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
So much Joy Squeaky Vera.
Not for you, I get that. I was stood about here, to the right where the cannon is. Arsenal Hub is about 20m away. I’d left before this.
At the same time, you were complaining, still, on a blog about a manager who.had won us the league.
How plastic is that?
So much joy Squeaky, join me on a joyscroll. It make you sound less like a Teemu wrestling baddie.
https://youtube.com/shorts/nlGV50w9A2Q?si=DXjVQuvPVAxfHwBr
Serious question Squeaky, do you still want Arteta out?
The guy with the Senegal, might not be, flag was standing on the cannon itself. The cannon is a club crest squeaky Vera
Not a lot of plastics know that.
https://youtube.com/shorts/Sw5m-gEXq7Y?si=79_khwQaPyNKuZlP
So many flags, different countries, places. We’re a big deal
Or course Fartso will say they’re all cunts for supporting my club and buying merch and, because you’re the obsequious type, you’ll tell him. how you agree.
I notice these things
holy shit are you still fucking babbling…not only do I live rent free in your hamster-sized brain, I have enough evidence to have you commited for 72 hours…I’m sure that’s not the first time you’ve heard that…it was probably the last words your beard ever said to you before she left you for the first man with a heartbeat who paid her the slightest bit of attention…well at least no one can take away your title prediction powers
now I’m off to sleep like a baby…nighty-night cucktard
Aitcho
I wouldn’t exactly describe what you’ve written as ‘joyscrolling’. Maybe it’s the opposite? Try to enjoy it for you and your people’s own sake rather than telling virtual acquaintances ‘I told you so’. Just a suggestion to help you maximise your obsessively pro-Arteta position at the moment. 🤣 Don’t worry, it’ll soon pass mate. My antipathy goes back as far as when he was a sycophantic player that bought Ivan a new Swatch so there’s no cure.
I envy you living in London at this moment. I still have my flat in N5 a few metres north of Highbury Barn and my partner’s sister’s place is just up the road. I think la famille Kroenkephobe will be coming up for the parade in a horse drawn carriage dressed as pearly kings and queens.
Remember when the trophy bus used to pass through the Barn? One year in the mid 90s, I had a shit load of friends at my flat for a booze and classes A and C party instead of joining the throngs on the streets. As the bus came by, I had a 2 or 3 minute shouted conversation with erstwhile winger Jimmy Carter from his position atop the bus and me from one of my bedroom windows about 6 metres away. I was off my thrupennies by that stage so can remember none of it but it was certainly a time when I felt more connected. I think we got him as a promising young winger from Millwall and sold him on to Liverpool. A good egg although he never properly made it with us. He was fucking totalled too of course.
Not that I don’t enjoy your oeuvre. We all do and we enjoy your take on the club with whom we all have a different connection. My kids and I watched the events last night with joy. My son is 21 and the twins are 19. He has an ST at Cardiff City and saw them mostly win all over the country. An especially happy kid this season.
There were times when I had a sense that we’d not see this collectively and now that we have, my main sense is relief. I wish it was something better but I’d started to connect winning the title with my own 61 year longevity and that until last night I’d been feeling like a bastard for getting my kids (heavily) into AFC. Sentimental old cunt that I am.
This is going to sound a little odd, but I knew someone in London in the 90s with the initials ‘H.O.’. There are times when your writing reminds me a little of him. He was a writer who was good mates with another journalist called ‘Pat’. I once went to a party that HO hosted at his flat near the Tollington Arms. On a roof terrace. I remember speaking for some time to a published writer friend of his called Rachel. Probably all just a coincidence but there were plenty of ‘what a small world’ moments even in N London back then.
Anyway, keep on keeping on Aitcho and don’t worry about us plastics. We’re rather happy too, especially if some behemoth Spanish or Arab club step in for Tetsy and offer him a new horizon and a fancy diamond encrusted timepiece of his very own. As plastics (you’re doing that repetition thing so we start calling ourselves plastics right?) we were always in a position of being onto a winner more than the apparatchik faction anyway. We had the option of meaningful trophies OR seeing Stubborn’s P45!
Everyone’s a winner as the late Errol Brown once said.
Sweet dreams Vieira. It’s been a long and fractious season but it’s paid off. I need to watch a season highlights reel and remind myself of the good moments. Right now, it’s Eze and the 6 points we took from the Spuds. Two massive contributions to winning the title and done with a rare flourish.
And generally folks, you can get extra ecstatic mileage from a time like this by imagining how your spud supporting mates, acquaintances and enemies are feeling right now. This has made their season doubly apocalyptic. Just imagine if AFC manage to win in Budapest too and WH pull off a season ending miracle?
Yes Squeaky Vera, after I’ve advised you “this is why she left you” so many times.
You’ve decided to recycle my lyrics.
It’s great to see you wactch and learn as I also advised you.
Plastic mug
Well done to the team for achieving the top prize in UK football despite having shackles around their ankles with the style of play.
Arteta has been asked to put together a video ‘ the most exciting parts of 25 – 26 season but could not achieve 5 minutes of footage. At the same time he is writing a new book – ‘Curing Insomnia’. It has an accompanying video containing 90minutes of the seasons football played by AFC. I wonder how many people will see the full 90 minutes before dozing off.
Art
The dog was seen leaving the Emirates this morning in a van en route to Battersea Dog’s Home. It was wagging its tail after laying a foot-long canine cable on Arteta’s Axminster.
Hi NORG
I actually looked at a highlights reel of the season this morning. Apart from His Royal Ezeness’s exploits against Tottenham, the only other 2 moments that really caught my eye was that empty net goal that Dowman scored against Everton and the 4 goals at home against Villa.
Definitely a 91 type title win rather than an 89 one. Very pleasing though to see the players so happy.
Kroenkephobe
I would rather be lying on a bed of nails being forced fed a gallon of neat lepers pus , than be down there with those soppy slags, the real plastics.
They dont know fuck all about The Arsenal. They know plenty about KSE FC though.
They are being played and milked by the billionaire cunts good and proper.
One day most will realise it.
And a fuckin scandal that Manchester City didnt get another 24 hours after the cup final to play Bournemouth, who had 10 days recovery.
The cunting season last 10 months and then they cram everything in the last week of the season.
Cunts what they are doing to the game.
Achoo—as anyone can plainly see there’s only one little copycat bitch on here and it ain’t me…I bet your friend must wonder where you got all your new material from, but I’m sure they’re not complaining considering what was offer before you were properly schooled…you’re welcome fucktard
KP—as Norg so wisely suggests, no amount of crafty editing or George Lucas-levels CGI could salvage any highlight reel of this season…after a few exploits by Eze, the Dowman match and a save or 3 by Raya, this one would be a real fucking snoozer…although I’m pleased by the fact that the bride’s maid gig has finally been put to bed, what has transpired here, stylistically-speaking, simply can’t be ignored…maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t spend all that time and energy trying to get a supremely better manager axed to watch this dreck week-in and week-out…funnily enough our best football over the last two seasons.occurred late last year against Real, when we were ravaged by injuries so our little one and a half trick pony had to throw caution to the wind…this is why we need Berta to find us the kind of next level recruits that will ultimately force MA into changing his current Chicken Little ways…the only thing worse than watching little guys from the southern hemisphere flopping about, is watching players a foot and a half taller doing likewise…and don’t even get me started on our record set piece haul…
Achoo—just so there’s no misunderstanding, “friend” was singular on purpose and “they’re” was used so as to not ruffle any pronoun feathers…FU
Quite ironic that the most hated player on LIR scored the goal that won us the title..
A prodigious leap from Havertz against Burnley that was reminiscent of the great Charlie George goal at the clock end against Leicester in the fa cup 6th round replay, a season that we secured both the title and the fa cup and who’s to say that another double is not on the cards….. probably ufraud now I come to think of it.
To be honest I wasn’t looking forward to playing the well managed palace away at the weekend as they are a very physical and dangerous side to meet when a victory is the priority.
Fortunately City crumbled under the intense pressure by drawing and dropping points at Everton and Bournemouth, in fact if it wasn’t for late injury time goals they would be 6 points adrift of the Arsenal going into the last game of the season.
City crumbling is no surprise to me as I have been saying all season that they have a weak mentality compared to Arsenal.
The title could have been over a couple of months ago but for a couple of late goals at anfield , a match that they were completely outplayed for long periods but scraped a win thanks to a dubious penalty again in injury time.
So city have finished below Arsenal for the last 2 seasons and as far as I’m concerned the fall from grace will accelerate now that Pep is leaving , and that’s without the penalty for the years of cheating leading to the 115 charges.
I’m sure Arteta won’t rest on his laurels , he knows what is needed to cement our position as the best team in the land and possibly Europe.
A striker and left winger is probably the priority , there are players who we can get good money for , namely Martinelli, Trossard , jesus, Odegaard and it wouldn’t surprise me to see Zubimendi leave if Arteta thinks he is not mentally strong enough.
We have Dowman , Nwaneri and Skelly who are ready to step up, Arteta may also look at players who are prone to injury, namely Havertz, calafiori and white , odegaard also fits into that category.
Of course it would be stupid to rip the squad to pieces but i would expect 3/4 players may leave with the same coming in with a couple of elite attacking players a priority an area we have been found wanting .
Arsenal – less than 24 hours since winning the league title.
Spuds – MORE THAN 65 YEARS SINCE WINNING THE LEAGUE TITLE.