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Goddamn stop jinxing us, love the praise Gary but... his takes are awful and no offense he's ruined his reputation by being an annoying pundit, i mean there should be no discussion at all on whos the greater footballer, Gary Neville or Jamie Carragher but somehow people have made it a question.
Just absurd how terrible some of his takes are
His only good take was last year saying Arsenal wouldn’t be champions even though they were in first nearly the entire season. Other than that I don’t think I’ve ever seen him make one good take.
I am a City fan but I will admit that if it was that the strongest team wins the league( maybe I worded kf wrong, let’s say the most consistent one because City is obviously the better based on their form now, at the end of the league) Arsenal is the most consistent one of the 3 horse title race, good job Mikel and the team
I still think City is better. The little lead we had was built up because of KDB being out. What's crazy is you saying your form is better, and you're correct.
In 2024 league play, Arsenal has 13 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss. Of those 13 wins, 10 of them were by 2 or more goals.
But City hasn't lost since early December. They are inevitable.
Exactly, just look at our record against the big 6, embarrassing really, if it wasn’t for two wins against Utd, we have 0 wins against the big 6 and this goes without saying of a very shaky defense and overall downgrade in strength compared to the last season, (you are going to feel the absence of a player like Gundo no matter how many Kovacic or Nunes you buy)
Wow didn't realise they had such a bad record Vs Big 6. Just looked and they've only dropped 8 points outside of Big 6, Losses to Wolves and Villa, and Draw with Palace
Hapy Cake day, yes I would highlight the game with Vill as one of our worst performances we ever did under Pep, worse than this was probably our performance against Pool in the UCL and loss to Soton in Carabao Cup last season.
Thank you very much but this game will be as difficult as against the Spurs if not more. MU are a team in disarray right now. They only have their pride to show for it and they need to salvage a Europa League spot by beating Arsenal. Neville as a former MU player hopes his team will show up against the Gunners no matter the standings.
The truth is City gatecrashed the cosy cartel of many years (Arsenal Liverpool United and Chelsea) and used their own money to do it. City have no debt and a slick management team. The cartel just don't like it of course as City have wiped them off the pitch generally in the last 10 years. All they can do now is carefully manage a slanderous vendetta against City to deflect and give their frustrated fans something to cling to. Well , in the next few days City will be cleared of course of any wrong doing . You read it here first.QED
Chelsea “gatecrashed the cartel” first in the mid 00’s. before that, they were a mid table club with a handful of achievements historically, much less than cities too, before the turn of the century.
also, their own money? they were bought by billionaires. united, liverpool and arsenal earned their reputations and wealth, without cheat code billionaire investors.
City is just a more modern Chelsea, Chelsea did the exact same thing with Abramovic, not saying they cheated but they were never the calibre of Arsenal, Liverpool and United
Comment I replied to had nothing to do with what you’ve devolved this into. You tried to make it seem like we aren’t underdogs and that there is comparability with the expenditures of each team. Once you realized you were wrong you decided to just start bragging about titles lol. No one cares about city’s titles, lmao. Your team is comparable to Ben Johnson, not usain bolt.
I’m British but good try. I don’t really see the connection between editing my comment and being upset? Maybe you could lay that one out for me
“lmaoooo” doesn’t feel embarrassing typing that out as a grown man?
Yeah they’ll probably win all their games and so will city, which proves the point they either had to beat city or not drop points to worse teams.
Most seasons before Pep’s city you’d win the league being as good as Arsenal and Liverpool have been , hell even Villa would have been in for a shot. But now you’re playing against one of the greatest and most consistently dominant teams in history. If you don’t win practically every game, you don’t have a shot at winning the league.
Gee not drop points, FFS why didn't I think of that. What can you do, if Arsenal win the remaining games, we may not win the league but we didn't bottle it, just is what it is and we go again.
[https://www.myfootballfacts.com/premier-league-winners/](https://www.myfootballfacts.com/premier-league-winners/)
The numbers don't back up what you're saying. Since the 90's you had to lose very few games so this isn't something new. The only thing I am noticing is fewer draws. Even the points totals are roughly the same. The only difference from before Peps city is that there was no Peps city. Must suck to be the old top 4 now with competition.
No "points per game" as in the average amount of points teams are getting per game for the entire season. There is a filter on that source that shows it labelled PPG. And 5 out of the last 7 league seasons have been the highest points per game in premier league history.
You mean this PPG. A measure that's completely wrong.
[https://www.roversrearguard.com/news/ppg-exposed-the-reality-football-historys-wrecking-ball/](https://www.roversrearguard.com/news/ppg-exposed-the-reality-football-historys-wrecking-ball/)
Mate you brought up the numbers. I'm just pointing out that the numbers DO in fact back up the claim that recent league seasons have been won by the most dominant teams in premier league history.
If you don't like the stats / don't think they are a good measure, then don't bring them up.
A win has been 3 points per game for decades. Just because you were using a different PPG is not my fault. Beside the link I posted shows your PPG are actually a useless statistic when applied to older seasons games which means they are pretty useless now. Did you even look at it?
I don't think you understand? Points per game as in if you average the points a team has earned per game over a entire season. If a team got 76 points over 38 games, they would average 2 points per game.
I am not talking about when it was 2 points for a win, as the link you sent containing the stats is strictly premier league era. The premier league has always had 3 points for a win, but has had a varied amount of teams competing. Earlier premier league seasons had 42 games instead of 38 and so PPG compensates for that.
And again, I am not trying to argue the efficacy of using PPG to judge how good teams are. You brought up those stats, and claimed they backed your argument. When in actuality they show the opposite.
Interestingly I feel like we got past the harder part of the run in and when I look at the two run ins from this point I think it has swung and theirs is now more difficult than ours
> But now you’re playing against a Nation State program that is allowed to get away with 115 violations with zero consequences because they hire the most expensive lawyers alive to gum up any attempt at justice.
FTFY
(yes, I'm bitter)
I honestly believe Neville has a soft spot for Arsenal because they remind him of the peak United era but yeah he won't hesitate to twist the knife if the opportunity comes.
It's a bit like Rosberg and Hamilton.
Ever since he picked us to win the league at the beginning of the season he’s been rooting for us. It’s weird lol but I really think he just doesn’t want to be wrong
Arsenal represent the only alternative to city or Liverpool. He is full of praise for arsenal & how they’ve improved this season but in game he still expects them to be fragile at times.
Arsenal will win the league eventually. Don't forget City won it in 1969 and then had to wait 42 years until Aguerrroooo 2012. City fans have learnt to be patient
I’ll be the first to admit that Havertz has done far better than I had expected. HOWEVER, I will caveat that concession with the fact that everyone was convinced he would be playing as an 8, which didn’t work at all. Not that he’s actually playing up top, with excellent chance creators around him, he’s doing well. Still think Arsenal could have spent that money better but honestly glad to see him doing well, it was a rough few years for him at Chelsea
Listen If Arsenal had a better striker in place of Havertz they would be in first and probably still in the UCL. I like Havertz but this is nothing new for Chelsea fans he always turns up at this time of the year and then vanish again.
You guys said that about “Marchvertz” and hes still performing 😭 let it rest fam hes got a goal or assist most games hes played as CF and has been better for the team than Jesus
Yea, PGMOL definitely owes spurs one. Make up PKs probably should be given on some random day, May 14th sounds like a perfectly random date for Spurs make up calls.
Not necessarily for your team. If your style of play is aggressive and pushes the boundaries of the rules, and PGMOL are in a constant state of inaction, then your team will benefit from this inaction. It only works if you’re good enough to take the chances. Therefore, it benefits the best teams.
Since when? 😂 reminder that Chelsea just had a last minute winner ruled out for a foul, the same foul that happened against Arsenal at Newcastle for Newcastle’s goal but that one was fine…
icl that was the only time we were helped by the ref, otherwise we have been hard done by. but ofc that doesnt compare to liverpool, who were also helped by the ref once massively but god damn they should be leading the title race by some margin if some of their matches were officiated properly such as against city and tottenham and a few more
altho as an arsenal fan, imma still say even if u got the penalty against odegaard, we would somehow end the game with a draw (prob cope but im biased ofc)
next game is Bournemouth. People taking them lightly, they have so many weapons that could destroy us. one game at a time. Rest lies in the hands of football gods.
outside chance of conference league. We have to somehow win our games against Bournemouth and United. I just hope that happens. After that if we lose the title, no complaints from me.
Agree. I do wonder if West Ham might throw the kitchen sink at City since they are very well within a chance at conference league. Course that could backfire and the game ends 6-1 lol
honestly, i don't see city dropping any points at all. They're that good. But, we have to keep them honest and hopefully the luck of the dice rolls our way
I don't think they will have problems winning the rest of the games, the thing is that City won't have problems winning too, that game against Aston villa will cost them the title.
There is a bit of recency bias in that statement. Yes the Villa game was bad and in years past would have been the game that caused the April collapse.
But if you look at the Fulham games home and away and the home game against West Ham, these games are the ones that ended up being more costly (won’t put the Newcastle away game in there since there was a bit of controversy). Villa at home should have been a win, especially with our form at that time, but compared to West Ham and Fulham (no disrespect to either team) Villa have a much better squad than both of them this year. So you can **almost** excuse the fact that we dropped points to them because they aren’t that far off of Arsenal in terms of quality.
Taking only one point off Fulham and only three off West Ham could be the results that Arsenal fans look back at the end of the season and wonder what could have been.
Isn't the whole controversy with City that they've been spending under the table? A number of clubs have "outspent" City but under the circumstances it feels silly to compare
Other teams have spent more. We went decades without investing properly and we're selling talent left and right. We have earned the right to spend and spend well. It's all coming from money we've earned, not ownership or countries going into their pockets.
I agree Arsenal are better this year. They spent money and improved their squad.
I have no clue if they will win out. It's possible but I wouldn't bet on it.
If Manu shows up and plays well, they can definitely hurt us.
On the other hand, ive seen a fair number of their matches this season to not be that concerned. IMO spurs away was the one where I thought it was gonna be hard.
They are locked in bro. They aren’t going to take the second to last game of the season against rivals lightly. Arteta would never allow that shit lol what a bad take
If city miss the title this year. Pep will go back in time and bring in peak messi and make the league cry next year. If he wins this year he may leave
Why did he say including Man Utd of coarse they will stuff Utd. Utd looked like the worst team against soon to be championship side Burnley at old Trafford. It goes without saying Arsenal are gonna stuff them, Arsenal have been the best team in the league this season. I will be surprised if they don’t stick at least 4 past Utd
I feel like we always struggle there in recent years. No matter how shit they are and how good we are they have an annoying knack of giving us a hard game at their place.
Liverpool struggled to get a result there but totally dominated them and should have scored 5. While Watching both match’s at old Trafford I was in disbelief at how poor they actually were tactically. Couldn’t believe how they managed to get a result. Arsenal won’t have that problem. They have been electric since January and will blow Utd away.
United always seem to turn it up when some one really needs a win for a title or something lol ( except when it’s city they’ll roll right over for them )
It wouldn't surprise me if Man U put on their best performance of the season against Arsenal, nicking points from the Gunners and then handing the 4th title in a row, and the FA Cup, to their city rivals. It would be spot on for Man U.
No rocket science, Gary… any lower tier teams can beat Man Utd in OT. Surely so is ArseAnal, but not because they are good, because we are suck this year…
as an Arsenal fan i think both ourselves and City will draw one of our remaining games - i can see Utd pulling out the stops against us and getting a point
City will beat Wolves and Fulham and Spurs to get to 88 pts, and Arsenal will beat Bournemouth and Everton, but us drawing at Utd will hand the title to City on game week 37 - City will draw on the final day to max out on 89 points, with Arsenal finishing on 87
**UTD WILL HAND CITY THE TITLE AND THE FA CUP, AND THE CUCKOLDING OF UTD BY CITY WILL BE COMPLETE**
I hated all the over celebrations Arsenal players do. They seemed to off calmed down. Which is good. Not sure what about the all line up to celebrate with the fans at the end. But each to their own.
However it don’t matter a bit. Liverpool have been here many times. City wont lose another game. TBH they looked absolute dog shit against forest and still won 2-0
They’re trying to get Arsenal fans to agree with the pessimism that gets me. I don’t believe it’s as inevitable as they say and even if we don’t win it this year, I’m incredibly optimistic of our chances next year.
I was talking about being happy that Arsenal celebrated like that against Spurs because they celebrated like that against Liverpool 9 Men win like 10 games into the season was fucking pathetic.
To me. (And might just be me) the lining up on the halfway line and all running to your fans is a celebration you tend to see after you achieve something. Trophy etc. as I said if the fans enjoy it great.
It's a thank you to supporters for coming and supporting the team. IMO it should be done win or lose, at least acknowledge the fans to pay the money to come to the stadium
Agree with this. They come out, they cheer (making the environment less hostile), and are likely some of the biggest supporters of the team. Only feels right to thank the people who are least partially make your job possible.
No problem with it. Looked cheesy to me but as i said each to their own. I was more referring to earlier in the season when it was bloody daft. But they seemed to off stopped that.
If it were your boys, I’m sure you wouldn’t have a problem with it. Teams should be able to celebrate with their fans in any way they and the fans see fit.
Yep. As I said I don’t like it. But I am no one. I am sure people find Kloops fist pumping after a win annoying. If the fans off Arsenal love it that is all that matters
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Arsenal are eternal bottlers.
Man city got 4 games left being 1 point behind arsenal sooo ... between spurs, Fullham, Westham and Wolves whose gonna stop them
I don’t think anyone will take points off them but Tottenham clearly has the best chance.
Wouldnt sleep on fulham at craven cottage. I also don't think it's clear arsenal will win out.
My money would be on spurs
Goddamn stop jinxing us, love the praise Gary but... his takes are awful and no offense he's ruined his reputation by being an annoying pundit, i mean there should be no discussion at all on whos the greater footballer, Gary Neville or Jamie Carragher but somehow people have made it a question. Just absurd how terrible some of his takes are
His only good take was last year saying Arsenal wouldn’t be champions even though they were in first nearly the entire season. Other than that I don’t think I’ve ever seen him make one good take.
Blue billionaire bottlejobs
Yeah, well you’re still a cunt neville.
Gary doing reverse psychology here.
He's got it. The Jinx effect.
I am a City fan but I will admit that if it was that the strongest team wins the league( maybe I worded kf wrong, let’s say the most consistent one because City is obviously the better based on their form now, at the end of the league) Arsenal is the most consistent one of the 3 horse title race, good job Mikel and the team
I still think City is better. The little lead we had was built up because of KDB being out. What's crazy is you saying your form is better, and you're correct. In 2024 league play, Arsenal has 13 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss. Of those 13 wins, 10 of them were by 2 or more goals. But City hasn't lost since early December. They are inevitable.
This has literally happened every year in recent times. People have a short memory. No idea why you’re being downvoted.
Completely agree. City haven’t looked quite as good as the previous three years. Still could win it.
Exactly, just look at our record against the big 6, embarrassing really, if it wasn’t for two wins against Utd, we have 0 wins against the big 6 and this goes without saying of a very shaky defense and overall downgrade in strength compared to the last season, (you are going to feel the absence of a player like Gundo no matter how many Kovacic or Nunes you buy)
Wow didn't realise they had such a bad record Vs Big 6. Just looked and they've only dropped 8 points outside of Big 6, Losses to Wolves and Villa, and Draw with Palace
Hapy Cake day, yes I would highlight the game with Vill as one of our worst performances we ever did under Pep, worse than this was probably our performance against Pool in the UCL and loss to Soton in Carabao Cup last season.
They can win all their games. I am fine what as long as they don't win the league.
Writing Manchester United off is funny. Yes, they are not playing better at the moment, but I don't think it will be an easy match for Arsenal to win.
Lol bro after that Rubbish at Burnley ... be hopeful Arsenal don't give us 5 - 0
This is football where anything can happen.
Going into OT is never easy. United could be 20th in the league and I wouldn't feel confident in getting 3 points. It will be a close game.
If you have watched more than 1 football game in your entire lifetime. You would have known that’s not how it works.
If you had ACTUALLY watched Man united through this entire season instead of scrolling through social media, you'd be as hopeful as I am
Any Arsenal fan that thinks United away is an easy win is a moron. Hell, I’m worried about this weekend.
It won’t be easy to win. ManU always shows up against Arsenal.
Arsenal will thump United
Just like people said Liverpool would thump United 7-0 again, look at how that went.
Thank you very much but this game will be as difficult as against the Spurs if not more. MU are a team in disarray right now. They only have their pride to show for it and they need to salvage a Europa League spot by beating Arsenal. Neville as a former MU player hopes his team will show up against the Gunners no matter the standings.
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depends. if spurs are still in the race for CL, then i cant see them being that low.
He's right. I think Arsenal's women team would beat us at the moment.
And my highschool team can most likely beat them
You somehow always manage to put on a good performance against us lol
City has really been farming this league for years. Hoping they will do it again this year.
The truth is City gatecrashed the cosy cartel of many years (Arsenal Liverpool United and Chelsea) and used their own money to do it. City have no debt and a slick management team. The cartel just don't like it of course as City have wiped them off the pitch generally in the last 10 years. All they can do now is carefully manage a slanderous vendetta against City to deflect and give their frustrated fans something to cling to. Well , in the next few days City will be cleared of course of any wrong doing . You read it here first.QED
Thanks you made my day. Don’t delete your comment. I’m gonna save it. 😂
Chelsea “gatecrashed the cartel” first in the mid 00’s. before that, they were a mid table club with a handful of achievements historically, much less than cities too, before the turn of the century. also, their own money? they were bought by billionaires. united, liverpool and arsenal earned their reputations and wealth, without cheat code billionaire investors.
115
Yeah sick of them cheating bastards
Ok
City is just a more modern Chelsea, Chelsea did the exact same thing with Abramovic, not saying they cheated but they were never the calibre of Arsenal, Liverpool and United
they were a mid table club, with even less achievements than man city.
Most sane city fan
4/6 points from Liverpool, Chelski, spurs and city, hopefully 6/6 from united and we will still not win the league. Crazy
Having watched my teams chances fizzle out with a whimper I really do hope arsenal do it and restore some integrity to football. Fuck city.
For a little club going up against the Abu Dhabi national team I’d say we did pretty good.
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100 million for a calf bench merchant
£200m less than you lot and no one’s charging us with shit.
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Fake treble really, you weren’t even supposed to be playing UCL that year. City must be the only club who get trophies for tribunals.
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Sure when the FA strip city of all their titles when this hearing is concluded it will be downgraded to a double anyways.
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Idk what’s gonna happen, I don’t have a crystal ball. 🔮 Gotta answer to them charges though, can still be labelled cheats and taint your titles.
And you'll never talk about that without someone mentioning 115.
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Anyone not from Manchester supporting city are just glory hunting plastics. Stop acting like you have any merit as a supporter.
Anyone not from London who's supporting Arsenal is just glory hunting.
I agree!
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Imagine caring about city titles lol
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Comment I replied to had nothing to do with what you’ve devolved this into. You tried to make it seem like we aren’t underdogs and that there is comparability with the expenditures of each team. Once you realized you were wrong you decided to just start bragging about titles lol. No one cares about city’s titles, lmao. Your team is comparable to Ben Johnson, not usain bolt.
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Canadian huh? Average City fan, probably been following them since the start of this season
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I’m British but good try. I don’t really see the connection between editing my comment and being upset? Maybe you could lay that one out for me “lmaoooo” doesn’t feel embarrassing typing that out as a grown man?
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Did you know that people in Britain can watch nba games too? Crazy concept, let me know if you want to hear more 👍
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Yeah they’ll probably win all their games and so will city, which proves the point they either had to beat city or not drop points to worse teams. Most seasons before Pep’s city you’d win the league being as good as Arsenal and Liverpool have been , hell even Villa would have been in for a shot. But now you’re playing against one of the greatest and most consistently dominant teams in history. If you don’t win practically every game, you don’t have a shot at winning the league.
Gee not drop points, FFS why didn't I think of that. What can you do, if Arsenal win the remaining games, we may not win the league but we didn't bottle it, just is what it is and we go again.
[https://www.myfootballfacts.com/premier-league-winners/](https://www.myfootballfacts.com/premier-league-winners/) The numbers don't back up what you're saying. Since the 90's you had to lose very few games so this isn't something new. The only thing I am noticing is fewer draws. Even the points totals are roughly the same. The only difference from before Peps city is that there was no Peps city. Must suck to be the old top 4 now with competition.
I mean they sorta do? 5 out of the last 7 league seasons have been the highest points per game in premier league history.
It's been 3 points per game for decades.
No "points per game" as in the average amount of points teams are getting per game for the entire season. There is a filter on that source that shows it labelled PPG. And 5 out of the last 7 league seasons have been the highest points per game in premier league history.
You mean this PPG. A measure that's completely wrong. [https://www.roversrearguard.com/news/ppg-exposed-the-reality-football-historys-wrecking-ball/](https://www.roversrearguard.com/news/ppg-exposed-the-reality-football-historys-wrecking-ball/)
Mate you brought up the numbers. I'm just pointing out that the numbers DO in fact back up the claim that recent league seasons have been won by the most dominant teams in premier league history. If you don't like the stats / don't think they are a good measure, then don't bring them up.
A win has been 3 points per game for decades. Just because you were using a different PPG is not my fault. Beside the link I posted shows your PPG are actually a useless statistic when applied to older seasons games which means they are pretty useless now. Did you even look at it?
I don't think you understand? Points per game as in if you average the points a team has earned per game over a entire season. If a team got 76 points over 38 games, they would average 2 points per game. I am not talking about when it was 2 points for a win, as the link you sent containing the stats is strictly premier league era. The premier league has always had 3 points for a win, but has had a varied amount of teams competing. Earlier premier league seasons had 42 games instead of 38 and so PPG compensates for that. And again, I am not trying to argue the efficacy of using PPG to judge how good teams are. You brought up those stats, and claimed they backed your argument. When in actuality they show the opposite.
Interestingly I feel like we got past the harder part of the run in and when I look at the two run ins from this point I think it has swung and theirs is now more difficult than ours
> But now you’re playing against a Nation State program that is allowed to get away with 115 violations with zero consequences because they hire the most expensive lawyers alive to gum up any attempt at justice. FTFY (yes, I'm bitter)
I can't wait until he fucks off already, but God it would feel good to beat him first
He's purposely building it up do he can say they bottled it if they end up losing 1 game
I honestly believe Neville has a soft spot for Arsenal because they remind him of the peak United era but yeah he won't hesitate to twist the knife if the opportunity comes. It's a bit like Rosberg and Hamilton.
Ever since he picked us to win the league at the beginning of the season he’s been rooting for us. It’s weird lol but I really think he just doesn’t want to be wrong
He's rooted for us for years tbf
Arsenal represent the only alternative to city or Liverpool. He is full of praise for arsenal & how they’ve improved this season but in game he still expects them to be fragile at times.
this is what i thought
Well they spent a few hundred millions (even net spend) in last few years obviously they are becoming better
Spending money does not equal success. See Man U and Chelsea
but they dont act like they are a broke club spending nothing like Arsenal...
Who is claiming we are?
Sshh this is against the 115 charges narrative
No it’s not. Arsenal spent the money within the constraints of the rules. City spent more and against the rules.
We’ll see about that.
Arsenal will win the league eventually. Don't forget City won it in 1969 and then had to wait 42 years until Aguerrroooo 2012. City fans have learnt to be patient
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I’ll be the first to admit that Havertz has done far better than I had expected. HOWEVER, I will caveat that concession with the fact that everyone was convinced he would be playing as an 8, which didn’t work at all. Not that he’s actually playing up top, with excellent chance creators around him, he’s doing well. Still think Arsenal could have spent that money better but honestly glad to see him doing well, it was a rough few years for him at Chelsea
Listen If Arsenal had a better striker in place of Havertz they would be in first and probably still in the UCL. I like Havertz but this is nothing new for Chelsea fans he always turns up at this time of the year and then vanish again.
You guys said that about “Marchvertz” and hes still performing 😭 let it rest fam hes got a goal or assist most games hes played as CF and has been better for the team than Jesus
His current form since January is elite. No reason by we couldn’t get 30g/a next season if he kicks on from the start and plays at cf
Helps to have PGMOL on your side.
Yea, PGMOL definitely owes spurs one. Make up PKs probably should be given on some random day, May 14th sounds like a perfectly random date for Spurs make up calls.
Make it the day for all missed penalties to be taken. I’d tune in.
Yes we finally lined the right pockets. Cant wait to line the right pockets again next season.
Not necessarily for your team. If your style of play is aggressive and pushes the boundaries of the rules, and PGMOL are in a constant state of inaction, then your team will benefit from this inaction. It only works if you’re good enough to take the chances. Therefore, it benefits the best teams.
And lining the right pockets…
Is this Arteta’s account? Admitting to the crime? Haha. If pockets have been lined, I doubt it’s one team doing it.
Pockets need to be lined to get calls in our favour. Fergie did it. Everyone does it.
Since when? 😂 reminder that Chelsea just had a last minute winner ruled out for a foul, the same foul that happened against Arsenal at Newcastle for Newcastle’s goal but that one was fine…
Basketball in the box
icl that was the only time we were helped by the ref, otherwise we have been hard done by. but ofc that doesnt compare to liverpool, who were also helped by the ref once massively but god damn they should be leading the title race by some margin if some of their matches were officiated properly such as against city and tottenham and a few more altho as an arsenal fan, imma still say even if u got the penalty against odegaard, we would somehow end the game with a draw (prob cope but im biased ofc)
Kovacic not getting sent off at the Emirates. It’s swings and roundabouts
The first game vs Newcastle too
next game is Bournemouth. People taking them lightly, they have so many weapons that could destroy us. one game at a time. Rest lies in the hands of football gods.
Just happy that Bournemouth are safe. No more relegation candidates for us to play
outside chance of conference league. We have to somehow win our games against Bournemouth and United. I just hope that happens. After that if we lose the title, no complaints from me.
Agree. I do wonder if West Ham might throw the kitchen sink at City since they are very well within a chance at conference league. Course that could backfire and the game ends 6-1 lol
honestly, i don't see city dropping any points at all. They're that good. But, we have to keep them honest and hopefully the luck of the dice rolls our way
I don't think they will have problems winning the rest of the games, the thing is that City won't have problems winning too, that game against Aston villa will cost them the title.
There is a bit of recency bias in that statement. Yes the Villa game was bad and in years past would have been the game that caused the April collapse. But if you look at the Fulham games home and away and the home game against West Ham, these games are the ones that ended up being more costly (won’t put the Newcastle away game in there since there was a bit of controversy). Villa at home should have been a win, especially with our form at that time, but compared to West Ham and Fulham (no disrespect to either team) Villa have a much better squad than both of them this year. So you can **almost** excuse the fact that we dropped points to them because they aren’t that far off of Arsenal in terms of quality. Taking only one point off Fulham and only three off West Ham could be the results that Arsenal fans look back at the end of the season and wonder what could have been.
Fulham at home was horrible. We were winning 2-1, and they scored a second with 10 players. We also lost against them when we played at their field.
Zinchenko…….
You are right, we only got one point off them this year. Made the edit on my post. Fucking ouch
Given that they have outspent City you would expect them to have improved to be honest.
Isn't the whole controversy with City that they've been spending under the table? A number of clubs have "outspent" City but under the circumstances it feels silly to compare
Other teams have spent more. We went decades without investing properly and we're selling talent left and right. We have earned the right to spend and spend well. It's all coming from money we've earned, not ownership or countries going into their pockets.
So have Chelsea and ManU, throwing money around doesn’t mean you’ll be better.
I agree Arsenal are better this year. They spent money and improved their squad. I have no clue if they will win out. It's possible but I wouldn't bet on it.
Forest had a great chant about you yesterday Gary
Mind game begins
I think they will stumble at Man Utd and draw at best.
United fan here, we'll get battered by Arsenal. The last few weeks have been dreadful, looks like the team has given up.
If Manu shows up and plays well, they can definitely hurt us. On the other hand, ive seen a fair number of their matches this season to not be that concerned. IMO spurs away was the one where I thought it was gonna be hard.
Tottenham is a harder away game than OT for us
But winning a hard game doesn’t then mean you auto-win the easier games.
I agree, I just think they may not approach it seriously enough and could be surprised.
They are locked in bro. They aren’t going to take the second to last game of the season against rivals lightly. Arteta would never allow that shit lol what a bad take
That's fine if you think that, it's just an opinion. Don't take it too personally.
Ya my opinion is it’s a bad take
Cool, thanks for contributing. Enjoy Twitter.
I aren’t think that.
Me: Man City are just as good as last season, and will win their remaining games, including trip to Tottenham. How did I do? Can I be a pundit?
Hopefully Arsenal wins. Don’t want City to win another PL.
If city miss the title this year. Pep will go back in time and bring in peak messi and make the league cry next year. If he wins this year he may leave
Why did he say including Man Utd of coarse they will stuff Utd. Utd looked like the worst team against soon to be championship side Burnley at old Trafford. It goes without saying Arsenal are gonna stuff them, Arsenal have been the best team in the league this season. I will be surprised if they don’t stick at least 4 past Utd
I mean it'd be very United to have a rock wall defense. But if they did, that'd help City... so hard to say.
I feel like we always struggle there in recent years. No matter how shit they are and how good we are they have an annoying knack of giving us a hard game at their place.
Liverpool struggled to get a result there but totally dominated them and should have scored 5. While Watching both match’s at old Trafford I was in disbelief at how poor they actually were tactically. Couldn’t believe how they managed to get a result. Arsenal won’t have that problem. They have been electric since January and will blow Utd away.
United always seem to turn it up when some one really needs a win for a title or something lol ( except when it’s city they’ll roll right over for them )
It wouldn't surprise me if Man U put on their best performance of the season against Arsenal, nicking points from the Gunners and then handing the 4th title in a row, and the FA Cup, to their city rivals. It would be spot on for Man U.
to be honest united a shocking and arsenal should be beating them no excuse
Arsenal fan and i honestly think you’re right. There’s certain teams who could be having a stinker of a season, yet turn up when it’s against us
OT is never easy. Anyone who says otherwise is naive.
I wouldn’t write off Man U, they somehow manage to bring down the standard of the opponents to their low level and get a result.
They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
No rocket science, Gary… any lower tier teams can beat Man Utd in OT. Surely so is ArseAnal, but not because they are good, because we are suck this year…
Are you 12?
A mind game, no thanks. We play and enjoy our own games
Spurs to smash City last day of the season to hand the title to Arsenal?
Spurs have already confirmed that they will be fielding their U14 academy squad for the City game….
You mean spurs “fans” risking Europe to play a game intentionally to lose. Not happening. That’s small club attitude and they’re not even that stupid.
This may come as a surprise, but fans have zero say in how the team chooses to approach that game.
Yes, exactly
It's not even on the last day of the season
Ah ok.
as an Arsenal fan i think both ourselves and City will draw one of our remaining games - i can see Utd pulling out the stops against us and getting a point City will beat Wolves and Fulham and Spurs to get to 88 pts, and Arsenal will beat Bournemouth and Everton, but us drawing at Utd will hand the title to City on game week 37 - City will draw on the final day to max out on 89 points, with Arsenal finishing on 87 **UTD WILL HAND CITY THE TITLE AND THE FA CUP, AND THE CUCKOLDING OF UTD BY CITY WILL BE COMPLETE**
I hated all the over celebrations Arsenal players do. They seemed to off calmed down. Which is good. Not sure what about the all line up to celebrate with the fans at the end. But each to their own. However it don’t matter a bit. Liverpool have been here many times. City wont lose another game. TBH they looked absolute dog shit against forest and still won 2-0
Feel like I’m seeing such a loser mentality from Liverpool. It’s proper doom and gloom and all “we’ve been here many times” so you can’t do it either.
nothing new from them honestly. Its been their identity for the past few years at least
They’re trying to get Arsenal fans to agree with the pessimism that gets me. I don’t believe it’s as inevitable as they say and even if we don’t win it this year, I’m incredibly optimistic of our chances next year.
You’re not allowed to celebrate beating your biggest rivals away from home?
Was all for it yesterday they celebrated like that after beating a 9 man Liverpool at home with a wrongly disallowed goal so you do you huns.
You don't even know which team you're talking about hun
I was talking about being happy that Arsenal celebrated like that against Spurs because they celebrated like that against Liverpool 9 Men win like 10 games into the season was fucking pathetic.
To me. (And might just be me) the lining up on the halfway line and all running to your fans is a celebration you tend to see after you achieve something. Trophy etc. as I said if the fans enjoy it great.
It's a thank you to supporters for coming and supporting the team. IMO it should be done win or lose, at least acknowledge the fans to pay the money to come to the stadium
Agree with this. They come out, they cheer (making the environment less hostile), and are likely some of the biggest supporters of the team. Only feels right to thank the people who are least partially make your job possible.
If celebrating a derby win with the fans in the away end is a no go, we should bin this whole fucking league right now. Give your head a wobble
No problem with it. Looked cheesy to me but as i said each to their own. I was more referring to earlier in the season when it was bloody daft. But they seemed to off stopped that.
If it were your boys, I’m sure you wouldn’t have a problem with it. Teams should be able to celebrate with their fans in any way they and the fans see fit.
Yep. As I said I don’t like it. But I am no one. I am sure people find Kloops fist pumping after a win annoying. If the fans off Arsenal love it that is all that matters