Gunnersaurus wrote:arseofacrow wrote:Gunnersaurus wrote:Which one? the one littered with inconvenient facts?
The most days at the top of the league line, for one.
Do you know that, although it may be a fact, just by reciting it you sound ridiculous to me. Others I can't speak for.
So while you may quote facts, you might want to choose them more carefully. Cos this one means absolutely nothing.
It means exactly what it says it is an is an example of how some chose to look past facts so they can force their opinions home.
We spent most days at the top, 128 or something, while it may mean nothing it shows that the team were indeed competing for the title for a long period which some seem to ignore just like they will talk about getting thumped by Liverpool but chose to ignore that we also beat them twice.
Now what else do I need to chose more carefully?
Well, you haven't adequately dealt with this one!
I don't know how often you go, or have on the past, but never in my life have I come across anyone who has retold that or some such similar statistic. Why? Because challenging for the title is more complex.
What's more pertinent is:
where we are with 5 games 4 games to go
are we on top form?
Who do we have left to play?
Do we have most of our important players available?
These are much more important and relevant than some useless statistic - but you could make yourself a "most days at the top of the league" trophy. Unfortuntely ,it counts for nothing.
And so that I don't have to come back - what you're ignoring about the thrashings is that we didn't learn anything.That's the problem I and others have. If anything, it got worse and worse. Brainless football. Of course, anyone can get thrashed and you're right - we beat Liverpool twice. But we have to go away to these places - our competitors - and make a better fist of it.
That's about it for now. I think you have to lose the idea about agendas and practice what you preach. If you don't want people to use facts (thrashings) to suit their narrative, don't do the same.
We all want Arsenal to compete for the title but to do so, real problems have to be aired and solutions found.