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The madness of King Jig
The back cover of Sun Monday is dominated by weekend mindless handball as Paul Jiggins states that “FOOTBALL came together to plead, ‘Give us back our football,’ after a ‘joke’ penalty against Eric Dier capped off a weekend of handball madness.”
We are not entirely sure that a ‘weekend of handball madness’ can be ‘crowned’ by the second of two incidents.
High in a crisis
On the back cover of Daily mirror, we believe we have detected the first ‘crisis’ of the nascent season:
“HAT-TRICK hero Jamie Vardy destroyed Manchester City to send Pep Guardiola and his stunned players into a crisis.”
A crisis’? After two games, one from which city actually won? A crisis’? After a loss in City’s last seven Premier League games? A crisis’? After a game, which City started without a recognized striker or without its best center?
Behave.
Still high in a crisis
On the inside pages, recall that ‘crisis’ in City, we find that ‘JURGEN KLOPP has insisted that he will not overreact to an injury crisis that has ripped the heart out of his team.’
Well we’re glad to see that he He’s not overreacting to a “crisis” that has robbed him of a grand total of two of his most-used Premier League XIs from his title win last season: Jordan Henderson and Alisson.
David Maddock breathlessly tells us that Klopp is ‘not going to panic’, which seems sensible considering there is absolutely nothing to panic about.
“They have two central halves and two and two injured central midfielders, which leaves the squad dangerously exposed with such an intense schedule.”
Except it doesn’t. So it’s not like that. He is literally missing a central half, Joel Matip, leaving him in a better defensive position than last week, when he had to play Fabinho in the central half in a 2-0 win over Chelsea.
So he can basically play the same XI that beat Chelsea, aside from Adrian in goal and Fabinho in central midfield instead of Henderson, with Gomez entering the central half.
Crisis.
Leap-year
At 10 a.m. M. From Monday, nobody in The Sun Website he wants to talk about handball or other boring stuff because Ronaldo has scored a goal (in a 2-2 draw in Serie A) and made a big jump to score that header.
‘Watch Cristiano Ronaldo score a scandalous header and’ jump like the best Jordan ‘as the Juventus star makes goalscoring history’
Note the quotes. Thanks to @Fotbalfann. And that makes it the most important fotbal story right now. Sure it does.
His name is not Rio
‘Captain Harry Maguire seems slow when faced with any kind of pace and continues to misjudge situations, while Victor Lindelof is a concern’ – Neil Custis, Sun, September 28.
To be clear, we think that declaring it ‘the new Rio Ferdinand’ after just one Premier League game last season it may have been a bit premature, Neil?
Just as we were
‘MIKEL ARTETA is putting’ The Arsenal Way ‘on the back burner as he tries to end the club’s Anfield nightmare tonight,’ ‘Mark Irwin writes in Sun, which is the kind of simplistic thinking that makes us want to scream.
First, what is ‘the Arsenal style’? Football based on possession? Lose football? Arteta is not putting anything in the background; he is simply trying to win soccer games because he seems to be an excellent coach.
Now we read that “he makes no apologies for upsetting the Arsenal purists who grew up in Arsene Wenger’s team passing rival to death.” What Arsenal purists? Show us an ‘Arsenal purist’ who is upset that Arteta’s Arsenal beat Liverpool with less possession (as they have already done twice in 2020). Follow. We will wait.
And where does one lead …
‘Mikel Arteta leaves’ Arsenal Way ‘in an attempt to return the club to its glory days’ – Mirror website.
‘Mikel Arteta ready to abandon’ the path of Arsenal ‘to win’ – Sport mole.
Perhaps the new ‘Arsenal way’ is to have different tactics for different rivals. And maybe that really shouldn’t create such a ridiculous fuss.
Fix you
Let’s fix this Mirror website holder for you:
‘Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang is leaving
Arsenal fanssome outright maniacs furious with their activity on Twitter ‘
Oh, the joy that the accidental ‘like’ becomes the most read story on a football website.
Cod wars
There is a lot of talk about a new Jadon Sancho bouncing on the football internet …
‘Man Utd’ prepares £ 90m Jadon Sancho transfer offer with just £ 65m upfront ‘as Dortmund drama boils down to last week’ – Sun.
‘Manchester United transfer news LIVE:’ Contact made ‘on N’Golo Kante deal, final offer from Jadon Sancho to be made this week, Lazio seek Red Devils duo’ – talkSPORT.
‘Man Utd launches Jadon Sancho’s final transfer offer and has a new plan, but there is a problem’ – Quick.
The ‘problem’ is that these reports originate from the Mail online with a man-made story that doesn’t exist.
‘David Kent’ sounds like a made up name (a ‘cod name’ in old newspaper parlance) because it is absolutely a made up name, used by the Post for the kind of click bait that no one wants to recognize as their own work .
We are still waiting to see the offer for Ainsley Maitland-Niles that Tottenham were ‘hatching’ more than a month ago.
Recommended reading of the day
Richard Jolly about Chelsea and Frank Lampard
Adam crafton talk to rafael
Tommy conlon at Manchester United
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