@FergieStandards Did you know if Arsenal win against palace tomorrow they will finish on 85 points and that’s more then Liverpool finished on last season 🤡
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.
@DarrenArsenal1 Correct, but arteta needs to be more aggressive / positive in his team selection. Not playing a creative attacking midfielder from the start really hinders us
This is how preseason is looking :
21/7/24- Brockley Fc
28/7/24- new park
4/8/24- Crayford arrows wesfa
11/8/24- Red velvet
18/8/24- Crayford arrows
25/8/24-jam fc
Looking forward to to getting going again!
Dm us if interested in joining us for this season
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We are looking to add strength and depth to our already competitive squad for our upcoming season where we will be competing in OBDSFL div 1 as well as 3 cups.
Preseason training will start this Thursday
If you’re interested please give us a dm
Was 1-0 up after 10 seconds, 5-0 at half time and finished the job in the second half. Was a proper team performance, 2 nd clean sheet in a row and the big man up top bagged 6! 🔵⚫️🔵⚫️ #UTL#UpTheLane
Really good performance from the boys. Again solid at the back and probably could have scored a good few more. Enjoyed this one. All the best to West Wickham for the rest of their season, good group of lads 🤝 🔵⚫️🔵⚫️ #UTL#UpTheLane
Proper battle out there today! Could have gone either way. Had 2 goals disallowed but we don’t have to talk about that. Proud of the boys for fighting til the end. 🔵⚫️🔵⚫️ #UTL#UpTheLane