I just wish Arsenal could have won this league title at home as the last game instead of it being at Palace's. Look at the atmosphere at Spurs stadium, and that's them celebrating not being relegated.
Tarak vibe
Only Arsenal fans truly understand this timeline. 🔴⚪
2008 — Eduardo injury (title charge derailed).
2011 — 4–4 after leading 4–0 at Newcastle (Premier League collapse).
2011 — Birmingham final heartbreak (League Cup final).
2011 — 8–2 at Old Trafford (Top 4 era humiliation).
2014 — 6–0 at Stamford Bridge (Wenger’s 1000th game).
2015 — Monaco at home (Champions League RO16).
2015 — Olympiacos at home (Champions League group stage).
2017 — Bayern 10–2 on aggregate (Champions League RO16).
2018 — 3–0 vs Man City (League Cup final).
2022 — Late collapse vs Spurs/Newcastle (Top 4 race).
2023 — 8-point lead lost (Premier League title race).
2024 — 2 points short (Premier League title race).
Pain. Banter. Setbacks. False dawns.
2025/2026 — ⏳
Maybe all of it was building to this moment. ❤️
She was born the seventh of nine children in Kuantan.
Her father was a public servant who got transferred all over the country, so she grew up moving between small towns.
Her mother never finished school. But her mother worked harder than anyone she knew, and believed education was everything.
That belief sent Swee Lay Thein to medical school at Universiti Malaya. She graduated in 1975.
Then she moved to the UK and spent the next 20 years chasing one stubborn question. Why do some patients with blood disorders suffer terribly, needing transfusions their whole lives, while others barely feel sick?
The answer was hidden in a gene. Babies are born producing a special kind of hemoglobin that protects them. Then the body flips a switch and stops making it.
Swee Lay wanted to know what controlled that switch. If you could keep it on, you could save millions of lives.
It took her decades. She travelled across the UK collecting blood samples from families. She flew to Malawi to study a single family with 270 members across seven generations. She hit dead ends. She kept going.
In 2007, she and her team found the gene. They called it BCL11A.
That discovery led to Casgevy, the first FDA-approved CRISPR therapy for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. A real cure. Already changing real lives around the world.
Last month, Dr Swee Lay Thein stood on a stage in Los Angeles and accepted the Breakthrough Prize, often called the Oscars of Science.
She is the first Malaysian-born scientist to ever win it.
In her speech she said, "As a child hanging out with my older brothers, playing on old railway tracks in Malaysia, I never imagined being here today."
She dedicated the moment to her mother. The woman who never finished school.
A girl from Kuantan. A mum who believed in education even though she never got one herself. A daughter whose work is now saving lives around the world.
That is a Malaysian story.
Tahniah, Dr Swee Lay Thein. We see you. We are proud. 🇲🇾
4th placed Leverkusen? That same 4th placed Leverkusen beat your almighty Manchester City 2-0 AT the Etihad. So when you call them 4th place like it's an insult... your beloved City couldn't even beat them at home. Make it make sense.
4th placed Atletico? That same Atletico eliminated Tottenham AND demolished your precious Barcelona in the quarterfinals. You know, Barcelona — the team your club couldn't get past. So yes, "4th placed Atletico" was actually doing the Lord's work taking out bigger names than your team ever faced this season.
3rd placed Sporting?. That same Sporting eliminated Bodø/Glimt — who humiliated your Man City 3-1 earlier. And before I forget, that same "3rd placed" Sporting beat PSG 2-1. PSG. With all their money and squad depth. Embarrassing route indeed 😏
Now let's talk about Arsenal's side of the draw.
8 wins from 8 in the league phase. Conceded only 4 goals. Then embarrased Bayern Munich — your Bayern — and Inter Milan. You know, the Italian champions. Teams with actual pedigree.
And we did it looking like Champions.
The truth is this: if your team were good enough, they would have been in this final. But they weren't. And no amount of tears will change the scoreline.
Arsenal 2-1 Atlético. Buddapest, here we come.
The route didn't embarrass us. It crowned us. 🔴⚪
COYG. Always.
Calm Down. Football Did Not Start in 2005.
Every time Arsenal fans breathe, someone shouts “21 years without a league title!” as if Arsenal invented waiting.
But let’s remind every football fan of history, because some people started watching football after Wi-Fi was installed in their house.
Before you mock Arsenal, remember your own history.
🔴 Liverpool
1990 → 2020
That’s 30 YEARS without a league title.
Three full decades of waiting before they finally celebrated again.
🔵 Manchester City
1968 → 2012
A massive 44 YEARS without winning the English league.
🔴 Manchester United
1967 → 1993
Yes, the same United that talk the loudest went 26 YEARS before lifting the league again.
🔵 Chelsea
1955 → 2005
The club people now call “serial winners” waited 50 YEARS before winning the modern Premier League.
Now suddenly Arsenal’s 21 years is being treated like a century of suffering.
Funny.
Football didn’t begin with Roman Abramovich’s money,
Football didn’t begin with Pep Guardiola,
Football didn’t begin with Klopp
Football has always been cycles.
Great club rise.
Great club falls.
Then great clubs rise again.
Arsenal have not disappeared.
We rebuilt.
We trusted the process.
We built a young team.
And now the world is watching again.
Hate us.
Mock us.
Laugh at us.
But remember this:
Every giant club in England has gone through long droughts far longer than we are on currently.
And when Arsenal finally lift the Premier League again…
The noise from the Emirates Stadium will shake the football world.
Mark this.
This is the season the joy returns.
This is the season the Gunners smile again.
Sing with me gunners
🎶🎵North London Forever, Whatever the weather🎶🎵