Rory Smith
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1,580 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Rory Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Listen, Liam Rossignol, unfortunately for him, has been getting hammered from the get-go based on some of the things which he said.
And I think some of that comes through our, like, generally, I'm saying our, like, the collective subconscious bias possibly against him being in that role, whether that's fair or not.
Because there have been other managers who've said more ridiculous things across many years who haven't received the same critique.
provided their team has been winning and people believe that they deserve to be in that position if you know what I mean but yeah the stuff that Arteta does and the way that they run that space that's very unique to them and those players know it understand it and they play into it they do it and when things are great the atmosphere is great like when things are good at Arsenal the energy around them from their fans and like the players it's like a united front but when it's not going so on everyone's like pointing fingers saying look you're doing this pencil stuff it's ridiculous and so on and so forth I think that's just for me it's part and parcel of the game but overall I've got to say by the way
This stuff that Arsenal are just about going through now, it's a reminder of how tough it is to actually win a Premier League title.
If there's anyone on the show that maybe has done it, I don't know, but it's a reminder of how tough it actually is because for so many, at times, we just assume it's the easiest thing in the world.
You've got good players, just go and win games.
But these times of the year, this time of the year now, when you're getting towards March, April time,
Little slip-ups can have huge consequences and we've seen that with Arsenal in the past.
We've seen times in years gone by where Liverpool drop some points and all of a sudden they lose a title on 95 points.
It's a very, very tough thing to do and I think for this Arsenal team, if they get through this spell and they do manage to win it, they'll remember these tough times probably more so than the greater times because they will feel they deserved it.
Just to put something into perspective, by the way, because I think there's some narrative points that we all get dragged into, which I think at times can be unfair.
I just had a quick look at the table, and this is a stats moment, so I apologize to anyone that's not really interested in this.
Expected goals for the season.
Arsenal ranked second in the league, yeah?
Only behind Chelsea.
But the difference is, Arsenal's expected goals for the season is like 63.9.
This is on understat.
But they've only scored 62 goals.
So even though it feels like they're quite clunky, not being creative and so on, they're still the second best in terms of opportunity, essentially, throughout this entire season.
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