Part of me feels bad mocking him because he really has done a very good job. Top level football is incredibly competitive and winning the major honours cannot be the only metric of success where failure to land it means you are a failure or deserving of mockery.
What you deserve mockery for though is acting like a cunt. And for that I dont feel bad for him.
I only just bothered to contrast it with our own position. As of gameweek 25 (to flatter them a little) we were 7 points ahead of them. Since then, we’ve won 19 of 24 points, despite losing the league when we lost against Fulham. So we’ve widened our lead when we were supposedly vulnerable and playing like shite.
I can’t believe there’s talk of them winning the CL.
Yes they beat Real Madrid handsomely but so did we. And so did a shit AC Milan side. And Lille too. They also got pumped by Barca in the league. And let’s be honest here, Rice hit two unbelievable free kicks in that. One in a million occurrence that completely changed the tie. Not saying they didn’t deserve to win but there was more than a touch of fortune when it came to those goals.
It took PSG penalties to beat us but everyone was purring over their performances in both legs. And they’ve had the chance to rest players with the league wrapped up a couple weeks back.
But should they get past PSG it’s likely they face Barca in the final. That’s no gimme. We’re not talking about the other semi being Spurs vs Ajax like when we won it where we were pretty big favourites no matter who goes through.
They’re third favourites for good reason and I think that 3-0 against Real is masking a team that is limping to the end of another season.
We’ve seen much worse sides than this Arsenal one go all the way…
They still have a job to do though. The PSG ecounter will be very interesting, but they’re at the final stages and are a quality side, of course they have a chance.
Is the apparent Arsenal signing of Zubimendi lazy or genius?
Knowing LFC had done all the hard work last year ending in a rare rejection, and knowing our Scouts are generally spot on, maybe the Arse simply conclude he must be the man? Sign him up.
Should LFC try again? Or has that ship sailed…fuck off you had your chance. Or was he really waiting for Real like every cunt. I know Grav stepped up but why wouldn’t we go again?