Bharathi Alagappan

A selective stoic... Love reading & football...

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Parents wake up son to celebrate
Arsenal winning PL title 🥹❤️

A moment the family will never forget

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

Indian men lose friendships only after marriage.

Something more disturbing happens:

Married men slowly become emotionally unavailable to everyone except responsibility.

A thread👇🏻

[Bharathi Alagappan @bharathi_chellu]

Ohh @Arsenal... Love you 😍. This feels like a personal win over all the trolls, humiliations and sufferings that we, as fans, have endured for over 2 decades. Yessss... This is an out-of-the-world feeling. Thank You @m8arteta. We are hungry for more now #COYG #Arsenal

[Ebere @EbereEze10]

I swear imma make It and when I do, they're gunna show this tweet lol

[DailyAFC @DailyAFC]

Arsenal fans outside The Emirates tonight, celebrating the Premier League title win. 🤯❤️

🎥 @SamJDean

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

This is becoming a joke seriously.

Dembele started only 9 league games the whole season.

Dembele played 90mins ONCE all season in the league, and that came in April, yes you read it right, April.

Let me break it down. French Ligue started in August.

Dembele played the first 3 games that month. He got injured and missed 2 months of football, 5 league games in total.

He retuned and played 3 games. In all 3 games, he didn’t accumulate 90mins of football, then he missed the next two games.

He came back again and played two games, he didn’t accumulate 60mins in those two games, then he was out injured again.

Here comes January, he started two league games and one sub. He also started two games in February and out injured again.

He returned in March and came on as a sub twice, those were the only league games he played before international break.

This is where it gets interesting, Dembele plays his FIRST 90mins football in the league in the month of APRIL, this was against Toulouse.

Also, they started resting him from here on because of champions league. The last two games before the Bayern games, Angers & Lorient, Dembele did not play one minute.

He also has 10 goals and 6 assists.
The 8th when it comes to top scorers, there are 4 players on that joint 8th position.

He’s also 8th when it comes to top assist makers, there are 7 other players with 6 assists too.

It’s just unbelievably worrisome that this same player has won the Player of the season award. A player who barely played, a player who only played 90mins once all season.

The PR is so crazy, honestly.

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

Of all the crying through gritted teeth punditry of this incident we’ve seen and heard, I think Shay Given’s was the worse.

He was clearly and calmly talked through what happened and why the decision was correct and yet he just kept coming with his “yeah, but, no but, Arsenal this, Arsenal that” fume.

Darren Cann did well to stay so calm and measured amid such rubbish. Danny Murphy very good as well.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The season of unpunished grappling at corners decided by a punished grappling at a corner. Pablo did have his arm across Raya. It was a foul. Along with three or four other fouls in the area from both sides, including by Rice (on Mavropanis) and Trossard, also Todibo. Raya most protected species, as a goalkeeper, so that foul punished. It is the correct decision, for all the howls of anguish. Pablo stops Raya gathering the ball.

But this controversy, and the proliferation of such incidents at corners, has been caused by officials’ failure to clamp down on grappling this season. It’s a joke, and a stain on the sport, that such grappling has been allowed to grip the game. West Ham have had holding offences on their players – Bowen mentioned Soucek being held against Brentford. All teams have.

Yet officials have not intervened consistently. Arsenal themselves have got away with a few this season. But there’s no conspiracy, as claimed by some online, just inconsistency by officials.

Did Arsenal deserve victory? Just about yes. Their nerves kicked in after scoring, have to guard against that, but they showed their hunger for the title. Arteta was bold in the second half. Subbing a sub (Zubimendi) was a big call. But never play Rice, Arsenal’s driving force, at right-back again. Odegaard’s arrival definitely helped.

Nobody can question the character of these Arsenal players. Some big blocks by Lewis-Skelly and Gabriel. Raya at 0-0. Arsenal now have relegated Burnley and Palace who may have an eye on their own Euro final. West Ham resilient but needed Wilson on earlier. If they do drop into the Championship, at least West Ham won’t have VAR to worry about. #WHUARS

[Aspireachieve @Aspireachievee]

Emotions That Only Exist In Japanese:

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[Bharathi Alagappan @bharathi_chellu]

“Your circle creates your reality. Choose wisely.”

Powerful reflection from @sahilbloom on the power of your relationships! https://t.co/Zk9hNuDRyz

[Rory Talks Football @Rory_Talks_Ball]

Here’s where Arsenal fans get confused:

Lots of people now saying Arsenal HAVE to win the title, HUGE bottlejob if we don’t.

Ok, fine, we’re favourites.

So we must have some world class players in our squad, some of the best in their position, right?

But if we say that, we’re delusional and overhyping our players.

Ok so we don’t have any of the best players, but we still HAVE to win the league, Arteta must be a world class manager then, right?

But no, he’s “never won anything” and “isn’t even top 10”, Arsenal fans overhype him.

So we don’t have the best players or the best manager, but not winning the league would be a HUGE bottlejob, how does that work?

“You have the best squad depth”.

Oh ok, so depth of squad is the most important factor in winning a title?

But last season, when we had no depth and insane injuries, that was just an excuse and not allowed to be considered a factor?

See how it gets confusing?

[Doc @karthikadhaigal]

Just found this interesting.

The Indian Gun That Inspired Arsenal’s Badge

If you follow English Football, you must be familiar with the famous Cannon adorning the crest of Arsenal Football Club. In the place where the club originated from, there once resided another cannon, a very real one, they called it Aurangzheb’s gun.

Not so long ago, a massive cannon stood on the grounds in Infront of the Royal Artillery Barracks in London’s Woolwich, not very far away from Royal Arsenal, a place that would be familiar to fans of Arsenal football.

This cannon was no ordinary run-of-the-mill cannon, its bronze barrel weighed 17.5 tons, had a caliber of 8 inches, and was 4.98 m in length. Its chase bore the inscription Muhammad, Aurangzeb, Alamgir, referring to the 6th Mughal King in India.

It was cast in 1677 as per Aurangzeb’s own instructions. After Aurangzeb’s death and with the Mughal empire unstable, it probably moved from place to place until it landed in the hands of the Jat kings of the Kingdom of Bharatpur.

Now, in the early 19th century, the British East India Company had a stranglehold over the sub-continent. With Tipu Sultan out of the way the only power that stood in their way of complete supremacy were the Marathas.

The Anglo-Maratha wars pitted some of the most brilliant military minds against each other, with Yashwant Rao Holkar, the pride of the Marathas on one side, and Arthur Wellesley, the conqueror of Napoléon, on the other

In November 1804, Yashwant Rao Holkar reached Deeg and sought help from Ranjit Singh, then ruler of Bharatpur, to which he agreed readily. The English Army though, hot on the heels of Holkar quickly besieged Deeg.

Facing the British from within the ramparts of the impregnable walls of the Deeg Fort stood Aurangzeb’s gun ready to hurt the enemy.

The British besieged Bharatpur for three months, but Lord Lake, commander of the British army who had fought on three continents, could not break through. Ranjit Singh then signed a peace treaty with the British, keeping Bharatpur out of company hands for another two decades.

On October 2, 1825, Stapleton Cotton landed in Calcutta, under direct orders from Arthur Wellesley himself to capture  Deeg fort and bring Bharatpur under the control of the EIC.

Cotton, also known as Lord Combermere, reached Bharatpur on 10 December and the fort was taken by January 18 after several breaches made in the walls allowed the British army to enter and storm it.

Aratpore Gun. A year later Cotton returned to England and took the gun with him.

Once in England, the gun’s wooden carriage was replaced by a cast-iron carriage built by the Royal Carriage Department. On 21 October 1828, Sir Alexander Dickson, the Master General wrote a letter to the Royal Regiment of Artillery

The letter stated that it was the gracious intention of His Majesty (George IV) that the gun should be mounted in front of the barracks at Woolwich and placed in the charge and care of the corps of Royal Artillery and Engineers.

And there it stood till 2007 as a symbol of brilliant military craftsmanship. Who knows all those years back it might even have been an inspiration behind Arsenal football club’s iconic crest.

@Paperclip_In

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[Abhinav Minnala @abhinavminnala]

@CapitaLand @CapitaLand_Ind

You have a very cruel set of folks working for you. I had my bike damaged and the air removed from the tyres by one of your parking guards. Just because we don't travel by fancy cars or superbikes, are we subject to such cruel behaviour? At ITPL BLR

[Bharathi Alagappan @bharathi_chellu]

@Abhinav_Gupta88 @abhinavminnala What's the update Minna ??

[Bharathi Alagappan @bharathi_chellu]

@abhinavminnala @Sumita327 Have fond memories of last visit

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Man United in the Premier League:

1 win in August
1 win in September
1 win in October
1 win in November
1 win in December

Menstrual Cycle FC

[Johns @JohnyBravo183]

England had banned Russian players in Wimbledon and Russian football teams from playing in their countries even though Russia was at war with Ukraine not England.

So nothing more satisfying than watching these hypocrite poms cry about Indian cricket.

Thank you Jay Shah 🙏🏻

[Rabbi Shmuel Reichman @ShmuelReichman]

Another Masterclass by Douglas Murrray! 🇮🇱

I have literally never seen a more eloquent, calm, and decisive presentation on live TV.

Douglas Murray just fit 100 books and 300 podcast episodes into this 3-minute soliloquy.

He completely shut down Pierce Morgan’s argument, clarifying that Hamas, not Netanyahu, is the true obstacle for peace.

He criticized Hamas for using foreign aid to build tunnels and enrich its leaders, rather than improving Gaza.

But most importantly, he explained that peace with Hamas is fundamentally impossible, as they value conflict and death, not peace and life; thus, unless Israel is allowed to decisively win, the cycle of violence will continue ad infinitum.

Thank you Douglas Murray for being the absolute most important voice in the world right now to defend Israel and the Jewish People!

[Premier League @premierleague]

A thread of every 2024/25 Premier League fixture 🧵

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