El Zen

Jesus christ, Ginny.

4-2-3-1. Ollie wide left, Bailey right.

Formation change and Bailey on. It’s a shame it’s probably faaaar too late already.

Oh well. It’s no less than we deserve anyway. We’ve been as bad as any team I’ve seen all season. If Deano doesn’t make drastic changes at half time, I’ll be extremely disappointed. Nothing is working, and we’re playing the wrong formation and the wrong style. This isn’t Dean Smith’s Aston Villa. Something is wrong.

Never a pen. F*** off. Soft, stupid shite. Football is dead.

It’s surreal. I’ve watched him play for Norwich. He’s an excellent player. But right now he looks like a compo winner.

F***ing change it!

I mean, Matty Targett there, in a perfectly good position to put a good cross in, can’t even beat the first man. Nothing is right.

Can’t complain at all. We’ve practically begged them to score all game. Change this shite now.

It’s not that this Arsenal team is very good, either. It’s a truly terrible game of football.

What an absolute mess of a game.

Time to wake up.

That should be a yellow for Auba.

Precisely the kind of space a back three is volnurable to.

Can’t be doing that, Ollie.

Team news will be very interesting. I really want to see us play 4-3-3.

It’s always good to remember Paddy. He was just a genuinely good guy, just a year older than myself. Unbelievable it’s been 10 years.

That may (probably) be true, but not to the extent that you can eat as many calories you want as long as they’re from fat, and not carbs, and that you can’t lose weight on balanced diet. You can eat carbs and lose weight. I’ve said before, I think people who think they’re losing weight from cutting carbs, are actually losing weights from cutting calories. They’re unintentionally eating less.

No, it’s the narrative he’s trying to spin about himself as some kind of victim who never gets a fair chance at success, who is only criticised for some other reason than his actual ability as a manager, it’s how he’s always out to ‘shut a few people up’. He never really accepts any criticism, he always takes it personally. A lot of fans from a lot of clubs have suffered through some appalling football with Bruce as manager. But the fans’ criticism is somehow never legitimate, always personal. He’s picking these fights. Constantly. I’m sick of this self-pitying multi-millionaire insulting the collective intelligence of fans at every club he turns up. He has a reputation for being ‘nice’ but he comes across as a snide, petty prick. That’s why people don’t like him. That and his objectively awful brand of football.

But he’s not just doing his job. He’s picking most of these fights himself, making completely needless and snide remarks about fans and other critics. He’s being a petulant child, when he should know better. For a someone often praised for how much of a nice man he is, he makes an awful lot of enemies and gets involved in an awful lot of media spats.

People don’t like him because he keeps playing the victim and moaning about fans, taking it all far too personal. He’s been stealing a living as a manager, getting far more chances and being backed far more than his results merit. Yet he keeps making comments like that. It’s pathetic and petty.

He’s a grown-ass man making a fortune in an emotion-driven, cynical entertainment business. This is why people don’t like him.

Have all the likes in the world for that reference. I’m also quite confident Steve Bruce would choose cake.

Also: FTFY

I have never lefter a bigger footprint anywhere. So proud.