Morning.
It’s Sunday and there’s not a lot happening. Everybody’s away. The neighbours are selecting up the publish/feeding the cats. Truly, lately you will get automated cat feeders. Or, you’ll be able to simply go away a load of meals out, and sufficient water, and cats might be superb. That’s their complete factor. Then while you come dwelling they faux they don’t love you anymore since you’ve been away however that by no means lasts after which they get all needy once more.
Which isn’t to say I view you all as cats. Removed from it. But when we’ve had a glut of content material of late, a few gentle days gained’t be a giant deal since you’re all full up, or one thing. Simply don’t carry dwelling half a mouse as an indication of affection. Kudos to your searching abilities, however it’s not wanted.
I did get pleasure from this by way of r/gunners – Stoke followers reacting to Aaron Ramsey. Or, to place it one other method, Aaron Ramsey figuring out precisely what he’s doing after Cardiff Metropolis beat Stoke on penalties within the FA Cup. Clearly now he’ll face some type of FA cost for being imply throughout a celebration or one thing, however honest play to him. He remembers. We keep in mind. For some motive, they took it personally when their participant smashed his leg into two items with what was a horrendous problem, and he selected to not settle for a mealy-mouthed apology.
I went again to the archives to seek for Ramsey and Stoke, and located this from April 1st 2018:
The opposite factor that lends as we speak’s recreation a little bit of an edge is the historical past now we have with Stoke, and have had down the years since Aaron Ramsey had his leg damaged. If an Arsenal win as we speak contributes to their struggles and pushes them nearer in direction of relegation, then I’m throughout that.
We gained 3-0 that day because of objectives from Aubameyang and Lacazette – Stoke bought relegated that season and haven’t been again to the highest flight since. Wonderful, and why not break this out once more for some Sunday enjoyable (for the report, as a result of I get requested this so much, I don’t do the VO on these items).
Cardiff had three former Gunners within the facet yesterday. Chris Willock (brother of Joe) and Ramsey began, whereas Calum Chambers got here off the bench and scored within the penalty shoot-out to ship Stoke out. Good lads. As for Ramsey once more, he’s at all times come throughout as mild-mannered kinda man, however there’s a severe character in there too. Other than the Stoke factor, there was a to-do within the dressing room with Robin van Persie which the Dutchman got here out the flawed facet of; and when legendary cunbtbag Piers Morgan tried to shake his hand after constantly berating him on Twitter, Ramsey mentioned ‘No, I don’t suppose I need to try this’, leaving that piece of shit to moan in regards to the incident on-line like the massive crybaby wanker he’s.
Talking of wankers, by the way in which, I do know that is the Every day Mail, however that is precisely the type of stuff Tim was speaking about in his column this week.
The language is so aggressive. Perhaps, and I do imply possibly, in case you say Myles Lewis-Skelly must ‘watch out’, it could possibly be the place to begin for a dialogue (regardless that I feel that too leans into the double-standards which can be so prevalent within the protection of his objective and celebration). However ‘wind your neck in’ is what individuals say earlier than they begin a struggle.
It’s completely rooted in prejudice, and whereas he’ll argue this isn’t about race, it completely illustrates what Tim has mentioned in his article. You may be fairly positive the sub-editors and headline writers and social media managers know precisely what they’re doing with the language they use, which isn’t to excuse Souness by the way in which, and the entire issues is – even by the requirements of that grotesque publication – disgusting.
Anyway, I hope you’ve got an awesome Sunday wherever you’re on the earth. Until you’re a Stoke fan or Piers Morgan.
Until tomorrow.
