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.
Art
PHW was as you say – a cunt. He was a toff and lived off his Fathers reputation. He probably did more harm than good – he certainly held back the very promising GG. Josh is controlled by Stan – hen Stan goes will Josh have the front to takeover – I doubt it.
KP – Paul Davis was a gent. Best mates with Charlie Nicholas – often seen on their way into town in Paul’s 3 litre gold Capri. They were good days when our football heroes were accessible as were musicians. In Muswell Hill and later Winchmore Hill we were surrounded by them.
One of Stewart Robsons first games (may have been his debut) was away to West Ham. He played well – a star was born. Arsenal won that day and the people that had invited me were not best pleased.
Kroenkephobe
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/32957601/arsenal-fan-deface-josh-kroenke-mural-transfer/
This no good long streak of silver spoon sucking piece of Americana piss having his mural outside our stadium.
Lapped up by mugs who have mostly not got a pot to piss in and who pay the highest prices every fortnight watching pony football and pony footballers, depsite what the cunts , bullshitters and bottom feeding slags in the media will tell you.
Kane , Mone and the Georgian Ronaldo and Marquinhos merit the praise , the rest are mostly fuckin average.
And well done the lad who defaced Josh ‘Stalin’ Kroenke mural and Stewart Robson for not putting up with these slags and all their bollocks.
I was at Highbury when Davis clocked Cokerill with an absolute fucking pearler.
Now, he deserve a fucking mural , with Cockerill on the deck with the bubble
“Every one has a plan, until they punched in the fucking mouth”
Fair play to Cockerill for not milking it too much , if it happened today, the cunts would be crying for 2 weeks and pining for their mummies
Cunts.
I’m genuinely shocked at the audacity of the club having a mural made of Kroenke. Fuck me – we’re they expecting people to kiss it or something?
Nice story about Champagne Charlie and the Capri. I’ll bet he knew all the hangouts in the west end.
It was never answered of course but I wrote a letter to Ken Friar after Paul D’s fine and ban offering to put some money towards it.
Stewart Robson ended up being a proper cock. He was serviceable when we weren’t all and we all love a player who gives his all when others are taking the mick. But GG had his number, he was in truth limited, and shipped him out quickly.
Now he’s just described as ‘bitter’ towards Arsenal. I’m inclined to take any Arsenal related comments he makes as no more than angry ragebait.
In 2013, Arsenal legend and all-round nice guy, Bob Wilson, called Robson ‘bitter’. “This is a guy who worked for this club up to a few weeks ago.
Wilson also told the BBC.“Today, he’s been on every half hour on Radio Five Live, and this is a guy who obviously is a bitter guy because he’s no longer got a role or any employment here.”
We don’t know if I have have ticket yet or not Fartso. Ballot opens tomorrow.
I don’t think you get it yet. The club doesn’t care about relics like you. You’re pissing in the wind with your rants about fashion and the 70s. Nothing more boring than the old drunk in the corner telling us all how things were better back then simply because he can’t adapt to a changing world.
People losing their minds over a mural under a railway tunnel. It’s not that big a deal.
Perhaps, perhaps I might be put put by a mural of Josh K outside the stadium. Although it still wouldn’t send me frothing.
You’re more like another Harry Enfield, the self righteous brothers.
“Oi! Kroenke/Arteta/Fashionable people/middle classes/Merchandise/safe stadia/change. No!!!!”
https://youtu.be/87t0UkFJzHw?si=CMxR2OHYx3rsy-nM
Chill Aitcho. You’re becoming a little shrill and rather a lot contrarian. Have you been affected by that Hinge and Bracket excerpt I wonder.
Can you think of another club that would prepare a 2 dimensional paean to a foreign venture capitalist? Mate, c’mon, it’s about as weird/undesirable as a former player organising a whip round and buying a snazzy wrist watch for Ivan – we’re the next Bayern Munich – Gazidis.
Or if that doesn’t float your oil tanker in the straits of Hormuz, maybe a statue in Nottingham of that obese Greek shipping magnate, all round malacca and former Demis Roussos impersonator? Jim Racist Radcliff perhaps?
Mug the muggers Aitcho. It’s a bad look fluffing bank of mum and dad addicts with more inherited money from ill gotten gains than sense.
But I genuinely wish you good luck in your efforts to get to Hungary (traditionally known as a favourite spot for people seeking anal relief – don’t ask me how I know that but that little nugget had nothing to do with me crying in that Magyar bar I assure you – honest). Chalfonts on cold hard barstools and strong booze will do that to anyone.
Me and Arsenal don’t do finals together any more. I am a Jonah having been at Wembley for that Luton game and the Parc des Princes for Nayim and Real fucking Zaragoza. I stay away, save disappointment and several thousand quid.
Aitcho
“Stewart Robson ended up being a proper cock”
And still is a bitter and twisted prick who was nothing more than an average footballer.
Actually he has a lot in common with the majority on here, hates Arsenal and despises the manager, no wonder they hold him in such high regard.
Meanwhile over at Villa Park Count Dracula is closer to qualifying for the Champions League twice over.
None of us worship Stewart Robson but do remember his sterling performances – whereas El B remembers a different Sterling for reasons only he knows.
Kp has nothing on me when it comes to seeing Arsenal losing in cup finals.
Hence why I am reluctant to attend these days.
1968 ..Leeds 1-0 Arsenal
1969 …Swindon 3-1 Arsenal
1972..Leeds 1-0 Arsenal
1978 ..Ipswich 1-0 Arsenal
1980 ..west ham 1-0 Arsenal
1980 ..lost on pens to valencia.
1988 (i think)..Luton 3-2 Arsenal
2001 (I think) Liverpool 2-1 Arsenal
Victories
1970 Arsenal 3-0 Anderlecht
1971 Arsenal 2-1 Liverpool
1998 Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle
Wicksy, yes, stay well away. You’ve seen as many losses as I’ve been to finals. You’ve probably got a few years on me as a few of yours are well before my time, all mine are 2000 and onwards.
Not seen us win in Europe yet, Two losses there and two Carling/Carabao. Not seen us lose an FA Cup yet, having gone to the three late stage Wengers.
I’m not yet too scarred to try for Budapest .
KP, like most of us, I’m chill about most things, shrill about others.
I don’t mind Paul Davis breaking bones, I take exception to Ryan Shawcross doing the same. Perhaps hypocritical. I’m chilled about Arteta doing touchline hi jinks and also chilled about Simeone or Conte doing the same. I’m chilled about Arteta generally while I recognise he really boils the piss of others.
I’m chill about portraits under railway tunnel, shrill about constant wailing from old folk about things being merely different.
I’m fairly open to the multiplicity of ways in which fans can engage with football wherever they are. There’s no one way to ‘do football’. If buying merch, tiktok feeds and livestreaming watchalongs are your thing, fill your boots
Old folk like Fartso have some delusion that they’re the gatekeepers of the eternal flame of real football and get shrill at anything being done differently to how they want it to stay. It’s a bit dull.
I had no idea that Budapest was a hot-spot for anal relief.
I didn’t see much at the baths and that would have been an obvious location for it. The last time I was there it was their Pride week. A far less laid back even than hours from what I could see. It was more a standoff between ignorant Orbanistas and the liberal elite than a celebration. Even the gays advised not to stick around as it might get a little heated.
To be fair, I can handle a low key Central European/Balkan Pride better than ones here, I don’t do flamboyance very well.
After a really good run, AWFC has ended with a crash. Although the league was a long shot given the crap draws early on, it’s disappointing to not have at least make ManC earn it.
The Lyon result on Sat was just as disappointing given the first leg result but Lyon showed their class.
I’d been looking forward to the last home game but somehow schedules have made theirs and the men’s last game take place at odd times now.
Last games on a weekday evening just don’t seem right.
AF—I have no doubt you can handle your shit, but I definitely empathize with your current plight, now that Pricksy has turned his attentions in your general direction…I get it though, he was in desperate need of a new target after being so soundly thrashed by yours truly ad fucking nauseam…if I had to hazard a guess I would say that he foolishly views you as little more than his personal plaything, which is why he’s lobbed some low hanging fruit “isms” your way in the hopes that you would take the bait and sully yourself in the eyes of a few (most notably KP)…then, like a stone-faced psychopath, he simply pivots on a dime and starts spewing nonsense about circumnavigating the globe for this match and that before returning home just in time to galavant with members of the fourth estate and brush elbows with the billionaire classes…this little fake-ass fucktard couldn’t be more of a douchebag if he was liquified and sprayed into the closest gaping hole
well I call bullshit…no “professional” man of any import, with such a hectic schedule, would be up until the wee hours cutting and pasting like a fucking glue addict on a regular basis…so next time this twisted fraudulent cunt tries to belittle you with his forked tongue platitudes simply tell him to eat a fucking dick, which shouldn’t be difficult for him to find in his real line of work, planting tu-lips under a bridge
City v brentford tomorrow, it may be too much to expect city to buckle under the pressure again but I believe Brentford have the tools to hurt city, Thiago is a threat up top , I rate Schade on the left and Damsgaard is a very clever no.10 who can hurt any team on his day.
I can guarantee you that Pep will have his concerns , especially as defensively they looked suspect against Everton on Monday, this is a game when we will see if City’s confidence is shot to pieces, they are not as strong mentally as some think..
The best scenario for Arsenal would be that city drop points this week whilst we beat West ham, meaning a win at home to Burnley will secure the title which allows Arteta to rest the starting 11 for the palace game ahead of the champions league final..
TRVL
He is an out and out slag.
Or fucking insane.
Why is he even on here?
Same as the other slag?
These slags can wank over the moronic cunt on all the other blogs and media which KSE have tied up.
I know for a fact these KSE cunts have infiltrated the media and far beyond.
Have you seen how their attack dogs went after Stewart Robson, or Tony Adams when even they dare criticise the moronic cunt, when he is clearly out of order or makes the wrong decision, say over captaincy
Bob Wilson even got wheeled into the BBC to label Robson bitter and twisted
When you allow unfetered billionaire Yanks to take over, you DONT HAVE A FUCKIN FOOTBALL CLUB any more.
They support KSE FC, not our old Arsenal.
I was reading in the paper yesterday about Lancashire County cricket club and its internal strife and how it should be run and one player put it perfectly and this is how is see it as well.
“The balance isn’t right,” Allott tells Telegraph Sport. “Let’s get it right. No one is suggesting we shouldn’t have an efficient, effective business and commercial hub at the club. But that can exist alongside a thriving cricket club owned by its members.”
Note the last sentence
These 2 slags on here ultimately have no morals, principles or scruples, they have sold out and their souls are black.
They are also bona fide cunts.
Did you have anything to say about the football and your happiness that Tet’s got us to only our 2nd UCL final Half Pint?
I’m sure Freud would have a field day with your posts. Perhaps you may consider a visit to Budapest having seen KP’s post. Take your strap on and best dress if it’s out the dry cleaner now.
For selfish reasons, I want to win the league v Burnley, I’ve had enough of ‘laps of appreciation’ over the Emirates years.
Yourself Vera, where would you like to see us win the league? Simple question no need to go off on a penis themed rant.
Fartso,
You need new material. You’re creating demons out of cricket folk and they’re super genteel.
I assume you’re cheering for Spammers and City this weekend. You know what people at the Ems would say about that? Slag