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Carsick Banana's avatar

If Arsenal can use this interlull as a platform to reset, recover and rediscover themselves, which leads to the league title, this defeat would just make that even sweeter.

Tom Curren's avatar

That is certainly the hope, although I fear international breaks rarely work that way

Tiku Patel's avatar

And yes a very serious journalist/writer

Tom Curren's avatar

Depends on the day 🙂‍↕️

Martin Wengrow's avatar

Excellent

Tiku Patel's avatar

Beautifully written ❤️

GH's avatar

Just got around to this one Tom, thanks for writing. I think we can be guilty of overindexing the result a little as well as the performance. If Eze, Odegaard, Havertz and Timber are all fully fit, then take Cherki, Silva, Haaland and Nunes out of the City team I think we see a complete reverse. Hopefully it's compartmentalised in the dressing room, and we'll start getting some bodies back and fitness levels up for the last couple of months. It's still all to play for.

Tom Curren's avatar

Cheers GH. Mostly agree. I wish I had the emotional intelligence to detach myself from the moment but I started writing this blog because I don't really, lol. And I do worry about the emotional impact of stuff like this, even if I have absolutely no evidence to support it. But I'm here for the rollercoaster, wherever it leads

Michele Rattray-Huish's avatar

Thank you for putting these feelings into words...

Tom Curren's avatar

Thank you for reading