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Mikel Arteta has been \u2018brutally SNUBBED\u2019 \u2013 but is he still a \u2018deluded\u2019 manager of \u2018mentality muppets\u2019 who have \u2018gone backwards\u2019 in Arsenal?<\/p>\n
Liverpool have also been \u2018snubbed\u2019 in apparent proof of how far they have fallen, despite their last such \u2018snub\u2019 coming when they were one of the best teams in the world.<\/p>\n
Also in Mediawatch, there is class, boffins and true colours. Pretty much as always.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Frank Lampard was named LMA manager of the year on Tuesday. But that really is shudderingly boring, isn\u2019t it? Far more interesting is this from The Sun website<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2018Arteta brutally SNUBBED by fellow bosses for top award despite Arsenal title win\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n No update yet on whether fellow nominees Pep Guardiola, Unai Emery, Andoni Iraola, Keith Andrews, Michael Skubala and Andy Woodman were also \u2018brutally SNUBBED\u2019, or if only Arteta can possibly suffer such a fate.<\/p>\n A fate, by the way, that amounts to being \u2018sensationally beaten\u2019 and \u2018incredibly snubbed\u2019 for an award in favour of a manager who won the Championship title by 11 points, guiding his club to Premier League promotion for the first time in 25 years as the division\u2019s highest scorers and lowest conceders.<\/p>\n Apropos of nothing, we wonder whether Charlie Wyett \u2013 the man happy to pretend this is a brutal SNUBBING \u2013 still believes Arteta to be \u2018deluded\u2019<\/strong>and Arsenal to be \u2018mentality muppets\u2019 who have \u2018gone backwards\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This, by the way, is absolutely textbook John Cross-ing.<\/p>\n \u2018Mikel Arteta was Premier League Manager of the Year. Lovely touch to bring his whole team on stage and also pay a rich tribute to David Moyes for starting his journey in English football. Big nod from new school to old school in there, too. Class.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A timely reminder that nothing is classy until it is officially approved by Crossy.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n There are myriad sticks with which to beat Liverpool after their dreadful Premier League title defence. But Jeremy Cross of the Daily Mirror<\/strong> is reaching here.<\/p>\n \u2018It feels symbolic of Liverpool\u2019s rapid decline this season,\u2019 he writes. \u2018And a damning reflection of how standards have slipped at one of the world\u2019s biggest and proudest football clubs.\u2019<\/p>\n The \u2018shameful\u2019, \u2019embarrassing\u2019 and \u2018almost unthinkable\u2019 \u2018snub\u2019? That there is no Liverpool player in England\u2019s World Cup squad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Cross points out that it is the first time this has happened since 1986. He neglects to mention that they were English champions and FA Cup winners then, which undermines the idea that a lack of representation in an England World Cup squad is \u2018a damning reflection of how standards have slipped at one of the world\u2019s biggest and proudest football clubs\u2019.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a reflection of Rio Ngumoha being 17, Curtis Jones and Joe Gomez being Curtis Jones and Joe Gomez, and Liverpool selling Jarell Quansah and Jordan Henderson.<\/p>\n There are no Bournemouth players in the England squad either. Is that a reflection of how rubbish they are too?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n AI technology platform PLAIER would put Jones in the England squad, which is obviously incredibly embarrassing for Tuchel.<\/p>\n James Tarkowski would also have made a selection based on a system which \u2018uses a database of more than 300,000 footballers across more than 200 countries to correlate data and provide precise analysis,\u2019 with players \u2018selected in the AI squad based on the likeliness of success on the pitch as a team, rather than individual quality.\u2019<\/p>\n And it is at that point that the MailOnline<\/strong> should probably have realised they were being a bit silly in doing a story based on the findings of an AI scouting tool which believes Jones, Tarkowski and Lewis Dunk to be central to World Cup glory.<\/p>\n But of course the MailOnline was going to cover both that and the Sofascore Premier League team of the season. It all boils down to one word. And you\u2019ll be kicking yourself if you don\u2019t get it before the grand reveal of these headlines:<\/p>\n \u2018The England squad Thomas Tuchel SHOULD have picked, according to AI boffins: TEN stars miss out as surprise Liverpool man is included \u2013 but are there spots for Foden and Palmer?\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Erling Haaland leads the line but there\u2019s no room for Antoine Semenyo \u2013 and a surprise goalkeeper with almost HALF the number of David Raya\u2019s clean sheets makes the cut: Stats boffins name their team of the season\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Numbers = boffins. And boffins = some good old-fashioned MailOnline sneering.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Here is Samuel Luckhurst in The Sun<\/strong>:<\/p>\n \u2018United made the most of playing one game per week in a season where they endured 16-day, 13-day, 11-day and 24-day gaps between fixtures.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u2018Endured\u2019? The poor sods, having to put up with big breaks in between games against inevitably more knackered teams.<\/p>\n Enjoyed would be more appropriate, especially considering\u2026<\/p>\n \u2018Yet two of United\u2019s worst performances under Carrick \u2013 at West Ham United and Newcastle \u2013 came three days after their previous fixture.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s almost like the lengthy rest periods between matches that they \u2018endured\u2019 this season was actually massively beneficial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n After his recent \u2018true colours\u2019 exhibition in the aftermath of West Ham\u2019s relegation<\/strong>Declan Rice continues to reveal yet more of himself.<\/p>\n \u2018Declan Rice shows his true colours with West Ham message after Premier League relegation\u2019 is the headline chosen by the Daily Mirror website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And it turns out that Rice, former West Ham academy graduate, player and captain, with whom he spent a decade of his life and career, was sad to see them get relegated.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n
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