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Grant
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Watched the Champions League final after discovering I had HBO through Sky (who knew?).
Sad they lost but not really. I can see what you meant by the "hoofing" comments. I get that they had to play defensively but why, when they had the ball, were they so keen to boot it away? They surely didn't teach Arteta to do that at the Barcelona academy.
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Mick Harper
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I wasn't sad they lost, more 'unmoved'. It seemed to me to be a just result i.e. they were the team playing the better football but we gave a good account of ourselves.
The hoofing is clearly under managerial instruction but it is weird because when we were obliged not to, i.e. before we scored and after they had, we showed we could play quite good football, even if it was marginally less good than theirs.
That would be an unbeatable model for the future: an amazingly obdurate defence and a midfield and attack marginally less good than the best team in the world. It's just if Arteta hasn't worked that out yet, I can't see him working it out at all.
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Mick Harper
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Are you sure it wasn't Amazon? UEFA had sold the rights for one match on every Euro-match night, them having first choice when it came to which one. That match was often Arsenal's, to my immense fury. I was worried about which match they might choose when it came to Final night but, it seems, they munificently agreed to share it with TNT.
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Mick Harper
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Cocklecarrot's Cup
The penalty won by PSG that ultimately delivered them victory was not seriously questioned by either side, by VAR or by the commentariat. It was by me. Ally McCoist had it right
| 'The PSG man was very clever putting his body between Mosquera and the ball' |
and he should know. But is that what it takes to win the biggest trophy in European football? Being the artful dodger?
Mosquera was running on the goalside and alongside--but a smidgeon behind--the PSG left winger, a perfectly legitimate thing to do. Indeed his bounden duty as a right back to do. The wiley foreigner pushed the ball on a coupla yards then deliberately altered his course into the path of the Arsenal man. Mosquera couldn't have stopped in time even if he'd been wearing Ferodo shinpads so unavoidably and inevitably clattered into the bloke.
Not that the laws of the game required our man to stop at all. He's perfectly entitled to run in any direction he likes. If opponents choose to get in his way, that's their lookout. They might get clattered, they might get a yellow card for obstruction but they are definitely not entitled to a pen in any footballing universe I approve of.
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Grant
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HBO Max carries TNT Sports live coverage, and I've got HBO on my Sky subscription. Sky says it's free but I'm sure I pay for it somehow. Apparently it's all part of the Warner Bros Discovery ecosystem.
Modern telly is very complicated.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Which package had the one showing Arsenal winning the shoot-out?
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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It occurs to me AI could do this quite easily. It only requires the alteration of a few frames. You might opt for this kind of service or the National Health AI might decide you require it in your condition.
But hope is at hand. My package requires me take Sky Movies if I want TNT Sport and Netflix is thrown in free save for a coupla minutes of ads per film. Those ads are carefully targeted by their AI doodad. I get sanitary pads or top o' the line electric cars over and over.
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Mick Harper
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In: London
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Suddenly everyone's got a new manager. Liverpool's nabbed their statutory Basque from Bournemouth, Chelsea have got top o' the line Xabi Alonso, City have got supposedly top o' the line Enzo Maresca and United have kept faith with surprise success Michael Carrick. Since we're dealing with the traditional Top Six, Spurs have got new/old wunderkind Roberto De Zerbi.
So where does that leave grizzled veteran been-there-forever Mikel Arteta? Has he got an open goal while his rivals get their feet under the table? Maybe not. It looks like his old rivals were a combination of over-the-hill's and Rolls Canardlies. Is he already a stale one-shot wonder? We must hope not.
One thing does worry me though. You never hear about other clubs 'making enquiries about Arteta', do you? Unless that's a good sign. Oh well, you never know, it may all be down to the players. There's a thought.
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