AlexLaw76

My god

I thought Havertz, although scored early, was pretty ineffective (as usual) Arsenal just seemed to defend far too deep, well, until PSG scored. Saka had about 4 completed passes in 85 minutes. Essentially, Arsenal tried to shit-house their way to the win, but came just short.

They don't have to, the EFL have rules in place, which cost nothing

I thought Arsenal just sat back for too long in that game, when Gyokores came on they started to play on the front foot a bit more and started to look dangerous. They never lost because of this, but they threw away a lead. The penalties though. Those wanky run ups like what Eze did iare awful. Great season for them though, got to the latter stages of 3 of the 4 competitions they were in, and won 1 of them (probably the most important from their PoV).

a CB taking the 5th penalty....woooah misses

There is not in the lower leagues. Most of the Championship is in huge debt also.

Got to respect Arsenal's kick off routine. Pass it back to someone else in the centre circle to flick it up and welly up the field

Penalty. Arsenal can't expect to just defend for 85-90 mins against PSG without some serious threat. Havertz scored a brilliant goal but offering very little-nothing as the target man, which is what Arsenal need to get up the pitch

To be fair, plenty of them could afford to do what old gammon cheeks does with their MP salary. Instead, they chose not to AND rip off the public purse (Raynor, for example). Anyway, Rupert is C**T

Arsenal have defended brilliant, but you can't play like this against such quality for 90 mins. That will bite, surely?

Yet, Tonda admitted to the information he authorised to obtain via methods determined to be cheating, does provide an advantage. If it makes no difference, I am amazed he would be part of the something knowing it was unlawful to the EFL rulebook

And try to lie about it at the same time.

in the EFL, which has been stated time and time again on this very thread. we are talking about the EFL and their rules, not the FA, nor the premier league, not the German League, not the Champions League.

The FA Cup is not an EFL competition. Come on, you know this, right?

Yeah, I have done exactly that. There seems to be an immense amount of effort and cost that has gone into something completely and utterly 'minor' Either way, what you (or anyone here thinks) of it being minor or not is irrelevant. The club (eventually) admitted to cheating, on 3 occasions) and received sporting sanctions. I should imagine if it is proven we (and anyone else) cheated in the same way, they will also received sporting sanctions.

what, being kicked out of a knock out competition for cheating? Where is their rulebook does it state what we did is 'minor'?

you watch, swapped out with McBurnie in the next day or so

my word. No wonder Boro fans having a look on this place think we are insane.

Ah right, the club dropped to their knees and we never actually did anything wrong and admitted to something we never did. Right oh

Why did we admit to cheating (after lying about it), if it was just a spot of scouting?

He is not obsessed with Saints, I do not recall Boro mentioned the club (other than the sale of Azaz) until we got caught out cheating on them. Nothing in the build up to the game/playoffs until this. He saw the opportunity and took it.

Christ alive. We admitted to systemic cheating, got some points back for being honest (eventually), then kicked out of a knockout competition for cheating...which has happened in the EFL prior to this. We may not like it, but we should never have set about to prolifically cheat

Exactly. His job is to go into bat for his side...and he does and does it well.

Not that I believe it will happen, but West Ham could sell Wan Bissaka and sign Bree for F-all.

I was replying to your post in my original quote, so I was not ignoring anything. anyway, if these was some sort of elaborate trap to entice Saints to cheat on a prolific scale, the. Great