Pre-season games can often be competitive, but this year’s crop seem to feature an above-average amount of Handbags. Do any of the stats nerds even keep records of xH for pre-season games? Probably not, the lazy frauds.
It was disappointing if understandable that Spurs were legally unable to employ Conte and Lamela at the same time because it would have been just too awesome, but he does feel like the great lost Conteball wing-back of the age.
In Aston Villa against Leeds, we had John McGinn absolutely not-that-kind-of-playering Archie Gray to the hospital with an absurd and wild out-of-control tackle that would have been inexplicable in the heat of a match that actually mattered. Villa boss Steven Gerrard issued a textbook non-apology for the whole thing in which an earlier challenge by Gray on Emi Buendia was offered as nudge-nudge justification for McGinn’s actions without flat-out saying as much.
But if a burgeoning rivalry between Aston Villa and Leeds makes some kind of sense as two teams who may potentially occupy similar territory in the Premier League table once the phoney war is over, how then to explain a pre-season frolic between Everton and Arsenal in Baltimore containing as the Liverpool Echo put it ‘genuine needle’?American Arsenal fans still bothering with the effort of booing Dele Alli feels rather quaint and weirdly complimentary to a player whose sad decline means even...
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