What happened defies a simplistic explanation of poor subs. How hard is it to run down 2 minutes. Yes we gave up 2 goals in 4 but after giving up the first and going to 4-3 we actually didn’t have to hang on for very long. We didn’t have to run down much time. We could have put 10 men behind the ball, hell 11 men, 2 minutes of kick about in your own half, hell next to the corner flag, it wasn’t a big ask – and the subs don’t get within a mile of explaining this level of dumb. Sorry.

This one is square on the squad. It’s on every single player on that pitch. It is on Cesc as much as I admire him, as much as anyone else. It’s on them all. Let’s see who stands up and responds to that and who tries to duck it. They effed up, royally, all they can do is admit it, accept it and learn from it.

You are advocating a complete lack of responsibility on the part of the men on the pitch to actually play, to actually do their jobs, to stay calm, to stay concentrated and to secure the points. You can’t blame the manager for that.

There’s plenty Arsene needs to look at but the players failure to play to the final whistle, that’s not on him.

Thank you George! When you get a chance to look at the magazine can you tell me what led to the Arsenal Ladies-Spurs comment – I am thinking he was prompted. It sounded to me like the interviewer said “Do you think the womens team could beat the bottom team in the Premiership?” or something like that, and he just said “they are really good, I’m sure they’d get a point”. So let me know ok Cos nowhere in the quote does he actually name Spurs and I have a feeling he was led in to that. I find it hard to believe he just took a random pop at them when the interview would have been done weeks ago. It’s not that big of a deal but I’m curious

lol @ bri I might move out there and live in denial too If you wouldn’t mind the company!