Is there any premature coronation for Liverpool or are they the real deal under Arne Slot? Also, should Tottenham really get more credit?

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Are Liverpool being crowned too soon?
I have been called many things in my life but Howard Jones suggests he could be a fake collaborator It really took my breath away. I spent the day (between work and writing) walking up and down the hallway, occasionally looking in the mirror and asking myself, “Am I real?” – I’m having a kind of existential midlife crisis!

Howard offered me the red and blue pills and I took both. Now I’m trapped in a scouse matrix being pursued by Agent Tommy Smith and running into an oracle obsessed with facts and net spending. Actually, Howard just let a joke go through his head and needs to chill out.

We have only played 10 games and Liverpool fans are already talking about titles and that Slot is the new messiah. Conveniently forgetting that Brighton should have been 4 or 5 up at HT at the weekend, they were lucky to draw against an injury-hit Arsenal (does Salah score that goal with Timber and Gabriel still on the pitch?), Chelsea deserved a draw at Anfield (more clear chances), narrowly won against Wolves and Palace, and were beaten by Forest. The rest were (four) good wins, including our overtime win. But with any luck, if they went the other way, they would finish fourth or fifth and no one would be able to complain.

As there are only ten games it is difficult to draw conclusions, but comparing Liverpool’s averages from last season to this season:

fewer goals scored (2.3 vs. 1.9);
lower xG (2.4 vs. 1.8);
fewer goals conceded (1.1 vs 0.6);
better xGC (1.2 vs. 0.8);
lower possession (61.3% vs 57.1%);
lower successful passes in the final third (112 vs. 94);
fewer goal attempts (20.8 vs 14.1); and
Slightly fewer big chances conceded (2.1 vs. 1.8)

So far, better defensively but not as dangerous in attack; Considering they had a relatively good fixture list until recently, where they have been riding their luck, I wonder if there will be any premature celebrations on Merseyside. It’s definitely not like them, for example, to book leftover victory buses, this doesn’t slip, etc.

Let’s listen to Liverpool fans about what has changed tactically to make Slot on par with or an improvement on Klopp, and back it up with evidence and statistics, not armchair anecdotes and unnecessary personal insults.
Garey (the real lean and gloomy one) Vance, MUFC

READ: Liverpool’s nepotism erodes as Slot takes scalp from Alonso with dream debut season gaining steam

Just checking…
So when does this difficult run of games for Liverpool begin in which Slot will be exposed as a fraud?
Shiraz, Johannesburg

About the ‘characters’ of the F365
Reading Howard’s email on Tuesday morning made me think: How many people here are proudly linked to a specific club? We have some obvious ambassadors for the club, like Badwolf, Stewie Griffin and Barry Fox. But what about the rest of the league? Where are the uncompromising voices on each team?

I would introduce myself as one of Chelsea’s representatives, although I know there are others who do a much better job of flying the blue flag over the letterbox. It’s funny how people like Stewie Griffin have become fixtures here: distinct voices for their clubs that feel almost woven into the fabric of F365.

And as much as it may seem like they’re “characters,” I truly believe that Barry Fox and the others are real people. It would take a lot of dedication (and a touch of insanity) for anyone at F365 to invent and maintain fake characters like these for so long. That’s a next level commitment!
The admin @ at The Bridge Pod

Arteta out? Behave
Arsenal may not have been in North London “forever”, but we have been here for over a century, and longer than Tottenham “Middlesex” Hotspurs too.

As for the nonsense currently being written about Mikel, the last month hasn’t been very good, but the reason no one is linking Arteta to the sacking is because it would be a stupid move for the likes of Watford, let alone Arsenal . .

The Bank of England club doesn’t give up or listen to people like Stewie.

I have only met FIVE Arsenal managers: Graham, Rioch, Wenger, Emery and Arteta in the entire time I have supported the club and I am very happy with that.
Graham Simons, Gooner, Norf London

Some Spurs fans are down to earth
Fuck me; an email from Barry Fox and only ranks third on the “most misled and outraged emails from Spurs fans” scale.

These people do not speak for the majority of Spurs fans who recognize that the club is receiving its fair share of praise and abuse for the completely volatile approach to the season. A team that is either brilliant or terrible (no one really knows) and often in the same five minutes. Led by a manager who may be a charismatic genius, but who is also dangerously stubborn and a sore loser to his rival Jurgen Klopp. Again, all of these features are often highlighted in the same press.

It’s impossible to know what to make of everything that happens there, and boasting about your exploits with too much praise inevitably leaves you with egg on your face in pretty short order.

It’s a strange old season and I was arguing over the weekend whether, given Liverpool are unlikely to maintain a full-season title push under the new manager; Man City without Rodri looks unusually fallible; Arsenal lost color; Chelsea in “transition”; and Manchester United readjusting to what it means to be Manchester United Football Club in 2024, we could have an extremely open title race and I have no idea what this means for Tottenham.

So my bet is on Spurs finding themselves at Easter in a two-horse title race with Nottingham Forest only to somehow finish third behind Arsenal.
Chris Bridgeman, Kingston upon Thames

…OMG, lots of donuts.

It was a really good week for the Spurs. I’ve been writing a lot about Ange lately. So fair is fair, he deserves credit for two really good wins. Very good Angel.

The Aussie guy who told the 365ers to up their game (laughs) wanted to talk numbers. Here are some. Spurs PL away. Played 5, lost 3, won 1, tied 1.

We’re fucking horrible away from home. Awful. Did you see the Coventry game, guys? Some of these letters claim that Ange is an elite manager with a plan B, C and D for when things go wrong. He doesn’t even have a plan A. We are seventh because we can’t score points. If we had replicated our way of playing at home, we would have 26 points and would be first.

So stop. Stop writing stupid letters, stop playing ‘Freed from Desire’ in the stadium when we beat West Ham. There’s a good chance you’ll look stupid at the end of next season. I really hope you don’t. But history would suggest so.
Andrew

Ps Dom Solanke is a brilliant and selfless footballer. Much of what is being created for wingers is due to Solanke taking a couple of defenders with him on his runs. I thought I might have gotten a mention in “winners.” Improve your game 365

Not an angry Spurs fan, just a disappointed Man Utd fan…
No one expects all winning teams to be among the winners and losers. That’s a weak argument. However, given the narrative the site has been building, the suggestion that Postecoglou is on borrowed time, that Spurs are “Spursy”, that a crisis is looming, that it hits a team higher up the table, that it flies In the Champions League, after coming back, he absolutely deserves a place in Winners and Losers.

I’m actually a Manchester United fan and frankly they deserve the ridicule they’re getting, but I’m offended by the clear bias in the writing at times, the knee-jerk reactions. Disappointed too.

I respect that you publish a critical letter, but that does not take away the drop in the quality of the site.
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Let’s hear it for the boy.
I was proud, and strangely touched, to see that my son Eli had posted a letter in the Mailbox yesterday. It seems like just yesterday he came home from the hospital wearing an oversized Newcastle United jumpsuit.

Anyway, it occurs to me that we could very well be the first father-son contributors to the Mailbox. There is glory for you!
Chris C, Toon DC Army