Arsenal (A) | Community Shield | Post-match Thread

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

following the champions league final today showed the time is now for Phil to be a starter

I’m not disagreeing but he’s got to stop hitting goalkeepers when 1 on 1 though. Cost us today and could easily have cost us in Istanbul.

 

[come-on-barney]

Ffs ,,, your a wum pal

If not just plain pathetic

So, you can’t see the lack of creativity, we probably should have just have retired after last season. Why shouldn’t we want to win every game?

 

[mcfcmatt]

Ok - just back....and what an utterly horrific experience - I should have joined the boycott (even though I did make a donation to the food bank).

So...forget the game - it is what it is, utterly irrelevant. I want to vent about those around me. I was in 228 (posh level 2) and I promise you (and I can share photos) other than a couple of great vocal Blues behind me - there wasn't a real fan in sight.

I love the fact we get global support now and would rather our friends in Asia and Middle East supported City, but this afternoon I had a vision of what our great game is going to become if we don't do something about it. There was not a single sustained chant or song from the City end all game. Around me the half and half scarf wearers had no idea what was happening and an entire group in front of me appeared to be supporting Arsenal and City! I had to ask them to put away their iPhones so I could see the pitch. But these are the fans the FA, UEFA and maybe even some at City want. They spend loads, all carrying bags of tat, get up and down throughout the game for food and drink, post clips of the game on instagram so the folks back home can see what 'real' fans they are.

I saw both Kevin and Kyle trying to get the City end to make a sound, a just really hope the players were told about the boycott and why so many of our real fans were not there.

On the one hand its great that the kids and tourists get a day out - and its such an irrelevant game - but that's it for me - never again will I attend the Community Shield.

(Final observation - there appears to now be a group of blackshirted Arsenal 'Ultras' - who all sat together and one of them, topless obviously, directed their chanting - fucking embarrassing...)

Exactly my experience too, was bad wasn’t it

 

[Rammy Blue]

Jack and Erling worry me, Erling seems to have been off it for a while.

Cole Palmer, take a bow son, that deserved to be a winner.

Tarquins can celebrate all they like, but come next May they'll have won fuck all again, and we won't have.

I agree about Erling, if we could shift him before the window shuts I’d have no complaints.

 

[Bantamgaz]

Tbh they did beat the champions of Europe and champions of England, I don't blame them for celebrating what do you expect them to do not celebrate too much lol?

Course the should celebrate but to celebrate like City did when they beat United and Inter is fook embarrassing tbh considering they are supposed to be a giant of the game

 

[Stelea]

Thought our performance today was miles better than the last 2 Sheild shambles v Leicester and Dippers
Unluckily not to win in the end.
Big plus that KDB back in the pitch

 

[super_city_si]

Ref got 8 mins out of his ass.

So if a shit team like Forest waste time all game, city score in the 85th min..the ref will reward them with 10 mins to find an equalizer? its a win-win for timewasting and jammy teams like arsenal

It will encourage teams to waste time.

 

[blue whippet]

I thought Phil looked the part.

Me too,should have scored though!

 

[Gone for a Burton]

We are usually 7/10 days short of fitness and rhythm at this stage.

We won a clean sheet victory in 'normal added time'.

Everything else is an elephant !!

 

[Bluemoon dan]

In the PL era we have won it 3 times (2012, 2018, 2019).

We have lost five times (2011, 2014, 2021, 2022, 2023).

Over the last 12 years, only one team that has won the Community Shield has gone on to win the league (us in 2018/19).

Ta. Missed us doing it back to back in 2018/19 which perhaps says as much about the game rather than me!