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
Ambarish, please get control of your blog by moderating or I am done visiting here. Aitcho as the only poster spammed your blog by posting 16 consecutive messages of attack and useless drivel in 2 hour and 11 minutes. It is wasting ones time scrolling through his messages as there is little value in reading them.
Killroy
Don’t get your tartan knickers in a twist all the way up there in east Kilbride. The real Killroy is/was definitely much more laissez-faire (that’s French McKillroy by the way) than very little old toi.
Vieira and Aitcho are big boys, adept at debating the finer polemical points where they often vehemently disagree. You on the other hand are a pale imitator…of the real Killroy.
Cancel culture much? Calling for a third party to be cancelled – à propos of nothing – is a bad look and one which is indicative of a small man trying to get attention, albeit as someone else.
Fucktard…as Vieira might say.
Calm down dear…as he hasn’t said but Aitcho certainly has the gist of this in his oeuvre.
Maybe go ‘read only’ for a bit Ersatz Killroy? Yes, I’m suggesting you cancel yourself.
Ambarish, please get control of your blog by moderating or I am done visiting here
I’m footballing parlance, it’s like showing Ambarish an imaginary red or yellow card.
Rumours going round that Chelsea will look to appoint Alonso after the Cup Final (can anyone see anything other than a City win?) – I really thought Alonso would be at Liverpool next season.
Only a bot alias algorithm could go back doing a comprehensive search and drag in the old irrelevant now posts to flatter his ego. ( What the cat brour in comes to mind ! )
Made Le Potage an abomination avoided by all erudite posters . Now come unwelcomed to LiR to stink the place up .
Ambarish , you are a tech guy . If the Virus is a bug as called in programming the signature could identify ?
Nowadays AI makes things so life like even KP seems taken up.
Am I the only one who thinks the FA Cup final should be the week after the PL finishes with the CL final the week after that?
Referring seems good today . Agree with offside and Enzo card.
But both teams proceeding cautiously
No real creativity for either side thus far…MA must be creaming his gauchos watching this one
Pedro made too much of that, but it was a penalty nonetheless…Khasaunov might be pacey, but he’s an accident waiting to happen on most evenings
At least a moment of class decided things…
I’ve just read that Liverpool have lost 20 matches in all competitions this season and they’ve just let Alonso sign up for Chelsea.
Slot is finished – even if they let him go into next season he won’t make Christmas.
A real example of the damage not being decisive can do.
Slot has lost 20 fuckin matches this season and yet the moronic cunt could not score 1 fuckin goal against them this season.
The cunt has to revert to typical KSE underhand methods with VAR and gerrymandering of the fixture list to try and win.
Absolute cunts, what they are doing.
Bloody West Ham – Spuddies only need a point to stay up now.
this should be like taking candy from a baby…nothing short of a 4-spot is acceptable
What in the actual fuck Mikel is doing. We didn’t need a rotation when things finally were working. And with only 3 games to go for your season, the fuck with fatigue and rotation.
Raya
Mosquera, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori
Rice, Odegaard, Eze
Saka, Havertz, Trossard
Why us MLS not in the midfield? Why is Gyokeres not starting up top? You have 7 days for the next game, and another 6 for the Champions League final. Why are you fucking it up?
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Arse.
There was a meme running where Pep has offered a rolex to each of the Burnley players if they beat us today.
It’s bollocks. Why waste money on 11 rolex when you could just buy one for the bellend.
Aitcho and Killroy should buy each other a pint; is all I can say.
Ambarish
Arteta is Arteta and won’t ever change – he’s got to give Havertz a start to get some game time in his legs other wise he’ll be slaughtered for starting him in the CL final.
Havertz is starting CL finals? We will be covering Cricket after the day.
Ambarish
Arteta loves Havertz