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
Rodri is operating at about 50% of his former self…is really quite sad to watch
I would much rather we won while on the pitch, but I’m sure I’ll get over it
the commentators comments, ‘you can discuss the merits of the style of play Arsenal have chosen this year, but there’s never been an unworthy champion’.(paraphrasing)
never have I ever heard such comments about a club on the precipice of winning the title
there’s no other side you would want to avoid more in a run-up than this Bournemouth…good for them considering how many dire performances we’ve witnessed in recent times
Aitcho
A leading question..
Would you swap Iraola for Señor Cunty Baws?
KP—I highly doubt there’s cell service at his glory hole, but I would do so in a heartbeat…maybe he’ll use his law clerk-like skills for good this time and find my posts where I spoke of that particular manager
David Brook’s corpse will be found in a remote river if City somehow comes back
Rodri is a pale shadow. Cheating cunt
looks like Rodri got in the way of their last chance…how fittine…I’m a little surprissed the whistle came that soon
CHAMPIONS 🏆
Congrats to Saka, Marts, Gabs, Saliba, Raya, Rice, Eze, Timber, Ethan and some of the new boys, like VG, Hip, Mos and Noni, for all your efforts…it wasn’t always pretty, but it was accomplished nonetheless
somewhere MA’s celebrating in a hall of mirrors
besides ourselves, the only other side who can celebrate their season is Bournemouth…sadly, they will likely regress quite drastically next year with their manager departing
I’ve called right all season and even yesterday I said
“So tomorrow we will.be crowned champions as city will fail to beat Bournemouth , so we can enjoy the palace game and rest a few players ready for the champions league final.”
Arteta has managed the squad superbly and is without doubt the manager of the season.
The final is doable , winning the league has lifted a weight off the players shoulders so we can now relax in the knowledge that we have won the trophy we wanted and look forward to the final with relish instead of dread.
I can see us making a couple of really big signings in the summer, Alvarez and/or maybe even mbappe.
You called it right Wicksy, plenty of us did. The ones who know what they’re talking about.
A magnificent achievement by Arteta.
My game at the Hub was due to finish at half 9, security had advised us we may need to finish early if we won the league.
No need lads, one of us had 5 live on, once the whistle went, the Arsenal fans just ran out the game to the Armoury Concourse. There were thousands there already.
Plastics won’t get it, but I had to leave at midnight, the party is still going on. Meeting neighbours, kids coaches and teachers, work colleagues, spontaneously just coming down to enjoy the moment. It’s been far too long and it’s right to enjoy it. Who wouldn’t apart from Spuds?
We won because we’re the best team, with the best manager, that’s how it works
Pretty much all of N5, 4 and 7 are roadblocked. That’s because we’re a community, we’re more than a club.
Squeaky Vera, I’m going to go easy on you for a bit.
But now I have choices, divvy comments about flavour of the month managers or about how we wouldn’t win the league with Arteta
The league’s done, the debate is done. To quote your wise, wise words, “winners win!!”
A bit simplistic but as a result one of your few accurate comments.
Cor blimey!
Reading back, you’d think we hadn’t just won the league or something. What a bunch of miseries.
Enjoy the Palace game plastics
KP why would I want Iraola when we have the manger who has just won us the league?
You’re not making sense.
Would you have Pep now that he’s free and on the lookout for another sugar daddy club?
We’ve just won the league and you ask that? Wow.
Wicksy, Alvarez yes. Mbappe no. We’re not a show pony sort of team.
I can still here fireworks and crowds from the Ems. People were going in as I was leaving.
Arteta has brought a lot of joy to an awful lot of people.
He hadn’t brought joy to Expressions or the plastics on here. Probably the worst day they’ve all had for a long time.
Am I right Squeaky, Fartso, Marc of the Mythical ST? You’ve not enjoyed this day have you?