Ash W

Cap G, SickBod.

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.

Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.

The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.

This is where Arsenal stand out.

Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.

Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.

The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.

Arsenal do this as well as anyone.

In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.

At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.

Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!

[Ash W @SickBod]

@samkohl Be curious to see how much of the poor experience is linked to the recent Ai implementations and processes running in the background. Is it possible to disable some of the features and perform any benchmarks?

[Byappointmentto @byapptto]

🧵As the recent influx of migrants to Altrincham hit the national news this week, here is an insider account of what is going on, how the locals have reacted and the response of politicians and officials that hasn't been mentioned in the media.

[Matt HB - matthodg.bsky.social @matthewhodg]

Love that we solved low cost, high capacity public transport 40 years ago and just decided never to do it again anywhere in this country…

[LBC @LBC]

Southport stabbing suspect charged with creating ricin and possession of Al Qaeda Training Manual https://t.co/WnxQiHUgsU

[iSoftware Updates @iSWUpdates]

iPadOS 18.0 (22A3354) has been released. #iPadOS18

[Apple Hub @theapplehub]

Apple has released new software in addition to iOS 18:

- macOS Sequoia
- iPadOS 18
- watchOS 11
- visionOS 2

[Mr. Macintosh @ClassicII_MrMac]

macOS Sequoia is LIVE!!!!!!!

[Henry Bolton OBE 🇬🇧 @_HenryBolton]

. @Keir_Starmer needs to lead, not suppress the people; address crime, no matter who commits it; cancel plans to take pensioners out of the fuel allowance; decrease immigration and demand integration; abandon his campaign against pubs. He needs to listen to ordinary people.

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Fabian Hürzeler on Rice: “For me, clear red card, it’s wasting time. You can’t compare these two situations [Rice & Pedro]. The first, with Joao, it’s a static situation. The other is more a dynamic situation — please never compare these situations.” 🤨

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Is this possible? What if these were your daughter? What if the races were reversed? @Keir_Starmer, do you have a decent bone in your body? How could this be tolerated?

[Ian Miles Cheong @ianmiles]

The white English man cannot do anything when the nice black lady uses his seat as a footrest and taunts him for being powerless to stop her. A very culturally enriching experience.

[Eduardo Hagn @EduardoHagn]

One for the ages, David Raya. 🧤 https://t.co/lNjHeEw8pN

[The Nomad Post. @the_nomad_post]

Ben white is the Big brother everyone needs.
#AVLARS
https://t.co/VuFz854ssG

[GB News @GBNEWS]

🚨 BREAKING:

New footage has emerged showing the lead up to the moment a police officer kicked and stamped on a man at Manchester airport.

@SamFrancisUK reports

[The Black Opinion @opinion_black]

AN APOLOGY: Having carefully viewed the new footage of the disturbance at Manchester Airport & it’s timeline, it is now my belief that the officer acted appropriately. That kick happened almost instantaneously. They were lucky not to have been shot. 🙏🏾
https://t.co/boAkIrqGEA

[BIG JET TV @BigJetTVLIVE]

Huge fire in #Staines Hope everyone is ok 🙏