Shaka Hislop

The issue with leading, as Arsenal are finding out right now, and the boys have all said, is that there's a pressure to not make mistakes.

The pressure, you feel you're good enough to get the better of the opponent, but you don't want to make mistakes.

And as a result, you kind of play within yourself.

When you're chasing, you want to make things happen.

So you take risks looking for a different result that you won't take when you're leading.

And that's what you're seeing from Arsenal now.

And they know we're great at set pieces.

Nine times out of ten, that would bail us out of jail.

So you aren't seeing...

Saka taking risks.

You aren't seeing, well, again, it was Trossard, or whether we're talking Martinelli.

I wish somebody could explain to me what happened to Eze.

Those kinds of players who are creative, who are the ones who kind of bring... So it's an alt-tester, so you just kind of, you just want robots.

So, no, it's, no, I wouldn't say that because, again...

Newcastle was in that same position, albeit 30 years ago.

And you just, it is just an internal pressure where you do not want to be the one to make mistakes.

If the manager says, let's do this, I'm going to do that and nothing else.

There's not going to be any variation to it.

Now, again, so I can't put that on our tether because I wouldn't have put it on Kevin Keegan.

That's just the nature of leading.