Arsenal face a different pressure now the Premier League title is theirs to f*** up...

Looking at that list why are we spending £40m on a forward when we desperately need 2 established midfielders right now. Putting all our eggs in the Bellingham basket is a massive risk and we need a new approach this season.

Then there’s Europe. Falling one game short on two occasions might have been tolerable had we run into a historically brilliant unit, as United did in 09 and 11. Madrid were no such team,but they just did enough on both occasions. But there was no more than the rub of the green in both games. The law will now be tweaked as what happened was undoubtedly extremely quick thinking by Marcus Rashford but totally not what was intended. This will be the second high profile goal scored against City that will provoke a law change – the first was Llorente’s for Spurs in that ludicrous Champions League match, City haters will be pleased to know the entertainment is not yet over.

It wasn’t Rashford who influenced the defenders’ movement anyway. It was their perception that he was offside — or rather that his offside position would constitute an offence — that made them stop defending before they eventually turned and chased him. They made that assumption and they were wrong. For him to have committed an offence, they needed to get close to him and force him to engage by touching the ball or shielding it from them, at which point he would have become active.

In the interest of transparency, I’m a United fan and none of the three high profile offside calls across the past two weekends sit well with me as a football lover. However, all three City players involved didn’t engage in the play as they would normally because they were waiting for a whistle that didn’t come.

Then they tried to make it so that lazy players not being arsed to get onside but on the other side of the pitch shouldn’t be called offside and then, in time, that’s led us to where we are now which is a confused nonsense and having created more problems than it solved. On the flip side, it was poor defending from City. Why did Akanji stop when he thought Rashford was off? He couldn’t see behind him so that’s some level of trust in his fellow defenders and rule number one is play to the whistle. And what if Rashford had also stopped? Bruno had still made the run so was Akanji content to let Walker deal with that. Walker was also too easily put off by Rashford’s presence. A top quality defender would’ve wiped both of them out.

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