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
Guys
Lets keep it decent. Though only 6 of us talk in the comments, there are about 350 people reading them every day. Lets not become what we hated 5 years back.
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And, fuck I will sign the petition the draw up a statue for Havertz even. We won the fucking league, after 22 years, first since I started.
Couldn’t been happier. Or is there still a possibility of Spuds going down?
If Pep leaves (most likely), we could build on this to win some more trophies in coming days. He made us wait 3 years for the title. He was the reason we were finishing 2nd.
Timber, Saka, Martinelli, Gabriel, Saliba, Calafiori, Hincapie, Rice, MLS, Dowman – the youngest ever to win PL, Nwaneri – that’s a minimum of 11 players who have got at least 5 very good years in them.
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With a little bit of luck, and a lot of confidence, we might just beat PSG, who knows.
KP
Fucking hell of the stories. The closest I was to a player was Ozil, from the first row at Emirates. Never really understood why he was called a lazy bastard till that day.
Aitcho, Viera, Wicksy, Hoopa, Marc, Norg et al – we won. Thanks for your visits, donations, words and discussions, to keep this place running.
I am winding up LiR now. The target is achieved.
Just kidding, I want 3 titles in a row now. The bar has been raised.
Sorry to say but villa are showing yet again how the Premier league has such strength in depth, something I have been trying to educate the LIR patrons all season.
Of course Arsenal dominating the league all season is the reason why the narrative of the league being weak has been repeatedly used..
No doubt palace will again confirm what I have been saying all season when they win the conference cup , which will leave Arsenal to make it a treble though of course PSG are formidable opposition, I wouldn’t put my neck on the line and predict an Arsenal victory, extra time and pens will probably be the order of the day if we are to become champions of Europe.
Villa ..superb tonight , Emery certainly has a knack for winning the Europa cup , though(unlike Arteta) he never gets close to winning the big trophies the Premier league and champions league
Who was it said a couple of months ago that Mcginn was finished as a player……VERA….another faux pas from the hapless Vera but I suppose it all adds to the comedic value when reading the comments on here .
Wicksy, we’re going to shit over Europe with another 1-0 win.
More joyscrolling incoming
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But if you want a smidgen of misery, why not tell us again how the league we just won is weak?
Nonsense of course, almost Spursian in its level of extreme copery.
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If you want to cry, make sure it’s tears of joy. This isn’t a time for bog standard tears of sadness. Believe me when I say this.
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Who said about Arteta not resting on his laurels?
Looking back he landed upstairs on them and will bounce off to the CL final.
May the Catalan luck hold . We WANT that trophy 🏆
As regards the future team with Nwari , Skelly and Dowman – if we look at the past guess some ready superstars will be signed so might not see much of them unless…euphoria!
Cheers Ambarish
Let’s hold on to LiR. You have got some quality posters , including the Bots in triplicate who incidentally also write authoritatively, if we ignore the anal fixation.
I’ve always said you need a bit of luck to win the title, Liverpool had it in buckets last season as Arsenal and City didn’t live up to expectations , this season it wasn’t quite as straightforward for Arsenal but it’s fair to say that City dropped points in games that previously wouldn’t have happened.
Wenger had luck in his first season as it looked like united had the title sown up by January, they were so far in front that some bookies paid out early but united became complacent and we went on a great run after Christmas and winning the title with only 78 points.
2 of our 3 2nd places happened due to city having fantastic runs after Christmas and they were just too good for us towards the end of the season, thankfully this season was different as I don’t think Arsenal were any better or worse than the 2022/23 and 23/24 seasons , in fact the football was probably worse style wise , If there is one player who made the difference this season compared to those 2 seasons , for me it would be David Raya , he has no faults , I can’t think of any keeper’s that are as good at shot stopping , coming for crosses , one on one’s and playing out from the back.
Arteta’s big mistake this season was playing kepa in the league cup final and that had a knock on effect with defeats to Southampton, Bournemouth and city when we conceded 2 goals a game , but thankfully since then we have conceded just one dodgy penalty in 6 or 7 games in the title run in and also the ties against sporting and atletico.
Good take Wicksy
Roughly how it all panned out. Only missed Saka as the player who made the difference in games we laboured while going back and side. Saka single handedly took on 2-3 players and scored in the 1-0 win , like in 3 games ?
Your stats keeping is better than, will admit
Carrick took United 15th to 3rd in half a a fucking season, with players he inherited. No drama or fanfare.
A jump of 12th places in 6 months.
This moronic cunt bought another 8 players last summer mostly his usual overpriced cack and jumped up a single place.
Any cunt could do that.
And I mean any cunt.
And he didn’t beat Manchester City, Liverpool home or away and lost at home to Carrick.
So thats 1 win in 6 against the top 3. He lost to Villa as well.
He is a moronic cunt , that simply got lucky time and time again.
The game is simply designed to make the billionaires and millionaire slags more money.
They own it and they own you.
One day, you wake up and realise you are being fucking mugged off and played for the soppy cunts you are.
Now get back online and buy some more tat from China.
Cunts.
So 2 wins in 8 against the top 4 teams.
They will go down as
The Lucky Cunt Champions.
Stan enjoys the kudos of a league championship first place however he keeps looking at his empty left side trouser pocket and says to Josh our wage and bonus expenditure is out of control – reign it in.
Fartso, they’ll go down as Champions. Carrick’s flash in the pan of good form is neither here nor there. Unless he’s your latest flash in the pan manager of desire.
We’re top of the league and staying there. Enjoy it!
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NORG, we asked them to ‘spend some fucking money’ for years. Now we are, just like everyone else has. We just did it better. We come above ManC two seasons in a row because we’re better, that’s how it works.
Trust the process, enjoy the moment!!
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