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go harder | @arsenal

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.

[★ ★ ★ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @choppahwontmiss]

idc about trolls but gabriel from min 1-120 is the best CB performance i’ve ever seen at the club and in general

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

To the Viktor the spoils ✊

[Gabriel Mendes @gabriel_lmendes]

@psico84b @FTownDown 🇬🇦

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

It was in the name all along 🏆

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

Bukayo. Big Gabi. Champions.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🎙️| Jamie Carragher on the impact of both Bukayo Saka and Noni Madueke after each played 45 minutes against Fulham yesterday:

🗣️ “Sometimes we overcomplicate football, we start talking about systems, shapes, all of that… but yesterday was the clearest example, you had 45 minutes of Bukayo Saka and 45 minutes of Noni Madueke, and honestly, it looked like two different levels of the game.

Saka starts, and everything makes sense. The tempo, the timing, the decision-making, he doesn’t waste football. He hurts you every single time he gets the ball. Goal, assist, always combining, always thinking one step ahead. That’s not just talent, that’s understanding the game at the highest level. That’s what top, top players do, they make it look simple because they’re decisive.

Then you watch Madueke… and I’m not here to disrespect the boy, because he has ability, we can all see that. But ability without control, without intelligence in your decisions, it means nothing at this level. Too many touches, slowing the attack, dribbling into trouble when the pass is there. You beat a man okay, good but then what? Where is the end product? Where is the impact?

This is the difference people don’t want to talk about. Saka plays for the team and still shines. Madueke plays for himself and the team suffers. That’s the reality. One is making the game easier for everyone around him, the other is making it harder.

And let me tell you something, this is not a small gap, this is a huge gap. People will say ‘give him time’… time for what? At this level, you have to learn quickly or you get left behind. Because what Saka showed in 45 minutes is what elite football looks like. What Madueke showed… that’s potential, but football is not played on potential.

So when people try to compare them, I shake my head. One is already delivering at a world-class level, the other is still trying to figure out when to pass the ball. And if that doesn’t frustrate you watching that game, then honestly, I don’t know what you’re expecting from top-level football.”

[chief 🏆 @aliladiere]

You will when you enter the gates of Jahannam

[Princess Luna 🇨🇲 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @princessluna237]

The general consensus under the cs & quotes seems to be tilted towards the supposition that what the crying kid exhibits is "cowardice" or "bitchery"...

Y'all couldn't be more wrong. In fact, going by what I observe I see he's the leader among the three.
- He is the first one to come outside. - He's excited and most vibrant when faced with the challenge.
- He is the first to attempt crossing over.
- As a matter of fact, he cries more as a result of disappointment on his incompetence, especially after his brother mogs him. Reason why he is not willing to accept the milk easily gotten without him earning his stripes.
- Notice him still trying to cross until the very end, even after the other guy had wrapped it up for the day 😂

The personality type he exhibits is called the "Type A" or "Choleric type". Highly emotional and passionate. The sort of people who will wear their hearts on their sleeves without any shame ... Many greats fall under this spectrum. Cristiano Ronaldo is the closest that comes to my mind almost immediately. Gavi, Neymar, Bruno F...

It's a boy technical, but Stoicism really doesn't always signify strength. As a matter of fact, the real bitch in that video is the egbon who collected his own milk and vacated the scene as soon as he could 😂😂

Generally, this is the best thing I've watched all week. The sort of content we should be engaging with on a daily, not Pooja and Ruth and Jarvis and em Blessing CEO and VDM brain rots 🤧

[🏁 @maxguwapo]

Everybody on here rich and strong and got hella hoes and never made no mistake ever and fly as hell and great at everything they do

[ovo @iamovo_x]

Gyokeres to gooner fans

[The Away Fans @theawayfans]

Raheem Sterling: “You know … it’s sad that I even have to say this, but I’m going to say it anyway. There’s a perception in certain parts of the media that I love ‘bling.’ I love diamonds. I love to show off. I really don’t understand where that comes from. Even when I bought my mum a house, it was unbelievable what some people were saying about me. I think it’s really sad that people do that. They hate me and they don’t even know me.

A few years ago, I would let it get to me. I’d be saying to my mum, ‘Why are they picking on me?’

But now, as long as my mum and my sister and my kids don’t have any stress, I’m good.

If people want to write about my mum’s bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it’s my mum. She came to this country with nothing and put herself through school cleaning bathrooms and changing bed sheets, now she’s the director of a nursing home and her son plays for England.”

[Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan]

Getting old is so weird because people say things about the recent past and that are just obviously deranged if you lived through it and you start to wonder if no period of human history has ever been remembered correctly ever.

[*:･ﾟ @Bluewerks_]

You shouldn’t need a personal connection to injustice to care about it

[/+/ @Sxne19iv2]

Gabriel Magalhaes bigger claim to GOAT level these last 3 seasons than at any point in Van Delegate's entire Liverpool stint.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 the mitcham belle 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @volvicstorm98]

This kind of boredom-fuelled nonsense has been stolen from us by smartphones

[EuroFoot @eurofootcom]

🚨🇨🇮 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 | Nicolas Pepe (30) named Player of the Match for Villarreal vs Juventus. 🥇

[/+/ @Sxne19iv2]

Zinny tax he made TetaBall acceptable for 2 seasons