This is interesting
Even beyond the changes associated with Edu’s exit there were bigger changes behind the scene earlier this season when their experienced executive director was squeezed out with one of the Kronke kids stepping in take more of an active role and this seems likely another Kronekefication of the running of the club.
Let me see now… what’s the answer to this?
They seem to care a little too much and there football isn’t just corners it’s the wwe battle royal that takes place during them. Also an neutral wouldn’t particularly care eithier way. I thought Wilson was a tactical specialist he spent half this article suggesting it’s because they are in New Labour heartlands and Old too.
There attitude towards Spurs is actually moving me from a position of couldn’t give a shit but it’s awful football to I could give a shit and it’s awful football.
It’s got fuck all to do with Labour though.
I don’t particularly mind if Arsenal do win the title. Premier league matches are generally shite across the board, and Arsenal are far from the only offenders.
They don’t have the financial irregularities of City and I haven’t found their fans to be particularly objectionable. Most of what is wrong about the Premier League is the Premier League itself.
Yes, well he did kind of shoehorn that bit in, but mentioned “Islington, the spiritual heartland of New Labour” which is far away from the true heartlands of the original Labour Party that was founded in the late 19C with actual socialist ideas, unlike this current incarnation.
It’s not even close the current heartlands even now though. It’s lazy stereotypical nonsense from another writer of the Guardian.
It struck me today that Arsenal fans are in the same position we were in in 2022. On for the quadruple with the bonus of possible relegation for their biggest rivals.
Spurs fans right now must be living the most miserable of lives.
Let’s hope they end up with even less than us then, though happy for them to have Spurs relegated in lieu of further trophies
Thierry Henry didn’t 𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐃 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 after Arsenal’s 1-1 draw with Bayer Leverkusen:
“Listen… I love Arsenal, but I have to be honest. If the plan every week for Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal is ‘win a corner and pray,’ then we have a problem. When I played, we attacked teams. Now I watch and it looks like everyone is waiting for the next set piece. You cannot have this much talent and play like Tony Pulis Stoke City.”
Too much of the dark arts stuff for me - playing for set pieces is fine, but then taking a minute over each one, trying to pull players down, win fouls and penalties for minimal contact, diving, and the double standards (time wasting is fine until Arsenal need time, then it’s not fair).
Madueke’s penalty last night - it’s a 50/50, slowed down, yes there’s contact, but then he doesn’t go down because the contact made him, he goes down because plastic pep has ingrained an approach of going down at all costs when there’s contact. Is it a penalty…I’d say “soft” - not sure its quite “cheating” but its more about winning a penalty than being awarded a penalty for being hacked down.
It can’t all be pinned on Arsenal and their Anti-football, but the poor showing of the PL clubs in the CL this week is somewhat interesting - best league in the world, yet the 5 English clubs all had major problems with the playing football bit. When it came to set pieces, all the same, crowd the keeper, push, shove etc - and European refs seemingly don’t let that go on as much.
Not a fan of Arteta and the attitude he has engrained in his teams approach - good luck to them. If they win the league, it’ll probably be one of the worst points totals for a while - but that won’t stop them - they think going invincible is bigger than 90 odd point seasons…sure. It’s a shame really, as I should really be willing them to win the PL over City - but I just can’t bring myself to want that.
Agreed, apart from regards to that penalty, if that is standard of contact to awatd a penalty then there should be 20 pens in every game
Id be fuming if it went against us. He went down to easily…but in the wonderful world of VAR…
Arsenal started performing when the funny thread name was renamed to this.
Who’s the guy who did that ?
Also petition to change the name of the thread again
Seconded
Just let me have the control to change names.
‘An Arsenal of Set Piece Shenanigangs’
As Arsenal look to make the transition to becoming serial winners…
FFS. How about they win first, before looking at them becoming serial winners.
There seems to be a new collection of pieces of writers pretending to not understand why arsenal are so dislike…”is it just because now they are good?” Writers ask credulously
No, it’s because there is not a single game goes by where there isn’t an example of this sort of outrageous game breaking cheating
Their late penalty in midweek was a dive, but is unfortunately within the bounds of not only what the game accepts but praises for its cleverness. The other stuff arsenal do on the regular is of a different type entirely. And it makes the game into a farce. The fact they are better than having to do that makes it even more galling
thats really embarrassing to watch.
