Making a bad side look good

NAIVE, suicidal, kamikaze. Some of the phrases used to describe our football against Arsenal.

Making a bad side look good

I won’t give you a list of the words I used in the aftermath as this is a family paper, but I’m sure you can guess.

With hindsight of course, when things have calmed down, you realise that it was just one of those games that could have gone either way — there were enough chances within the first ten minutes alone for both teams to be two goals to the good. What’s so depressing about Saturday’s result is that this is one of the worst Arsenal sides for decades — we even made Walcott look like a world beater!

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