Chin Sian

There's always window of opportunity with everything that happens. No matter if something good or bad happens.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

A fresh new account, a fresh new start.

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.

Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.

The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.

This is where Arsenal stand out.

Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.

Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.

The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.

Arsenal do this as well as anyone.

In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.

At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.

Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

@NVIDIAGeForce #GeForceSummer

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

@afcstuff @play_eFootball Gabriel

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎁

I have teamed up with @play_eFootball to giveaway an Arsenal 2024/25 SIGNED home shirt by the men’s team. ✍️👕

To enter, simply:

▪️ REPOST this post.
▪️ FOLLOW @afcstuff & @play_eFootball
▪️ REPLY with your Arsenal player of the season

Good luck everyone! 🤞

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

Man... The more I interact with Singtel's customer service, the more I'm proven right that it's time for me to move away all my services. That customer service quality isn't anywhere near what it used to be and do not warrant their higher prices than their competitors.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

They have very few mobile phone selection these days anyway. And their pricing cost more than every other competitors of theirs. For the price I'm paying, I expected better customer service quality than this. At least, let me know why it's taking longer than usual.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

My god... @Singtel is taking so long to resolve my issue and respond to me that I don't expect a reply anymore. Today marks the 4th working day that I'm waiting. Every day it drags on, the more likely I am of moving all my SingTel services away since they all end this year.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

This #UFC309 crowd is kinda annoying. This kind of crowd is exactly why fighters shouldn't fight like crazy just to try to please the crowd. Fight smart.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

Oh wow!! What a 4th round from Alex Pereira?! I loved the way he took his time to continously take his shots against Khalil Roundtree. #AndStill #UFC307

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

Of course that would have exposed some room for Man City to attack into. Down to 10 men, leading 2-1. I get why Arsenal played that way. It was nervous watching as Arsenal fan. Maybe try to pass a few times, try and keep the ball. If there's no room left, then boot it away. #AFC

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

Just heard what Roy Keane said on Overlap on Arsenal's tactics when down to 10 men against Man City. I agree with him. He was fine with the way they defended, but they should've at least tried to keep the ball, counter or attack. That would have given breathing room. #AFC

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

No more weight visibility, no international management on top of the other stuff that was already announced as taken off for FM25. The new match engine better impress me. As it stands, I no longer feel excited for the new FM. I may end up skipping FM25. #FootballManager #FM25

[Football Manager @FootballManager]

Football Manager 25 Development Update

Studio Director Miles Jacobson provides an update ahead of the start of our FM25 cycle.

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

I don't even know who to blame for this mess anymore. Thus, I blame Starhub in general. I think it's only fair. People should try to avoid using Starhub's services if possible. What a mess!

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

My god.... Starhub, can you stop feeding me different information? Different staff of yours can provide me with differing information, and they even managed to screw up a free Disney Plus subscription that they assured me would be given to me for free. Come on!

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

I was told to call the Starhub sales hotline to deal with this. I called today to clarify the differing information provided, I waited more than 50 minutes before giving up. 🤦

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

😭Thanks for everything you've done for Arsenal, Emile Smith Rowe. Now, go there and show how good you are. All the best. #AFC

[Fulham Football Club @FulhamFC]

A Rowe along the Thames... 🚣

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

😔 Good luck to Emile Smith Rowe then. Go out there and show what you've got. #AFC #Arsenal

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Fulham close to reaching agreement with Arsenal to sign Emile Smith Rowe. Talks over move worth up to £35m; would be record recruit for #FFC + match biggest #AFC sale. If deal struck 23yo expected to do medical & finalise terms @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/NGElac5XXD

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

🚨 Sky Sports News has been told another Premier League club, as well as Juventus & Real Madrid tried to sign Riccardo Calafiori in the last 10 days, however, the player ONLY wanted Arsenal & gave his word that he would join. 🔐 [Sky] #afc

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Arsenal are finalising a deal with Bologna for Riccardo Calafiori 🤝

Sky Sports News has been told another Premier League club, as well as Juventus and Real Madrid tried to sign the player in the last 10 days but Calafiori only wanted Arsenal and gave his word he would join 💼

[Chin Sian @chinsian]

Players come and go. We saw players leaving for rival clubs before. It's not new. For one youth player leaving, another will step up. Even if he turns out to develop well, then so be it. Let's move on from this for good. #AFC #Arsenal

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔴 Manchester United want to close Chido Obi Martin deal and pushing to get it sealed as soon as possible.

Understand Chido will make his final decision in the next hours/days after visiting several clubs in UK and Germany, it’s considered imminent.