Jonathan Liew

They are almost expected to fail.

They've only really been able to succeed by every part of the club pulling together in the same direction, creating as broad a church as possible.

You know, you get the fan base on side and you get the, you know, you try and reach out to fans that have maybe been disaffected in the past.

You do that through, you know, through social media, you do that through ticketing or you do that through the media.

You try and create this club as a broad church, as a roof for everyone's head.

And the other part of it is you do also have to be quite ruthless.

You don't have to, you know, Mikel Arteta has not been shy of taking tough decisions, unpopular decisions.

that have been taken for long-term reasons, but have caused him a lot of pain in the short term.

You know, Arteta jettisoned a really successful goalkeeper in Aaron Ramsdale.

You know, he's jettisoned club legends and players that have been in the club for years and years and very popular with fans.

I think Keir Starmer won't do something if he thinks it'll get him a negative headline in the Daily Mail the next day.

I mean, no, not really.

Easily, please.

Just give him sugar, he'll be fine.

No, it is good.

I mean, I think the crux of the question here is whether this was bad defending or intentional non-defending.

I think there's a difference there.

Like, is this a failure of defending or is this... Because everyone knows about the attacking talent on the pitch and both teams are aware that that's their strengths.

So is this both teams just trying to play to their strengths or do they do it badly?

And I think it's a bit of both.