Arsenal Thread | 2024/25

[paulchapo]

I've never seen a player's injury celebrated so much by a set of opposition fans as Rodri's is currently. There are some vile individuals out there. What they don't seem to realise is that injuries don't discriminate. Arsenal's turn will come.

Karma gets everybody eventually.

 

[hertsblue]

Fresh footage has emerged of Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya going down for treatment under instruction from the Gunners bench during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

Debate has been swirling since the game about the visitors’ perceived time-wasting tactics and how much stoppage time there should have been.

BBC Sport has obtained footage, which has been published by other media outlets, shot from a wider camera position, high up in the stand opposite the dug-outs, showing a member of the Arsenal backroom team gesturing for Raya to go down as he gets ready to take a goal-kick midway through the second-half.

At the same time, Arsenal substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly, who had been warming up close to the corner flag, runs down the goal-line and attracts Raya’s attention.

Raya then spots the ball, before walking backwards and sitting down saying he needs treatment.

Most of the Arsenal players are then called to the bench to allow manager Mikel Arteta to offer instructions.

Lewis-Skelly was booked for unsporting behaviour but Raya was not cautioned for simulation because referee Michael Oliver did not know what had been said between the Arsenal duo.

 

[KentBlue]

I've tried all my life not to hate any club, except of course the rags, but that's how it should be. The rags were born as cunts and they will all die as cunts. But in the last few years I've been forced to add both the dippers and now the dark arts to my list.

Fuck Arteta and fuck the club he manages.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Fresh footage has emerged of Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya going down for treatment under instruction from the Gunners bench during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

Debate has been swirling since the game about the visitors’ perceived time-wasting tactics and how much stoppage time there should have been.

BBC Sport has obtained footage, which has been published by other media outlets, shot from a wider camera position, high up in the stand opposite the dug-outs, showing a member of the Arsenal backroom team gesturing for Raya to go down as he gets ready to take a goal-kick midway through the second-half.

At the same time, Arsenal substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly, who had been warming up close to the corner flag, runs down the goal-line and attracts Raya’s attention.

Raya then spots the ball, before walking backwards and sitting down saying he needs treatment.

Most of the Arsenal players are then called to the bench to allow manager Mikel Arteta to offer instructions.

Lewis-Skelly was booked for unsporting behaviour but Raya was not cautioned for simulation because referee Michael Oliver did not know what had been said between the Arsenal duo.

That is despicable. I’d hate it if our club started to deploy the use kind of bullshit tactics. Thankfully it’s all there for everyone to see that these dickheads are doing it.

 

[Vienna_70]

That is despicable. I’d hate it if our club started to deploy the use kind of bullshit tactics. Thankfully it’s all there for everyone to see that these dickheads are doing it.

I don’t think the hierarchy at City would stand for it.

If the manager / head coach started telling his players to use such tactics, he would be summoned before the top management, and told to cut it out or leave.

 

[mattcity5]

I don’t think the hierarchy at City would stand for it.

If the manager / head coach started telling his players to use such tactics, he would be summoned before the top management, and told to cut it out or leave.

Agree. They're just desperate to win at any cost, but I expect that's what will cost them in the end.

I'd expect them to be too hyped up for the return fixture and someone to be red carded. We've played big games before in much more hostile places that the Emirates. We'll have calm heads, they'll lose theirs.

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I don’t think the hierarchy at City would stand for it.

If the manager / head coach started telling his players to use such tactics, he would be summoned before the top management, and told to cut it out or leave.

Not that I’d condone such violence, but Arteta deserves the private Pyle soap in a sock treatment.

 

[NZBlue]

Fresh footage has emerged of Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya going down for treatment under instruction from the Gunners bench during Sunday’s 2-2 draw with Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

Debate has been swirling since the game about the visitors’ perceived time-wasting tactics and how much stoppage time there should have been.

BBC Sport has obtained footage, which has been published by other media outlets, shot from a wider camera position, high up in the stand opposite the dug-outs, showing a member of the Arsenal backroom team gesturing for Raya to go down as he gets ready to take a goal-kick midway through the second-half.

At the same time, Arsenal substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly, who had been warming up close to the corner flag, runs down the goal-line and attracts Raya’s attention.

Raya then spots the ball, before walking backwards and sitting down saying he needs treatment.

Most of the Arsenal players are then called to the bench to allow manager Mikel Arteta to offer instructions.

Lewis-Skelly was booked for unsporting behaviour but Raya was not cautioned for simulation because referee Michael Oliver did not know what had been said between the Arsenal duo.

Surely Arteta has to be charged with bringing the game into disrepute, or maybe worse. After all, In all matters and transactions relating to the league each club, official and director shall behave towards each other club, official and director and the league with the utmost good faith.

 

[bigA]

Have we missed an Arsenal title win according to Sly Sports.

Arteta has moulded a title winning team? What title is that, the double bottling title? The Premier League Timewasting title?
The Premier Shithousery League title?

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

Surely Arteta has to be charged with bringing the game into disrepute, or maybe worse. After all, In all matters and transactions relating to the league each club, official and director shall behave towards each other club, official and director and the league with the utmost good faith.

Interesting the media have brought this up. What is it now, 5 months until we play them at theirs?

With the increasing attention this is getting I can see them being the weaklings we used to bully come that return fixture. I don’t think the PL want this kind of bullshit in the league.