Phil Reading

I'm not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

Arsenal fan. Marvel fan. Tattoos

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@Lavender_901 So you should be. You lost to spurs. That's disgraceful

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@steffii_92

[The Football Feed @TheFootballFeed]

DOM BALLARD that is INSANE, goal of the season is already in boys and girls 🤯🔒

https://t.co/rpHu9uPMKD

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@KalamCenter 73

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@Arsenal Pires against Liverpool October 2003

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@JohnDalziel After all your years as a early breakfast presenter?
Thankfully not feeling it too much as I'm at work for 4am anyways

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@now_arsenaI @HighburyCorner_ Done

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Gutted but incredibly proud of this team.

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

🚨 Hi everyone. To celebrate Arsenal’s title win I'll be giving away THREE 'Champions' prints by the brilliant @matthewjiwood to three random winners

- Simply repost this to enter

Winners picked on Saturday.

(If you're not feeling lucky the prints - and loads of others - can be found here: https://t.co/718xYZwECf)

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@thematchday @steffii_92

[The match day @thematchday]

Ok our second champions give away draw is live. This time the amazing Prem trophy ! Looks amazing in the gold !! Repost and tag a mate to win. Draw on sat ! Is Yours Gold Trophy in Gift Box – The Match Day Shop https://t.co/is1F4vfz0Q

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What a lovely feeling

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@joeyboo007 Kind of enjoying all the tears from the rest of the premier league tho.

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@Molly_AFC Cesc

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@ruthbeckart @RachAFC1 DONE

[Ruth Beck Art 🔴⚪️🎨🏆 @ruthbeckart]

🚨#GIVEAWAY Alert 🚨

I’ll give away my Budapest Finalist mug and Clockend badge from my shop,

IF, WHEN, ONCE we’ve beaten West Ham.

To enter you must FOLLOW me, SHARE and comment DONE on this post to be in the draw to win. GOOD LUCK 🤞🏻

#WHUARS

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@DeanJamesAFC Anelka

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@Molly_AFC Robiniho

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@afc_lennon David de gea

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

🚨Guillem Balague has said it perfectly… absolutely spot on.

Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal.

First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one.

Second, and in my opinion this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt.

The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more.

Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him.

Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is.

Find another name for it.