Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

blue b4 the moon said:
Who knew drinking a few cups of Latté would cause more issues than 7/8 pints?
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The place was awash with Tarquins . I thoroughly enjoyed making my way back from Wembley in city blue and with the obligatory Wembley flag . Doubt that many even knew there was a Cup Final but , there again , winning finals ain't for everyone.
 
Johnny Mars Bar said:
Your average Guardian columnist has never left Islington, I doubt she could even name another team apart from arsenal.
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Only speed read it but she said “it didn’t matter who you were standing next to”. Well it did especially if it was someone with a knife or intentions of committing a sexual assault or selling drugs to kids. Another piece of sentimental claptrap from a “right on” hack.
 
I've just seen the Cundy/Agbonlahor clip. I didn't think they were OTT, I think they went easy on the cunts - too easy.
If your team is basically given a free run to the finals of such a prestigious sporting competition (well, at least it used to be!), and you deliver that sort of performance, then you deserve all the hostility you will inevitably receive.

Arteta had the chance to prove to the world that he is a top coach and a master tactician. He could have proved beyond doubt that he can mix it with the big boys and get his side to put in a shift, make the fans proud of his club's achievements.
He did none of those things.
What he did do, however, was drag the club's name through the mud, piss all over it, and then fling it back in the face of those who pay his wages. He basically played 5-5-1 and pointedly refused to take the game to a curiously out-of-sorts PSG team, who seemed to be suffering from some form of fatigue, judging by the way they played the first half.
Lego's Eleven scored an extremely fortuitous goal, and they should have then poured forward and gone for the jugular. Instead, true to form, they went back and formed a human pyramid with Raya and waited for PSG to wear themselves out. Non-league stuff from an English Premier League club in the Champions League final? Inexcusable.

I remember the cheers when Dave Beasant saved Pisshead Aldridge's penalty, I remember the joy we all felt when Pep's Barca gave the vermin a lesson in how to play the game. But the sheer orgasmic delight when Gabriel skied his penalty kick the other night gave us equal, if not more, pleasure than anything comparable in the sport in recent years.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
To be fair she's from a working class background in Hoxton and is pretty even handed covering women's football .

While I think she did capture some of the essentials of being a football supporter emotionally, and that sense of shared ecstacy and suffering , it was the compulsory hand wringing over her club owners misdemeanors that irritated me . Give me a break love .

You support a red top club that engineered the breakaway Premier League to cement their riches . A club where the press and television companies love love love you you , where your law breaking shareholder loans barely raise a comment and where the PGMOL has turned a blind eye to your on pitch shithousery this season .

You are the London version of Rags or Dippers and you primarily owe your huge support to the global reach of the PL in the nineties. Oh, how you suffer .

Do you think for one minute that paper would have published an article of such sentiment written by a Blue ? No. Because with the press , if they ever touch on the rancid underbelly of the red tops clubs owners or finances it's
" Yes ....and " but with City , whatever we do over and above Centurians , Quadruples , Trebles , Four in a Row , Treble Doubles , redeveloping a huge area of East Manchester etc etc it's always " Yes ....but " . And it's not once a year at the end of the season it's every single day.
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She should stick to Women’s football, utter shite piece of journalism.
 
The Guardian in full multicultural messianic mumbo jumbo

“All are welcome” (especially those on e-bikes carrying zombie knives)

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Arsenal’s party embodies the metropolitan swagger and angst of a divided city | Jonathan Liew

The crowd that gathered late into the night to celebrate on the streets reflected an idea of London where all are welcome
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‘Arsenal have embraced everyone’: trophy parade a celebration of a community

Watching the Premier League trophy pass by was a moment of joy for a generation that has often not had much to celebrate
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surprisedbygrass said:
To be fair she's from a working class background in Hoxton and is pretty even handed covering women's football .

While I think she did capture some of the essentials of being a football supporter emotionally, and that sense of shared ecstacy and suffering , it was the compulsory hand wringing over her club owners misdemeanors that irritated me . Give me a break love .

You support a red top club that engineered the breakaway Premier League to cement their riches . A club where the press and television companies love love love you you , where your law breaking shareholder loans barely raise a comment and where the PGMOL has turned a blind eye to your on pitch shithousery this season .

You are the London version of Rags or Dippers and you primarily owe your huge support to the global reach of the PL in the nineties. Oh, how you suffer .

Do you think for one minute that paper would have published an article of such sentiment written by a Blue ? No. Because with the press , if they ever touch on the rancid underbelly of the red tops clubs owners or finances it's
" Yes ....and " but with City , whatever we do over and above Centurians , Quadruples , Trebles , Four in a Row , Treble Doubles , redeveloping a huge area of East Manchester etc etc it's always " Yes ....but " . And it's not once a year at the end of the season it's every single day.
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It’s easy being even-handed about women’s football for two simple reasons:
Nobody cares
They’re all equally shite!
 
14% of City's goals came from set-pieces this season. In contrast, 32% of Arsenal's goals came from set-pieces. From whoscored.com / team statistics.

Arsenal's reliance on set-pieces was always a risk for them but it is annoying that PGMOL have done nothing.
 
surprisedbygrass said:
The place was awash with Tarquins . I thoroughly enjoyed making my way back from Wembley in city blue and with the obligatory Wembley flag . Doubt that many even knew there was a Cup Final but , there again , winning finals ain't for everyone.
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I arrived at Euston about 5.30 on Sunday evening, and the place was absolutely mobbed with Arsenal fans to the extent that they closed the entrance to the Tube station for 15 mins to ease overcrowding. Was thinking at the time that the Blues coming back from Wembley would be walking straight into that...
 
jrb said:
It's totally unreal the amount off neutral football fans all over the world who celebrated Gabriel's penalty miss. Video, after video on Instagram, tick-tock, X, showing neutral football fans jumping up and down, celebrating, cheering, chanting we hate Arsenal, and taking the piss out of Arsenal fans in the same pubs, bars, squares, streets, etc. Arsenal, Arteta, and Arsenal fans really are hated by neutral football fans the world over.

It didn't take long for Holt to write another shit article.

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yep
he supports all english teams in europe.
for context for example - this is a quote from his column in 2023 after we won it :-
This is not a traditional victory for English football. Manchester City operates as a geopolitical vehicle for Abu Dhabi. To demand that ordinary English football fans support them on the European stage out of some misplaced sense of national pride completely misunderstands what this club has become
 
"It's not V-A-R, it's over the bar!"
"It's not V-A-R, it's over the bar!"
"Champions of Europe, you'll never sing that!"
 
Newman Noggs said:
Bob Hoskins lives on
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Harold you can't do that!

"Don't you ever tell me what I can or can't do.

Bent law can be tolerated for as long as they're lubricating, but you have become definitely parched.

If I was you, I'd run for cover and close the hatch, cause you're gonna wind up on one of those meat hooks, my son."

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All joking aside, there are obviously some decent gooner fans around (somewhere!), and they must be livid by what Arteta's done to their club. After all, it's the fans who are left to try and justify what happened the other night. It's hard enough for them looking for excuses to validate the awful football he's served up all season. They are the ones who are forced to rationalise the team's disgusting antics at corners, the piss-taking length of time to take a throw-in, and the eleven-behind-the-ball tactics he's deployed constantly since he rolled up there. The fact that he's spent about a billion pounds and his team play like a non-league outfit. When the fans are getting stick from rival supporters it's them who have to somehow defend what their manager has turned their club into.

Which in turn begs the question, how much longer are they going to tolerate being the very worst of the bad apples in the barrel?
Jokes are one thing, but when pretty much the entire footballing universe are openly repulsed by your club, that club has to make some pretty difficult decisions for its long-term future.
 
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