Craig Page-Lee

[MΛRC VIDΛL @marcvidal]

Absolutamente increíble. Lo que hoy ha hecho Barcelona se recordará mucho tiempo. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí y los que durante 140 años han creído en ello, lo merecían.

[Imperio Estoico. @ImperioEstoico]

En Rumanía, para fomentar el ejercicio y el bienestar, los pasajeros pueden viajar gratis en el autobús local haciendo 20 sentadillas. Un dispositivo cuenta las sentadillas y, a continuación, expide un billete gratuito.

[Troll Touchline @TrollTouchline]

🚨🗣️ | Pep Guardiola Shocked on Arsenal fans Reaction towards Gabriel Magalhaes after missing the Penalty: 🤯

“I have to say something because I saw this and, honestly, it blew my mind. It blew my mind. We know how this business works. Usually, in a Champions League final, a player misses a crucial penalty against a top, top team like PSG, and the next day... it is a disaster for him. The social media, the media, it can be very, very cruel. Very ugly. You expect the anger, the threats, the terrible words. We see it all the time.

But what the Arsenal fans did for Gabriel? Wow. It is something else. Truly. To see a player fail in the most painful moment, and the response from the stadium, from the people, is just... pure love? I am told his shirt sales went up by three hundred and fifty percent in a few days. Three hundred and fifty percent! This is incredible. I have been in football a long, long time, as a player and a manager, and I have never seen anything like it. Never.

You know, you open Facebook, you open Instagram or Twitter, and the narrative is always the same. 'Arsenal fans are insufferable. They are the worst fanbase, they are annoying.' You hear this tag all the time. But I look at this gesture and I think, 'How?' How do they have this tag? If a fanbase can wrap their arms around a player like that, in the darkest moment of the club's history a trophy they have been dying to win for decades then everything we are told online is a lie. It is a massive misconception. They have been judged so harshly.
This shows me who they really are. It shows their class, their humanity, and their loyalty. To behave like this? It is not annoying, it is not insufferable. It is beautiful. They deserve incredible praise for this, because this is what football should be about”

[Arsenal Chizzy @ArsenalChizzy_]

🚨🎙️ | Simon Jordan passionately defends Arsenal and Mikel Arteta after criticism following the defeat to Paris Saint-Germain:

🗣️ “People are talking nonsense about Arsenal being too defensive against PSG. Listen, Arsenal are not as good as PSG individually, so why on earth would they open up and play into PSG’s hands?

You don’t give elite opposition the perfect game to beat you. The best chance Arsenal had was to frustrate PSG, slow them down and nullify their threats, and that’s exactly what Arteta tried to do.

PSG couldn’t even score from open play. It took a penalty against arguably the best side in world football right now.

So what exactly are people criticising Arsenal for?

If Arsenal had gone toe-to-toe with PSG playing open attacking football, PSG would’ve ripped them apart 3-0 or 4-0.

Sometimes football intelligence is understanding your level and giving yourself the best possible chance to compete.

People wanted Arsenal to play ‘brave’ football just so PSG could embarrass them for entertainment.

And the funniest part? The same people mocking Arsenal today would’ve absolutely destroyed Arteta if he opened the game up and got battered.

Arsenal weren’t cowards. They were realistic.

There’s a difference.” 😳🔥

[Arsenal Gist @GistArsena99455]

Wayne Rooney on other teams congratulating Arsenal on their title:

“Arsenal were crowned Premier League champions and deserved credit for what they achieved this season. But I cannot help feeling that some clubs in England could not find it in themselves to offer a simple word of congratulations.

In football, respect costs nothing. When a team ends a 22-year wait and wins the title with quality and character, the least their rivals can do is acknowledge it. The silence from certain clubs speaks louder than any post ever could.

I am proud of what Mikel Arteta has built. The players showed resilience, belief and the kind of determination that wins leagues. That deserves recognition, not ignorance.

Congratulations to Arsenal on winning the Premier League. But I believe English football loses something when basic respect between clubs disappears.

To the Arsenal supporters: you waited 22 years. Nobody can take that from you. Enjoy every moment of it.”

#PremierLeague #Arsenal #Champions

[Craig Page-Lee @cpl_ignite]

@ArsenalZNE Rat is spelt differently… starts with a Capital C, and ends with a Capital T….. 2 lowercase letters in between…..

[Michelle @Chefdoo95]

🚨Thierry Henry To All Gunners

Listen… I’m sitting here gutted, man.

🗣️We went to the final and gave everything, but tonight it wasn’t just PSG who beat us the decisions did too. Two clear penalties denied to Arsenal, especially that one on Saka in the second half… how do we not get that? I’ve watched it back ten times already.

🗣️The boys showed heart, quality, fight everything you want from an Arsenal side. But when big moments go against you like that in a Champions League final, it hurts. It really hurts.

🗣️Fair play to PSG, they won the trophy. But my Arsenal… we were robbed of a fair chance.

Head up boys. This pain will make you stronger. COYG ❤️
#PSGARS #UCLfinals

[Luke Sheekey @LukeSheekey]

Not an Arsenal fan at all but they were robbed. From the moment the second half kicked off the referee was shocking towards them. It setup PSG’s momentum & made it tougher than the game already was. Something was said to him at HT 100%. Even talking to Gabriel before that penalty

[Gooner Chris @ArsenalN7]

I knew from the moment he didn’t allow us to take the corner that he was paid off by Qatar

[(Fan) Shedy🔰 @FcbShedy]

🚨 IAN WRIGHT ABSOLUTELY BLASTS REF DANIEL SIEBERT & VAR: 'STONEWALL PENALTY! THIS IS A DISGRACE!'

How on earth is that NOT a penalty in the Champions League FINAL?! Nuno Mendes bundles Noni Madueke in the box, no ball contact, clear contact from behind — and Daniel Siebert waves it away like it's nothing?! VAR hiding again! This is robbery at the highest level.

Arsenal dominating, creating the chance, and we get NOTHING. My blood is boiling! The ref bottled it, simple as. How many times do we have to see decisions like this go against us in big moments?

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Piers Morgan on the Arsenal loss in the UCL Final:

🗣️ “I’m trying to be objective, but I simply don’t understand how that challenge on Madueke wasn’t given as a penalty.

In a Champions League final, with VAR available, those are the moments that define everything. You can’t just ignore them.

Arsenal went toe-to-toe with PSG for large parts of this game, they weren’t outplayed they were competitive, organised, and brave.

But at this level, it only takes one big decision to swing a final.

Arsenal fans aren’t asking for favours… they’re asking for consistency. And tonight, they didn’t get it.”

[all arsenal news @Alarsenalnews_]

My support to you bro. We don't judge who's a hero through penalty shootout

[Osman @OsmanZtheGooner]

Raise your head big Gabi. No amount of pen misses will make us forget what you have done to our football club. You are a real soldier and nothing will break you @biel_m04

[Goaldata - Arsenal Zone @ArsenalZNE]

Look at this challenge from any angle. Mendes comes across Madueke's body and brings him down.

Clear penalty for Arsenal but Daniel Siebert decides against giving it.

[Craig Page-Lee @cpl_ignite]

@SkyFootball Blatant over the top.. yes we did deserve it. What an incredible fame, irrespective. Arsenal won on character. 😥👏🏼😥👏🏼

[Craig Page-Lee @cpl_ignite]

@Arsenal Some seriously shocking calls by ref. 😥

[ＧＲＥＡＴ ＧＯＯＮＥＲ @alexAFC__]

This gives me chills

[Blessing 4 Arsenal @ArsenalBlessing]

Look closely at the image!
That scoreboard shows 73:56. We were less than twenty minutes away from ultimate glory, defending with ten men, pouring our absolute blood, sweat, and tears into that pitch in Paris.

That night in 2006 broke an entire generation of Gunners. It left a scar that never truly healed.
For two decades, we carried the weight of that heartbreak, enduring the banter, the dry years, and the critics who said a club like Arsenal would never reach the pinnacle of Europe again.

But true greatness isn't about never falling.
It is about having the courage, the patience, and the relentless mentality to rebuild from the ashes.

Look how far we have come.
We didn't just survive the storm; we built a machine. Mikel Arteta took a broken culture and forged a brotherhood of warriors.
We stayed patient, we trusted the process, and we earned our respect back step by step.
We conquered England as Premier League champions, and now destiny has brought us back to the exact same stage.

This Saturday isn't just a football match.
It is the culmination of twenty years of waiting, hoping, and believing.
It is our ultimate redemption.

King Henry suffered for us then, but this Saturday, we finish the story.
The long wait is over.
The winning mentality is locked in.
We are ready to take what belongs to us.

#COYG #UCLFinal #Arsenal #Budapest2026 #ArtetaBall

[Aaron @LibertarianZA]

A hard lesson from administering my late mother's estate: read the fine print on life rights before your parents sign one.

For those unfamiliar: a life right is a popular retirement-village model in South Africa. You don't buy the property. You pay a large lump sum (often R2m+) for the right to occupy a unit for the rest of your life. The operator retains ownership and the title.

When the holder dies, here is what nobody really explains up front.

1. The operator takes a fixed chunk regardless of how long you lived there. Typical contracts deduct around 40 percent of a notional "Listing Consideration" as the operator's effective fee, amortised over five years. If your loved one lives in the unit for two years, three years, or even just under five, that 40 percent disappears anyway. My mother paid R2 million in 2021. Five years later, the estate stands to receive less than half of it back.

2. The estate keeps paying levies after death. Indefinitely. The contract terminates automatically when the holder dies. But you, as the estate, remain liable for the full monthly levy, rates, and consumption charges until the operator finds a new buyer. There is no deadline. No reasonable-time obligation written in. We are six weeks past hand-over and the invoices keep arriving.

3. The estate cannot use, let, or even allow family to enter the unit. The right to occupy was "personal in nature." It died with the holder. The estate cannot put a tenant in, cannot let it on Airbnb, cannot even allow family to stay there without the operator's written consent. Every mitigation lever sits with the operator at their sole discretion.

4. The operator has zero incentive to re-sell quickly. They hold your capital interest-free until a buyer is found. They earn the levy every month you wait. They earn a remarketing fee on re-sale. The longer they take, the better for them. The worse for you.

5. The contract usually contains a CPA exemption-by-design. Most of these schemes acknowledge the Consumer Protection Act on paper, then carve themselves into clauses that allow exactly the kind of one-sided continuation of obligations the CPA was meant to police. Sections 48 and 52 of the CPA, and the Constitutional Court line on fairness in contract (Barkhuizen, Beadica), give real grounds to push back. But you have to know to push.

If you or a family member is considering a life right, please:

- Read the full agreement including every annexure, not just the marketing brochure.
- Model the worst case: holder dies within 3 to 5 years of taking occupation.
- Calculate the estate's expected net return, including post-death levy bleed if re-sale takes 6 to 12 months.
- Get independent legal advice before signing. Not advice from the village's referred attorneys.
- Ask explicitly: what is the operator's contractual obligation to re-sell within a reasonable time? If the answer is "none," walk away.

There are genuinely good retirement villages and well-structured life rights out there. But the structural risk to the estate is rarely disclosed up front.

If you've been through this and want to compare notes, please reach out.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

“The plane went silent.”

That’s what passengers aboard British Airways Flight 9 remembered most.

Not screaming.
Not alarms.

Silence.

On June 24, 1982, the Boeing 747 was flying over Java at 37,000 feet with 247 passengers onboard when Senior Engineer Barry Townley-Freeman noticed engine temperatures rising dangerously fast.

Then passengers started calling flight attendants:

“There’s something glowing outside the window.”

Blue light flickered through the engines.
White sparks danced across the wings.

It looked beautiful.

In the cockpit, Captain Eric Moody watched Engine 4 fail.

Then Engine 2.
Then 1.
Then 3.

Within minutes, all four engines were dead.

A fully loaded 747 became a powerless glider descending toward the Indian Ocean.

No thrust.
Barely any radio communication.
No idea what caused it.

Passengers woke from sleep to something deeply unnatural:

The absence of engine noise.

At 37,000 feet, a jetliner should roar.

Instead, there was only wind.

Captain Moody got on the intercom and delivered one of aviation history’s most famous announcements:

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.”

Some passengers thought it was a joke.

The flight attendants’ faces said otherwise.

What nobody onboard knew was that the plane had flown directly through a volcanic ash cloud from Mount Galunggung.

The ash was made of microscopic glass particles.

Inside the engines, the particles melted at extreme temperatures and coated the turbines like cement, suffocating all four engines one by one.

At 15,000 feet, oxygen masks deployed.

At 12,000 feet, the crew prepared for a night ditching into the ocean.

Captain Moody knew the odds of surviving a water landing in a 747 were almost nonexistent.

Then he tried restarting the engines one final time.

Engine 4 sputtered.
Caught.
Then another.
Then another.

All four engines roared back to life.

But the nightmare still wasn’t over.

The volcanic ash had sandblasted the cockpit windshield so badly the pilots could barely see through it.

Captain Moody had to land a damaged 747 at night using only a tiny clear section of the side window while his first officer called out altitude and distance manually.

Against every odd, the aircraft landed safely in Jakarta.

Every single person onboard survived.

After the incident, volcanic ash became a globally monitored aviation hazard.

And Captain Eric Moody’s calm announcement became legendary — still taught today as a masterclass in crisis leadership:

Tell the truth.
Stay calm.
Give people dignity.

Even when you’re falling out of the sky.