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
TRVL
“look who the cat dragged in…Senor Dreck”
A little harsh on ufraud though admittedly he does tend to talk shit.
Art
Never mind the stake, what were the odds?
I can still see Spurs losing to Leeds tomorrow so I live in hope.
This afternoon’s game was a hugely difficult watch. I had a strong sense of that cliché, ‘it’s the hope that kills you’ throughout the game. I had a really unpleasant physical reaction to it as well, shaking, unable to sit down a pall of negativity. I almost hate myself for getting caught up in it.
Kroenkephobe
500£ to win £500.
This moronic cunt who we have to suffer fuckin year in, year our, whose only trick is to get our players not to play football but to block their fucking keeper and score from corner now has the KSE attack dogs saying its a foul.
I have said for fuckin years , that when you allow these unfettered billionaires and nation States in
You will unfettered corruption
If you like your football raw and real , its a fucking travesty today.
The game is fuckin bent.
3 wins is all we need. Or 2 if City fucks up.
Time to be positive guys, we will continue the Arteta hate after the hangovers.
In the cold light of day, that entire Hammers experience feels a little grubby. An occasion that was utterly joyless for both sets of fans and neutrals, not only at the end but throughout. I think the decision was right and that, albeit subjectively, Arsenal deserved to win on balance but it showed the state of modern football and the PL in a very poor light.
I suspect this pattern will follow into the world cup where dour football will take place in highly controlled, sterile and only semi full stadiums between too many teams whose fans can’t/won’t be there. The only real excitement being generated in British Football is in Scotland and the lower leagues in Ingerland.
Watching Arsenal by contrast feels almost like a duty. I said the other day that I couldn’t wait for our season to end and yesterday reaffirmed that.
Too many cunts in the PL and FIFA these days.
Aitcho
I wonder what those pasty, piss faced fanboys would’ve thought of yesterday with their expensive nylon gear and their badge-bedecked bobble hats watching excitedly from the bedrooms of their mum and dad’s houses in Hemel Hempstead or Basingstoke surrounded by crusty little fragments of yellowing toilet paper and wondering which team was which, never mind who the players were. The lifeblood of Arsenal’s present and future eh?
I’m soooo glad I have other interests in football too (Cardiff City and Haverfordwest County – both nicknamed the Bluebirds in a cosmic coincidence). To be a mono-Arsenal fan must be monotonously miserable right now.
Here’s a challenge for everyone today to change the mood a little: name 2 or more other clubs whose results you follow. Any league, anywhere in the world. It’ll be fun I promise.
When I lived in Buenos Aires for four years, I also followed Racing Club de Avellaneda (world club cup runners up to Celtic in 67 no less) home and away. Without doubt, THE greatest country in the world for watching football!
https://youtu.be/D2hYYdXWUnU?si=Va3cXbSiXLiiEIQE
Harking back to times when we played attacking, thrilling football. This team had many perfect elements and always took to the field looking to score a shit load of goals. Peak chihuahua time too.
Some really shit commentary today from the pro WH, pro Man City, anti Arsenal fraternity this morning. Comes with the territory I know. Tomorrow’s fish and chips paper as Elvis Costello once said. The entire thing leaves me cold.
How many sleeps ’til it’s Burnley at the Emiratezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz? 😴😴😴😴
Wake me up when it’s over.
Kroenkephobe
An absolute fucking travesty that goal was disallowed, this moronic cunt has been instructing his players to block their goalkeeper at every fucking corner for the last few years from the first game against Manchester United away to Athletic Madrid in the week.
They even had another cunting mural of the set piece coach it was so productive
This is exactly why VAR was brought in for such occasions.
Its their emergency backstop if important clubs like Spurs are going to get relegated and then bringing the whole greedy fucking rotten shitshow down
Follow the fucking money
Follow the grubby cryptocurrency.
Absolute travesty what’s happening to real football
Cunts , what they are doing.
Four and half fucking minutes to overrule that legitimate last minute goal.
Clear and fucking obvious these nasty, lying conniving slags said.
Cunts the fuckin lot of them, for what they are doing.
Hi Art
It’s nuances I know but holding down the gk’s arms and another holding him down by the shirt when the ball is directly coming to him makes the goal ‘disallowable’ in my view. I agree that this team of our’s benefits a lot from dark arts but no one’s keeping an account to make sure it evens out. If we’d put two of those chances away that we had in the first 15 minutes it probably wouldn’t even feature as a discussion point. I’m as embarrassed as you are about the way he sets up the team. I’d also say that if there was a real phenomenon called luck, we’d exhausted our season’s allocation in the autumn.
https://youtube.com/shorts/y8bQ9ozkcDk?si=hQZprQpgXYM6b5EI
After Guardiola said come on you Irons this is pretty funny. The head and face scratching, the mannerisms are all pretty spot on. Nice to think of the schadenfreude.
Its a fucking clean legitimate goal ,if you actually watch Rice is doing exactly the same to Mavranapos as what the West Ham player is doing to Raya.
Thats why VAR was brought in.
To control outcomes in taut pivotal scenarios.
West Ham had a great goal chalked off at Brentford last week because of VAR and the same this week against our cheating cunts.
No way were they allowing one of the super league clubs get relegated.
West Ham are being thrown under the cunting bus to save Spurs
End of fucking story.
These corrupt cunts are some of the most wicked people around.
Follow the money/cryptocurrency.
Greedy, rasping no good cunts
“Anyone who watches football regularly probably thinks the grappling we see at corners and set-plays has gone too far this season. I think most people are up for punishing it more, because there does seem to be too many occasions where players get away with it. For Callum Wilson’s 95th-minute goal to be disallowed by the video assistant referee (VAR) because of exactly that kind of foul was ironic in many ways, because we’ve seen Mikel Arteta’s side do that type of thing, unpunished, so often. So, I know why only seeing the officials act now will frustrate a lot of people because it is Arsenal who have benefited, but in isolation it is the right decision”
a very commonsensical take on the situation…for those wondering why last night was the night when they decided to right a 1000 wrongs, considering there are only a few matches left, is anyone’s guess, but it’s clear we’re getting the kind of calls that we used to rail against when it was Fergie’s United…simply-put 2 wrongs don’t make a right…Cheers
Art
Fair enough. But neither Rice nor Mavrop were anywhere near the ball. In Raya’s case, he’s not only the GK but the corner is coming directly at him. I don’t think you can equate the two.
Anyway, fuck it. The circus of bullshit continues for another week.
Vieira
Hiya mate. I take your point. The paradox is that those kind of challenges would certainly result in a yellow if they occurred in the centre circle ie 50 odd metres from the goal, yet inside the 6 yard box they’re almost always ignored. Top level football has painted itself into a corner (pun intended) and the laws will have be changed.
It’s also affecting the watchability because teams have worked out that the likelihood of scoring improves when taking set pieces. It can’t continue because the game generally is as dull as a certain person’s posts on here.
Kroenkephobe
You are a sound geezer.
Watch Rice throughout the corner kick and then watch it again.
He has rugby tackled Mavrapanos, or my cunting eyes are deceiving me.
Don’t fuckin come back to me, if you think this a fucking clean call.
Its fuckin rancid corruption
And we know its corruption because even the KSE attack dogs have gone quiet
They are bigger slags today, than they were yesterday
Cunts what they are doing to the game.
Youre such a snowflake Fartso.
Moaning about handbags in the penalty area like peak Wenger. It was never a foul. You can’t pull the keeper and hold his arms at the same time. You’ve never played the game or been to a match so I don’t expect you to know this
Swear and rant more old man.
Knew the KSE attack dog and gutless slag who cant get a fuckin ticket would come out and say it was not a clean goal.
No fuckin surprise
Bollocks.
Bent VAR was always going to find a way of not allowing that goal. From the moment the order came, their sole fuckin focus was finding the camera angle to stop the goal.
Why did these corrupt cunts then not then give West Ham a penalty after Rices rugby tackle on Mavaraponos who is lethal at set pieces?
The corrupt cunts had only one thing on their minds, that goal must not stand at any cost
Its a fucking travesty what these greedy no good cunts are doing to the game.