The West Ham 0-1 Arsenal PL match was watched by 49 million people
Man City Vs Chelsea FA Cup final is currently getting viewed by 14 million
Absolutely Pathetic😭
🚨Roy Keane on Chelsea’s poor form:
“I���ll tell you something about Chelsea fans, they’re not even bothered about their own mess right now. They’re more focused on Arsenal bottling the league than actually seeing their own club improve. That’s the mentality.
Instead of demanding standards and results, they’re watching their rivals and hoping they collapse. That tells you everything about where the club is right now, standards have dropped, expectations are confused, and the focus is completely wrong.
I understand rivalry, but this is the wrong time for it. Even if Arsenal don’t win the league, they’ll still qualify for the Champions League next season, while Chelsea will be at home watching them.(laughs)”
🚨Guillem Balague has said it perfectly… absolutely spot on.
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 in my opinion 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.
🚨🚨💣 | Thomas Frank on Arsenal’s Title Charge: 🗣️
🎙️“For a long time, I had to stay quiet; professional reasons, you understand. But that’s behind me now. I don’t have to hide it anymore. I’ve always had a soft spot for Arsenal, and now I can finally enjoy watching them properly… maybe even with an Arsenal mug in hand (laughs)
What Mikel Arteta and the players are doing right now is elite. The structure, the discipline, the bravery it’s top-level football. And let’s be honest, not many teams have shown the kind of consistency and growth Arsenal have managed over the last three seasons. That doesn’t just happen by luck.
I’m rooting for them to go all the way. The Premier League is there for them if they push, and why stop there? They have everything needed to compete for the UEFA Champions League as well. They’ve earned the right to believe
On the Critics ?
I hear the noise, the criticism and honestly, it’s a bit amusing. Most of the people talking haven’t reached the level Arsenal have set in recent years. It’s easy to criticize from a distance, but much harder to build what this team has built
Now it’s simple go all out, leave nothing behind. Good luck to Arteta and the boys… finish the job”