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By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)Today 08:48Today at 08:48:16

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Arsenal are getting pelters this season for their style of play, slowing down play, maximising set pieces and being big, strong and physical.

Just like we used to, and still have a reputation for playing that way, which we live up to in terms of getting the ball forward quickly and being strong and aggressive.

Am I alone in much preferring to watch this style over the tikka takka style everyone tried to copy from Pep's teams of a season or two ago.

It's down to the referee to manage the game, if you can get away with playing like Revell, Graham Westley or Steve Evans' Stevenage, and are winning surely that's all that matters.

Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 08:49:01 on 5th March 2026

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By SevToday 10:01Today at 10:01:42In response to StyleTop of thread

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It's funny because it's not like Arsenal don't also play some good football. They have a lot of exciting players to watch. But because they've toughened up and now know how to battle and win against the sides that either used to out battle them or were just better than them (the Man City/Barca types), they're now getting criticised.

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By TucksToday 09:59Today at 09:59:50In response to StyleTop of thread

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The beauty of football is that there are so many ways you can play the game. None are right or wrong and we see dominant styles come around, then someone completely changes the way they play, becomes successful and that becomes the fashion. We moved towards possession based football without height and physicality being as much of a necessity and now we will see the re-emergence of physical players of stature and balls into the box. I personally think that is fascinating and not something that happens in most sports.

A lot of my enjoyment of the game comes from watching the tactical side, trying to see who is doing what and why. I want to see us win. There is of course a more attractive way for that to happen but the best sight is always scoring more than we concede and putting three points on the board.

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By Copes (CDawg)Today 09:35Today at 09:35:50In response to StyleTop of thread

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I hate Arsenal so much man.

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By TelboyToday 08:58Today at 08:58:54In response to StyleTop of thread

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All this tippy tappy football does my head in.
I'm very much old school, love to see the full-on physical side of our game.
It can actually take your breath away sometimes when witnessing some of our tackles along with our challenges in the air.
We are certainly not little princesses...we are 'big, strong and physical" we really are and I love it.

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By BedsBoro (peanut)Today 09:01Today at 09:01:35In response to Re: StyleTop of thread

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Agreed, I'd much rather watch Pidge and Phillips flying into headers and tackles than passing the ball amongst the back five for half the game. It's also very difficult to play in a more expansive way in L1 because of the level of quality - Stockport did a good job at moving the ball around but lacked any way of getting through us/we did very well at stopping them, but most teams I've seen try and play free-flowing football at our level end up making a huge number of mistakes

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By HITCHIN CALLINGToday 08:54Today at 08:54:59In response to StyleTop of thread

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Yeah for example Wolves and Burnley play "nice" footy but looks like getting relegated.

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