🗣️ Ian Wright: “I think the noise around Arsenal is always loud, whatever we do. If we win, we can’t and we are over celebrating. We lose, we are bottlers.” ❌🔊
I’m going to be insufferable in summer… not because I’m an “Arsenal fan” but because in the past 3 years I have witnessed…
- Liverpool fans holding a banner of Arteta dressed as a woman “Never the bride”
- Tottenham celebrate their team losing to City at home
- Haaland “Stay Humble”
- David Bentley break into Arteta’s office, take his beer and mock Arsenal because Spurs won Europa
- Slot, Hurzeler, Ten Hag, Amorim etc… complain about Arsenal’s style of football & claim that they should’ve won matches against us
- Rival fans say Arsenal don’t deserve to win the prem because they’re not “entertaining”
- Liverpool fans “drinking Arsenals tears” at a parade
- Constant calls of being “bottlejobs” from rival fans
- The silly culture of watch alongs from fans who gain fame from hating on Arsenal when their teams aren’t even in the title race or rivals of Arsenals (Kee Thomas I’m talking to you)
- Second again chants at stadiums.
- Gary Neville constantly berating our club, when he’s praising other teams for doing the same
- Jamie Carragher saying “Get down the tunnel” for a simple celebration
- Man City fans talking about “We’re breathing down on you”
- Lastly, every time we win people tell us to shut up & run online narratives because it’s Arsenal but praise other clubs for doing the same…
And I’m sure I’ve missed some.
So don’t judge Arsenal fans when we’re out n about in London with kits on. When the trophy parade shuts down the entirety of North London & Northwest London. We deserve this.
The most damning indictment on the state of the game right now is that fans, managers and media are forcing a narrative of Arsenal bending the rules of football when they’re in a title race with a club that is evading 115 charges for bending the rules of football.
lando still congratulated max after the race even after his team fucked him over... you can call lando an asshole all you want but he will never be one.
THIS ANSWER.
“saying you won’t be the favorites in vegas. i saw you do this at least another two times: ‘we are not the favorites.’ do you think a change of mindset is needed?”
lando: “no, i can say what i want, i can think what i want, i tell you what i always am, i always try and be as honest as i can be. if i don't think we're going to be quick, i don't think we're going to be quick. and i'm not saying i'm going to be 10th, i'm just saying i think it's going to be difficult to win. we were a long way off, just go and look at the data from last year, look at the racetrace, we were miles off. and there's been plenty of races where we've not been quick enough this year, so it's not like we've won every single race and you're expecting me to say those things.
i'm just giving my opinion on ‘do i think it's going to be as easy?’ i won last weekend by 30 seconds, very, very easy. i won today by pushing a lot more, only 10 seconds, and max was probably the quickest out on track today.
do i think that at a track that we've never been good at, we were very good here two years ago, we almost challenged max for the win, we've never been good in vegas. so why am i going to think, ‘yeah, it's going to be fine, whatever?’ i'm giving my opinion, i'm giving my honest opinion on how i think we're going to be. we've never been good there, so i'm not the most confident about going into this race.
maybe i'll win, then we'll see. but i'm not going to lie and say ‘yeah, i'm very confident and i think it's going to be an easy weekend’ because i don't think that's how it's going to be. so no, i mean, you're very right to have your own opinion on what you think i should say and what i should not say and whatever, but i'll do what i like.”
No manager in world football can do what Mikel Arteta has done with this amount of set-backs this season. Lost half the team through injury for extended periods. Countless match defining iffy decisions from officials. I wouldn’t swap him for anyone.