i have a couple of Arsenal mates and they are good supporters, not the ‘mad bantz’ type, congratulated me last year etyc, happy to discuss the football…
so im happy for them.
im happy City didnt win the treble.
just like everyone else though, cant get onboard with Arteta…
Yeah absolute worst champions ever. Snide, cheaty, rough and whiny: legoman has managed to distil all the worst qualities of a Spanish atletico without any football. And next season we’ll probably see 8 mini Arsenals and no doubt legoman crying about set piece fouling.
The likes of Henry, Bergkamp and Wenger would be rolling in their graves if they weren’t alive.
Funny thing is if you go back to the start of last season with the focus on referees cutting down on “the dark arts”…holding in the box, time wasting etc…arsenal were the reference even then for what needed to be addressed. Lots of the reports cited letters from premier league clubs having been sent to the PGMOL highlighting their cheating. They built themselves up into a problematically cynical side that required conscious effort from the refs to address, their season then catastrophically imploded once the refs decided it shouldn’t be ignored anymore, and then we went into this season and basically forgot all about it. Even worse, it is likely that Arsenal’s complaints about their treatment last year, treatment that simply normalized the consequences of how they behaved to what the rules are, has made the authorities go light on them this year. Like Arsenal were owed something
Arsenal fans are everywhere l, on the tube, the streets, in the shops.
They are becoming unbearable. My housemate is going to be driving me nuts. She wants me to go with her to the parade
My poor LFC friend from Allerton, (the one who took us to the parade last year). He lives almost opposite the Emirates stadium. He shut all the windows last night!
They were honking the car horns all night. From what i have seen, they really are ecstatic. One bus driver was so proud, one fan climbed on to the roof of his bus.
Arsenal fans are very similar to us in celebrating. Ian Wright was out and about with the fans as well.
I don’t mind that. That’s proper football fans. It should be a big deal to win things, and not just disappearing with a shrug before heading to hospitality.
I’ve always liked Ian Wright as well. Great player, but he always comes across first and foremost as a fan.
The scouts need to go there. I was reading about south London and beyond, there are kids who are so talented, but they need luck as well.
Alot of credit goes to Ian Wright’s teacher who believed and mentored him. Ian Wright credits him on his success. I think there was a tv programme some years ago about it.
Would any top club these days even cast a glance at a 21 year old playing Sunday League football. I really doubt it. They prefer to sign up a load of very young kids to their academy in the hope that maybe one or two survive the rejection process along the way.
I know of one lad who was in the Birmingham academy. After he was rejected at 15 he barely kicked a ball afterwards. I do wonder what the very high rate of rejection does to those lads…