Peter Mackay

Tour Manager, Arsenal fan

[The Touchmine | 𝐓 @TouchmineX]

🚨📊 𝗨𝗡𝗕𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘: Argentina’s World Cup disciplinary record so far:

• Fouls committed: 87 (most)
• Yellow cards received: 6 (least)
• Opponents booked: 14 (most)
• Red cards received: 0
• Opponents sent off: 1
• Opponents’ goals disallowed: 3 (most)
• Controversial VAR incidents avoided: 10 times (most)

Coincidence or something more? 🤔🇦🇷

[Acyn @Acyn]

Schiff: In the past, the president was convicted in the case you represented him in, of falsifying business records, in part for tax purposes. 

Blanche; That's not what he was convicted of.

Schiff: I'm happy to read the statement of facts to participants took steps that mischaracterized for tax purposes the true nature of the payments made in furtherance of the scheme.

Blanche: That was somebody else.

Schiff: Well, if the president is conspiring with others to falsify business records to help them cheat on taxes, he has also exposed a liability. You know that as well as I do.

Blanche: He can't be audited for that.

Schiff: And of course, he can be. Of course he can be and he can be prosecuted for it.

[Abhimanyu Bose @bose_abhimanyu]

This wasn't given a penalty btw. And people make VARsenal jokes. Braindead lol

[- @LMDiddy14]

This is how Argentina won against England.

Uploading this again because FIFA removed the video.

[Mazi Olisaemeka C. ™ @OlisaOsega]

Arsenal scored 19 goals from corners last season and finished 1st. Spurs scored 18 goals from corners and finished 17th. Assuming Arsenal won the league from corners, how come Spurs are not 2nd at least?

I thought once you are good at corners, you will do very well? 💀💀

[Tamil Football Podcast @tamil_football_]

When the pressure is ON, you need Champions on the pitch. Not some random mid table player

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

In both the Germany vs Paraguay and Netherlands vs Morocco matches, a total of 20 penalties were taken. Ten players missed their penalty kicks, representing 10 different clubs. But which player and club are currently trending?

When you’re big, you’re big. Everyone wants to talk about you.

[Patrick Timmons @PatrickTimmons1]

Over 3 years have passed, and we’re still awaiting the verdict on Manchester City’s pending 115 financial breaches.

Signing Elliot Anderson for £130m will now take their spending to roughly £823m during that period.

Yep. Nothing to see here at all. Completely normal behaviour.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In England, you're allowed to clear about 20 metres of silt and rubbish out of a river on your own. Anything past that needs a permit from the Environment Agency. Paul Powlesland's volunteers cleared a 250-metre stretch of the River Roding with a hired digger, which is why a barrister who hauled out 200 bags of trash is now under criminal investigation.

The Roding runs through east London. Powlesland lives on a boat moored on it, and for years he and a group of volunteers have pulled out shopping trolleys, needles, old appliances, even weapons. Kingfishers, herons and dragonflies came back to water that used to be buried under junk. This one job took 10 days and a digger that cost £1,000 to hire.

The rule that caught him is oddly specific. Under England's water rules, scooping silt off the bottom of a river the agency officially manages counts as a "flood risk activity", and the law treats that the same as building a structure in the water. Do it without a permit and the offence carries up to two years in prison. The agency says it is also looking at waste the volunteers left on the floodplain. Powlesland is an environmental lawyer who has used these exact laws to protect rivers and trees, and a conviction could cost him his licence to practise.

The agency's reasoning isn't unreasonable. Dredging done badly can push flooding onto people downstream and wreck the habitat that protected animals need, which is what the permit is meant to prevent. The 20-metre allowance is there for small jobs. And no decision to prosecute has actually been made.

While investigators were knocking on a volunteer's door within a week of his cleanup, water companies discharged raw sewage into England's rivers and seas for a combined 3.6 million hours in 2024, more than 400 years of spilling packed into a single year. Only 14% of English rivers are in good health. Between 2015 and 2025, the Environment Agency investigated water companies for pollution 11,474 times. Fifty-eight of those ended in a prosecution. For serious pollution over the last five years, the number of water companies actually taken to court and convicted is zero.

So the message comes out backwards. Spend ten days and a thousand pounds making a river cleaner and an officer turns up within the week. Pump sewage into that same river for years and the chance of seeing a courtroom is close to zero.

[Arsenal Gist @GistArsena99455]

“People want to talk about Tuchel. About his system. About what he has done with this England squad.

And credit where it is due. He has been brave. He has been organised. He deserves respect.

But nobody wants to say the quiet part out loud.

The reason England’s attack looks like THIS is because of Arsenal.

Look at what happened in that match. Madueke starts, causes chaos, wins the penalty. That is directness. That is courage. But then watch what comes next.

A corner. Declan Rice. One delivery. One moment. Clinical.

That is not Tuchel. That is Arsenal. Set pieces were their single biggest weapon all season at the Emirates. Teams feared them. Teams prepared for them. Teams still could not stop them. And Rice has brought that EXACT same threat into an England shirt on a World Cup stage.

Then Saka comes off the bench. And within minutes England have a third. A man who has done this for Arsenal in the biggest moments for years, changing a World Cup game in twenty minutes.

Tuchel is organising. But Arsenal are executing.

The structure. The movement. The set piece ruthlessness. That was not built on a training ground in St. George’s Park.

That was built in north London.

Arteta will never get the credit. That is football.

But the DNA you are falling in love with this summer? He planted that.”

— Wayne Rooney

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

This is the richest man 🥺🥺❤️

[AFTV @AFTVMedia]

Ever since the England game finished, we haven't seen a single media outlet complaining about set-pieces the way they whined about Arsenal all season.

Funny how the energy changes, isn't it? 😆🤫

[Grey @AfcGrey_]

Arsenal were ridiculed for scoring set pieces, but now that it benefits England, they’re suddenly acceptable.

It was never about the set pieces, play style, or tactics.

It was all only a problem because it was beneficial to Arsenal.

Goes to show how two faced, biased and corrupt rival football fans are.

[Anything Arsenal @AnythingArs]

It’s funny how Arsenal are constantly criticised for being dangerous from set pieces, yet the same people celebrate when England score from one.

Against Croatia, England benefited from a brilliant delivery from Declan Rice that led to a crucial goal…and rightly so. Set pieces are a fundamental part of football. They require hours of work on the training ground, intelligent movement, precise delivery, and perfect timing.

When Arsenal score from corners or free-kicks, the narrative is often that they “rely too much on set pieces.” But when the exact same quality helps England win a World Cup match, it’s suddenly called smart coaching and tactical excellence.

The reality is simple: scoring from set pieces is a skill, not luck. The best teams in the world maximise every opportunity, whether it’s from open play, counter-attacks, penalties, or dead-ball situations.

Arsenal have developed one of the most effective set-piece systems in football because they have players with outstanding delivery and movement…and England are now benefiting from those same qualities on the international stage.

Football doesn’t award extra points for goals scored in open play. A goal is a goal, and if your team can consistently create chances from set pieces, that’s an advantage every manager would love to have.

Maybe it’s time people stopped criticising Arsenal for being good at something other teams are trying to copy.

[Peter Mackay @pwmackay]

@BigPopz72 Doesn’t take a lot when you stop to think about it!! Be kind, it’s not at lot to ask………

[Big Popz @BigPopz72]

Human kindness is never overrated, and when this man gave all and had no more left to give, the human spirit shined brightly in these competitors..

Some passed him by, watching him fall, but those who picked him up and helped him finish are the real winners.

[zola @zola_254]

English Premier League Champions in the World Cup

Victor Gyökeres- 1 goal 1 assist

Kai Havertz havertz - 2 goals

Martin Ødegaard- 1 assist

Declan rice - 1 assist

Noni Madueke - 1 assist

Bukayo Saka - 1 assist

[MR DT @MrDtAFC]

This new rule, which prevents you from grappling players in the box before the corner is taken, will only make Arsenal more dangerous at corners. Gabriel gets a free run at deliveries from Rice and Saka. Some of you haven't clocked it yet, but you will next season.

[Pet @AFCPet]

Arteta battered for calling subs ‘finishers’

Now England pundits and media call England subs… finishers

Arteta battered for being good at set pieces to give Arsenal an edge

Now England are winning games because of Arsenal player set pieces