@Mrjamieohara1 You buy better players if they’re not good enough. I’ll give you an example: in 2003 Arsenal had a player called Jamie O’Hara in their academy. They decided he was crap and bought Cesc Fabregas instead.
What a brilliant article ❤️ so true - I look back at 98 so fondly, everything from the kits to the players to the stadiums to the goals. Nothing will ever compare to it for me.
I hope to god this is the only 48 team World Cup we see. Complete clusterfuck. They won’t go back - 64 teams (pathetic also) is the only way forward.
32 teams was perfect and like everything good, they’ve fucked it 🙃👍🏼
predicting the bracket for a World Cup when third-placed teams qualify is, let's be honest, really unsatisfying. There's 495 possible combinations of which groups will provide those 8. You aren't getting that right, and there's so many moving parts that it's basically pointless.
@nytimes@TheAthleticFC Where was this article on Saturday? Could’ve spared us the hassle of going to the parade and having an excellent time if we’d have known it was all null and void ffs. I took my kids. You’ll have to tell them it doesn’t count, I don’t have the heart to.
When this happened I immediately thought of Anfield 2023. We're three years down the line and he still can't play that pass.
Time to be ruthless. Sell, sorry.
@WeAreTheOverlap As ever, this is the most I'll watch of this. But really enjoyed how the goalposts have changed already - now the league title is over the line, that medal isn't good enough and "it's not a Champions League one" 🤣🤣 Weapons, all of them.
@FootballRamble Think this is really fair - I felt unprepared as a fan for it, but that shouldn't be the case for the squad lol. And as for Eze... just woeful technique, will never understand it. Love him, but that's a moment he is going to have to bounce back from because it was shite.
@WayneSBarton Nobody is forced to watch it? I'm sure the same people were fucking loving us getting battered in this comp by Bayern ten years ago when "the football was attractive" eh?
@PatrickBury Haha cheers Ken. Boring Boring Arsenal were so much more fun when they were tactically naïve and getting piped by anyone and everyone, and not getting close to the big prizes eh?
Knob end.
Ah yes, the parade dick swinging that was always going to be rife on this app. Well as someone who was there I’ll just confirm: you couldn’t move, tube stops shut everywhere, all you could see in London was Arsenal shirts and I realised how few 60k is for matchdays. Insane day.
@rich_chandler Why tf would you watch an Arsenal title winning victory parade? And we’re the insecure freak fanbase? Couldn’t tell you what I was doing last year for yours, but certainly not watching it and analysing crowd numbers.
@Nick___Collins That one on the right has really annoyed me. The stadium area was shut and everyone knows that. Would love to see a proper aerial shot of the actual parade area because it was insanely busy everywhere from Kings Cross to Finsbury Park. There’s no need for this AI bullshit.
Regardless of anything else, the Jurrien Timber ‘foul’ that begins this compilation is actually the worst decision of all time. In any game ever. I think the woman in front of me moved because of how I reacted to that disgraceful decision.