A View from Row 5 Yesterday - Arsenal reminded me of Revie's Leeds
Posted by Brentwood Blue·
A team of talented players tainted by gamesmanship and snidery.
Jack Charlton invented standing in front of the 'keeper so Arsenal have taken this to an extreme with four NFL blockers leading in the header. Their first goal must surely have been disallowed.
Leeds made an art of time wasting, Arsenal have become the masters - the one thing the ref did right yesterday was award one corner - he could have changed any number of throws. Leeds used tactical "injuries" all the time, Gabriel goes down in the box when we had a promising attack.
By the end of his time Revie was totally paranoid about about decisions going against them. Arteta was booked to going out of the technical - today he claims he keeps records of how many times other managers do it. Funny how a gifted, off the cuff player has become Ron Knee.
That's not to say we weren't second best but ...
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