Arsenal Thread | 2025/26

goatfeeder100 said:
To win leagues you need to be as solid at the back as possible. You can't just score loads of goals and expect to win every game scoring 2 or 3.

You make fewer mistakes at the back you put less pressure on needing more goals.

Look at Arsenal. Scraping by with 1-0 wins of late. Those results have got them over the line along with us. Contrast to us who shat the bed from a position of utter dominance against Everton which has pretty much proved to be the decisive game.

By your logic the problem in that game was us not scoring 4, instead of looking at the absolute circus that was our backline in that second half.
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There is no problem with defensive solidity, but it does not include holding, time-wasting, feigning injury, or taking eons over every restart. I can admire quality defending, but this should all have been dealt with long before now by PGMOL and VAR but has not, allowing a free rein to Arsenal more than anyone. If you reduce the time the ball is in play, you have less risk, as the Beelzebub to the more godly domination of possession.
 
oldius said:
Migel Delaney is absolutely obsessed by us.
This week he has reported that Pep is the figurehead of a sports-washing project.
Now it is how Arsenal have overcome our financial might: he no longer considers net-spend (since ours became much lower than others) but states that our wage-bill is five Sakas more than Arsenal's. I don't know that currency - is it a crypto coin?
All this when we didn't win the league; imagine if we had?
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Our friend Herberts predictably done a piece lauding them as they havent bent the rules like us and Chelski !
Do these twats actually like football, imagine working in a profession where youre continually writing lies and propaganda for clicks.Must be well paid cos i cant see any job satisfaction !
 
pauls said:
Our friend Herberts predictably done a piece lauding them as they havent bent the rules like us and Chelski !
Do these twats actually like football, imagine working in a profession where youre continually writing lies and propaganda for clicks.Must be well paid cos i cant see any job satisfaction !
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Easiest thing now slag Man city off and get easy clicks off morons
 
oldius said:
There is no problem with defensive solidity, but it does not include holding, time-wasting, feigning injury, or taking eons over every restart. I can admire quality defending, but this should all have been dealt with long before now by PGMOL and VAR but has not, allowing a free rein to Arsenal more than anyone. If you reduce the time the ball is in play, you have less risk, as the Beelzebub to the more godly domination of possession.
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Don't disagree but that's an Arsenal issue. I'm more concerned with us and that's the point I was making. You can talk about the rule bending that's gone on at Arsenal all season but one thing they haven't been is error prone at the back.

Individual mistakes from defenders and goalkeeper have happened too often for us this season and we have been incredibly open to counter attacks at times. Certainly too much to have given ourselves the best chance of winning this league.
 
pauls said:
Our friend Herberts predictably done a piece lauding them as they havent bent the rules like us and Chelski !
Do these twats actually like football, imagine working in a profession where youre continually writing lies and propaganda for clicks.Must be well paid cos i cant see any job satisfaction !
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I would think not one club in the prem has not broken the rules in some way or another. We chose to take a points deduction instead of being low balled by Spurs over johnson . I know we are amongst a number of clubs who have been given soft loans by a wealthy owners turning debt into equity. The witch hunt over city is crazy when certain clubs can build up massive debts yet appear to have a bottomless pit of cash for transfers.
 
waspish said:
PGMOL corrupt as fuck and why they brought in Web the rag kunt
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The amount of times Gabriel went unpunished this season and he is supposed to be their best defender! I don't like players like him, just look at him in the Woltemade case. Punched him in the face and ran away like a coward feeling proud of himself. In the Kolo Muani disallowed goal case, collapsed like a jenga with just a touch on his back. Headbutted Erling and backed away like a coward. West Ham disallowed goal, sat on the ground pulling Pablo's shirt!

Putting everything aside, let's ask ourselves - is this what we are promoting in the best league in the world. Any kid who aspire to be a defender in the future and sees such things goes unpunished will naturally try to get these qualities in his/her game because this is easy. Why learn defensive techniques when you can just punch or headbutt someone. I hope next season all this will be put an end to and each and every offence will be judged on its merit and not on a players name or his club!
 
Can’t argue about them accumulating the most points over 38 seasons however also can’t argue about them being the most underwhelming champions either.

Played City their main challenger twice in the league and failed to win either match

Played Liverpool the defending champions twice and failed to win either match

Got lucky with VAR being asleep at Old Trafford then lost to them at the Emirates

Just a horrible snidey team built in the image of their manager. If they did get a helping hand from the FA with their ‘different champions’ vision then surely UEFA will have the opposite view and will be desperate not to have that brand of football win the ultimate prize under their organisation.
 
goatfeeder100 said:
Don't disagree but that's an Arsenal issue. I'm more concerned with us and that's the point I was making. You can talk about the rule bending that's gone on at Arsenal all season but one thing they haven't been is error prone at the back.

Individual mistakes from defenders and goalkeeper have happened too often for us this season and we have been incredibly open to counter attacks at times. Certainly too much to have given ourselves the best chance of winning this league.
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This unfortunately doesn't take any account of incidents such as took place in stoppage time at WHU. I know only naive purist might consider rugby tackles and wrestling to be "mistakes" in your own box when facing a corner, but Arsenal depended on compliant officials to escape their own "errors" and then identify an Arsenal abuse to disallow a goal. To go all season without a red card or conceding a penalty should be a sign of a very good team, especially when they win the title, but in Arsenal's case it is a sign of total cynicism and contempt and of craven and corrupt officials who make up any load of old rubbish to ensure there id no sanction for "doing things the Arsenal way".
 
oldius said:
Migel Delaney is absolutely obsessed by us.
This week he has reported that Pep is the figurehead of a sports-washing project.
Now it is how Arsenal have overcome our financial might: he no longer considers net-spend (since ours became much lower than others) but states that our wage-bill is five Sakas more than Arsenal's. I don't know that currency - is it a crypto coin?
All this when we didn't win the league; imagine if we had?
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That probably makes his self-awareness seven thousand miguels lower than the average human.
 
I saw a quote about the number of goals that they scored this season that were scored from open play.

It seemed so low as to be perhaps just someone having a pop because of their Set-Piece FC tag.

Does anyone know what was the actual number of goals scored by Arsenal from open play this season?
 
1961_vintage said:
I saw a quote about the number of goals that they scored this season that were scored from open play.

It seemed so low as to be perhaps just someone having a pop because of their Set-Piece FC tag.

Does anyone know what was the actual number of goals scored by Arsenal from open play this season?
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Howard Webb can no doubt tell you how many goals from other teams have had to be chalked off, in order to effect arsenals shitty achievement.

PGMOL FC
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
This unfortunately doesn't take any account of incidents such as took place in stoppage time at WHU. I know only naive purist might consider rugby tackles and wrestling to be "mistakes" in your own box when facing a corner, but Arsenal depended on compliant officials to escape their own "errors" and then identify an Arsenal abuse to disallow a goal. To go all season without a red card or conceding a penalty should be a sign of a very good team, especially when they win the title, but in Arsenal's case it is a sign of total cynicism and contempt and of craven and corrupt officials who make up any load of old rubbish to ensure there id no sanction for "doing things the Arsenal way".
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We can bleat on all we want about what arsenal have got away with but they're still only on course for a pretty modest points total for titl winners when compared to our previous wins.

We should really be looking closer to home at our own failings. Which I've already made reference to but people seem to want to ignore for some reason.

Their wrestling didn't cause us to totally collapse defensively against Everton.

Their grappling didn't cause us to completely flop yet again in 2 games against Spurs.

Their time wasting didnt cause us to drop some entirely avoidable points in the early stage of the season to make a title challenge unlikely for us from the early going.

We should look closer to home for why this season has gone the way it has. Arsenal have been themselves. No better than last year or the year before. We have dropped enough levels for them to overtake us.
 
goatfeeder100 said:
We can bleat on all we want about what arsenal have got away with but they're still only on course for a pretty modest points total for titl winners when compared to our previous wins.

We should really be looking closer to home at our own failings. Which I've already made reference to but people seem to want to ignore for some reason.

Their wrestling didn't cause us to totally collapse defensively against Everton.

Their grappling didn't cause us to completely flop yet again in 2 games against Spurs.

Their time wasting didnt cause us to drop some entirely avoidable points in the early stage of the season to make a title challenge unlikely for us from the early going.

We should look closer to home for why this season has gone the way it has. Arsenal have been themselves. No better than last year or the year before. We have dropped enough levels for them to overtake us.
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If you've read other posts I've put in you'd see that I have argued that a team which drops 19 points from winning positions, including 11 from teams in the relegation battle, is never going to win the title: but this does not negate the argument that a team that never has a player sent off and never concedes a penalty despite the clear evidence of this resulting from very partial officiating which extends to allowing Arsenal goals which should obviously have been disallowed have no more right to winning the title. I have calculated how many points City dropped which they should not have done: at present Arsenal only need have dropped 5 to make us champions, and they should have dropped far more than 5. We dropped avoidable points: they were protected by officialdom.
 
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