The Court of Arbitrary Arbitration - Random Facts, Thoughts, Etc.

AND THE CREW ARE MLS CHAMPIONS!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Lost another one today. Gerard Houllier, former Pool, PSG, Lyon coach among others. May he rest in peace.

 

What???? F'ing 2020 sucks man. Across the board we lost a lot in 2020.

Charley Pride left us as well

 

Just when I had just given Griez credit over his decision to terminate his association with Huawei, in support of the Uighur muslims' treatment in China, he decides to show up like this in public yesterday...
Easily outdoes Sterling's Snoop Dogg hairdo.

 

Enough about his hair. Bust or success at Barca? I'd say Bust considering the saga preceding his transfer.

 

What are the attributes that make a false 9? I know Barcelona used Messi in that role in the past but I am not sure what makes him effective at the role, other than he is Messi.

 

Comfortable with the ball under pressure, vision, able to retain possession, patience, I think instinct as well is the most important attribute....when to drop deeper

I think Messi had completely free reign, he was more offensive minded than a firminho

 

How different things would have been in all likelihood, if he had taken the job and was the guy to succeed SAF instead of 'Moyeseh'...

Carlo Ancelotti: "I still keep a fantastic relationship with Sir Alex and we met when he decided to stop. But I was close to Real Madrid so I appreciated the fact that he talked to me and that’s it. I’ve had no other opportunity to manage them." #mulive [telegraph]

— utdreport (@utdreport) December 22, 2020

 

Is he that good? Everton have spent a ******** load and Bayern was a mess for him

I feel like he’s a good guiding hand but is he still elite?

 

There may or may not be a valid argument whether he's still elite today but he still was 7yrs ago when SAF retired, without question. Bayern might have been a "mess" but he still managed to win trophies in his time there.
As for Everton, he's literally been at the club for a year now. And after getting the players he wanted this past summer, it's hard to argue that he's got them on the right path.
Bottom line, whether it was then or now, Don Carlo is on a different level than David Moyes: that is pretty much undisputed...

 

No doubt, but no pale in comparison to paelladyce at arsenal

 

Talk about setting the bar to the floor. I'm not sure I have ever seen a manager lose his shine as quickly/badly as Tapas Pulis.
I was actually impressed with some of the things he did last season, particularly on the back end of it but since then, he's been an absolute shambles. His decision making is terrible and he's proven quite inflexible and kind of arrogant.
I can only imagine how Arsenal's fanbase reacted to his comment regarding stats/probabilities. Personally, it took me back to this below: that's how ludicrous those comments were from him (in context of their timing).

 

Whole lotta drug users in that video

 

He’s a yes man for a dodgy board and dof

he would play ozil if he wasn’t a pussy

lost all respect for him

 

The decision to play the likes of Willian or Bellerin, just to name those 2, over and over when they've been pretty poor by and large and there appear to be viable options in their stead, is on him though.
I get your EL oppo are pretty weak but it seems that the youngsters have performed very well there (guys like Smith-Rowe, Nelson and others): at the very least, Arteta should give them a shot in the league. What has he got to lose at this point?
Ozil is kind of a mystery and maybe it's a matter that is beyond him but his treatment of guys like Saliba and Guendouzi, who is tearing it up in Germany, doesn't do him any favors either.
It's not all on him, I can readily recognize that but alot of his issues are very much self inflicted also.

 

It seems so obvious from the outside

arteta and edu (plus the behind the scenes people) are all responsible

Cedric, Willian, runnarson, mustafi playing, kolacinac playing and not playing the kids when the regulars are playing shut

bellerin has been awful for ages, Willian has sucked since the second game of the season, auba doesn’t work out left etc etc

 

No slack for being a 1st time manager in a new club you probably know more about than he does?

 

They've been a special kind of awful. Hard to imagine giving him slack when they have been this bad. Also him allowing himself to be controlled by the club and even Kia Joorabchian is the kind of thing that would completely turn me off a manager.

 

And Ole isn't?

 

Ole doesn't have us in 15th spot, flirting with the relegation zone. That is the simple truth of the matter. Arteta did show promise early on but as stated previously, he completely lost his way this season. And alot of it is on him.
Not to mention the obvious also, that when results are so consistently bad, and the threat of going down looms large, any type of slack goes out the window. That applies to anyone...

Edit: That being said, we can only hope that the board will give him tons of slack. The mere thought of Arsenal hovering around the relegation zone, fighting for survival alone, is a pretty funny one as far as I'm concerned.

 

Are you under the assumption I am a big fan of Ole as our manager?

 

Ole, whether u like him or not, knows how to set up a team to attack

I doubt he wanted maguire (one of the worst signings in a decade)

honestly, u lot are a holding distributor and a quality centre half from challenging Liverpool


Your attack is no joke (just been sick in my mouth)

 

No, Amdrag, I'm not. You even may have been one of the ones to point out Ole's unwillingness to criticize Ed, et al., like Jose did. I'm just stating that what we criticize another manager for, could well be said about our own.

 

Al Foran's Joe Pesci is definitely one of my favorite impersonation of his!

Joe Pesci absolutely hates Home Alone every Christmas. pic.twitter.com/dMXKggNTri

— Al Foran (@ImpressionistAL) November 30, 2020

Merry Christmas!

 

Sound 🔛 to hear a special Christmas message from our Reds! 🎅🔴#MUFC pic.twitter.com/qTcv8nTEJ8

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) December 25, 2020