Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

[mexico1970]

I reckon Arteta sent his players out to win at any cost, shameful really and I hope the cunts crash and burn for it. Havertz wants his arse handed to him and hopefully the squirrely little twat gets what he deserves.

Title contenders my giddy arse, too emotional and too cowardly they will fail because when they get fucked over by a "lesser" team it'll kill their ego dead.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I'm not, in a post a few up I said some of the antics were embarrassing. I genuinely don't like to see the tactical time out bullshit - plus refs wise up to it and we've had 2 reds for kicking the ball away probably in part because refs feel more inclined to book Arsenal players than other teams' players because of the shithousery. We're becoming marked by refs who are wising up to it.

Kicking the ball away is part of the shithousery, it's just one that has a relatively black and white rule attached. But the fact that you've had two players sent off because of it just shows what a routine part of your game it is, that even players on a yellow card just do it automatically without thinking.

 

[paulchapo]

I have come to detest Arsenal. They are a the premier leagues Atletico Madrid. Time wasting, feigning injury, snide fouls, kicking the ball away, fouling the keeper on corners, crowding the ref and causing melee's with the opposition. They will do anything to gain an advantage. Thankfully so far these tactics have failed to win them the title, or any trophy since the fa cup in Arteta's first season. Even better news is the whole of football, the officials and even some sections of the media are now waking up to it. Soon they will be getting free kicks given against them on every corner they take for their illegal tactics. The same with their shameful gamesmanship.

This all starts from the top with that two faced little shitehouse Arteta. A man with no moral fibre, decency or principles. A man who skulked off in the night and stabbed his best mate Pep, our club and fans in the back to sign for Arsenal. This was in spite of being under contract to ourselves and it being halfway through the season. A Judas scab of the highest order. Never forgive, never forget.

 

[ManCitizens.]

Actually I thought the defence did very well vs Haaland. He scored his goal, after Gabriel left a big gap and Savinho made a nice pass (superb clinical finish from Haaland btw), and he had a header saved but was largely pocketed in the 2nd half despite playing vs a 10 man team that had flown back from Italy on thursday night and had 2 of the starting back 4 subbed off with cramp for a Polish reserve team player and a 17 year old making his debut.

Haaland's scored a billion goals this season already and when Trossard was sent off surely the feeling was the game was made for Haaland but they largely frustrated him to the extent that he had a go at the aforementioned 17 year old making his debut, and then threw the ball at Gabriel's head after Stones got the equaliser (apparently this is all cool with VAR lol). He then tried to bulldoze Partey. He basically lost control.

I'll let you be the judge if you think that's classy or not, suffice to say the Arsenal defence will remember his actions and he can expect a warm reunion with them at the Emirates next year. Havertz has apparently already said that the foul on Rodri in the first seconds was to remind him of what he said about Arsenal's mentality in an interview at the end of last season, I'd expect Haaland has talked himself into getting smashed at some point in the game at the Emirates. All very unseemly and nothing I'd condone but there are signs he's getting carried away - you'd never see Mbappe do that for example.

The Emirates? Craven Cottage is more intimidating ffs

Your players are a bunch of bottle jobs who have done nothing yet, I really don’t think any of our players are arsed about what they try and do. We’ll just get on with our own business like we always do. If we fall short this year so be it, they’ll be no ‘what if we didn’t play like cowards’ from our end.

 

[malg]

Well, this thread is how I'd imagined. Arsenal have some unsavoury tactics that everyone is aware of. I'd be interested to see if there is some signalling going on between the bench and the keeper or other players about going down for the tactical time out. To be fair though, they're getting called on it by our players and I'm sure others will do the same. Definitely Atletico Arsenal.

As for backs to the wall, we expected it (but even more so when they're down to 10) and probably planned for it, but without KdB, Foden and Rodri it was going to be more difficult.

On another point, I loved the Haaland stuff after the equaliser, but if that was rat face of the Rags doing to one of ours we'd be shouting for VAR.

Oh, and we still don't play well with opposition fans on here!

 

[dennishasdoneit]

You’re a cuntstain who like every opposition fan does their best to pretend they aren’t being a prick. But you are. Your team is shit, your manger is a **** and when you win fuck all again and pretend you’re relevant i’ll say to myself, I wonder whatever happened to that @bridgeno1 ****. Then I’ll open a nice cold beer by my pool and think, wow, City are the greatest team in history..

I liked "your team is shit and your manager is a **** "
Spot on.

 

[Gray]

Instead you’ll justify 97 minutes of Arteta and Arsenal shithousery and football dark arts to get a draw against City.

F*ck off, you Tarquin, tw*t!

Did you see the antics on the touchline in front of their bench. Coaching staff and substitutes all in the technical area and the 4th official did fuck all about it. The subs in those ridiculous robes looked like they were having a Klu Klux Clan meeting.

Will the media highlight their cheating, will they fuck.

 

[sh249]

Do you honestly think Haaland gives a fuck what might be waiting for him at the Emirates, according to YOU?!

You couldn’t laugh it off, could you, what Haaland did.

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Instead you’ll justify 97 minutes of Arteta and Arsenal shithousery and football dark arts to get a draw against City.

F*ck off, you Tarquin, tw*t!

Not being funny, but the Emirates is about the least intimidating place in football. No one will ever be worried about what awaits them there.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

They were seriously rattled after 15 mins and had Rodri not got injured we'd have gone in 2-0 up for sure. BUT they reacted to the Rodri injury well and scored two really good goals. BUT then Trossard got himself sent off and they had to park the bus. Fair enough, 2-1 up away at the Etihad, you've got to dig in and set up camp.

But oh my fucking god, the time-wasting, the feigning injuries, the mass outbreak of "cramp" that seemed to strike them on fucking 60 minutes, the constant diving and rolling around, Arteta deciding that FIVE pitch-side teamtalks wasn't enough, and then sending 17-year-old subs round to the back of the goal to tell Raya to sit down.

I really don't like to accuse teams of this because everyone's got to rely on the dark arts sometimes - it's football - but that was blatant pre-meditated cheating. They clearly set out to play the second half that way. It was so blatant that Michael Oliver didn't even let their physio come on because he knew what they were doing.

I didn't get the memo that deliberately blocking the keeper was now legal either.

Parking the bus is fair enough. Even if they have spent £500m on that team. You're 2-1 up at the home of the champions and a man down, you came and got a point with a 0-0 last season, fair enough. Maybe delay a few goal kicks or what have you. But they took it to an extreme today that I've literally never seen before in all my years.

And all it did in the end was add on the seven minutes we needed to get the goal. I think they're that bit better than they were last season - even if they did need Rodri, Foden, and De Bruyne to all be absent for them to get ahead of us in a game at the Etihad - but whether it's enough to get over the 90 point mark remains to be seen.

Pretty fair assessment that.

 

[Bantamgaz]

I have come to detest Arsenal. They are a the premier leagues Atletico Madrid. Time wasting, feigning injury, snide fouls, kicking the ball away, fouling the keeper on corners, crowding the ref and causing melee's with the opposition. They will do anything to gain an advantage. Thankfully so far these tactics have failed to win them the title, or any trophy since the fa cup in Arteta's first season. Even better news is the whole of football, the officials and even some sections of the media are now waking up to it. Soon they will be getting free kicks given against them on every corner they take for their illegal tactics. The same with their shameful gamesmanship.

This all starts from the top with that two faced little shitehouse Arteta. A man with no moral fibre, decency or principles. A man who skulked off in the night and stabbed his best mate Pep, our club and fans in the back to sign for Arsenal. This was in spite of being under contract to ourselves and it being halfway through the season. A Judas scab of the highest order. Never forgive, never forget.

Its the boy cries wolf syndrome soon they will have a player that goes down with a genuine injury and the ref will play on regardless :)

Still at the end of the day for all these dark arts football they still have nothing to show for it ............. its ok adapting these tactics if your getting the rewards but they aint ............he simply has to win something this season but they wont because they are to emotional