I notice Arsenal have gone seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table and are thus very likely to win the title \u2013 a victory, then, for Brexit football. I watched the game between the Gunners and Chelsea at the weekend and it genuinely was like watching Wimbledon versus Sheffield Wednesday in 1989.<\/p>\n
It was Goal of the Month time and I also noticed that an Arsenal player has won this benediction just once in about six seasons. Indeed, if the club were to put together a \u2018Goals of the Season\u2019 package for fans it would consist of 12 corners taken by Declan Rice, several players wrestled to the floor in the penalty area, a scuffed shot from Madueke from two yards out which deflects off the defender for a goal.<\/p>\n
Do we mind this? I know Arsenal fans will not care one bit. And I have mixed feelings. That tippy tappy stuff used to bore me to distraction \u2013 and it always occurred to me that carried with it great peril. One week I noted that 40 per cent of all PL goals were the consequence of clubs conscientiously playing it out from the back and then making a pig\u2019s ear of it. But on the other hand, that Arsenal vs Chelsea game was fabulously unattractive, on a kind of epic scale\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I notice Arsenal have gone seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table and are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-806186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116178015457219166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}