like it's already begun amongst their fans, their fire snuffed out by City. #MCIARS
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@RacingPost They took the bet, but didn’t stand the bet.
It turned out big mistake.
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🗣️'It wasn't a publicity stunt and we laid the bet - £100,000 at 8-1'
Paul Byrne reveals the truth about the monster wager with Fitzwilliam
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@CheckCharlieB Seeing Jenrick in front of of the camera , is really putting me off Reform
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RAMADAN REIGNS SUPREME
In London, we don’t get lights that say “Christmas” any more. Not inclusive enough
Our children’s schools quietly dropped Nativity years ago. Carols? Phased out. Christmas jumper days? “Winter” jumper days
But every year now, without fail, we get Ramadan lights Our traditions? Erased. Replaced
It’s not even subtle. It’s triumphant
In the week pearl-clutching liberals shrieked about the word “colonised,” the evidence is here for all to see
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