Arsenal legend, Martin Keown, has slammed Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, following the Gunners' away Premier League 2-0 defeat to Brentford on Friday
Conservatism, Conspiracies and Counter-intuition
Jump to last Farhad s come up with another one, hasn t he? Like a gambler on a long losing streak, big-priced bets followed by odds-on shots, with one thing in common: torn-up betting slips.
To be fair to Moshiri, most gamblers keep swinging until things change, but that s often because their strategy works in the long run. Farhad is clearly a patient man. without an apparent strategy.
I didn t have a strong view on the candidates. I don t know enough about most of them to have a strong view and, frankly, I m punch drunk after so many managers in recent times. This appointment is right out of left field. Let s try and explore the workings of Moshiri s mind.
The way that Italy finished the game divided opinion too, judging by the reaction on social media. Some football supporters felt those final 20 minutes or so took the shine off Italy’s performance. Words such as ‘shameful’ and ‘embarrassing’ were being bandied around on Friday night. ‘Cheating’, too.
Others were not just revelling in the play-acting and blatant time-wasting (shithousery has quite a fan club out there), but expressing a mixture of admiration and respect for it, especially in the context of what was at stake with the game being on a knife-edge and, perhaps more than anything, the realisation that those tactics worked.