James was at the Vitality Stadium on Monday night to see Arsenal beat Bournemouth 2-1 to secure their passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Here are his on the whistle thoughts:
Thursday, November 21, 2024
James was at the Vitality Stadium on Monday night to see Arsenal beat Bournemouth 2-1 to secure their passage into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
Here are his on the whistle thoughts:
It always guendouzi shithousery being mentioned all the time but his overall game in the second half as mentioned by James , was simply the best I had seen in him in a while.
Arteta must be football coaching god, How on earth did he make Mustafi play like this? Yes, he has improved Xhaka, Luiz, ozil but when he said he would improve mustafi, dont think anyone gave a chance. What he did with him on a weeks time was just unbelievable. Give this guy a rock and he will turn it to a diamond.
No hyperbole detected here.
What Arteta gave Mustafi was just assurance. Mustafi’s problem has always been committing those high profile errors which made people forget that prior to that he was actually playing well. Mustafi is no second coming of Baresi but he is not as bad as some here make him out to be. He is just a player whose confidence is gone thus countless mistakes. Unfortunately for him this happened when he was coached by a manager with an EQ of a stone. What Arteta is simply doing is just reminding the player of his positive attributes whilst slowing working on his… Read more »
Love the way this lad describes the games……..thanks for this.
also love the way he loiters about the back of stadiums or internal alleyways, no warm studio for our man. In fact I’m nearly sure he produced one report from a car outside some chaps house he knew, where he knew he could caj some free WiFi.