at least we have the distinction of having scored the first goal of the new season
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We totally bossed the stands today. Every man woman & child singing their heart out! 1st class support. That's how it's done you Surrey cunts
The eve of the season for adults is like Christmas Eve for children. I am struggling to keep my mind focused on work. Everything about it makes me giddy; the optimism, the deep routed pessimism. The players walking out of the tunnel. Sitting with mates cracking opening the first beer. Perching on the edge of my seat at our first attack (just being in the opponents half counts on opening day), the vomit feeling of the opponents first attack (them having the ball anywhere on the pitch counts on opening day). The elation of the first goal and despair of the first conceded.
I can't fucking wait.
I can't fucking wait.
So. First game of the season away to Man Utd and we have Dier in midfield, one striker on the pitch, and none available for the bench. If anyone had predicted this a couple of months ago they would have been laughed off the forum. Proof, then, if anyone needed it, of what a slimy cunt Daniel Levy is.
Boss first 25 at the OT. Eriksen misses a cupcake. Horrific pass by Bentaleb. Walker - OG. Here we are which is awfully familiar
And this United side is very beatable.
And this United side is very beatable.
Stop with the midweek excuses. They've had summer off, then a couple of light training sessions against Madrid and AC. They were hardly running 13km were they?Levy is a genius, playing madrid and ac milan before our first away game, was a great idea.
We lost. We shouldn't have. It wasn't because we were in Germany three days ago.
Move on.
Daft to blame Walker for that. Bentaleb's fault - fucking sloppy.
Don't worry lads we got this
Mason - His quality is debateable, but he made that position his own when he first broke into the team. Agree we could probably do better going forward.
Dembele - Not sure how many more chances we can give him to try and to rediscover the form that led him to single handedly destroy Manchester Utd (for us and for Fulham) in his first season. A very frustrating player.
Chadli - Completely disagree. 11 goals, 5 assists and 41 chances created. Our most productive midfielder after Eriksen (who went missing about half way through the season and left Chadli and Kane to pull us over the line).
Those are better numbers than Stirling, Coutinho, Mata, Di Maria, Yaya Toure, Ramsey, Ozil, Milner, Sigurdsson.... i could go on. In fact numbers wise there are probably only about seven or eight midfielders in the league who had a "better" season.
Seriously. People talked about how our wingers weren't scoring last year then Chadli goes and scores 11 in the league while assisting 5 and people still give him crap. Probably would've had 15 or so if he played the entire season and I can see him doing it this year.
Too positive. :llorisserious:
Walker's had a good game so far
WHAT A MACHINE ALDERWEIRELD
Just to add I thought the guys and gals that made the trip done us proud today. Second half singing in particular was immense. Very well done all of you.
I don't care who cunted off Bentaleb - if you can't see that the goal we lost to was entirely down to him, I suspect another season of favourite player bullshit coming. Can't you like a player, but admit when he makes a crucial mistake? You give away the ball there, in this league, and it's a goal 7 times out of 10. Pointing out who made the error is not melting - unless it's Rose of course, In which case we'd know all about it.