🚨🗣️ | Pep Guardiola Shocked on Arsenal fans Reaction towards Gabriel Magalhaes after missing the Penalty: 🤯
“I have to say something because I saw this and, honestly, it blew my mind. It blew my mind. We know how this business works. Usually, in a Champions League final, a player misses a crucial penalty against a top, top team like PSG, and the next day... it is a disaster for him. The social media, the media, it can be very, very cruel. Very ugly. You expect the anger, the threats, the terrible words. We see it all the time.
But what the Arsenal fans did for Gabriel? Wow. It is something else. Truly. To see a player fail in the most painful moment, and the response from the stadium, from the people, is just... pure love? I am told his shirt sales went up by three hundred and fifty percent in a few days. Three hundred and fifty percent! This is incredible. I have been in football a long, long time, as a player and a manager, and I have never seen anything like it. Never.
You know, you open Facebook, you open Instagram or Twitter, and the narrative is always the same. 'Arsenal fans are insufferable. They are the worst fanbase, they are annoying.' You hear this tag all the time. But I look at this gesture and I think, 'How?' How do they have this tag? If a fanbase can wrap their arms around a player like that, in the darkest moment of the club's history a trophy they have been dying to win for decades then everything we are told online is a lie. It is a massive misconception. They have been judged so harshly.
This shows me who they really are. It shows their class, their humanity, and their loyalty. To behave like this? It is not annoying, it is not insufferable. It is beautiful. They deserve incredible praise for this, because this is what football should be about”
They said it wasn’t “clear & obvious” because it took so long.
Nope - they saw the foul straight away.
They just spent ages looking for a way not to give it or to find a pen for West Ham. All the while, ignoring the initial foul of Soucek on Havertz. Madness.
one minute can change an hour.
one hour can change a day.
one day can change a week.
one week can change a month.
one month can change a year.
one year can change your life.
I do think in a world of AI and rushed CGI we should all make sure we’re stopping and appreciating how incredible this looks, we’re lucky to be alive to see this
@NathanJordan85 If you’re a locksmith it’s not breaking and entering. If you’re a demolition expert it’s not destruction of property. If you’re an armed response police officer, well sometimes you fucking shoot people.