I’m not a big fan of Arteta and his football. But I wasn’t a fan of Pep and his football either and all the titles him and City won do get counted, still. So, if we win something – and there is a very good chance now that we will – I will celebrate it as if Mikel is a phenomenon that only happens once in a century.
It’s been 22 years since we last won the Premier League title. As for the Champions League, we have never won it, having played our only final in 2006 losing to Barcelona 2-1 after going down to 10 men in the 18th minute. I was too young to even remember it, and more into cricket that time.
We are 3 games away from the league title – West Ham (A), Burnley (H), Palace (A). All 3 games are winnable. David Moyes did Arteta a favor after Everton limited Man City to a draw and gave us the upper hand. It’s in our hand, we go on and win our games and what City do of theirs won’t even matter.
The harder one of the two trophies is the Champions League. PSG under Enrique has been brilliant and is playing some of the best football right now. They beat Bayern in the semis and I would say they will be the favorites in Budapest. But, hey, it’s a 90 min game and whoever is ready to kill and die on the pitch that day will walk away with the trophy. Whoever wants it more, will decide the outcome.
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We are in a wonderful place. We can surely win the league title and we can surely go out and choke PSG in the finals. However, this also means that a couple of bad performances will leave us with no trophy, and the only improvement will be of playing finals instead of semis compared to last season.
If you would have told Mikel and the players that they can win the title by beating West Ham, Palace and Burnley and Champions League by beating PSG at a neutral venue, at the beginning of the season, they would have bite your hand.
Hopefully they would be dreaming of it. The manager, the players because we fans surely are.
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West Ham today, they have their own relegation battle so anything can happen. I hope we don’t mess it up but it’s not the time anymore to do speculations, guess what can happen, who will start and what kind of football we play. The only thing that matters is, 11 players on the pitch and a win.
We can do it. We have come close three seasons earlier and we can do it the 4th time. I am keeping my hopes high.
#COYG
Sorry I didn’t notice it’s been almost a month since I lasted post and the comments section closed.
I’m at my native, familiarising my little girl to her ancestral farms. Connectivity only works if I am on roof lol and it’s fucking 45 degrees these days here.
Hope you are all doing fine.
Raya
White, Gabriel, Saliba, Calafiori
Eze, Rice, MLS
Trossard, Gyokeres, Saka
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Looks fine to me, though I have started loving Hincapie more these days.
Ambarish—I was of the belief that you put us in time out, which might have been well-deserved…sounds like a wonderful way to enjoy the weekend, minus the fry an egg on the hood of your car temp…Cheers
TRVL
The settings were of keeping the comment section open for 28 days 🙁
No intention of keeping this place shut when it’s all going our way (so far).
Arteta – all you need to do is fire them up and say what’s expected and remind them what this means. They’ll do the rest because they’re highly talented players with too much collectively for West Ham. NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR COMPLICATED SHIT OR LABRADOR MASTURBATION. GET OUT OF THEIR WAY AND IMPROVE YOUR TOUCHLINE BEHAVIOUR.
Glad you’re all OK Ambarish I was beginning to think you’d gone over to the dark side and started watching Rugby.
Of our remaining PL games today is the one which is most likely to present a potential banana skin – Palace could be tricky but they don’t have anything to play for.
Its a shame we could up saving the Spuddies but c’est la vie – who knows maybe Leeds, Chelsea and Everton will give us another reason to cheer.
One of the Sunday papers is carrying a story about Trossard splitting up with his wife – could explain his drop off in form.
For WH, a draw is surely unsatisfactory. They need to attack us.
this should be a fucking layup…this Hammers team is straight up shit and even though they have something to play for, they deserve to be sent down…in many respects they represent everything that’s wrong with the PL nowadays…”Tactical trends ebb and flow in the Premier League, and we’re currently in the midst of what once felt like the old-school Premier League: set piece supremacy and marginal gains”
what makes matters worse, other sides will invariably copy our flop-heavy blunt instrument blueprint and the football will become even more dire…the only side who can really hold their heads high this season is Bournemouth, which is why their outgoing manager should be in high demand come season’s end
I’ve just seen Stuivenberg coming out with the Labrador. It’s ‘lipstick’ is still sticking out and there’s potato juice dribbling out of the end of it. I’m wondering if Stubborn hasn’t listened to me…
First chance for Cauliflower. Lack of poise.
that looked like a training ground exercise before the start of the season
their GK is a homuncule
I like that choice of words…for more of a subtle slag than diminutive fuck
it does make you worry a bit when we fail to convert any of our early chances
Mavro has been the only bright spot for the Hammers this season…I still would have taken him over White, considering that we already had Saliba…I just don’t think he would have received the coaching-up he required here, as MA usually outsources that shit
He’s not seriously moving Rice to right back.
so now we have Zubi playing the old Xhaka LB cover role, so Cala can stay up top, and Rice as the RB…only against a shit side can you afford to take Rice out of the middle
TRVL
Its not only the effect on our game its the confidence it gives the opposition to see one of our best players moved out of position.