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"Phase 14 of our masterplan".... :haha:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Is it true we didn't top the league for even a day this season?? Now that is a pathetic stat, especially if you consider the previous 2 seasons.
Alas that stat doesn’t go back any further than 1978, in 1963 when Pope John XXIII snuffed it, it was a few weeks after AC Milan won the European cup and the following season Inter won itQuote:
Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
That's very good! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
not really, considering that the refs got stuck in early - Brighton was only our third game of the season, they took two points off us then, after which they took another 2 points in our fifth game (away at Citeh), and then arguably at least one point away to Bournemouth (our eighth game)Quote:
Originally Posted by 21_GOONER_SALUTE
That's seven points robbed of us in our first 8 games
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Originally Posted by Letters
Peter Reid didn't actually realise this was for a video
This was a poor season all round tbh (premier league wise)
No one that did well the last two or three seasons have been up to scratch, we are about 20 points off where we should be, as well as City, Villa, newcastle, etc.
Liverpool have basically walked to the easiest title in years.
:lol: I don't know how they get this stuff out so quickly. I guess they pre-recorded that one as the title was all but won a long time ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaqiri Is Boss
PaddyPower are masters at this sort of thing.
This is true. But they are on track for a points total which would have seen them there or there abouts over the last few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by KSE Comedy Club
This isn't a Leicester situation where they win with 81 points and the next team (us!) got 71.
The main difference this year is only one side had a good league season, the other possible contenders were mediocre (us, Cith) or hilariously inept (Utd)
No-one has pushed them this year, but that isn't their fault.
Oh yes, they have still go the points of course, but it's far easier to do when no one is pushing to try and stop you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Letters
Exactly, I really don't get the whole Liverpool distain, apart from the fact they proved so many people wrong (not me obvs ;)) who thought they wouldn't go the distanceQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
I admit I underestimated them, and you didn’t so props for that. But I don’t think even you could have foreseen Salad’s form. And KSE is on to something, it would have been interesting to see how they’d have stood up to the pressure - they didn’t last year but maybe they learned from that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Liverpool’s title came about as a result of Salah having a God mode season and neither us or City being in the title race
They really are nothing special. Their two best players are the wrong side of 30
Predicting Liverpool would win the title on the strength of players like Gakpo, is a bit like predicting Argentina would win the World Cup back in 1986 because of Jorge Burruchaga.
To be honest they aren’t really any better than they were last season where frankly they did well to finish 3rd (far above what their squad suggested they were capable of). And this season? Well it’s absolutely right that the Dutchman gave thanks to Jurgen Klopp. Probably should give thanks to Mikel Arteta and Guardiola as well
I have disdain for any team that is above us in the league, I don’t play favourites
With Liverpool, I’ve always resented how the pundit class have sucked them off. A lot of their fans seem to think they are back in the 1980s whenever they get a sniff of success.
If we win the champions league this season it still won’t change my upset that we didn’t send them crying all the way back to their poorly maintained council houses. That resentment will last until we take the title, hopefully beating them in their own backyard in the process.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c4g8yjr497ko
How's he finishing a marathon when he never managed to finish a PL season? :sulk:
Well it was the 2023 one he'd just finished only took him 2 years :blink;
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Originally Posted by dazthegooner
Rice on Ode as captain: https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-b1226215.html
Not saying Rice is being dishonest, but that does feel a bit like a PR exercise in light of the fact that fans and the media have happened to notice Odegaard stinking out the place
Never thought I'd find myself agreeing with the normally obnoxious Paul Scholes but good to see this: https://dailycannon.com/2025/05/scho...nited-seasons/
In fairness, I think United know they’ve had a disgraceful season and winning a second tier trophy won’t change anything. I read they will have club BBQ to celebrate should they win it rather than a parade which seems far more appropriate.
Spurs will of course act like they’ve won the quadruple but then that’s the difference between the clubs. One has been starved for a generation while the other has seen it all enough times to not give a shit.
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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
As much as the whole idea of them winning a trophy sickens me, if they do I will console myself by mocking them for strutting around like they’re “champions of Europe” when it’s the Carabao Cup of Europe at best. Wankers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
I have a feeling Utd will do them as…lads, it’s Tottenham
I very much hope so
The new shirt's out - still got Visit Rwanda unfortunately...
https://www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...02526-home-kit
Rwanda was a pretty dodgy place when we first took up sponsorship with it, whilst Paul Kagame hasn’t quite tried to enact a genocide against the Hutus in the way they did against the Tutsis, they are pretty marginalised in society….that and he’s an authoritarian dictator pretending to be democratically elected, he has opponents murdered (even extra territorially) and they are conducting mass rapes and murders next door in the DRC (funded by the money we sent them for the road to nowhere Rwanda scheme).
Not accusing anyone of jumping on a bandwagon, but I find it interesting that there’s only protests about this sponsorship arrangement now.
I've never been particularly keen on it, though i admit i do have one of the shirts with it on
Brilliant promo vid! Not quite so keen on the kit though (I know people like the simplicity but I like the blue detailing on the old kit, and the gold on the one before that).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
I’ve never liked the yellow away kits personally
I know it’s part of Arsenal folklore but yellow is a terrible colour
The only yellow kit that remotely passes muster is the yellow with black shorts in the 88/89 season
The black and gold kit was the best away strip for ages. If had the choice to keep the same away kit for years, I’d go with that one
A lot of people really didn't like the blue, though I must admit I barely noticed itQuote:
Originally Posted by IBK
Yes I know...I guess I go against the grain sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
Now we have secured Champions League football next year, we now face the elephant in the room, The Ropy League final between the Scum and Manure. I have read lots of various Arsenal groups saying they are not sure who they want to win because they hate both clubs. For me it's easy.... please don't let that lot down the road win it, we will never hear the last of it.
United win hopefully. They’ve won many cups even during their shit years, so another isn’t going to annoy me.
Spurs though, ugh. If it was a domestic cup final I wouldn’t care but I certainly don’t want them having European success, especially as we are desperately lacking in this section of the honours list.
Complete no brainer.
It's the Carabao Cup of Europe at best but that lot parading round the streets, proclaiming themselves "Champions of Europe"? :sick:
Doesn't bear thinking about.
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Originally Posted by Letters
Anyone who doesn't want Spuds to lose isn't a real Arsenal fan, period
They must never win anything, ever
I don’t think anyone who is an Arsenal fan wants Spurs to win a trophy. How much should anyone care about it especially if it’s an insignificant trophy…well that’s on the individual to decide for themselvesQuote:
Originally Posted by Mac76
In terms of individual wins, if a Spurs win benefits us (like the Man United game in 1999, or the Man City game in 2023) I’m all for it. Relying on them for the win though….like relying on pissing into a 90 mile per hour gale and expecting not to get a urine splash back
Yes, there are obviously individual games when we have to hope they win, as nauseating as that is.
But winning a trophy? I can't think of any circumstance where I would hope for that. Only possible scenario is them winning a trophy would help us qualify for European competition maybe but even then...no, not worth it.
Oh no I’m referring to individual league games as opposed to TrophiesQuote:
Originally Posted by Letters
My only point is that when it comes to trophies like the Europa league, it hardly ever occupies my thoughts.
I want Man United to win but if Spurs win, I’m going to go to bed like normal that night.
I’m not going to get into long debates online about the impact it has on Arsenal, because the impact it has on us is nil
As I’ve said repeatedly (and of course I’m only speaking for myself) is that I wasn’t nervous about the 2019 Champions League final because at no point did I think Spurs would win. I was however very edgy about the 2008 and 2012 Champions League finals because Chelsea were more than capable of winning and when Drogba equalised and Robben missed the pel, I was beside myself. And to be honest the whole competition was tarnished for me by them winning it.
People can and will get as worked up by the Europa league final as they choose, I’m not going to give it any thought
Frankly after their league showing if they win the thing and want to argue they’ve had a better season than us, let them go for it. The proposition is so utterly absurd that I feel that you’d have to be pretty thin skinned to let it bother you. For Spurs this is their glass ceiling, for United this is a painful reminder of where their current level is