Matthew Dolton

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[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

RUN IT BACK

[Sam Dean @SamJDean]

Arsenal fans have a new chant. "He said it's not done, he said it's not done... Declan Rice, he said it's not done."

[REDaction Gooners @REDactionAFC]

Yeah this is the edit.

It got me bad.

We were in the trenches, but now we flourish 🌺

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

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 IMO 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

By the way, if City wins the league, the achievement would of course be enormous.

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[Metallica @Metallica]

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[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@charles_watts

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@TheCrazyPilgrim Good show, damage was done before Miron, city was a huge distraction. Players are jaded regardless of form or fixtures. Spine is good now we've settled on GK but injuries and form have written the script for the season. It's a rebuild now. Recruitment has been poor/stat driven

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@henrywinter

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Arteta not signing Watkins because he knew that he'd go on to score against Liverpool.

Mikel Arteta, he's done it again.

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@Arsenal Jover

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@paddypower Doubt they could keep up with Kenny rogers

[Wolves @Wolves]

Please don't suffer in silence.

There is 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 somebody that will listen.

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@bushontheradio Used to live in Cornwall so had to rely on bluray/dvd as Internet speed was so crap

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@bushontheradio @absoluteradio 100% plimsolls. Did you forget your pe kit and have to use the absolute radio lost property today?

[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

@bushontheradio ...broken formation. Sorry @bushontheradio

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

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[Matthew Dolton @matthewdolton]

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