Arsenal v Brighton, 16:00 BST (23/05)

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can finally get this shit over with! :scarf:

[Mac76]

0-3 Welbz hatter

[Marc Overmars]

Draw please.

[Mac76]

It doesn't bother me if we get into the European Conference as long as we just use it to play the kids and give Willian and Xhaka something to do if we can't rid of them

[I am invisible]

0-3 Welbz hatter
Tenner says he’s injured.

[Mac76]

Tenner says he’s injured.

i never trust anything Tenner says ;)

[Letters]

Draw please.

No! Sod that.
A win and a Spurs loss and a St Totteringham’s Day.
I get it, it’s pathetic how small the crumbs of comfort are, but this is what we are reduced to.
Better that than nothing

[I am invisible]

What combo of results leaves spurs in the euro conference?

[I am invisible]

Arsenal draw, Everton loss, spuffs loss - that’ll do me. Leaves our relegation-battlers level with spuffs’ title-challengers on points (but they’d take the conference on GD), and ahead of best-manager-in-the-world Carlo Ancelotti (again on GD).

[Mac76]

No! Sod that.
A win and a Spurs loss and a St Totteringham’s Day.
I get it, it’s pathetic how small the crumbs of comfort are, but this is what we are reduced to.
Better that than nothing

Yeah, me too

[GP]

Leno, Chambers, Holding, Gabriel, Tierney, Xhaka, Partey, Smith Rowe, Odegaard, Pepe, Aubameyang

[Mac76]

1Leno
21Chambers
16Holding
6Gabriel
3Tierney
18Partey
34Xhaka
19Pépé
11Ødegaard
32Smith Rowe
14Aubameyang

Substitutes

7Saka
8Ceballos
9Lacazette
13Rúnarsson
17Cédric Soares
22Marí
25Elneny
30Nketiah
35Martinelli

[Mac76]

i think brighton forgot their away kit so they borrowed ours...

[Mac76]

good effort from Partey - only just wide

[Mac76]

back pass from Xhaka

[I am invisible]

Spurs losing, Everton losing, Arsenal drawing - ok freeze it right there!

[dazthegooner]

back pass from Xhaka
Don’t believe you.

[I am invisible]

Willock!

[I am invisible]

That’s another £5m

[GP]

ESR gets away with that one.

[GP]

Willock!

https://streamable.com/o1ujye

[GP]

Holding puts it in but offside.

[GP]

Playing well, creating chances.

[I am invisible]

https://streamable.com/o1ujye
Nice! Sometimes you don’t need to overthink things - the shortest distance between two points is a straight line so just go got it if it opens up.

[GP]

Off the bar! Gabriel so close.

[Mac76]

it was an ok first half, at least trying to be positive but we're taking too long in the buildup and they're able to defend in numbers

[I am invisible]

Football is so much more fun when everyone plays at the same time - who knew?

[Letters]

Playing well, creating chances.

We were ok. Didn’t really create many clear chances and got away with a couple when Brighton broke away. Come on, you twats. Don’t mess this up :(

[GP]

Why the fuck are they playing Michael Jackson?

Who's next, Gary Glitter?

[GP]

PEPE!!!!

Great goal!

[Mac76]

Pepeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!

[Letters]

GET IN!!

[Mac76]

connolly :lol:

[GP]

PEPE!!!!!!

[Letters]

Good Old Arsenal! :scarf:

[GP]

Cool finish.

He's really starting to come alive now.

[Mac76]

Pepe :bow:

£72m well spent :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

PEPE. :bow:

Still 2-0, just wanted to join in.

[GP]

I think John Moss has forgotten his cards.

Probably ate them.

[Letters]

Auba :lol: :doh:

[Mac76]

Saka coming on :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Partey, it's going to happen at some point!

[GP]

PArtey annhailates the bar!

Xhaka :bow:

[GP]

Poor corner.

[GP]

Auba hauled off.

Laca on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Martinelli. :bow:

[GP]

Odegaard off

Martinelli on

[Mac76]

Martinelli. :bow:

:gp:

[Letters]

2-0 FT

[Mac76]

good performance but you think about all those other failures and we could easily have finished above Spuds - Arteta really fucked up this season

[GP]

5 wins on the bounce. Decent end to a shit show of a season.

Lots of work to do.

[Gooner23]

Would have been nice to finish above the spuds but no Europe could be a blessing in disguise. Have to be ruthless and trim the squad right down.

[Marc Overmars]

No Farmers cup next year. :bow:

Finally this shower of shit is done for with for a few months.

[Letters]

I was really hoping we’d finish above Spurs for the bantz.
But now we haven’t...Meh. I mean, who cares really? So we’d have finished 7th instead of 8th. Big whoop! It’s a pathetic thing to celebrate, it’s the sort of thing we used to mock Spurs for.

[GP]

I was really hoping we’d finish above Spurs for the bantz.
But now we haven’t...Meh. I mean, who cares really? So we’d have finished 7th instead of 8th. Big whoop! It’s a pathetic thing to celebrate, it’s the sort of thing we used to mock Spurs for.

Finishing in the champions league places at their expense was funny.

This? Give a shit.

[LDG]

Would have been nice to finish above the spuds but no Europe could be a blessing in disguise. Have to be ruthless and trim the squad right down.

Liverpool had a springboard season with no europe a few years back I seem to recall.

It’ll do us good to focus purely on getting top four

[Letters]

The way the press were sucking Spurs cocks before Christmas while proclaiming us relegation contenders, it would have been funny to finish above them.
But then finishing a point above us is hardly a big success.
And god along knows what this thing is that they have now qualified for but we haven’t, sounds like a bullet dodged there.

[I am invisible]

Would have been nice to finish above the spuds but no Europe could be a blessing in disguise. Have to be ruthless and trim the squad right down.
There’s no disguise about it - we need this break. If we’d won a European spot then we’d have to retain a bigger squad, and that would have stopped us from doing what needs to be done this summer. As you say, there’s no choice but to be ruthless now - we can’t afford anything less.

[I am invisible]

The way the press were sucking Spurs cocks before Christmas while proclaiming us relegation contenders, it would have been funny to finish above them.
But then finishing a point above us is hardly a big success.
And god along knows what this thing is that they have now qualified for but we haven’t, sounds like a bullet dodged there.
You only get something like €14m for going all the way in the Europa league - this conference thing probably won’t even cover the cost of the flights!