So glad it's all over (title)

[JRockBlues]

Emery now has 5 Europa Leagues all with teams that contain the word Villa! Quality Pub Quiz question.

Aston Sevillareal

 

[Salford in the City]

Would have loved to have done a smash and grab on Sunday!

But, obviously it was just a step too far.

As we know, the pressure cranks up a few notches when you're defending it.

With a couple of quality signings in the summer, we should be good to go.

 

[Penfold the Duke]

Its only been a couple of days since Varsenal became champions ,& i've already noticed their fans & ex-pros getting bigheaded. Will they ever learn ,lol ? They're saying they'll now dominate football .
Granted,you won the league ,but you allowed a team going through transition,nowhere near their best ,yet still winning trophies ,to stay right up your arses in the league. Enjoy your moment in the sunshine ,it won't last long .ha!ha!

1 numpty on a phone said he expected them to win the next 5, martin keown was a little less stupid and only said he expected them to be dominant for the next 4 years. Yeah right - I wish I'd been recording.

 

[Blue Mist]

Funny things happen to some players when you ask them to go again next season. the hunger, desire, and willingness
goes out the window, Also it will be somebody else's turn to get help from the officials

That thought frightens me.
The dips have had their day in the sun, Chelsea are still a basket case so that leaves one team.......

Fuck please no.

 

[Blue Mist]

We can't really argue if a team wins more points than we do, and finishes top of the pile ....... five games ago they had been dragged back to a level league points situation with us, they appeared despondent, and it really was OUR big chance .... but the simple truth is that they have handled those five games better than we have, even if they haven't really been all that convincing .... so i don't really have any complaints.

Handled it better and you have no complaints!
Sorry but what about the headbut where he'd be missing for 2 of those games or the kamikaze tackle against Burnley where everyone bar the ref and Var said red.
You could even add forcing us to play 3 games in 9 days, one of which was a cup final.
I can accept losing IF its a level playing field.

That wasn't.

 

[Dodge]

Handled it better and you have no complaints!
Sorry but what about the headbut where he'd be missing for 2 of those games or the kamikaze tackle against Burnley where everyone bar the ref and Var said red.
You could even add forcing us to play 3 games in 9 days, one of which was a cup final.
I can accept losing IF its a level playing field.

That wasn't.

3 games in 6 days mate.
Cunts.

 

[Blue Mist]

3 games in 6 days mate.
Cunts.

I thought it was but as I typed I thought no way would that be allowed. In my head I switched the Wednesday to Tuesday and vice versa.
That perhaps shows how unfair it was, especially with a cup final as the middle game.
To quote Nina Simone 'you dont have to live next door to me, just give me equality'.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Aston Sevillareal

Keeps all his trophies in house

 

[eyalluvitt]

Music from back in the good old days

 

[Ribble73]

We have had a great season and 2 Cups in the bag, real progress in the rebuild that doesn't need that much adding to it

BUT boy I am sick of all the cheating going on with the VAR and match officials and referees in the Premier League towards Manchester City.
It must be so hard if you're a City player knowing every time you cross the white line, you're getting done over ? Doku has been kicked off the park and had a couple of injuries because of it, He's my player of the season because he just has to take it every week,

Same with Haaland, every week gets manhandled and just smiles knowing what's going on
It's CHEATING ROBBING without having to wear a mask ? It's so clear they don't even try to hide it

WELL DONE to everybody at City, Great season, double silverware and 2nd in the league

To state the obvious the EPL and their employees (let’s remember) the PGMOL Officials have manipulated the situation to help Arsenal not just in the run in but throughout the season by ignoring the Wrestling going on at every set piece -until it suited them at WHU of course. They will be remembered as VARsenal -the manufactured title winners.

 

[Eaststander1]

Handled it better and you have no complaints!
Sorry but what about the headbut where he'd be missing for 2 of those games or the kamikaze tackle against Burnley where everyone bar the ref and Var said red.
You could even add forcing us to play 3 games in 9 days, one of which was a cup final.
I can accept losing IF its a level playing field.

That wasn't.

Lol, I know what you mean but I'm solely talking about results in those five games.....we worked hard to get level on points with them and then had a golden chance to really put the pressure on them, at a time when Arsenal fans thought the worse was gonna happen ..... but what did we do? Drop f'kin points at Everton! All that did was give Arsenal a huge lift and belief again !

And then we go and drop even more points at Bournemouth !

Our congested schedule definitely didnt help, but when it REALLY mattered in that title run in Arsenal didn't drop points and we did ... that's all I'm saying

 

[Ribble73]

Could easily have seen Arsenal drop points on the last day had we taken them to it; especially as goal difference had essentially turned in our favour after they scraped past Burnley 1-0 at home. Slipped up upteen times this season and looked far from convincing. They fucked up that much we sort of found ourselves in a title race out of nowhere. Added to the the potential 4 years of scar tissue they have on top. Shame we didn't beat Bournemouth and an early goal for ourselves against Villa knowing they had to win their game would have been a real gut check (something I still have real question marks with them over).

Desperate for PSG to crush them now. I'm pretty much on a main stream media blackout currently and would have to continue it for about a month if they somehow fluked the Champions League on top.

VAR/PiGMOL/officials are deciding results now. It's not down to skill, tactics or ability anymore.

The PL and sponsors want the 'drama', the 'spectacle' so as to draw in the fake plastics who don't watch the Brentford vs City games, but will watch City v Arsenal. They don't watch the season long struggle, only the conclusions, the finals.

They don't support the clubs, only the events, but they bring money which in the end is all they want.
Seasons like this are why so many of us support salary caps and spending cap, to bring competitiveness back to football and remove the power of outside influence of sponsors and their money, because they will want their teams to win.

I'll be honest, I haven't enjoyed football for a while, not since the treble season in 2023, and even then it was a struggle. It's just a soulless money pot now but never has it been so blatant that outside influence is deciding outcomes. I'm surprised we even won the domestc double this season to be honest, given everything, which is why it is all the more sweeter.

It’s one of the reasons they brought VAR in -the Fans definitely didn’t want it -it was all media driven and now they’ve shown they can manipulate results to suit the narrative

 

[SkyBlueAmerican]

Everyone pitching in their two cents about Arsenal and VAR so here's mine.

I'm pro-VAR, but it REALLY needs further reform.

The call at the end of the West Ham-Arsenal match - it's a foul and in a vacuum I don't have an issue with that being given.

The problem is the lack of consistency across the board, as others have pointed out with how Arsenal have had a habit of turning set pieces into rugby scrums and it being let go.

We need clearer standards that are more reflective of what's commonly understood to be acceptable play and what isn't, this reminds me of a few years ago when most of the talk was centered around things like whether a player's shoelace was offside.

That said, I think the people wanting to scrap VAR are completely out of their minds. Prior to it, we often had matches decided on CLEAR officiating errors, not even ones you could legitimately argue two ways about.

I was at the West Ham-Liverpool match in London in 2018-19 season which ended 1-1, West Ham looked on course for a win but Liverpool equalized on a goal that was so comically offside, I'm talking by at least a good five yards or so.

I have zero interest in going back to the days where matches were decided on that kind of nonsense - but as I said above, there need to be clear, published standards for situations that often cause controversy, and scrums during free kicks obviously happen all the time. No reason for those decisions not to be adjudicated in a consistent manner.

VAR talk aside, it was just Arsenal's year. They had been more consistent than us all season, and we have some clear holes in the lineup and had to deal with quite a bit of turnover. We fell short multiple times when it mattered.

Scooping both domestic cups is still fantastic and a season that the vast majority of clubs in England would kill for.

Let's go again next season. I'm looking forward to seeing what we do in the transfer window.

 

[dubblue]

Why would anyone be happy it didn’t go to the final day??…oh we can send our legends off with a nice enjoyable day in the sun. What a load of bollocks. There is every chance Sunday would have been unbelievable. It has to be a coping mechanism for many. I’m absolutely gutted we didn’t take it to the final day.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

I think it was a good season, given the circumstances. It is easy to sort out the old timers from the newcomers, the latter get upset that we don’t win everything, the old timers remember the barren years when we nearly went bankrupt and only got out of the third tier thanks to a brilliant goal from Paul Dickov.

 

[unicorn]

Arsenal seem to have disapeared this morning, Villa are now the greatest ever team with the best ever supporters after beating the Dog and Duck reserves in some sort of cup final last night :-)

I'm in Romania this week so may be a slightly different BBC News I get on the telly, but Villa have got far more coverage than Arsenal, and there was a lengthy BBC report on how their win wasn't widely celebrated to the tactics and "jostling" at corners etc. Really downbeat coverage.

 

[Danny Tiatto]

Football is just in the mud at the moment

Last season you had an average Liverpool team literally partying midweek in Ibiza & Dubai weeks before the season ended because they wrapped up the league so early

Now we have an even even worse Arsenal who should have won it as early as Liverpool prior but through sheer incompetence allowed us to have a glimmer of hope despite being a team very much in transition.

I’ve just got a bad feeling somehow they will find a way to make it the rags turn next season to complete the red trifecta

 

[blueP]

Nobody 'deserves' anything in football or sport in general. It's a competition and winning is what matters.

Well said! I couldn’t agree with you more. The word deserve shouldn’t be used in any context when talking about football or sport.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Football is just in the mud at the moment

Last season you had an average Liverpool team literally partying midweek in Ibiza & Dubai weeks before the season ended because they wrapped up the league so early

Now we have an even even worse Arsenal who should have won it as early as Liverpool prior but through sheer incompetence allowed us to have a glimmer of hope despite being a team very much in transition.

I’ve just got a bad feeling somehow they will find a way to make it the rags turn next season to complete the red trifecta

Getting the Tarquins over the line this season was obvious enough to most people, Getting the Rags over the line next season would be like some sort of Biblical Fuc#ing Miracle! :-)

 

[levets]

I walked out of the pub last night and simply said 'oh well'.
When Haaland was flagged offside last night I simply smiled. All season they’ve openly fucked us over, that was just yet another openly bent decision, one of many the players have had to put up with.

We have supposedly had a shit season, 2 cups and second in the league fighting all the time against Pigmob, the red cartel, the Premier League and the media.

If thats a shit season, I can't wait for the next one.

When Haaland was flagged offside last night I simply smiled.