The FA Cup final was proof of why Manchester United should both keep and sack Erik ten Hag. Arsenal supporters are not sure why they’re being dragged in. Send your thoughts to theeditor@football365.
com. Marching in What a great race it was for promotion in the Championship this year, culminating in Sunday’s entertaining — and tight — play-off final. After seeing Leicester take Saints to pieces at St Mary’s last Autumn, I was fairly certain the Foxes would be taking one of the automatic promotion places, but was left far from unconvinced about Russell Martin’s possession-to-the-max philosophy, an approach that appeared to be too vulnerable to teams playing quickly on the break.
After the long unbeaten spell, I was happy to be proven wrong, and I was happily surprised by the tactical flexibility Martin showed in the final by setting up to play a completely different way against Leeds (who were unlucky to come away empty handed from the season after accruing so many points). It will be interesting to see if Russell Martin evolves his footballing philosophy when faced with the challenge of the top tier. Remy the Saint Arsenal’s performance I was disappointed with Arsenal’s performance on Saturday.
I felt we had a really good season, but we let ourselves down on Saturday. After the great run we had (16 wins in 18 matches), to end the season like that on Saturday was disappointing. What? Arsenal didn’t play? Then why on earth were there two emails denigrating us, .
