Oddly enough, one of the things I miss the most from being home (London, well, Hackney to be exact), is reading the back pages on Monday, while taking the tube to work.
Tomorrow's papers will be covered with our (Arsenal) failures. Awful, just awful...
Arsenal's failures are on thing; mistakes happen, and players, even on bloated and obscene salaries, are still human.
What bothers me is that the defensive errors, brittleness, catastrophic judgment and breath-taking incompetence found in defence - along with the notorious mental fragility and lack of steel and ambition - are not new.
These have been flagrant features of Arsenal's brittle and fragile defence (especially when they are playing away) for years, now.
Granted, mistakes happen, but my issue is the mutton-headed and mulish inability to learn from mistakes - Sokratis's stupid error wouldn't have been made by a week-end five-a-side - and some sort of desire not to want to repeat them and to actually improve as a result of such error-strewn performances.