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I don't understand how anyone who watched the Bournemouth game could think we weren't engaging in "game management", a term I use because some seem to get upset by the words "time wasting", but whether you call it that or "slowing the game down" we very obviously were, and rightly so. There...

Said similar last night.

Agreed. From both recent games against them, I think they will be fine.

I have no idea what the Bournemouth fan has previously seen, so I have no idea if it was the worst or not. It probably wasn't, but that's recency bias for you. We can all talk about Fulham and Villa quite clearly, because they happened recently. Were they the worst we've ever seen? Were there...

Multiple opposition fans last night commented on our time-wasting. The commentator on my stream commented on our time-wasting. The referee booked our goalkeeper for time-wasting. I could see with my own eye that we were time-wasting. Are we all idiots and wrong? We'd be utterly stupid not to...

Exactly. Part of the pantomime of football is our lot are "the good guys" and the others are the bad guys. Our boys are as honest as the day is long, whilst the opposition are cheating wankers. Fans of very club are largely the same in this regard. Yes, there are some extreme cases when it...

Which is why I said “broadly”.

One difference with us, at least under De Zerbi, is that we won't "game manage" our way to a point. We want to win and will chase the game to try and do that.

Broadly the difference is this... Opposition does it: outrageous time-wasting and the ref needs to get a grip. We do it: shrewd game management, well done chaps. And most fans of most clubs are exactly the same.

I bit my tongue on some recent threads on this because our players will use "game management" just like everyone else when the need arises. We're not saints.