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The_One said:
They never even discussed this

Ref blowing whistle as trossard leg is loaded to kick ball. Impossible to stop

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They did, and he was able to run nearly 5 yards and welly the ball, he 100% knew what he was doing.

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Man City v Arsenal | Was Leandro Trossard hard done by?

Mikel Arteta was unhappy with Leandro Trossard being shown a second yellow because he felt the time between the whistle being blown and him kicking the ball away was less than a second - find out how long it actually was.
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C Kent said:
They did, and he was able to run nearly 5 yards and welly the ball, he 100% knew what he was doing.

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Man City v Arsenal | Was Leandro Trossard hard done by?

Mikel Arteta was unhappy with Leandro Trossard being shown a second yellow because he felt the time between the whistle being blown and him kicking the ball away was less than a second - find out how long it actually was.
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He was an idiot (could have been a yellow for the foul), but the ref could have just blown for half time - I've see that a few time, blowing for half-time to defuse a situation, it was already over the allotted time. But can't complain at anything other than the inconsistency.

CliffyG said:
This actually a pretty good start to the season for us. Away to City, Spurs and Villa plus home to Brighton is a pretty rough first 5 games.
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It's a great start, who wouldn't have taken unbeaten, let alone 3 wins from our start? Only Wolves would have been a presumed win. Brighton are no mugs (though we would like a win at home, and in light of how the game was going, it's 2 pts dropped). Villa and Spurs away you'd take a draw - so 4 points gained. Overall 2 pts up on expectations and 11pts this season vs 10pts last season against the same teams.

IMO...we just need to get by these next few games with no Odegaard and Merino finding a way to win, then hopefully Merino will be back playing for the Liverpool and Newcastle games (not convinced we'll see Odegaard before then).
 
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Just one match. Although I missed some ballots.

Still can't believe I'm still in the queue for Silver membership (never mind Season ticket) after over 15 years. When I checked in April I was about 8500 in the queue. I guess nobody is releasing silver memberships, just passing to friends and relatives. I might get a season ticket before I get silver membership at this rate.
 
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When I rang about my wife's membership level the bloke i spoke to said a lot of people paused their memberships around Covid, they also sold another load because of this which inflated the amount of silvers so the last few years has been reducing down rather than keeping level.
 
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I gave up 3 years ago now - saw some great games at both Highbury and the new place, but ballots for games and being on red for years and years put me off.

Plus is was an expensive day out when you tally it all up, very much an armchair supporter now.
 
HangTime said:
Just one match. Although I missed some ballots.

Still can't believe I'm still in the queue for Silver membership (never mind Season ticket) after over 15 years. When I checked in April I was about 8500 in the queue. I guess nobody is releasing silver memberships, just passing to friends and relatives. I might get a season ticket before I get silver membership at this rate.
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Don’t want to be morbid, but at that rate you’ll probably die of old age before you get a silver membership.

You can’t even blame Arsenal for this, what can they do. There’s only so many seats and memberships they can sell. Even if they built a 100k seater stadium, it still wouldn’t improve things much. Just too many fans to please everyone
 
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It's a bit weird because I went from about 22k to 15k (can't remember exact numbers) in the space of a couple of years, at the time I calculated I'd have maybe 8-9 years wait at that rate but it then took maybe 10 years to drop the same amount again.
I know in the past there was a loophole where junior gunners would automatically become silvers i.e. probably thousands of them jumping the queue although I think that has now changed to a fairer system.

I think a 100k stadium would improve things a lot (in this context, I'm not suggesting it's realistic) as you'd get roughly an extra million places every season. 5-10 years ago ("Wenger out" era) I got to a lot of matches on red membership, obviously being more competitive on the pitch has meant increased demand but more seats undeniably means more chances of getting to matches.

Going back to the ballot, it's a fairer system but probably means I get to less games because I used to just jump on the 10am sales, I'd put the effort in to making sure I was in with the best chance rather than just casually logging on at lunchtime hunting for scraps or whatever like some might do.
 
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Allegedly it’s triple his salary at Arsenal and a ‘Global Director’ role, so for someone who is apparently quite career driven it’s going up in the world in absolute terms even if the individual clubs are relatively less attractive.
 
So Ive been having this running debate with a friend who is also a gooner that I think Arteta and Edu have done a good job.

However he is arguing our transfer window inadequacies have left us in the position we are in currently in the league and we didn't need Calafiori and Merino and instead we should have bought a striker.

Thoughts?
 
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