Champions of England,
We know what we are,
Champions of England,
We know what we are!
The journey, here, started on March 04, 2021 out of frustration of whatever was going around the club at that time with She wore, she wore. I have been critical of the manager, players, strategy, football and probably everything and everyone but today’s not the day. WE ARE CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND. The season is over, we finished with 85 points on the board; City finished 2nd with 78 points and they did give us some nervy weeks towards the end but the boys believed in themselves and one-nil-to-the-Arsenal every week made sure we don’t make it 4 seasons in a row without a trophy.
It’s BIG. The last time we won the league, Patrick Vieira was still the captain, Henry was scoring goals for fun and we were crowned the Invincibles. It’s been 22 years man, and the later part of those years have been very painful. Credit where it’s due, the players and the manager did what we couldn’t for last 22 years. I don’t care about the football, I don’t care if we have spent a billion dollars today, and I don’t care if Declan Rice played some games at the right back. Ask any of those 19 other teams, and they would happily switch places. Ask any of those 19 team’s fans, and they will die to be in our place.
And, it was lovely to see Declan, Saka, Eze and Timber celebrate the win outside Emirates, 5 in the morning with the fans. Rice was snapping selfies for the fan, after letting them know who they have just seen. I didn’t witness London in person, but I am pretty sure it was the reddest (if that’s a word) in a while. Wrighty did the same, celebrated like a fan with other fans.
We were destined to win this. And we won. Everything else can wait but not the celebrations. I hope you guys are still not in your senses. There’s still a job to be done, and Champions Of England can be replaced with Champions Of Europe but we will see. It’s for the next week to worry, I am still in the winning mood.
Right, that’s me done for today. I started following football since college, about 16 years now and haven’t seen us lift a trophy till this week. My little one is 6 months old and is already singing –
Champions of England,
We know what we are,
Champions of England,
We know what we are!
Cheers.
An interesting article KP. Arsenal exists as much as a concept as a club and our culture is unique.
Roland Barthes would have a field day with the questions “what does Arsenal mean and what does it mean to be Arsenal?”
We did it all again yesterday, the same detritus on the streets, the mounds of lime bikes evoking Paris is it’s first throes of escooter fever, the speakers, the Carnival atmosphere. I had the same feeling yesterday as I did in the London 2012 Olympics “no other club in the world could celebrate a win like this”. We’re a very special club and we should all consider ourselves grateful, by whatever means we got here, to support this club.
I became aware of other team’s fans coming down to enjoy our parade. Social media has been polarised on this, fans of other clubs berating their co-fans for doing it, Arsenal fans divided on whether they’re welcome or not. My son and his mates went down yesterday with ‘opps’ as they’ve been termed, among them.
I had a game first thing yesterday, I left at 10, there were queues every pub on Blackstock Road. It really was a like a CCP rally, and that’s how London has been all week.
What Liew points out accurately is the amount of pre and post banter era kits on show. Puma kits were for the real sufferers, I didn’t buy much in that era either, spending as little as possible while I felt we were being mugged off by the owners during that time, the ‘spend some fucking money’ days. They were the first to drop 3 kits a season too.
Of course, winning is important but organisational culture is important in any industry. “You can’t buy class” as the banner at the Ems states. We have that in buckets and Arteta to his credit understands that. He wanted this job, even after being knocked back for Emery because of what we are and his talk about standards and connections leaned into that. Chelsea and C115y will never have that, their wins are characterised by cheating and supported by feeble glory hunters.
Yesterday, a significant proportion of the crowd celebrating, my own kids included, had never known or barely remembered our great days under Wenger yet still supported the club with passion.
Kudos to the Kronkes, while I’m sure they make their money off us, they’ve got a track record in building successful teams. Ultimately you push a brand by winning but our team is more than just that, we can have both success and values.
We’ve got perhaps two more ‘carnival’ days, as in Notting Hill Carnaival, it’s the closest experience to what I’ve seen over the last week.
I’m confident about Champs league, like the run in where I saw us grinding out grimy 1-0s, we’ll do the same v PSG. Hopefully from a corner too. We’re not going to defend like those chumps at Bayern. PSG will be working on set pieces all month, when we get ours they’ll panic and throw their hands up in despair looking at each other.
Right back wise, I’m ambivalent. While Mosquera is a better defender and better equipped to deal with Krava Zubi is better to avoid him gaining possession in the first place. I’m reminded of that, I think, Maldini quote about having to make a tackle being indicative of an error already being made.
MB, maximum respect for keeping this blog of yours running through what were testing times. Seeing improvements but an inability to seal the deal is frustrating, I get that. But seeing us go from banter club to Champions in increments is immensely satisfying. We did things the ‘right’ way, we’ve earned our success and we should take pride in that much like you should take pride in your blog, firstly for being a counterbalance to the undeserved, at the time, praise being heaped on Tets then for providing a space for the
reamaining unconvinced while we showed those green shoots of progress and beyond.
I don’t imagine for a second the club will rest on its laurels. On winning the league, I’m sure we’ll expect upgrades on the positions we all recognise need upgrades and players who have run their course with us can leave having reached the promised land with our blessings.
Big hugs and kisses to all of you, we’re all part of a special family.
Enjoy the next week, spam those who deserve it with celebration related spam, now Spurs haven’t gone down, and I’d gone easy on them so as not to jinx it, I’m going both barrels on the socials. I urge you to do the same. If I knew more ManC or Chelski I’d do the same to them but their plastics appear to have melted into the gooner celebrations.
Kudos to the Kronkes, while I’m sure they make their money off us,
You soppy, soppy naive cunt.
They would have sold you out , years ago , if they had their way with their super league.
I suppose you have forgotten about that.
And they will do it again, when the time is right.
You will fuckin learn one day.
The billionaires earn more and will control more , the players will earn more and you will pay for it, with ever higher prices
And you, you soppy cunt, don’t even want the club to sign players like Mbappe , because they might ‘ upset the chemistry, or some other bollocks you have read up upon.
Even Slagsy, has some fuckin spunk on this and wants to see players like him.
What you soppy cunts pay these greedy cunts every year, you should be demanding they sign players like Mbappe.
Art be quiet old man. Modern football is not for you. You’ve resorted to making up.things about me because your stupidity has been shown up as the ramblings of an old fool who would rather go back to shit stadiums, attendances under 20k and rubbish football than adjust to change.
We’ve just won the league, whether we buy Mbappe is neither here nor there at this stage you utter reject
If we buy him, you’ll just bitch some more about how it’s our cash that the billionaires are spending
Old fools like you are ten a penny, hankering after a time when you were relevant and realising nobody out there in the real world, with sell out stadia, merch flying off the shelves and social media for days thinks anything of what old fools like you muttering ‘the game’s gone’ to yourself to anyone unfortunate enough to be in earshot thinks
Yeah, go watch rugby or some other minority sport because football clearly isn’t giving you joy. It never did but the problem was you not the game. You haven’t worked out that prices go up in life and probably still bitch about pints that cost more than £2 and fish and chips more than £2.50. Such old fool vibes. How on earth do you think we’ll pay for Mbappe that you pretend to want so bad?
We’ve just won the league and here you are still fucking wailing. Astounding. No hug and kiss for you old fool, don’t come near my club you reject from the 70s.
Marc, in your world us winning the league is a ‘disaster’.
I’ll leave it that there but understand that’s yours is very much a minority view.
Norg, are we doing the same thing you all did last summer? Making predictions based on anger? Why do you really think a team that’s come 2nd 3 times and 1st is going to suddenly crash? You don’t have to answer. But if you think making me your bete noir because you need to vent your incoherent anger somewhere will help you get over a year of stupid predictions, I’m going to bet it won’t.
Now, because you’ve tried, badly, to call me out, no hugs and kisses for you either.
I’ve had a great weekend, along with millions around the globe and not one person I bumped into, socially, at.work, at the Ems yesterday, has said “yeah, but I bet we don’t win it next year”
How fucking miserable are you?
You’ve clearly learnt nothing.
Art Fraud, your animosity towards people who live in Islington, labeling them all as ‘middle class cunts’ or words to that effect shows you know nothing of the area. All that talk of going to Highbury when we were shit was bollocks.
You’re the Fraud. An old ‘game’s gone’, parroting, useless fool of a Fraud. Fuck off to Hertfordshire you fantasist, stay away from my club, you’re not needed or welcome.
Any dickhead talking rubbish on here about us not even getting 4th. Can also fuck off
It’s time you went back to Chelsea, they’re a bunch of miserable slags but with good reason. Even if some dickheads on here shouted how they’d come above us.
As Wrighty suggests, some people will need to own some really stupid options over the coming week.
With 6 commenters, including me, as MB indicated, it’s not hard for someone with my noted ‘junior law clerk’ skills.
Other socials are a slower burn, and the Spuds filling my WhatsApp with ‘we are staying up’ vids. My goodness
Talking of which, who were the idiots on here rating Frank at the start of the season? Imbeciles
Hoopah
I promised to recount a story.
2 of the geezers I play cricket with are cousins. Really good people. 1 is a massive gooner, the other a manure fan and they both live in the same area. The AFC supporter bought himself one of the new jerseys online and had the champions sticker added to his #14 Gyokeres shirt. He didn’t tell the other cousin who works for a parcel delivery company. So Manure cousin turns up at Gooner cousin’s house on Saturday morning with a package. He rings the door and Gooner cousin says he’ll be there in a moment but could he open the package because he’s in a rush.
Manure cousin opens the parcel and his face turns to stone when he realises what he’s holding in his hand . 😁
Has it not occurred to the soppy cunt above , that if you gave any half decent coach a billion to spend on players and 6 seasons they would eventually win this fucking Corrupted League. And werent Saka, Saliba, Martinelli already in tow.
Especially when they have had no red cards or penalties against them all cunting season
This cunts record against the top 4 fours this season is fucking rank as well winning 2/8 games.
A home win against Villa
A lucky 1 0 win at Old Trafford
Scoring the type of goal, West Ham got cancelled.
That it.
No cunt , unless they are mentally ill, will ever be watching the highlights of the season. Mind , I forgot about Slagsy, he would.
There are none.
He is a very lucky lucky cunt.
Your just an unlucky one
Now rot.
Dont want fucking Mbappe!
Fucking shell out more fortunes and watch Gyokeres and that long streak of Chelsea piss instead then.
Cunt.
If Manchester United give Carrick a billion to spend , and 6 fucking years , I fucking bet my left bollock ,he would win them the league title quicker and play better football.
KP
Hilarious
And good banter level fun .
“Has it not occurred to the soppy cunt above , that if you gave any half decent coach a billion to spend on players and 6 seasons they would eventually win this fucking Corrupted League. And werent Saka, Saliba, Martinelli already in tow.”
Art
We also have a squad worth more than PSG’s (https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-arsenal/marktwertanalyse/verein/11) and yet we play stagnant mind numbing crab football whilst PSG play some of the best football any of us have ever seen.
Marc
And pay the highest prices for the tickets and tat, mostly likely in Europe.
Have a look at what these greedy billionaire cunts are charging for these kits and ‘merch’ online?
And some of the real supporters , the real plastics , don’t want players like Mbappe because it might upset the “vibes” and the culture down at the ‘Ems’
And make excuses, we cant afford him. Well how the fuck can Real Madrid?
Cunts
I’ll give Slagsy his due though , at least want players like Mbappe.
Art
Actually I’d pass on Mbappe – his talent is without question but he brings a shitload of baggage and problems. Its no coincidence that PSG massive improves when they shipped all the ego’s out and replaced them with players willing to work for the team.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be looking at superstars – we have an ongoing issue with L/W we’ll lets go for Kvaratskhelia but of course Arteta doesn’t want someone who expresses themselves.
Arteta doesn’t want someone who expresses themselves
Nail on fuckin head.
Cunt.
Arteta wants players to win the league Fartso. Job done you melt. Clearly all those ‘half decent’ coaches you’re scared to mention by name can’t be trusted with the money.
Marc, comparing us to oil teams is such a sappy look. And bigging up Carrick after half a season with his own billion pound squad and no Europe? Is this the next LIR knee jerk managerial hot take? Fucking hilarious.
Has it not occurred to anyone that titles aren’t won by beating particular teams but by getting the most points? So dozy.
You lot are really bad at this football lark. Tets whose teams have club records for the most goals and wins is a top top manager. He’s just won manager of the year, clearly you’re in a very stupid minority.
But some daft plastics are crying about losing to Villa, or beating ManU, or not winning every game. So emotionally feeble.
And when we win the Champs league, you’ll still let your desire to be seen as right override your logical faculties. You may not realise this, it’s too late, Tets just won the prem. Go cry with the Spud and scouse wankers with your sour grapes, think about every stupid opinion you expressed over the season and promise to do better you Spud Cult members.
Fartso, you’re all over the place. Do you want Mbappe or not?
The fraud is you in Mid Herts pretending you ever went to Highbury. Look at Marc, he’ll be renewing his pretend ST like a good ‘un. He knows.
Aitcho
Maybe you should learn to read and to count you ignorant cunt.
1) I never mentioned Carrick.
2) “Marc, comparing us to oil teams is such a sappy look.” Our squads worth more than PSG’s you’re trying to make it look like we’re fighting the good fight against teams who spend whilst we don’t. Arteta’s spent a fortune and pissed massive amounts up the wall doing it. The only difference is PSG have spent and play great football, we’ve spent and don’t.
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Another joyous piece that explains why AFC is a cut above the rest. Any article invoking the names of Rocky and Paul Davis (to name but two) will always make for good reading.
Well done Palace