“My relationship with my club began the same way it does for most football fans: before I was old enough to understand what I was getting myself into. When I was nine, my uncle introduced me to a team with a cannon on its shirt, a grizzled captain named Tony Adams, and players like Nwankwo Kanu who had been born in Africa but now lived somewhere else, just like me. Arsenal felt familiar before I even understood why.
“And then there was the manager, a man who I initially thought had been named after the club and then believed that somehow the club must have been named after him. Arsene Wenger may have struggled with his raincoat, but rarely with his orchestra. The football his teams played sang.
“But what was once the nostalgia of the past has become the beauty of the present.
“We won. We are champions of England. And we are just one game away from being crowned champions of Europe too.”
@ZohranKMamdani, mayor of New York City, writes for The Athletic on what Arsenal means to him.
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Man City vs. Arsenal points tallies the last four seasons
22/23: Man City +5
23/24: Man City +2
24/25: Arsenal +3
25/26: Arsenal +7
Pep recognised the trend and ran.
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"External critics formed a caricature they choose not to see beyond. Arteta is not a manager they care to try to understand."
But he has got Arsenal, and Arsenal have got him.
Free to read - the roots of Arteta's passion for his club.
https://t.co/13X0KhEvzu via @NYTimes
UK coup resignations:
Blair - 7 ministers in 2006
Corbyn - 17 in 2016 coup & 10 quit the party in 2019
Johnson - 48 ministers over 5 days in 2022
Starmer - 4 ministers. Streeting's alleged 'coup' fizzled out.
Puts it in perspective.
Arsenal have allowed just 47 Big Chances against this season, the next best team has allowed 49% more (70). That's just a crazy defensive outlier stat.
Maybe we could just cancel the FA Cup final at Wembley next month and instead get the lawyers to decide who wins.
We’ll probably have a winner announced by 2029 but surely that’s a fairer way of deciding the outcome. 🤷🏻