As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
GranadaJoe wrote:Although there's been some decent football played, I'm becoming very cynical (and therefore increasingly disillusioned) by the constant fouling and play acting (including by English players).
As my daughter requoted, football players spend 90 minutes pretending to be injured. Rugby players spend 80 minutes pretending not to be.
Agree theres far too much play acting on the transfer front, WTF we never sign much till the last day so why all this rolling around with our belly up in the air is beyond me.
200 pages before the first signing for sure this time round.
Incidentally do oomlouts get charged extra on the shirts? I mean is Ozil 4 or 5 letters cost wise.
Kallstrom was a masterstroke then.
SteveO 35 wrote:
Not yet to my knowledge but as we know from Ivan the Insincere "the manager has significant funds available to strengthen the squad"
GranadaJoe wrote:Although there's been some decent football played, I'm becoming very cynical (and therefore increasingly disillusioned) by the constant fouling and play acting (including by English players).
As my daughter requoted, football players spend 90 minutes pretending to be injured. Rugby players spend 80 minutes pretending not to be.
Agreed. The only difference between Spain and Chile is that people resent Spain's successes so didn't mind Chile cheating to see the game out. All four of England's attackers took tumbles at various points yesterday, although this paled into insignificance in the light of constant cynical fouling from Uruguay which unsurprisingly wasn't met with cards.
I've really enjoyed the tournament so far actually, but the standard of refereeing and failure to even attempt to curb the constant cheating is a big stain.
