Right, we are out of Carabao Cup and FA Cup, but not everything is lost. We are 11 points clear of Man City in Premier League and we can take that lead to 12 points if we beat Bournemouth today. City do have 2 games in hand, but if they win both, we will still have a 6 point lead with only 6 games left for the season. In Champions League, we have a 1-0 advantage against Sporting and the second leg is at home. If we managed to get at least a draw, we will be playing Atletico (most likely) in the semi finals. I would rather play Atletico than Flick’s Barcelona.
The chance of lifting a trophy is still a possibility. And a win today will improve that possibility even more. Bournemouth are sitting in the bottom half of the table, and I hope we don’t shoot ourselves in the foot today.
Playing XI is out and I still don’t understand what has gotten into Arteta’s mind.
Why is Martinelli in the playing XI when you have Hincapie available. It’s not the time to be concerned about the injuries, because a loss in any of the games could mean a title. I’m OK with rest of the selection, Eze could have played ahead of Havertz but I’m not sure how much of his fitness is back.
I don’t understand the fact that we spend more than 250m on midfielders (Rice, Zubimendi, Norgaard, Havertz, Odegaard) and yet, we always have 2 DM-profile players and an option to choose from a non-performing Odegaard with a out-of-form Havertz. Anyway, that shouldn’t be a problem for a team sitting on 1st, playing against a bottom half team I suppose.
We need to win today. Man City has to visit Chelsea tomorrow and though I don’t have much confidence in Chelsea beating them, anything can happen. In last 3 seasons, we have always been the favorites going into last 7-8 games but have given it away. There are 7 games left, and 7 test of whether we have learned something over the years.
Right, game starts in an hour. See ya.
Squeaky, you should apologise for inflicting your nonsense of unsuspecting online fantasists. If you apologise to them, I might about apologising to you.
I probably won’t. You deserve it for being a misery when we’re top of the league and finals of UCL.
The Real Vieira Lynn
October 26, 2025, 11:40 pm
what a weak-ass last gasp shot over the bow…if you apology to me in a timely fashion, I’ll consider taking it easy on you if you ever make a similar mistake in the future…based on what’s transpired here today you would be wise to jump on that offer
Your offer was very stupid Half pint.
Let me guess, Marc and his pretend ST and pretend friend with an ST didn’t go again.
Plastics.
Achoo—as per usual this is some shooting fish in a barrel-type shit you teeny-tiny fucktard…in your typical cut and paste fashion you posted something competely devoid of context then proceeded to prove once again that you’re still the dumbest “man” in the room…first and foremost I had Arsenal winning this semi, so you surely don’t have that over me, and secondly, you’re the kind of next-level delusional fuck who actually believes that your mere presence in the nose bleeds had something to do with our victory…word to the wise, stop posting any more details of last nights events, if your boss ever finds out you left your glory hole unattended you could find yourself on the wrong end of an epic level pimp slapping…btw that’s the closest you’ll get to an apology small fry…take care knobgoblin
https://youtube.com/shorts/1T7u_RzLBYw?si=hk1uz9oZIfkfQEAH
This is one of several reasons why this man isn’t fit for management. There are many more critical reasons of course. And before someone says, ‘you have to factor in the importance of the moment’, I’ve seen him do it in a carabao game against Bolton. He’s an utter arse and impossible to respect.
No need to apologise Squeaky, I’m not that fussed.
I’m going to post some more details of last night, don’t let it upset you. My mere presence is the only connection you’ll ever have with proper supporters.
Surely you’ll have noted the commentaries on how charged the atmosphere was last night, people like me, not chumps online swearing and angry about Arteta. If you don’t think 60k fans giving it their all helps the team you clearly don’t understand football. This is why you’ll be nothing but an online plastic.
I note that you’ve dialled back criticism of Tets recently, now you’re describing Pep as “chicken shit and cowardly” for not winning a game.
I think it goes back to one of the most daft comments you ever made
“Winners win!” So now Pep isn’t because he didn’t and Tets will be because he did.
Perhaps you’re the type of fan who follows a franchise when they win and views sporting achievement through a very narrow yank prism.
Here’s the thing, when your take is in opposition to the millions of supporters going to games, watching online, listening, it’s probably a shit take.
We both know, idiots like you and Fartso wouldn’t last a minute among real fans, you dozy tosser.
You wouldn’t even last a minute on a less needy blog. Take a seat.
…watch the way he tries to put Mr Pony Tail off as he’s taking a throw. Fucking abysmal behaviour. Always trying to be the centre of attention.
Relax KP, the irony of you posting a clip with the crowd singing “we’ve got Super Mik Arteta” as an example of why he’s not fit to manage isn’t lost on me
He might well be an utterly arse, I couldn’t say, but what he’s done deserves respect. He’s clearly fit to manage.
Nobody said you have to “factor in the importance of the moment” that’s you doing a Squeaky and making things up.
Truthfully, if this is where you need to go after we’ve just reached the UCL final, you’re sacking the joy out the game unnecessarily but I endorse moments like this given how rarely they come around for most clubs including us.
Let’s do a thought experiment.
Fartso in the Twelve Pins or Bank of Friendship last night ranting and telling everyone what he thinks of Tets and fans who support him.
I like to think we’d give him his own special chair and laugh at him for the whole 90 mins, I’d even buy him a drink to make sure he stuck around.
Nah mate, I’m not buying that. His behaviour last night, though typical, was fucking egregiously short of a certain reasonable standard of adult sporting behaviour. I’m not asking for Bertie Mee/GG level stoicism, just a modicum of class from a leader at a club that apparently prides itself on being a cut above.
You don’t know whether I enjoyed last night or not (emoji clue time – 😍) but don’t get too judgemental like certain other po-faced poultices on here. I’m not trying to suck anything, let alone the joy out of an important win. So I plead not guilty.
Not for me to say, but you’re possibly being a bit too desperate to win something – anything! – and excuse any of Stubborn’s terrible behaviour as a result. Aitcho, this is how bad he was last night: he almost out-cunted el Rey de los coños, Simeone, such was his dismal, self serving contribution to the evening. I’m going to sound like a pearl clutching member of 70s comedy drag duo hinge and bracket, but it was he who tried to put a negative shellac on the occasion.
More widely, the scenes outside the ground, while undoubtedly spontaneous, help to explain why Arsenal fans are viewed dimly by supporters of other big clubs. Who gives a fuck I suppose? We won an important and nerve wracking semi final. But he haven’t won the big kahuna yet have we? And the auguries suggest we’re in for a different level of toughness in the final.
I’m just saying we need a bit of collective composure. After hubris comes nemesis and all that. It’s not a good look. If we do prevail in the capital of Hungarian buggery, I’ll be partying like it’s 1999 of course but let’s do some unArteta like chilling for now.
It’s right to criticise Tetsy’s cunty behaviour. To let it slide, suggests you may be at the threshold of a mind washing Trumpian cult where the eyebrow plucking, over emotional, poor role modelling little man can do no wrong. That said, I hope you’ve ordered a MAGA hat…
Make Arteta Gracious Again
Given the context it does come across as a bit pearl clutching KP, a win to get us into a UCL final and you’ve focused on a bit of shothousing and the fact we celebrated too much for your liking. We all know it’s not win and bigger tests await but we can also enjoy the moment.
Any team in any comp would celebrate a semi final win, watch the scenes in any nation that wins the WC semi.
If you think the fans are the reason for antipathy towards Arsenal you’ve not being paying attention over the years. We’re boring, we’re corrupt, we’re French, we’re dirty, we drink Lattes, we play foreigners, we’re drunks, we drink lattes, we have massages (I kid you not, back page of the Sun in 1986). Ignore the barbs, I don’t support my team for the approval of others.
Criticise away but perspective and proportion man. People are calling him Super Mik, he’s got us to only our 2nd UCL final. It doesn’t blind us to his flaws but at this point perhaps more weight can be given to his achievement than his character. Most managers have a touch of the cunt about them, Cloughie, Fergie and many more but they were still lauded by their fans.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/arsenal-myles-lewis-skelly-return-37116979
Something about immaturity , in line with what KP has been diplomatically saying, it needs a fall up the stairs for El Bastardo to see the light. It had happened earlier with ESR.
KP is so decent with this language , but think the gems are out of place in a trough. We shall only get another snort in reply 😥
Spoke to an old pal , who went on a free ticket earlier.
He said its gone
Full of soppy cunts buying their shirts and the overpriced tat. All false atmosphere.
Caps at £45, shirts at £120
Shorts at £70, baby bibs at £25
Etc
Why are so many gormless middle age cunts wearing the kits these days?
Dont these slags have no morals or principles, all that money ends up with the Koronkes or exploiting poor fuckers in Bangladesh
I would rather drink a gallon of lepers pus , than wear a football kit .
Its gone full circle, no one followed us, when it was real football and a working class game , now every Karen and Tarquin wants a piece of the action
It goes to what, I always have suspected , these modern day cunts who attend , don’t actually like real football or its heritage but go because its in vogue or trendy
I will never set foot in that cunt of a stadium again, and nor will my pal , mind with that cunt , if its free, he will go again
It’s a lovely story Hoopah.
My understanding is that the issue was never about whether Tets rated him or not. It may only be hearsay and gossip, but I occasionally play in a league for journalists and broadcasters, sports included. I turn out for The Times for my sins, they’re in a wooden spoon scrap. Post games drinks can be a hive of gossip and journo one-upmanship.
Quite a few are Arsenal fans and there was a discussion re MLS. The tone of it seemed to be issues around attitude and breaches of the fabled ‘non-negotiables’. Without being able to verify, I don’t think it’s fair of me to lay out specifics but when Rice speaks about Tets being ‘tough’ on him, it doesn’t seem implausible.
No matter, he’s one of our own and it was magical to see him in action, in midfield and playing like we remembered last season. Credit to Tets for making the call, I’m unconvinced him not playing was as a result of Tets not rating him or because he wanted to spite him for no reason and I’m equally unconvinced that Tets hasn’t been playing him simply to make us a worse team for no real reason.
KP, I’m with Wrighty on this one, from the BBC, his reaction to Rooney telling us all to calm down.
Former Arsenal striker Ian Wright responded on X,, external saying: “Arsenal fans, let me tell you something: enjoy this. The celebration police will be out in force. Do not get nicked!
“Enjoy yourselves, football’s about moments and this is a big moment. Enjoy it and let’s hope that in the final and after the final we have another massive moment. It’s a great day.”
Fartso, so basically your friend’s a cheapskate and only goes to Arsenal when it’s free.
I bet he had fun though and probably glad you weren’t there.
Things change, demographics change, the game changes. Nobody wants the 70s back except people finding it hard to adjust to their lack of relevance.
If this blog existed 30 years ago, there wouldn’t have been a single Yank or Indian on here. I love the fact we, especially Arsenal, appeal to a broader cross section than angry old, working class white guys.
Imagine a stadium full of people like you with your football tourettes. The merch is cool apparently but it’s not meant for people like you in your Next chinos and Ralph Lauren gilets, style and fashion have also moved on, you’re not the target market. Again, your opinions on Arsenal merch are as irrelevant as most of your views in the broader scheme of things.
As for the atmosphere, give the club it’s dues, it took us a while to get there but it’s so much better. I recall some real crap days at Highbury too, take off the rose tinted specs
I have a pal who works for Reuters , says most of the sports journos are bottom feeding low life scum on the payroll of the billionaires.
I suspect you are as well.
Their greedy and grasping tentacles are everywhere.
Your pretend mate at Reuters is the photocopy boy, he’s bitter like you.
That’s right Fartso, I’m on the payroll of billionaires old man. Most of the sports journos I know are reasonable people and far from scum, you just don’t like people and they don’t like you.
I don’t mind you Fartso, you’re amusing in an old man shouting at clouds scared of change kind of way. I expect women and blacks at games really get your goat.
Said it for years , KSE have bought the media and blogs.
They want to control the complete narrative .
Follow the money, with these greedy rapsing cunts.
Thats why this cunt never got the sack years ago when he finished 8th twice and Emery did.
Most expensive tickets , and tat and no questions asked.
Kerrching.
Why you even on here?
No one likes the cunt on here and there are other blogs to nosh the moronic cunts cock on.
Guarantee you have been bought, your a sellout.
I ll give you your due, at least your not a soppy cunt like the other who frequents here
Your quite bright.
The future is bright , the link on Lewis Skelly shows the importance of being patient and his patience has been rewarded by cementing a place in our midfield alongside Rice..
Nwaneri take note.
Yes there is a big argument that Skelly should have been given the chance earlier but if we are honest he didn’t cover himself in glory at left back this season so it was quite a brave decision for Arteta first to start him v Fulham and then retain him for the champions league semi final when many( not me) thought Zubimendi would return.
The next 4 games is not just about winning a trophy or 2 , it is about how the future of the club will unfold over the next few years.
No trophy could mean we go on a downward spiral in the next few years .
One or 2 trophies and we can become the best team in Europe over the next 5 years what with the age of the squad and the young players coming through the academy.
Players such as martinelli, odegaard, Havertz and Norgaard can be sold and I would add madueke to that list and we should look to sign players of the quality of Alvarez and an elite left winger with the proceeds.
KP—what a crushing blow for our little Achoo…he’s been tiptoeing around you ever since you gave him the nod over that stunned cunt Pricksy…what a fraudulent piece of shit, no wonder he favours our MIT, two peas in a pod and all…I’m sure he was welling up as he sat at the edge of his assigned bunk and tried to conjure up a response that enabled him to save face on multiple incompatible fronts…surely this watercress-eating fucktard can’t get back into your good graces after revealing his true pathetic self in the following shameful flex, “I’m on the payroll of billionaires old man”…a new low, which is saying a lot…Cheers