🔴⚪ Where were you when we were 15th?
I'm asking sincerely. Where were you?
Because I was here and still am.
I was here when THIS was our defence.
THIS was the foundation.
I was here in 2020 when Gabriel Magalhães came in and people laughed. "Arsenal signed who?" I was here. Every gameweek. Every defeat. Every post that said this club was beyond saving.
I was here when we were in the relegation zone after gameweek 5. Not joking. Relegation zone. The same Arsenal. This same club. I was here arguing, defending, believing — when there was honestly nothing obvious to believe in.
I remember the chaos. I remember Arteta being questioned like he was a fraud. I remember us getting torn apart at Old Trafford, at the Etihad, at the Bridge. I remember the articles. "Arteta out."and some are still silently pirouting same till date. "This project is dead." "They'll never recover."
I was here for every single bit of it.
So when people show up NOW — when we're almost Premier League champions, when we're in a Champions League Final — and want to tell me how to feel, how to celebrate, what to say about my club…
I'm trying to be humble. I genuinely am.
But don't. Please don't.
You don't get to police the joy of someone who bled through the dark years. You don't get to tell me to tone it down when you weren't there for the toning up. When Runarsson was our goalkeeper. When Mustafi was still in our squad. When this badge was punchline material on every timeline.
I know how far Arteta has brought us. Better than most.
I know what it cost. The patience. The trust. The faith in a process when there was no trophy, no guarantee, no certainty..
So yes — I will sing. Loudly. Shamelessly. For every version of this club that didn't get to see those moment.
For every single one of us who stayed, this period didn't just materialised, it took years and time.
And now we're almost there.. just three more weeks
COYG. Always. 🔴⚪
Rio Ferdinand has just said something that will make a lot of rival fans uncomfortable.
According to Rio Ferdinand, Arsenal F.C. are not just winning games… they are building something much more dangerous.
And he didn’t hide it.
Ferdinand believes Arsenal are going to win the Premier League title “by hook or by crook… by any means necessary.”
For some people, that sentence will sound like criticism.
But if you actually understand football… it’s the ultimate compliment.
Because title winners are not remembered for playing pretty.
They’re remembered for winning.
Look at the way Arsenal are playing right now under Mikel Arteta.
They defend like warriors.
They fight for every second ball.
They dominate territory.
And when the game gets tight?
They go to their most terrifying weapon.
Set pieces.
Ferdinand admitted it himself — when Arsenal get a set piece, opponents are scared.
Not nervous.
Scared.
The deliveries are so dangerous that teams already feel the goal coming before the ball is even kicked.
That is not luck.
That is not “dark arts.”
That is elite preparation.
That is a team that has been carefully built… piece by piece… season by season.
And Ferdinand believes something even scarier is coming.
If Arsenal lift the Premier League trophy this season…
Next year they return with belief, confidence, and the experience of champions.
And that version of Arsenal?
He says they will be an even harder team to play against.
A different beast.
Stronger mentally.
More ruthless.
More dominant.
Which explains something interesting happening right now.
The louder Arsenal get…
The angrier rival fans become.
Suddenly the same people who laughed at Arsenal two years ago are now calling them “lucky”… “boring”… “set-piece merchants”.
But that reaction says more about them than it does about Arsenal.
Because when a team you mocked starts lifting trophies…
You only have two choices.
Respect them.
Or hate them.
And if Arsenal winning the league by any means necessary makes you angry…
Then maybe the problem isn’t Arsenal.
Maybe the problem is that deep down…
you know your club isn’t built like this.
A few years ago, Arsenal were a punchline. 8th place finishes, routinely hammered by the big sides – 5-0 at City, 4-0 at Liverpool, 3-0 at Chelsea like clockwork. We were predictable, soft, drifting. The club felt unrecognisable from the one we grew up loving. No identity, no fight, no fear factor.
Then Arteta arrived in December 2019. He inherited a mess, but he saw something the rest of us couldn’t yet. He demanded standards, cleared out the deadwood, brought in young hungry players who actually cared. It wasn’t pretty at first – 8th again, some painful nights – but you could see the plan taking shape.
That first FA Cup win in 2020 wasn’t luck. It was the first proof he could beat the best when it mattered. Head-to-head against Pep and Klopp in the semis and final. A statement.
From there, steady climb: 5th, then two consecutive second-place finishes, pushing Man City to the wire, taking points off everyone. We stopped being easy beats and started making the big teams nervous.
Now in 2026, we don’t just compete with City, Liverpool, Chelsea – we dominate games against them. We press them into mistakes, outwork them, outplay them. The tables have completely turned. They fear the Emirates again. We play with swagger, belief, and that Arsenal DNA is back.
Everyone hates us again. Proper hate. The kind we used to get when we were untouchable. Because they know we’re coming for everything. They’re terrified we’ll actually do the quadruple this season.
This is what proper leadership, vision and patience looks like. Arteta has rebuilt this club brick by brick into genuine title contenders – maybe even more.
Proud to be a Gooner through the dark days because these days make it all worth it.
North London is RED. 🔴⚪
A wall of negative headlines was so predictable. They’re such NPCs 🤣🤣
All this does is drive even more people to listen to the conversation themselves and realize how much the legacy media lies to them!