Unfortunately, some of our internationals seem prone to suffering (serious) injuries not just while on international duty (which I can accept, albeit with gritted teeth), but while playing utterly meaningless friendlies when on international duty, something I find both unnecessary and infuriating.
You sound like me after the Sunderland match....
With so many teams in the competition it’s going to be a strange tournament. Lots of almost warm up games at the start.
Few being the key word. There's 31 post-group matches of relevance (excluding the worthless 3rd round match) so add in your four matches above gives 35 of 104 matches not being a snorefest. So I get if your country is at the World Cup that you will be excited for the group stage but that doesn't generate a world wide audience or interest the Americans.
Indeed.
Yes, it does.
Well, yes.
Fatigue and injuries account for some of this, but poor choices on the part of those on the field also contributed to this defeat.
Indeed.
Agreed.
You know, there are plenty of worse teams than the Arsenal FC. I used to like Spurs for some reason but what they did to Ange after he wins a European trophy and got them into the CL. I would be OK with Arse winning the title to spit Spurs. Extra icing on the cake would be Spurs getting relegated.
Well, I would - could - perhaps find myself in agreement with you if we were actually wearing the crown, (that honour lies with Liverpool), but, as we are all more than uncomfortably aware, the past few seasons have been near, or nearish-misses to varying degrees, whereas, at present, we are merely aspirants to the placing of that particular piece of (heavy, yes) headgear on the team's (unworthy?) collective head.
