Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

danielwood5 said:
Set pieces are fine but diving to win set pieces and then using wrestling moves to score from them is dull as fuck and also,you know, cheating.
Unless you think Arsenal haven't cheated their way to a lot of those goals you're so inexplicably proud, in which case I've got a bridge to sell you.
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I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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The officiating in football and the PL in general is a joke. The laws of the game are not enforced and your team have taken full advantage.

The football your team play is universally despised.

You are the new Leeds United.
 
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bridgeno1 said:
Most folk on here are top lads and ladies. There's a vocal minority who are influenced by the current media portrayal of Arsenal and/or are just looking to vent. We're on a City forum as guests so I try not to bite back despite the incredible irony in what some of them level at us as a club, or even personal insults.

I suspect if they were posting as City fans on an Arsenal forum they'd get the same treatment so fair enough. And you go posting as GunnerGer on a Celtic forum and let me know how you get on!

But like I said, the vast majority on here are totally sound and have been through vast extremes of ups and downs with City so are well acquainted with all ends of the football spectrum which you don't really get with other fanbases.
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Very patronising post.

I have no clue why you post here? Do you post on an Arsenal site? Any other clubs forums? Seriously, I don’t get it - unless you are just on the wind up..
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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If you don't like it.. Feel free to fuck off
You won't be missed
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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I can guarantee we won’t. We signed Semenyo who used his long throw whilst at Bournemouth. Not once used here. Pep doesn’t like, in fact detests, 50/50 bullshit tactics, so not a chance of Mick McManus creating chances for Kendo Nagasaki next year.
 
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bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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I broadly agree with your point Re the corners not being “cheating”, I think it does need clamping down on but that’s for the referee to do. If a rugby team noticed the ref was failing to call close forward passes and then became a bit liberal with it, I wouldn’t say they were cheats for taking advantage of the officials not being up to scratch. Also in the same way that I no longer “walk” in cricket if I edge behind and it’s not given. I used to but you get that many bad decisions throughout the season I have up.

You won’t see City do it though, not because we’re some holier than thou club that won’t do what it takes to win, I just don’t think it’s within Pep’s philosophy of how to score goals and he wouldn’t concentrate on it to the extent other managers have.
 
Ban-jani said:
I broadly agree with your point Re the corners not being “cheating”, I think it does need clamping down on but that’s for the referee to do. If a rugby team noticed the ref was failing to call close forward passes and then became a bit liberal with it, I wouldn’t say they were cheats for taking advantage of the officials not being up to scratch. Also in the same way that I no longer “walk” in cricket if I edge behind and it’s not given. I used to but you get that many bad decisions throughout the season I have up.

You won’t see City do it though, not because we’re some holier than thou club that won’t do what it takes to win, I just don’t think it’s within Pep’s philosophy of how to score goals and he wouldn’t concentrate on it to the extent other managers have.
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Howard Redd said at the start of the season they were clamping down on such things. Lying bastard.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Howard Redd said at the start of the season they were clamping down on such things. Lying bastard.
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They would have after game week 1 if we’d scored the same way.

Remember when they were going to be all conservative with dishing out yellow cards, we got kicked to fuck at Spurs on the fist game of the season before everyone else started, lost the game and then they decided actually no, we can’t just let teams boot the opposition.
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Japhet Tanganga. Five fouls in the first twelve minutes so Alty Ant warned the Spurs captain that if he did any more he’d be carded!
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I seem to recall, when he played for Spurs, that **** put in a horrendous tackle on a City player. And course, the officials did nothing. Can't remember the game though.
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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Remember when you played brilliant football with Henry.
Overmars.
Petit
Vierra.

You could put you foot in but played wonderful football.
Even an armchair prick like you can't enjoy the shit your playing now.

Time wasting from the first minute.
Fake head injuries.
Embarrassing
 
bridgeno1 said:
I think you know very well the value of not calling anything cheating until absolutely proven otherwise so I don't need to lecture you on that point - you'd do well to extend the same courtesy to other teams.

Fact is refs are allowing the goals so in their books it isn't cheating and their opinion is the one that matters. When that opinion changes the goals will get disallowed. Until then, you're just shouting at clouds and teams will use the rules to their benefit. It's not our fault City aren't as effective at set pieces as they could be but I'll bet you any money City will be working on marginal gains in that area for next season.
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That's like saying if you go around defrauding and cheating people out of their money there's nothing wrong with it until the police get involved as the victim for for the scam so it isn't your fault.
The basic facts are that your style of play is heavily based upon bending and breaking the rules as far as possible, if you get away with it 8 times out of 20 then you've gained an unfair advantage 8 times. So, as your entire play is based upon 'marginal gains' you have a tendency to see what you can get away with on the pitch a lot more than any other team and so gain more of an advantage from cheating.
By the way, most football supporters don't refer to diving, fake head injuries to break up play, wrestling opposition to the ground at set plays, etc, etc "marginal gains", they call it cheating.
It's the Steve Bannon "Flood the zone with shit" approach to football, throw out as much cheating as possible and it becomes impossible for referees to keep on top of it so it's inevitable that you get away with cheating, purely due to the law of averages, even if you get pulled up on occasion.
If referees had done their job you'd be 6th in the table but you cant blame the referees for not stopping the cheating the same way a thief cant blame the police for not stopping them earlier.
 
danielwood5 said:
That's like saying if you go around defrauding and cheating people out of their money there's nothing wrong with it until the police get involved as the victim for for the scam so it isn't your fault.
The basic facts are that your style of play is heavily based upon bending and breaking the rules as far as possible, if you get away with it 8 times out of 20 then you've gained an unfair advantage 8 times. So, as your entire play is based upon 'marginal gains' you have a tendency to see what you can get away with on the pitch a lot more than any other team and so gain more of an advantage from cheating.
By the way, most football supporters don't refer to diving, fake head injuries to break up play, wrestling opposition to the ground at set plays, etc, etc "marginal gains", they call it cheating.
It's the Steve Bannon "Flood the zone with shit" approach to football, throw out as much cheating as possible and it becomes impossible for referees to keep on top of it so it's inevitable that you get away with cheating, purely due to the law of averages, even if you get pulled up on occasion.
If referees had done their job you'd be 6th in the table but you cant blame the referees for not stopping the cheating the same way a thief cant blame the police for not stopping them earlier.
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There's so much to comment on this and your clearly unashamed inability to be self aware so out of respect for other Man City fans I'll refrain from doing so and just pop you on ignore.
 
Wretched Vengeance said:
I seem to recall, when he played for Spurs, that **** put in a horrendous tackle on a City player. And course, the officials did nothing. Can't remember the game though.
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Think it was early on in the 2021 season, loads in the media giving him Man of the Match, fucker shouldn’t have been on the pitch by the half time whistle. Not sure if it was KDB that he did the shit tackle on, I just remember my blood boiling at all the accolades he got for one of the dirtiest performances I’ve ever seen on a pitch.
 
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danielwood5 said:
The clsssic debate tactic of "my argument has no logical or moral standing so I'm not playing anymore".
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At least he made some sort of effort to reply to you.

He had completely failed to answer my reasonable questions. even though this feeds into and supports the deep suspicion that this fella is simply a troll. Then he has the front to accuse you of not being ’self aware’ whilst seemingly being oblivious to his own awareness status..
 
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