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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42426756 Tomas Rosicky retires. My first thoughts being that he was a very capable player who was somewhat blighted with injuries as he got older. @SirBalon @Gunnersauraus @VanPaddy @6666 @Asura @...Dan Thoughts on his time for you at Arsenal?

he's hilarious though

We're delighted you're finding time to come on here

work's Christmas party tonight. I can already fear the hangover tomorrow morning. At least I can sleep it off on the way to the game tomorrow.

Kenny's looked decent recently and looks like a hot prospect for sure. Coleman has a job on his hands when he's back fit to get back in to the side.

woken up to a lot of fucking snow and I couldn't be happier . All the more reason to stay in and watch football. Got the 3 Premier League games then Villarreal vs Barcelona in the evening.

congratulatios buddy! Timed that impeccably!

surely Kenny has to go now. Players clearly aren't responding to him. He's had injuries go against him but the injuries seem to be too frequent. The 2 youngsters up front did quite well.

but you'll have a centre-back that can lob great goal-keepers from outside the box! Not to mention a striker that kicks opposition players in the face and threaten not to play for England again if he gets punished for it

maybe not, VAR rules it out for a handball in the lead up to it.

wow, make that 5-0!

Ha, no wonder most of the home fans didn't turn up. Team in freefall and losing 4-0 'at home' to your arch rivals.

right, i'm sorry you had to go through that but was it @Cannabis or @LFCMadLad that did this?

bloody hell. can't leave you Germans alone for 1 minute.

I don't want to change this in to a Kante discussion as I know Drinkwater is the talking point but Kante was the most important in that 15/16 team. The fact he could defend and attack in equal measure and do both as superbly as the other meant he could run most games from that midfield point. And not to the detriment of Drinkwater, but Kante could probably play a game by himself in midfield and come out on top. They were the perfect pair. When one would go forward, the other would know to hold back and support in case we ourselves got countered. I actually think Drinkwater would benefit more from going forward and not being restricted to stay back or defend as a priority. He's got a quick mind which means he can read the game well and assess danger, so to speak, so if you were to get countered against, he would know where to be on the pitch and have the energy to get back and support. He'd end every single game absolutely knackered but that's only because he gave so much to the team and almost always gave 100%. Most sensible Leicester fans recognised that when Drinkwater played well, the rest of the team usually did because he's such a workhorse and so tireless in the midfield. He'd work so hard up and down the pitch it meant that the creative players were free to express themselves - much like Hazard can (he'd probably do that anyway tbf) and Mahrez does for us.

In the title-winning season, he was able to do that with the insurance of the beast that is N'Golo Kante helping him out. Last season, he didn't do it as much. But that might just be because overall we were pretty poor so he was restricted from playing his 'natural game' or what he was good at (getting forward at the right time). I don't see him as a holding midfielder but his reading of the game is very good and one of his best qualities. Very energetic and is capable of mixing up his game as a defensive midfielder or getting forward in attacks and providing for the wingers/strikers.

think only @IgnisExcubitor @Mel81x and @Asura may get this

you've got the standard Oxbridge unis at the top of the pile. I know UCL and Nottingham are good for law too. Durham, as well.

Think it was around this time last year I, and many others, went batshit crazy about this footage. We're all TEAM IGUANA.

to be fair, in their away game against us, everything was through De Bruyne. Whether it was getting the ball from Ederson from the back, linking up with Fernandinho or Delph or Walker, supporting Jesus, Sterling or Sane - everything went through him. Not saying Silva wasn't involved in any way, but De Bruyne seemed the more important player. De Bruyne was the pivot and the influence for that game and that victory. The goal was just the very tasty icing on top of the cake.

sad to hear that, Spike. Hopefully you can look back on the good times you had with him and have those as your main memories as opposed to him not being here with you any more

Started watching The Punisher. Big fan. Nice storyline, plot. Something to watch while having to wait for next episodes of Peaky Blinders each week.

new contract for Silva

fair enough, wasn't aware of that. What are the halo's made out of? How resilient, sturdy, resistant to impact are they?

Jules Bianchi?