Today was the feast day of St Joan of Arc, my patron saint.
She trusted God with her whole heart and gave everything to follow Him - even to the point of death.
St Joan of Arc, pray for us!
One missed penalty will never define Eberechi Eze. It takes courage to step up when the pressure is highest. The racial abuse is disgusting and unacceptable.
Keep your head up, Eze. Great players don’t let one moment define their journey. Your comeback will be louder than the hate.
Eze’s emotional reaction to hearing a voice note from his older brother, Ikechi, ahead of the Champions League final 🥹❤️
📺 Full episode of Voice Notes dropping soon
🚨📊| THE STAT THAT DEFINES ARSENAL'S TITLE-WINNING SEASON.🏆
Across 61 matches in all competitions, Arsenal have been behind for just 403 minutes.
That's it.
To put that into perspective, the Gunners have played 5,490 minutes of football this season and spent only 7.3% of that time trailing.
Even more astonishing?
▫️ Arsenal have trailed by 2+ goals for just 26 minutes ALL SEASON.
Those 26 minutes came in the Carabao Cup Final.
Not in the Premier League.
Not in the Champions League.
Not across a gruelling 61-game campaign.
Just 26 minutes.
In the Premier League, Arsenal have spent only 8.6% of match time behind on the scoreboard, the second-best record in the division.
This is what elite control looks like.
While other teams rely on comebacks, chaos and moments of magic, Arsenal's dominance starts much earlier:
🔸 Rarely fall behind
🔸 Rarely lose control of games
🔸 Relentless defensive structure
🔸Elite game management
🔸 Consistent for 90 minutes
The biggest compliment you can give Mikel Arteta's Arsenal isn't that they win.
It's that they almost never allow opponents to dictate terms.
For years, critics said Arsenal lacked mentality.
Now they're one of the hardest teams in Europe to put behind, let alone beat.
This isn't luck.
This is coaching.
This is structure.
This is control.
This is a champion's mentality. 🏆
In 2015, Eberechi Eze tweeted about chasing his dream while playing in Millwall’s academy. 🗣️
Just one year later, he was released. 💔
Fast forward 11 years:
❌ Rejected Tottenham to join his boyhood club Arsenal ✅
🏆 Won the Premier League
👏 Will return to Selhurst Park as a champion and receive a guard of honour from Crystal Palace.
From setbacks to living the dream.
Eberechi Eze, It all worked out. 🫡
From Leverkusen to London 🏆
Bayer 04’s first Bundesliga title 🖤❤️
Arsenal’s first Premier League title in 22 years 🥳
Congratulations, @PieroHincapie! 👏
For decades, the world has been gleefully reporting the "death of Christianity" across Europe.
But the human soul was not built for a godless world.
A massive, undeniable christian renaissance is currently rising through the european continent.
In France, one of the most fiercely secular nations on earth, the record for Easter vigil baptisms was absolutely smashed for the second year in a row. A staggering 21,386 people entered the Church this year, a figure that has more than tripled over the last decade.
Over 80% of those baptized are between the ages of 18 and 40. These are young men and women looking at the empty promises of the modern world and making a conscious choice to seek Christ.
65% of these new catechumens did not even grow up in religious households. Instead, they are actively hunting for meaning, with 78% of them crediting social media platforms for influencing their journey toward the faith.
Similar patterns of surging church attendance and mass baptisms are now emerging across the UK and Belgium.
The modern world thought they had won, but as Archbishop Olivier de Germay noted, "The Lord is touching hearts".
The youth is returning to the enduring strength of Holy Mother Church.
11 years ago, 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIS in Libya for refusing to convert to Islam.
Their last words were: “Jesus, I love you.”
Remember, no one marched for them.
Not a single protest for them!