Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

[MCFC1993]

Their tactics are completely wrong when winning a football game and they've been punished twice for it, Brighton and now us. It's quite clearly instructed from the coach but their physical aggressive game management is costing them.

 

[mancboy]

Something serious has to be done before this whole 'dark arts' thing becomes too widespread within the game. Yesterday, (through blue-tinted specs, of course) we saw the single most abhorrent display of cheating, feigning injury and time-wasting never ever seen before in the Prem years. There have been one or two teams in the past who have
adapted unethical and dishonest tactics to try and stop the opposition (the name Maureen just sprung to mind for some reason), but yesterday we saw the continuation of a style that Arteta has been practising for some considerable time - Dark-Artsenal.

Most teams will add a bit of skullduggery now and again to their play if they think it could help them win the game,
but with most that is just a last-ditch effort to salvage something because the tactics haven't worked. If a team is losing 1-0 in the 90th minute, you can bet your life they will start diving, looking for penalties or free-kicks and so on.
What you might call Plan C. But since Arteta took over the gooners have adapted this strategy as their Plan A, and it is getting out of hand.
When a player throws himself theatrically to the ground to try and gain an advantage, rolls around for a few seconds in apparent agony, finds there is nothing doing from the ref then jumps up and leaps straight in to the action as if nothing has happened, that player is unethical: he is a cheat, a devious and immoral human being. But when it is not just one player but approximately 7 or 8 of them carrying out the feigning and time-wasting continuously for the game's duration, then that club has a serious problem.

Their next game will almost certainly end the same way: accusations of dishonourable tactics from their opposition, yellow and reds dished out as if they were being distributed by an epileptic courier in some seedy, Mafia-controlled Las Vegas casino somewhere. And they will probably finish the game with 10 men again, a record amount of bookings and a disciplinary record Charles Bronson would have been ashamed of.


Truthfully, unless Arteta reigns in these disgusting antics he is going to find himself falling out with every manager and every club in the Premier league.

What will be interesting here is when they try this shit against one of the media darlings can you imagine the widespread outrage if they had pulled this shit against the dippers or rags.

Also i am sick of this whole thing about how they are amazing at corners, they put one player in front of the keeper and one behind and basically restrict his movement and it is never ever pulled up and it is just another form of cheating.

 

[Gingers Dad]

When someone tells you who they are.. believe em!

No Class FC

 

[Gingers Dad]

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.

Why don't you take a day or two off to reflect? You're coming across just like your snidey, shit house team.

 

[mancboy]

When someone tells you who they are.. believe em!

Not for nothing but we won four out of four without rodri playing and we didnt lose yesterday, rodri is an outstanding player but we find solutions and those solutions arent rolling around and cheating

 

[Bigga]

Had a quick listen to pundits talking about the "awesome" strike from their defender and I listened to him about the goal.

While the commentators are drooling over its brilliance, he avoids talking about the intention of strike.

As I thought at the time, he shaped up to cross it, cos his body angle is all wrong for an intentional strike.

Hilarious.

 

[the blue panther]

Arsemal are the Atletico Madrid of English football. Outwardly pompous but forever nursing a bitterness borne of repeated failure to live up to their own grand expectations.
This bitterness colours everything the club sets its mind to, from the boardroom to the football foield. It manifests itself in a peculiar pettiness that is seen in the orchestration of administrative cliques, the leaking of confidential stories to the media (often to the detriment of the game as a whole), to repeated niggardly cheating on the field of play by feigning injury and childishly interfering in dead ball situations. The disease seeps out into the stands and from there, to social media, where their loudmouth yet holier than thou suupport demonstrate a laughable sense of entitlement.
Arsenal Football Club: the original nouveau riche, fur coat but no class institution of the species.
Let's all laugh at them.

Pulitzer prize nomination for that, my friend.
Only thing missing - same old Arsenal; always cheating - the shithouse cunts.

 

[the blue panther]

Had a quick listen to pundits talking about the "awesome" strike from their defender and I listened to him about the goal.

While the commentators are drooling over its brilliance, he avoids talking about the intention of strike.

As I thought at the time, he shaped up to cross it, cos his body angle is all wrong for an intentional strike.

Hilarious.

Spot on.

 

[flb]

They didn't even get out of their own half second half, most teams with any balls would have tried to get us on the counter attack and kill the game off such was our desperation to get the equaliser, id sort of get the tactics if it was the back end of the season with three games to go where the 2 extra points would tell. It just goes to show how much we live in their heads with the nature how we won the title last season, they had no intentions of attacking second half, its shit house football orchestrated by a shit house manager and its plain to see we live in their heads every single day and every single game day , us scoring really was inevitable, it just surprised me it took us so long to get the goal, they shit their pants right at the end, pleased for Grealish that he played a big part with the quick corner. Big teams would have chased the 3rd goal and put us to bed, rest assured blues we have them fucking rattled every single match day.

Anti football cunts.

 

[Akira]

For all that talk about Arteta being a great young tactician, how "their Arsenal" is back, and more than half a billion spent, turns out they are just Stoke City in a fresh coat of paint.

Park the bus and score from set-pieces. Along with dirty tactics on the way.


No surprise our players respect Liverpool alot more.