I can’t sleep. I’ve been let down too many times @Arsenal.
We’ve seen this movie before. On repeat.
Yet..
This time, it feels different.
I’ve had this feeling the whole season:
That we are going to be champions.
It’s been tested. Multiple times.
But every time it gets really tough, I feel strangely calm.
When we’re doing well, I feel excitement and pride and an urge to go to the stadium and shout and sing until my throat is sore, and clap until it starts to hurt.
But when we ‘wobble’, like before the NLD, and yesterday, it turns into calmness.
An unexpected, inexplicable stream of confidence runs through my veins:
No, this isn’t done.
It’s not the same old story; there is a twist to the tale. The familiar loop does not look familiar anymore.
It seems ghosts of the past 22 years need exorcising, still. And perhaps the biggest, baddest of them all awaits at the Etihad.
We’re not fighting City; we’re fighting our past.
Sharpen your holy weapons boys, it was always going to be the tough, but the end is near.
And it is glorious.
@TheAthleticFC Now the new york times are re posting the same thing.
They saw the engagement and wanted some.
Arsenal will have to keep winning big trophies to kill this engagement farming. You can only hate so hard for so long.
I wrote a long reply in good faith arguing about that there is beauty in defending, then thought I take a look at your profile….
It’s all Arsenal hate. You are not a neutral by any stretch of the imagination so you wouldn’t know what they’d like or dislike about the PL Champions
So is a game changed from winning/drawing state to a drawing/losing state.
You can’t surgically remove errors and assume everything else stays the same, as you correctly pointed out.
You say the Villa game would have been different; I say in the same game the error happened would have been different as well.
But it’s such a futile exercise. Because you ignored what could have happened during those games with the changed game states.
A team does play differently depending on if they’re winning, drawing or losing.
And even if we remove the errors surgically without changing anything else in those games, we still ignore what could have happened to other games as consequences of those now altered results.
Exactly what I was thinking 🤣
But they did the next best thing by claiming City would have been 2 points clear going into the final game. You know what they’re saying: they wouldn’t have lost to Villa had this been the case.
The amount of joy across London and the world is only matched by the hate and resentment of ‘Anti-Arsenals’.
I remember you mentioning recruitment as a critical element in club success.
Honestly, it is much clearer now that we want to keep competing. It is almost scary thinking about the places we want to go and the dynasty we want to create without recruiting the absolute best. Yet, the absolute best is not always clear at least to me.
A Rice might be obvious, but a Doue or a Saliba might not be clear until it’s too late and cannot be obtained.
@90_JoshB@laura_woodsy What does that have to do with catering for people who wanted Arsenal to lose? Or is that a weird way of saying PSG fans / pundits?
Let’s be genuine.
It’s not good for their health as Arsenal are about to dominate.
The journalist is demanding them be ‘represented’ in a panel covering Arsenal and PSG. Why?
Some people hate football in general. Shouldn’t they also be represented here?! How about people who hate the English or the French?
The stuttering affects his shot in the hope it affects and commits the keeper.
I don’t like it. He has a powerful shot. Just smash it in either corner. And it is that easy for someone like him. If the keeper dives and has a powerful hand save, so be it.
I look at Kane, Lampard, Ronaldo and Gyok.
Players with no power use different techniques. He has the secret sauce for almost guaranteed penalties.