Last night, I finally understood Arteta’s attitude towards this game, and his pride.
We were all losing it after going 2-0 down - excuses we had already played the game in our heads and won.
He (and the players) had to be in the present. Deal with reality and a new story. >
2/ Ramsdale’s saved us all season. Last night he slipped up & put us on the back foot.
2nd goal : a perfect finish by Theo. That’s what he does.
Shades of Hull in FA Cup. Stunned stadium. Getting a harsh wake up call because we were all asleep and dreaming. >
Jul 14, 2021 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
South Africa update 3:
The Zulu King has just addressed his people, who make up the majority of the protest shoppers here in KZN and basically told them to stop their idiocy. He said the damage they are causing will ultimately place the poor in a worse predicament - that his
2/ people are basically committing suicide.
He also appealed to his Zulu people to cease their targeting of KZN’s Indians (the largest population of Indians outside of India).
Side note: the Indian communities have retaliated with full strength against looters. “White”
Jul 13, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
A quick update on the South African situation:
Last night saw continued looting at shopping malls throughout KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng.
There were showdowns between the large crowds of “protest shoppers” and private security firms and armed citizens whenever it threatened to
2/ spill into the residential areas, where terrified families, black and white, wondered if the ransacking would turn to home invasions, and the horror that would entail.
Once again, law enforcement - presumably in the interest of not escalating the situation - stood by as shop
Jul 12, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
We have a few hundred armed neighbourhood defenders at the access points to our neighbourhood. We’ve barricaded out gates with our cars and are patrolling through the night.
ALL of our local shopping centers have been completely ransacked. There are gangs of hundreds of
2/ “protesters” making their way into our neighbourhoods. For now, they are “protest shopping” - however, communications intercepted say that they are going to target “affluent areas” tonight and throughout the week.
For now - there has been an attempt to avoid confrontation
