Good banter travels far. The humorous comments section conspiracy theory grew legs yesterday and had a lot of people talking. Someone with contacts in the insurance world dropped this comment.
‘They were able to prove that the high profile player’s injury had in fact been caused by playing too many video games. In his case it was a knee injury caused by sitting on sofa for hours on end with his feet on the coffee table, This causes minor hyperextension of the knee. I think? Good luck with your conspiracy theory.’
Absolute gold.
This is mostly tongue in cheek, a lot of folk from countries outside England sending pelters my way because they don’t understand world class British bantz, but the reality is, spending that much time in front of a screen is really unhealthy. I know first hand what a corrupting influence the screen can be on your life, and I’m being absolutely genuine here.
My career has been built off the internet. Everything in my life past the age of 21 is owed to this blog, Twitter and the power of the Arsenal community. I’m on my phone a lot. This year, Apple added the screentime function. I was spending an average of 4.5 hours a day on my phone. That’s minus the computer screen I was sitting in front of. If I went on a mad session, I couldn’t concentrate, I actually started to feel sick.
Don’t tell me that mad screentime doesn’t impact your life. It can be devastating to relationships, your work, and the outside world. Best thing I’ve ever done is delete all the time drainers. I don’t have Instagram, Twitter, Fishbowl, or my e-mail on my phone. I’ll bring Twitter back for games… but I remove them straight after.
The impact has been electric. I’m more present in everything I do. I’m a better boss, a better creative, and a better human.
Screens are a fucking cancer on the brain. But, you know, big thanks to 80% of the traffic that comes from mobile. I love you. Never leave me.
ANYWAY. Man United today. What a fucking exciting proposition we have.
Unai Emery not only has the chance to extend our incredible unbeaten run, he can potentially end the tenure of the most obnoxious manager in history. If Jose loses his job, the best he’ll ever do moving forward is Roma or Everton. This is a HUGE game for him.
We know what he’s going to do. It’s going to be a shit-house special. He’s going to set up to bully us out of the match. Fellaini will start, all his sharp-elbowed fiends will join. No doubt, all will have been sleeping outside in dog kennels. It’s going to be a shameful spectacle. The sort that’d give Graham Souness an erection. The type that’ll have Gary Neville lamenting the soft spine of Arsenal ‘yet again.’
But you know what? We’ll be prepared. We’ll be fired up. We have dirty players. This game could be an epic announcement to the rest of the league. This really is the chance to put the ‘soft Arsenal’ bollocks to rest. I can’t fucking wait.
United are utter shite. They’re 8 points behind us. Their goal difference is -1. The squad hates Mourinho. Pogba and the manager are at war as reality dawns that he’s not elite and United blew £94m on him. Sanchez would top himself if it weren’t for his dogs. No one is performing to the level they should be, mainly because they don’t want to.
The special one is dropping Arsene Wenger like statements in the press in a pathetic attempt to draw sympathy for his privileged attempt at making United a proper team.
“Before Palace, I said my target would be end of December in top four. Now the target has changed. Now we have to try to be very close to these positions. We need not to be so unlucky with problems that we have. We need some players to perform.”
“I can agree even though the investment Everton made was phenomenal,”
“I don’t think Everton will be in front of United by the end of the season.”
He is complaining about Everton’s investment! Un-fucking-real. What a pathetic man. The only reason United curtailed his spending this summer because his sporting director attempts have been utterly shambolic.
The press love him though, they don’t want him gone. The BBC ran an article about whether the Portuguese was getting harsh treatment.
‘However, there is frustration among some Old Trafford insiders who believe Mourinho is held to different standards, being compared both to his predecessors at United and rival managers at other clubs.’
ARE YOU KIDDING ME! The last time United were in a position this shite, it was under Moyesy. Jose has dropped £350m. If the ‘legends’ are critiquing a shite brand of football and 7th in the league, they are well within their rights.
But football is all about the hierarchy. Mourinho has a sharp tongue, he’s handsome and he’s won things. His failings can’t possibly be down to his lack of interest in developing his ideas, could it? And look, I spent 11 years arguing Wenger was past it, and regardless of how correct my commentary was, people still wanted to side with the ill-informed folk who pushed a ‘good old Arsene’ narrative.
The irony that the manager who nailed Wenger so perfectly is now begging for the same ‘look the other way’ treatment is not lost on any of us.
Anyway, I can’t wait for today. We should be winning this. But football is a cruel beast and Jose always raises the bar for Arsenal. Mix in the fact that Emery has never beaten Jose in 5 attempts, and you start to worry.
However, this is a different era, we have the winds of progress on our side, the Arsenal players will go to war for Emery, and it’s about fucking time we put the Mourinho hoodoo to bed.
I am so excited.
See you on the other side. x
P.S. Listen to my fucking podcast.
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Poor ball from Bellerin
Come on Arsenal
Finish these cunts
Don’t be dramatic Gambon
Everything with you is extreme
That’s bollocks. Was he really offside?
Only have ourselves to blame.
This lot are a shower of fucking shit.
We’ve outplayed these cunts, shame
What a game. Nail biting.
Don’t be dramatic Gambon
He’s a cunt, nothing more
Fair result in the end
Highly entraining game.
Our xG must be saying we are ‘unlucky’.
Licht with his dark art now.
Really disappointed by this.
It is no wonder we’re being linked to CAMs, ours are just not good enough and it is causing our play on and off the ball to suffer.
We have a lot of mistakes in our play. Cut it out and we should be there with Pool
Sell the twat Kolac. Piece of Manure defender.
Very disappointing, United really are garbage.
Fucking shit. We should have won this. We always let united have the performance they need. Fucking shit. Fucking shit. Fucking shit.
Fellaini with his customary elbow in the head. What an absolute cunt.
We need to drop Leno after this game. Three errors costing us three goals in these two games. His first duty is to not concede goals. Fuck his distribution.
2 points completely thrown away there on both goals.
First, stupid from Guendouzi and then shit defending.
Second, totally shit defending.
Gifted them a point.
Might as well have wrapped it up with a bow.
Poor mistake for their second goal
Everybody can see that this United team aren’t nothing to be scared of apart from Arsenal.
In isolation a decent result.
However we’re back below Spurs, back in 5th, and we cannot defend to save our lives.
We held the lead twice, for an average of 2.5 minutes.
We have no chance of top 4.
So annoying cesc
Still no miracle at old toilet…
That guy Kolasinic. Can’t use his right foot, letting in a cheap goal
This is a game we should’ve won and our defence let us down again
Two points dropped.
2 points dropped.
2 points dropped
Knee jerk quick to drop Leno brigade
He didn’t concede the free kick his defence didn’t act.
Ha ha all agreed
OK with the draw. BUT we should have done so much better.
I feel that this game could have gone are way.
I am glad that we did not lose to Maureen at least.
Club need to make a choice in January because we can get something in the back end of this season but we have to make moves.
Ramsey, Ozil, Mkhitaryan, Iwobi, all not good enough in CAM and we’re suffering badly for it.
Said last week, 4-2-GAP-1 and that is what it proves to be even when its 3-4-GAP-1.
One is gone, need to get rid of at least one other and bring someone fitting Emery’s system in.
I’m so fucking mad at that, what a wasted opportunity.
Hilariously for years we’ve collected CAMs and they are all poor.
And we are still undefeated.
Yes, we did absolutely unforgivable errors.
Still, with a fair ref, we win this game.
Disgusting fouls by manure all night.
Offside goal, 100% second yellow for Matic. Wait not 100% a 1000%.
Fellaini pulling Guens hair.
Corners not given for us and so on.
Yellow given to Bellerin after manure players told Mariner to give it.
What a disgrace.
That second goal we conceded was literally ridiculous. Leno’s making some silly mistakes too.
That’s why we need a new back 4. You can have all the fight in the world but if you still have dumb shit defenders you’ll always get found out. Kolasinac was shocking all night long. Indecisive going forward and he’s just an idiot defender
Such a disappointing watch, attacking midfielders are woefully average, thanks Arsene.
Unai should make Kolasinac repeat safety first on the train ride home
Good result for us
That second goal we conceded was literally ridiculous. Leno’s making some silly mistakes too.
How was he at fault for the second
Nothing wrong with the result at all.
The performance was patchy but we looked tired and lost two important players early on. Still thought we edged it.
Have to say Man Utd are embarrassingly average. How can a club spend so much money and churn out that kind of dross every week?
Let’s hope they stick with Mourihno. Right now any decent , hungry coach could do better.
Mou left all the players who wants him out on the bench at the start of the game, I must say it was well played lol
A draw is, in the whole scheme of things a decent result. But really we should of won this game.
We dominated possession, and had the better chances.
We have to do what we should of done tonight when we play them in the return game at the Emirates, later on in the season.
But this team has improved mentally.
The defence and the wings seriously needs investment and upgrading, that is very obvious.
RR,
Fair result? Are you for real?!
City will probably beat Chelsea and got to hope Leicester can get something against Spurs, if those happen and we beat Hudds we go to 3rd place. I’m not sure why we put in such poor performances at OT nowadays. They’re nowhere near as formidable.
Iwobi is a product of the academy FFS.
He doesn’t need to start every game but he’s done enough to remain in the squad and get game time. He cost us nada and doesn’t even earn that much.
Why would anyone suggest that we ship him off?
that was a test- but despite our injuries we could have won. Just trying to see the silver lining in this moment.
Jan- need at least 2 players. CAM/ Winger and even a Defender- depends on Holding
I said this earlier…
“I believe we’re good enough, in the form we’re in, to get a win at Old Trafford. However we cannot be naïve and gift our opponents goals resulting from our own mistakes. If they beat us, let it happen because of a moment of skill and wizardry on their part and not because of a silly mistake on our part.”
Both goals we conceded were products of silly mistakes.
Fucking mhiki can’t weight a pass for shit. Soooo many times in recent games has he had a wingback running into space, where all he needs to do is pass it to them, but it’s always too soft and is intercepted while the wingback has to change direction to come towards the pass. And somehow he over hits his free kicks. Can’t pass for shit. I’m not blaming Auba for not scoring because It was a great save, but fuck me for a ‘tap in merchant’ he sure does miss a lot of them. Mkhi’ also should have scored instead… Read more »
Marko, if in doubt he should come out for it. Thats where he is culpable. If Kola is in doubt, get it away. They’re both at fault for that – it’s not far off the Kos/Woj mistake in the final a few years ago.
raptora
No surprise really. Cheats who always seem to get away with it at Old Toilet.
I am just glad we drew this game in the end. I am sure that we would have all been livid if we had lost tonight.
I think we saw the last 10 mins away very comfortably. De gea saved 3 points for them with the save of torriera.
Utd fans would have been shitting the bed.
Now the next 6 points are crucial. We must absolutely win the next 2 games.
For me Mhki chance was harder to miss than to score.
Its a good result in the context of the season, but jeez united is such a piss poor team
Honestly would take a draw if it means that mouninho stays for longer. If he stays , manure won’t be in top 4. That leaves us, spuds and chavs to fight for 2 places. I’ll take that.
Considering some people had us losing tonight and it was our 3rd game in 7 days (soon to be 4 in 10) it’s not too bad. Just seems bad because they were there for the taking and the way we can’t keep a clean sheet is fucking shocking.
Who said Leno made the mistake for the second goal… Kola should have done better with the guarding the ball
Would have taken a draw pre-game. Arsenal are in the games against the big boys, no question. Hopefully that one will frustrate us to the point of sparking a reaction come next time. Avoid defeat away, and win your big ones at home. We looked leggy, and made a meal of some defending. Should’ve also had another goal for sure between the two outrageous Auba/Mkhi chances. Papa was our motm for me, big cunt takes no shit off anyone. Not the most blessed defender, but he’s solid as a rock. Also felt Kolasinac had a good game, was our best… Read more »
20 unbeaten now. I’ll take that result all day long at Old Trafford. Think we missed Xhaka today more than expected.
Yeah, we should of won. But 4 points from our last two games against good opposition is quite good.
Emery doing a splendid job thus far.
We are in a very good place right now.
Only 2 days to recover after the NLD, it was a physically very tough game – is it a good point earned ??
This stupid second goal is very, very hard to swallow.
Kola is at fault with that idiotic defending, but Leno could have came out and got rid of the danger.
I remember Soeness after the Palace game saying that he will judge us after our next set of fixtures:
Pool – Draw
Wolves – Draw
B’Mouth – Win
Spurs – Win
Utd – Draw
we should have won tonight but that isn’t too bad considering everyone was expecting things to unravel. Depending on this weekends results we could go into 3rd.
Moaning about a draw at United in the middle of a 20 game unbeaten run
Lol
Moan when u dropped points at home to Wolves not when u leave old Trafford with a point against a team fighting to stay relevant
Come on lads, losing Holding and Ramsey to injury destroyed our game plan plus only 3 days after the derby, some players at the end were hardly moving. No idea who’ll play on Saturday plus Mustafi I think has 5 yellows.
Cheer the fuck up, it ain’t 8 fuckin’ 2!!
Big Tone has really grown old. Respect to Mr. Arsenal none the less.
Kolasinac definitely at fault for the second goal. That terrible touch just teed it up perfectly.
Draw at old Trafford after a win in the NLD.
Pretty happy with that. Ok, some shit defending but emery can’t suddeny turn ok defenders into WC ones. What do you idiots expect!
Don’t get your knickers in a twist about this season. Let’s watch the next one.
I hate that Lingard celebration.
Makes me want to puke just thinking he managed to score the half chance.
Kola’s fault for the second goal. He could have put this ball anywhere but he decided to direct it towards our own goal.
I’m all for dropping Leno but we have fuck all to replace him with.
Dissenter
Wouldn’t be Arsenal without gifting a goal to a player who hadn’t scored in ages.
Like Cesc Appeal says..It’s 4-2-GAP-1
Our AMs are shocking.
Martial has scored as many as Ozil, Ramsey, Mykhitaryan and Iwobi combined.
So has Hazard
So has Sterling
So has Salah
So has Mane
With better AMs we win tonight
With a better defence we win tonight
I don’t want to hear from Emery that it was a good result and everything is fine.
I want to hear that we need to improve significantly.
That second goal we conceded was one for the ages
13 SECONDS !!!!!
Emery needs to make DVDs of that goal and have every player hand it on their Christmas trees
*hang it on their Christmas trees
At least we didn’t capitulate, defence looked shaky
Rashford is a dirty cunt I was hoping someone would take him out an caused the twat bad injury…
Mkhi…. Is a total waste of space and deserves to leave the emirates…. Even if he scores a hat-trick everyday in training. … The guy is shite
Gambon
Well done.
You have sussed that with better players we would have won.
You should be arsenal manager!!!
For fuck sake, emery has inherited this team and he’s keeping us in site of the league leaders.
Sort your expectations out.
What did Leno do that was so wrong?
The first goal wasn’t his fault
Neither was the second goal. I don’t think any keeper will anticipate that Kola will make that type or error. It was a routine clearance or interception.
Redtruth
Do you think Ospina would have done any better?
Wow. Emery has really raised the bar.
Just drew at Old Fucking Trafford and there’s a huge outpouring of disappointment(and rightly so I might add) However I’ll gladly take a draw there. We are right in the mix for fourth, which is our goal this season.
And it is nice to see that even when we play poorly, we still manage to draw and not lose, big improvement that.
Gambon
It’s a work in progress. Lets wait until the start of next season. By then, hopefully, Unai will get the kind of players he needs (at least most of them).
“I’m all for dropping Leno but we have fuck all to replace him with.”
lol red… replace him with Cech, you dumb ass.
I’m just so frustrated at that second goals fellas and gals, but the silver lining is we’re still unbeaten. We need to win at Hudds at the weekend.
Danny s
You think 10 points after 15 games is “in site” (learn to spell).
It isn’t. We’re on course to finish 25 points off the lead.
“And it is nice to see that even when we play poorly, we still manage to draw and not lose, big improvement that.”
Rainman got a point.
This is Gambons world
Emery: ‘I want better players’
Arsenal board: ‘Ok here you go.’
*arsenal win the league.
Leno made some good saves
Looked iffy under pressure but will adapt …
Plus don’t a goalkeeper play a player onside
Like for Mickey’s goal
That’s 3-4 points dropped v top 6 teams.
At least 1 possibly 2 v Chelsea. Mkhit culpable there for missing sitters.
2 points dropped today. Mkhit ans aubu missing sitters. Especially mkhit. and the 2nd goal travesty. The players should get a right bollocking for that one.
Hopefully man city, Leicester and a mouth do us some favours this weekend
People should be more annoyed about the amount of goals we are letting in we can’t keep this up.
@gambon, I didn’t know that we were supposed to play the title this season…
Neither of the goals were Leno’s fault. Not even in the slightest
Ref cost us the 3 points.
Yeah, we made unforgivable errors.
But an offside goal and red card not given, in addition to a lot of other bad calls. It’s annoying.
Haha Gambon
Like it. Make yourself feel a bit more intelligent by correcting the grammar of a semi pissed, happy at a draw at old Trafford arsenal fan.
Sad little man.
Plus Chelshit lost at Wolves, our 1 – 1 draw when we played them suddenly looking not too shabby eh? Methinks we really should be a bit more appreciative.
“In isolation a decent result.However we’re back below Spurs, back in 5th, and we cannot defend to save our lives.We held the lead twice, for an average of 2.5 minutes.We have no chance of top 4.”
Fair assessment.
TBF these games are good in the sense that it exposes the gaps we have that we need to address.
And today it showed our defense still suspect.
Not just personnel wise too. Schoolboy errors. Need to have that drummed out of them.
@Rainman
1-1 at home to Wolves is NOT a good result.
It’s a sign of where we are that we are a bit pissed at not winning. We haven’t won in the league up there since 2006, so of the back of the spurs game it’s fine. But as someone said above we must beat Huddersfield on Saturday to make it a decent week.
I say Isco for our new AM.
Lord knows we need new ones.
Leno could do nothing on both goals
Get a hold of yourself gambon, you are sounding silly
You can’t turn every defender into Vincent Kompany.
In 2 windows time our defence will look totally different.
Can any one of you have ever hoped we
Would be looking this good after 1 window?
I certainly couldn’t.
Okay pals…. Good news waiting, but depends on if arsenal can deliver their end of the bargain…. Play Huddersfield next…. Collect all 3points and leapfrog Chelsea, who for sure are going to play for their life’s against man city… Maybe a draw would do… Better for everyone in the league ( even those in relegation) …. Tottenham travel to the king power stadium, why having a make or break match against Barça…. Just hope the foxes beat them or share the points…. If all these goes our way….. Then we are in third poison by December…. Knowing we’ve played all… Read more »