Invincibles? I hate doing this but....

Put......the....crack ...pipe.........down....
 
calumdown said:
i have to agree with stoned rose,
it is a raggish thread.

not a nowadays raggish thread
because they are utter wank nowadays
and it wouldn't make any sense.

but let's travel back in time,
to when the rags were winning things...

i could envisage a thread like this on rag cafe back then.
they were such smug cunts.
okay, they were winning stuff,
but it was their smugness about it that made them detestable.

this thread has that air of smugness
and it isn't attractive.

you can tell a rag from a mile away nowadays,
because they've had that smugness wiped off their faces.

sadly, there seems to be a certain mentality creeping in on here
and i don't like it.
we are not them
and we need to be careful not to think like they did.

as my grandad used to say...
take nowt for granted.
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My man.
 
bridgeno1 said:
The Arsenal invincibles team had Henry, Bergkamp, Pires, Vieira, Campbell, Cole etc in it. It would absolutely take the current Arsenal team to the cleaners.

Recency bias means fans often think the current time is the best things have ever been but I was fortunate enough to watch that invincibles Arsenal team and no Gunners side has come close since.
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How do you think they would fair against us?
 
bridgeno1 said:
There's only one Invincibles mate!

Honest question - why do you believe this is the best City squad ever? Compare with last season, you've lost Alvarez and KDB/Walker have another year in their legs. Is it because some of the young lads will have more experience and minutes?

I have to say I was expecting/hoping for City to drop levels vs last season however what I've seen of them so far this season I've not detected any drop at all - they've just picked off where they left last season.
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You may be invincables but you were boring that season. You played for a draw in plenty of games and you got 12. Also shut up shop when you went 1-0 up in several games.

Boring boring Arsenal; )
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
How do you think they would fair against us?
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Very hard to say as with today's rules Vieira would be a walking red card. What I would say is that if you transposed some of that side to today then if you did a current City/Arsenal invincibles XI then I reckon it would look like this;

Ederson
Walker, Campbell, Stones, Cole
KDB, Pires, Rodri, Bergkamp
Henry, Haaland

F*ck me that's a side and a half! I've not even been able to find room for Foden or Vieira!

How one would fare against the other is so hard to judge.
 
BigJoe#1 said:
I have to say that in my opinion, this seems to me to be the best squad we have ever had.

I am willing to predict that we will come very close to going the whole season unbeaten. Our strength is phenomenal and Pep really does seem to be on top of his game.

I know its by no means a certainty but looking at the strength of our squad and the that of the opposition I just cannot see anyone getting close to us. The likelihood of us getting overturned will be by a lower struggling team as opposed to any of the big guns.

I hope I haven't jinxed us but we really do have strength all over the place, brilliant cover and a fantastic group of youngsters eager to get involved.

Most importantly what we have which I think will deliver for us is.... a settled squad that is regularly and comfortably rotated.
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Now, you’ve gone and done it!
 
bridgeno1 said:
Very hard to say as with today's rules Vieira would be a walking red card. What I would say is that if you transposed some of that side to today then if you did a current City/Arsenal invincibles XI then I reckon it would look like this;

Ederson
Walker, Campbell, Stones, Cole
KDB, Pires, Rodri, Bergkamp
Henry, Haaland

F*ck me that's a side and a half! I've not even been able to find room for Foden or Vieira!

How one would fare against the other is so hard to judge.
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Foden for Pires.
 
jimharri said:
And Grealish for Henry.
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Please don't ever mention Jack Grealish and Thierry Henry in the same sentence again lol!

Foden for Pires though, well possibly, it does seem harsh to leave Foden out but Pires played on the left and in the middle Foden isn't getting in ahead of KDB or Bergkamp. An awesome sub to bring on though.
 
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As an aside I did the same exercise but this time comparing the invincibles with the current Arsenal side and it's basically the Invincibles with Saliba swapped in for Keown. Possibly Saka for Ljungberg also. That's it. The rest are all invincibles. Many Arsenal fans are delusional thinking the current crop are all that, the invincibles team was far superior.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
‘The Invincibles’ was a truly remarkable achievement but it was a freak, and once the finish line was in sight not losing became more important to Arsenal than winning, which is a complete anathema to Pep.

The fact it has only happened twice in 140 years is telling. All teams have off days, just as all teams in the PL are capable of raising their game on occasion. That, happenstance and poor refereeing mean it’s so unlikely over 38 games at this level it’s not worth wasting emotional energy on. At least not until the clocks go forward.
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Totally correct pep would never send a team out to draw. A great achievement but some of those arsenal performances were shite playing against relegation fodder for a point.
Only way we could replicate it would be shattering the centurions record of either getting 114 points or very close to with a couple of unlucky draws at the likes of Anfield or those tag twats & probably so unexpected 1-1’s at the Everton’s or wolves where we have 20+ shots score once & their only shot sails in ;)
 
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