EPL Matchweek 1 the Games and Officials

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1. Despite their not signing a single player during the last summer window, Spurs have this afternoon beat Newcastle at away and collected all the 3 points in the match. The same thing Man Utd did yesterday at home when they beat Liecester City to collect all points in the match. These 3 point collected each by these 2 big PL club sides could turnout to be massive for them during the season if Arsenal fail to do collect maximum points in their own match at home against Man City. Arsenal who have twice been finishing behind Spurs for the past 2 seasons in the PL table and were way back behind Man Utd too in the table last season and even fell behind Spurs at the ICC pre-season games table this summer, should therefore eschew any failings that will see them start their campaign in the PL this season on the back foot but on the front foot to avoid having to play the catch up games in the PL against 5 of their Title big Premier League rival club sides should they begin their campaign on the back foot. A repeat of the 2 situations in which Arsenal got into in the past 2 seasons that saw the club finished outside the Champions League places must not be allowed to happen again.

   Against Man City tomorrow at the Ems, the Gunners MUST be up to pace in defending as they mark the expected Man City pacy attacking machine. So that they won’t be caught in a flash as Spurs caught Newcastle this afternoon with a goal line technology goal due to the lackadaisical marking of the Newcastle defending players. Even the 2nd Spurs headed goal by Dele Alli was as a result of the abject poor marking by the Newcastle defender who allowed Alli to race past him to head home when the ball was crossed from the right into the box. And there was this particular Newcastle player playing on the right side who was not up to speed in the game for Newcastle thereby killing their attacks on a number of occasions which have the prospect looks in them to level the game 2-2 in the first half. Arsenal should not allow such inefficiency in playing to come on them during their Man City game. All starting Gunners and coming on substitutes Gunners MUST be up to the correct pace and efficiency in playing the game in the match against Man City if their to beat them.

2. Football Fan Cast has a writeup on the game, and how Arsenal should approach having Oliver as the magpie in the middle.

   https://www.footballfancast.com/features/fixture-in-focus/arsenal-vs-man-city/ref-in-focus-how-arsenal-can-use-michael-olivers-disciplined-style-to-their-advantage

   I had misgivings even before opening the article, but the first paragraph has this:

   … of just how much PGMOL value Michael Oliver – arguably English football’s top official at this moment in time.

   I was trained in engineering, I am not remotely an English major. But one thing I had picked up, is that you never use “at this moment in time”! Just use the word “now”.

   A journalist should be good at English, not me.

   But the largest problem with the article, is that it assumes that Oliver is a good official, and is free of bias. I think data from Untold probably shows that Oliver is as consistently biased against Arsenal, as (nearly) all the referees that PGMO have.

   I really doubt that the writer, has even spent any time watching Arsenal. She (Christy is a girl’s name?) seems to assume that because Arsenal have been getting enough cards, that they are all earned cards. I suspect close to most of them, are not earned cards. They are cards born of bias.

   For example, persistent infringement by an Arsenal player might be 3 times, but some other teams it might be 10 times.

3. And so it begins, again.

   Good to see the watcher on the wall at his post. Keep it going Walter.
   PGMOL be warned.

   Won’t be quite the same without le Boss but think we have a good guy in his place.

   Best of luck Unai and Co.