I just realised we haven’t technically sewn up 2nd place yet because of City’s game in hand
It would have to be ridiculous results for us to finish below them though
I just realised we haven’t technically sewn up 2nd place yet because of City’s game in hand
It would have to be ridiculous results for us to finish below them though
Looking at our accumulative home form last three seasons and it really hasn’t been good enough
Too many goals conceded, too many defeats (Liverpool have lost 3 times, and City 4 times to our six)
59 goals conceded in 57 games. We need to find a way of neutralising the threat of teams that play direct against us, ironically it will help with better finishers and getting the ball forward quick so we aren’t overcommitting and leaving ourselves stretched
I think eventually people have to realise. Modern football is just not that good. We have mediocre people charging big fees. Why is that so hard to accept? It happens in every industry. Name a single industry that is more competent today than it was 50 years ago.
Correct. There are none. Stupid and incompetent people now run things for stupid and incompetent people. It's the same in football. These "mega" teams are absolute shite. That Barca "prodigy" and that Real "genius" - dogshit. Relatively speaking.
And you can't go back in time and say the middle period was wors that the start. Not true. We had Bergkamp and Henry. The pinnacle in any period.
But modern football. Not a SINGLE world class player that can seriously be named. Give it a try and then compare. Oops - you lose. Ans catastrophically bad managers too. Pep - the worst of all time. You know with that Slot bloke, maybe he just said, fuck that, just kick the ball lads, towards their goal. Thatis ALL that would be required today to defeat the tactics of the GENIUS coaches.
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The fans are bigging up that dogshit Raya. That's why we aren't going anywhere soon. Zero expectations.
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...and yet can't be entirely discounted given how this season has goneOriginally Posted by Letters
I just realised we haven’t technically sewn up 2nd place yet because of City’s game in hand
It would have to be ridiculous results for us to finish below them though
Look at how the ref tried to steal the win from us today at the end, unusually VAR for once didn't play ball
It was a difficult season and I'm glad it's effectively over, but there were highlights such as the Madrid game at home and beating Citeh 5-1, and tbh (despite Artet'a's obsessive bleatings) a great comeback v Liverpool.
On the downside, for anyone hoping things might go better next season, apparently the refs are already cooking up ways to send our players off, some BS about only the captaim being able to 'approach' the ref and anyone else is yellowed - cue loads of our players (but ofc no-one else's) being sent off next season...
I thought this was an interesting question.
Happily it was answered on MoTD2 - no we haven't!
The problem is less the rules themselves, in principle I think it is right that only the captain should talk to the referee. Just as in principle I think it’s right to book players for delaying the restart. It’s how the rules are arbitrarily applied by the referees that is the problem.
However this is not the same as a player being sent off for kicking the ball half a second after the whistle has gone (whilst another gets away with cynically booting it out of play). I think if any of our players can’t behave themselves and go up to remonstrate with the referee when they know they shouldn’t be doing that, then that is more of a discipline problem in our squad.
Arteta needs to get that hammered in, unless your name is Odegaard…stay the fuck away from the Ref. Then we won’t give ourselves the problem where a ref will overlook it with other teams but go for us by the absolute most pedantic reading of the law
Right.
I don't believe there's any particular anti-Arsenal agenda. It's easy to cherry pick moments where we've been hard done by and had players sent off for things that other teams haven't.
I suspect you could do that with any team though, you just notice more when it's your team.
But this is in our control - don't give them an excuse to make the decision.
I think any other season I’d probably agree with this.
The sheer volume of incidents this season, of decisions made against us that haven’t been made against any other team. It’s impossible to overlook.
Prior to February and the Dubai trip I’d have said despite the fact that we hadn’t performed well that this on its own was enough to make it so that Liverpool were leading the table and not us, of course after that time it was purely lack of goals
I think that Arteta blasting PGMOL back in 2023 created a resentment towards Arsenal amongst the more prominent referees and the more inexperienced weaker referees were guided by the more prominent ones. Don’t get me wrong I don’t think it was overt with VAR being recorded I don’t think they’d get away with it anyway, I just think that there was this resentment that guided decision making
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