Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

[THEREALBRAND]

I give it 6 months before this relationship turns for the worst

 

[ThrobbingHood]

I guess ‘sensible’ Arsenal fans will be happy with yet another top 3 finish. Us “whiners” will just accept the inevitable since the club are happy with mediocrity and another trophy less season.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

So this is the new Man City? Haaland and Foden stat padding against bum ass West Ham

 

[Ukbrotha]

It's snowing in Liverpool. Any chance of a cancellation?

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Agree with most of this, but, and I say this as a massive fan of Ian Wright Wright Wright!!, he wasn’t great when he did play for England either. There were probably a few mitigating reasons for it, but he never seemed to be quite the same for the English as for Arsenal.

Venables was a problem, as you say.

He was a lot better than Ferdinand and Cole, although I am sure United and Newcastle fans might disagree. In fact, it was probably the brilliance of Wrighty that killed any chance that Andy Cole might have had coming through the ranks with us. Cole was supposed to have been a bit of an a$$hole when he was a youngster at Arsenal, too, and George Graham didn’t like him. Shame, as I’m sure he would have been brilliant with us and a great successor to IW.

Agree with it all

You could say Wright was a bit like John Barnes , someone who was brilliant for their club but then never really did the same for their country

And yeah I would choice Wright over Cole every time, I thought he was the much better player , plus he wouldn't sulk and be bitter for years just because someone didn't shake his hand when being replaced by him as a sub

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

I’m so glad it’s Arsenal chasing us

The only team I'm worried about beating us to the title is City
And that doesn't look like it's much of a threat

We will see how many millions Pep spends in January to fix his problems

 

[Jaylen Tatum]

 

[Ill-Yaz]

I guess ‘sensible’ Arsenal fans will be happy with yet another top 3 finish. Us “whiners” will just accept the inevitable since the club are happy with mediocrity and another trophy less season.

Sensible Arsenal fans need to appreciate how far they have come and the tremendous efforts of Arteta who these fans are lucky to have.

Arsenal are genuinely only good enough to finish top 3 (dare I say top 4) and Arteta is securing that spot season after season. Therefore, I don't get the whole accepting mediocrity argument.

Trophies will come down the line (I predict in the next 4-5 seasons) so fans just need to be patient. You can't act spoilt like your team are historic serial winners like Real Madrid

 

[concise]

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[Ukbrotha]

Outrageous decision to go ahead with the Liverpool- United match. No regards for fan safety.

Spoiler: .

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Game on
Biggest game of the season

I don't care how big these plastic clubs get, this is and always will be the biggest game of the season, and the reverse fixture

Sorry Man U fans, I want to humiliate you today, I've got to go watch It in some bar tonight and there will be this dikkhead United fan who is always in there

Plus it will be pay back for last season
Everyone goes on about Klopp derailing our season because of his announcement in January but it wasn't that.

It was losing to you lot in the Fa Cup and the way we lost that screwed our season up

 

[jj23]

Lemme go put £50 on a 6-0

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

Lemme go put £50 on a 6-0

If you are as bad as betting as I am, please don't do it
Please don't curse us today

 

[Jean toomer]

Fulham giving up a penalty 21 seconds after scoring a penalty is insane.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

I guess ‘sensible’ Arsenal fans will be happy with yet another top 3 finish. Us “whiners” will just accept the inevitable since the club are happy with mediocrity and another trophy less season.

I keep trying to remember which US professional sports franchise that Arsenal reminds me of. I haven’t been following soccer as long as most ppl here so I know I don’t have the same historical knowledge/context, but what I’ve seen the last couple of years with Arsenal has a certain je nais se quois. The hype, anticipation that this is the year, the unquestioned talent, flashes of brilliance that slowly but surely descends into lackluster performances that reek of an eventual slide towards disappointment.

Are there glaring weaknesses in the lineup?

Underachieving to me is almost always a coaching/managerial issue.