Vote for Boxing Day's biggest blow

By Onz Chery
Dec 26, 2015

1.Manchester United lose yet another game-- 2-0 to Stoke City-- to add more pressure on Louis van Gaal. The Manchester United boss let the media know that he has the option to quit the club.

After being asked if he was alarmed about the fact that the club could sack him after today's loss at a media conference, the Dutchman answered: "That is something I discuss with [executive vice-chairman] Ed Woodward not you. It is not always the club that has to fire or sack me."

He later added: "Sometimes I do that by myself."

2.Arsenal fall to 12-placed Southampton 4-0 at St-Mary's Stadium, after a promising victory over Manchester City five days ago.

3.League leaders Leicester end a 10 match non-losing streak as a struggling Liverpool prevailed them 1-0 at Anfield.

4.Diego Costa netted twice to drive Chelsea to a 2-2 draw against Watford at Stamford Bridge. The forward was booed and named "rat" (alongside Eden Hazard and Cesc Fabregas) by the Chelsea fans during the game against Sunderland last Saturday.

That's for calling me rat last game:

Costa hadn't scored in five games before today.

Which one do you think was the biggest blow today?

Source: BBC

Article taken from availablesports.blogspot.com

I have to go with # 4: Costa. What a game he had today.

dude you need to stop making so many threads. its great that you'e super active and all, but you're creating too many.

Although I want to say UTD's result was the biggest shock I have to admit that Arsenal's result was bigger.

I only watched Arsenal's loss, so I have to pick that one. Losing 4-0 when you have a great shot at being 1st..... that's something only Wenger can muster up.

well, atleast the gap is closer though.. :l

@nandaYNWA I am not trying to start fight or anything but there is nothing wrong with what onze11 is doing. He introduced himself and said that he joined to blog about different topics so he did let everyone know what he was planning on doing. Also, why do you care? It is not like you have to post and engage in very thread he starts meaning it doesn't affect you at all. Lastly, this is a forum and it is meant for good, interesting discussions about football which he is doing. So I'm sorry to say that NO he is not creating too many threads.

@louis _van _gaal Totally agree with you there, Onz is a very nice addition to footyroom, he's actually pretty professional and he add a lot of interesting content to footyroom. Its actually a nice change of pace since we usually have few new post in the forum.

Back on the topic, Number 3 kind of sadden me a bit, I wanted more goal and also maybe a Leicester win. Number 2 is the most shocking tough, I mean the whole reason Arsenal won their last match against Manchester City was because of the quality of it's defense, yet, they allow Southampton to score 4 times. Arsenal really seem to have some consistency problem. I'm also suprised by the manchestet city vs sunderland results, they really managed to hop right back in the saddle with this win.

Arsenal losing 4 - 0 was shocking, they have been playing so good lately (did not watch the game because I was confident they would win). I watched united vs stoke and stoke could have scored 3-4 goals, but it is obvious the team (not everyone of course) are not giving their best in previous matches so the result and performance were not much of a surprise.

@Emobot7 city vs sunderland was a surprise for me too given that sunderland always gave city a hard game. so yeah I was expecting a narrow win not a comfortable 4-1 win.

For me no shock at any match.

1. Beating Stoke away from home is not an easy task, specially when you're not in great form.
2. Arsenal at St. Mary's stadium always fails to win, I just kinda hoped we will get the points this time after good performance against City, but it's Arsenal so, not a big surprise for me.
3. Predicted that Liverpool will beat Leicester, maybe surprising for me is that they didn't even scored.
4. Costa scored 2 goals, not surprising at all.

Great thread ! Agree with guys above ! Good addition to forum ! About time we get interesting threads !

1. For me biggest shock was Costa scoring like he always used to score
   with cold collected head .

1. Arsenal loosing to Southampton was not a big shock . Arsenal does always struggle against their "Academy" :D Score was a shocking part . I was thinking maybe a very tough draw for Southampton but to win and in such a big margin against title contender spoke volumes . Makes me question since Chelsea struggling too and it has become normality that top team suddenly may loose to low star team and with embarrassing score at times . Either EPL teams have become so competitive that teams are pretty equal or our top teams are pretty equal crap . Starting to wonder honestly .

2. I think United players are doing Chelsea ! I am 99% sure ! It was awful just awful football ...

3. Least shocking was Liverpool beating Leicester but it was upsetting . I was hoping they would continue their streak . Liverpool always has been such team . Kind of annoying . They will loose next week against some low team but will put on a performance against top sides as if this their cup final . Good for them maybe but annoying lol

Great addition to the forum for sure!!!

for me definitely Arsenal loss to the Saints. i mean Southampton are a decent side but taking 4 from them in the moment where you have to give a strong message and consolidate your candidacy for title contender is a bit upsetting.
yea, basically what Dynastian said.

and @onze11, keep up the good work mate.