Ok, I know we had some fun with that Fortnite story that the media took a little too seriously this week. But The Sun ran with a Nick Parker special about Arsenal players inhaling ‘hippie crack’ in an epically pathetic hit piece designed to convince normal folk that Arsenal players have been engaging in peak Libertines mid-noughties style drug deviance.
TL;DR
The players went to a club. Got shitfaced. Passed nitrous oxide-filled balloons around for a cheap and very lame high.
The only thing we should be getting angry about is that they were dim enough to do something so subpar in front of security cameras.
I’ve never heard of this referred to as hippie crack. If anyone at a festival,party, or drug cave called it that, they’d be escorted from the event for false advertising. It’s like calling a Jaffa Cake ‘devils cyanide, or labeling a park swing ‘LOONTOWNS DEATH SPIRAL.’ It’s not a real drug. It’s like sniffing pens at school. It’s prepared with a chefs frosting gun ffs. Painfully middle class.
Sure, elite athletes shouldn’t do anything that resembles recreational fun, but in the grand scheme of things to worry about, I’d be more concerned about 5000 hours of Fortnite. And I’d hazard a guess that scientifically speaking, it’s the booze that’s the issue for a sports star. How many broken homes happen because Mum came down in the morning to 20 empty canisters and a stream of flaccid balloons around the living room? Not many.
To put a number on it, 8 people died from doing this in 2016. 8 too many, no doubt. 88,000 died from booze related illness. 259 people died from taking selfies. 1700 in traffic accidents. 9 people from jumping into water (seriously). This ‘hippie crack’ is so lame, Prince Harry does it and it’s not a scandal.
However, inhaling balloons for a cheap 10-second head rush isn’t the take away your average Joe… ‘crack party with Lacazette’ is… Just note this: we’ve outrun every team in the league and we’re 20 games unbeaten. It’s not a big deal.
On another note, what is it with nightclubs releasing that sort of stuff? Unbelievable breach of privacy.
In other news, Rob Holding looks likely to miss the rest of the season. Such a shame. He was really making a statement in defence. I have my doubts Sven will make moves in January. We have Monreal coming back into the mix, Emery has proven to be flexible with his backline, and there’s a lot of belief in Mavrapanos.
Aaron Ramsey also picked up a knock, which is a shame considering the good form he’s shown over the last two games (though Emery said it was minor). It is not unusual for bad fitness strategies to show up in December. Let’s hope the last two can be attributed to luck. Big questions over whether Burgess is going to be able to own the ear of Emery over his imported fitness coach. Julen Masach. If we’re going to have a good run, it really does have to go the Austrailian’s way.
There’s a piece doing the rounds in Germany about Sven and his diamond ways. He’s obviously very pleased with Guendouzi, who dropped unreal numbers against United (didn’t someone say he was no better than Denilson? Lol). He also talks in-depth about how he’s founded multiple firms that analyse data. Interestingly he highlights the dangers of spewing out insights based on isolated numbers, like distance run. He alluded to the idea that a player might be running about a lot because he’s making bad decisions all game (a hint at an issue with one of our players?). Muppets with stats really is a thing online, this week, Arsenal fans are peddling Mustafi over VVD. The audacity is quite something. Anyway, it’s incredible we have a scout of his prestige at Arsenal. I’d link the pirated copy, but that might not be legal, so I implore you to sign up to the site to read or go find the illegal shit.
Talking of MG, Emery had a scolding tip about what he should do about the bigger boys pulling his hair.
‘I think the best thing is that he cuts his hair before the next match, then the problem is finished,” Arsenal’s manager said. Just as Fellaini did. I have not told him that to his face, though. I respect a lot the players; their hair and their hair colour.’
BIG lol. Getting slapped down by a man who is rocking Shockwaves wet look gel in 2018. Gotta sting.
Our German power sniper is still in a weird place with his injury.
“On Friday we make the decision,”
“He had a backache and now he is working with one physio. Today he was on a pitch running and touching the ball. We are going to look when he can come with us.”
Odd how Emery is describing the injury, but whatever. We haven’t missed him. If he’s back, bonus, if he’s not, well, the party goes on!
Right, that’s me done, see you in the comments!
Victorious
You used to love and praise the little unbeaten runs Wenger used to go on at the end of the season
The ones that meant nothing
Thank fuck for that
God I love Torreira! What an absolute beauty.
What the fvck is Torreira doing bro? Abandoning his position. Gloryhunter
We deserved that
Well done arsenal
Take a seat Victorious. Guns. Etc.
Torreira !
Bless him.LT to the rescue.
Can we keep a clean sheet for 10 minutes?
Torreira. Love you like family, boy.
Start planning for a statue of Torreira already!!
We`ve held on to a lead for more than 60secs. Unbelievable!
Good goal from Torreira. Not enough attacking quality in the side, though. Good ball from Auba, good ball from Guendouzi.
This performance shows the limitations of our squad and quality.
We have a good manager that can design tactics and can react positively to the opposition, but there is only so much mileage you can get out of a poorly maintained car…..we are a good team, but wolves and Huddersfield at home should not be as difficult as this.
We just scored so the comment looks OTT….however performance wise it’s not great. We need players!
Joe
Can you go a day without mentioning Wenger
Let it go.
Aha…
What. A. Goal
Hats of Torreira! what a beast!
Torreira is the exact reason STan should give Sven Mislintat as much money as he needs.
£26m player, we could sell him for £50m after just a few months.
A lot better than earning 1% interest on your money.
VictoriousDecember 8, 2018 16:20:22
A chance for 3rd and we’re basically shiting our pantsAn all too familiar occurrence.
Sorry Vicky
That only happened under the “‘mental strength” loser Wenger
Emery > Wenger
“What the fvck is Torreira doing bro? Abandoning his position. Gloryhunter”
Shocking lack of discipline. Playing for himself.
Needs to learn to stay behind the ball and keep it simple.
Torreira is hands down our best and most important player this season
Wrap him in cottons please.
Why no yellow for simulation if it’s not a penalty?
Iwobi has fucked up so many times its painful.
So obvious we need a winger…..
Wowwwwwww….
Worldieeeeee from our uruguayan pitbull
LOVELY
Vicky
Your read of the game is absolutely 100% wrong
I thought Sokratis was lucky there
Bamford is 100% right on Iwobi……..sorry he’s not good.
@joe..
Dunno about you, but the mere mention of Wenger gets my back up…
Yeah we all know he is no more at arsenal…but like adebayor, the name just produces a reactionary swear word..
Our attacking mids are just a joke.
Dont score, dont create, constantly give the ball away.
Starting to love Sokratis and his mentality over much else. He’s a 7.5/10 every week but his mentality and character is 10/10. Proper defender.
Lol at the Ramsey fan club having sly digs, it was the 85th minute at 0-0. When Torreira goes up front in reckless abandon and it costs the side time and again, then make all the remarks you like. Trouble is everyone else will be lambasting him for it, not pretending it doesn’t happen ala Rambinho
21 unbeaten!
Lucky eh?
Fckin akbs
I have changed my mind on Iwobi.
He ain’t squad level either. Need to sell asap.
Wenker
Careful what you wish for
How much do we need a 23 year old cesc
@ Guns of Hackney
Cool. So I learnt Ergo means therefore? Did not know as English is not a language I use often,
Looks like we’ve done it again. 3 points in the bag, pity we did not improve the goal difference because of a shit ref and bad luck from the strickers
Got to get some competant cams
How Iwobi got to be a pro footballer warrants an FBI investigation
Perhaps we should run a quick poll to see who represents better value, and who supporters rather have in the squad – Torreira on 50k a week, or Ramsey on 250k a week.
That ball by Guendouzi for the goal was brilliant, too bad Iwobi and Mkhitaryan could never do that, thick cunts.
Iwobi should be sold in January but a lot of the fans will be in uproar because they’ve bought into the bogus narrative that he is ‘much improved’.
That was tough. Nowhere near good enough for us. Torreira though is the bedrock of this team along with Sokratis. They are everything we have not been for years. Each week is becomes more obvious our CAMs are not good enough, that needs to be addressed. I can still potentially see the situation where Emery sells Lacazette to fund a massive CAM/winger purchase. He doesn’t look 2 up front, he seems to like Aubameyang more as a player and so potentially instead of having £50 Million sat on the bench it could be playing CAM or RM/LM for us. Might… Read more »
Thank you Huddersfield for the boring game ……. and the 3 points
Yeah sokratis has a great spirit.., he s a strong man….we’re going to need him for the rest of the season.
@ Victorious
Wrap him in cottons please.
No need to. Just unleash him, Sokratis and may others on the oppo. We love the fight, reminds me of the Viera days.
Emery needs to swallow his pride and play Ozil…….he cant be any more useless than Iwobi and Mikhi.
In Emery’s system we need a pure CAM, a wide/CAM type player and then a pure winger.
We’re basically missing the entire attack aside from the ST for Emery’s system.
Always said that throughout the summer when people claimed our attacking line up was great, on paper yes, in reality no.
Fuck it was tough. But its 1 nil to the Arsenal.
Important 3 points at home. Can’t drop points in these kinds of matches to have a chance at 4th. No one really played well but they worked hard and that got the win. Shocking decisions from the referee with all those yellows and all in all kind of fortunate even though they deserved all 3 points in my opinion.
3 points. Get in.
Weeks rest and back at it, fuck me that was a struggle.
Wait didn’t Victorious lose a bet for the Liverpool match where he would ban himself?
Is he not abiding to a bet? What the fuck kind of person does that?
What the fvck is Torreira doing bro? Abandoning his position. Gloryhunter
Sokratis has improved quickly.
Torreira could become a legend of the club.
But we need to buy in january.
Globalgunner – “How Iwobi got to be a pro footballer warrants an FBI investigation”
rofl – couldn’t agree more mate lol. He has regressed last few games to wenger era skillz.
@Cesc
Relax mate! We’ve just won and gone third.
Go out, have a beer like people do in your country, see girls. Emerything will be fine, don’t worry 😉
“Emerything”… lol not bad.
easy game 3 points never in doubt
Positive is that Huddersfield wanted this game to be a physical dirty scrap and our boys stood up for the fight and gave as good as they got.
Slowing loving Sok. Guy is just a dirtbag of a player which I absolutely love.
Negatives are the lack of quality from the attacking players iwobi and miki. Hopefully they will improve but we can’t just sit and wait for that. We need a signing in that area.
When you play badly and still win……
There are deficiencies , hopefully the rest of the dead weight get pushed out.
Lol Wabker Victories wishing Arsrnal to lose..what a cunt.
Auba is shattered
Good assist bit laca should have stayed on
Horrible reffing. Laca goal good
Anyhow it’s 3 points the ugly way and we need win ugly games
Miki showing exactly why he was a dud at UTD.
3 points, clean sheet, 3rd place, Chelsea might drop some points later. Positives.
Our defensive injuries though.. January can’t come soon enough. Hope Sven is working overtime looking for a solid reinforcement who can play right away.
It every game is glorious. Fair play to the team, they kept going. Offensively as many have mentioned, just don’t have the first team 11 and squad to change it drastically. I think emery knows the issues, using different formations to try gain width in matches, due to not having proper wingers in our squad. Least we can assume he knows the glaring mistakes in the team. CA, I don’t necessarily think he hates two up front, we just don’t have proper wide players to give us a better option going forward our wide or cutting in. If we had… Read more »
Badly? We had 5 clear cut chances. They were defending with 10 ppl. We did good. Unlucky not to score in the first half.
3 games in 6 days. 7 of 9 total points. Hard for me to blame them for being sluggish tbh.
@raptora : torreira scored at the very end of the game, and I must admit I was starting to worried… and 7 minutes of added time ?? Refs thought they were at old toilet ??
Raptora
Torreira’s position in the team is b2b not DM. That’s xhaka’s role. Haven’t you been watching our match?
I’ll take the 3 points. But the game demonstrates yet again that we are sadly lacking in creative players in the squad who can make a differrence.
Mhiki and Iwobi are simply not good enough, Ozil has gone AWOL and Ramsey is, well, Ramsey. Is Smith-Rowe up to it ? Can we recall Nelson ?
If that sleazebag Kroenke does not release funds this is going to be a frustrating and ultimately disappointing season.
3 points is all that matters but we were piss poor today.
Who wishes Arsenal to lose, that Vic guy is a POS
We were not poor, Huddersfield played well. Kept discipline.
We scored a good goal that was cancelled. We would have won by 4 if it was counted. In the end, we missed 3 sitters. And still won
If we score in the first half we win by 4. Unlucky but we showed character and got the 3 points. Tough week that we got a solid return from. Emery said that if we beat today he’s happy with the last 3 games. We did so so am I.
Torreira need some rest. But what a beast of a player.
The 3 point was never in doubt. Most people are only disappointed it wasn’t more than 1 goal
Sanmi,
It was towards Pierre. His biggest critique on Ramsey is abandoning his position. Lo and behold, we won because Torreira did the same. Pierre is gonna show up and say how different Torreira did it compared to Ramsey…
HL.
I was never worried. Just slightly annoyed that if we had scored earlier we would have blown them away.
You have to say Leno, Sokratis, Torreira and Guendouzi have all been great buys.
Great work from Arsenal.
Victorious
Just willing us to lose. Saying we are playing for draw. Etc. Trying to say we have a chance at 3rd and we are going to blow it
Like we used to in the Wenger days.
Thank god those days are well
And truly behind us
21 straight undefeated.
Careful what you wish for
And emery’s only had 1 TW!
Victorious what a fucking scumbag cunt, didn’t even see that he said he wished Arsenal would lose earlier.
Yes it’s the same guy who loses a bet and doesn’t stick by it. Shameful human being, I don’t say that lightly.
Sancho
That bet was Vs me. And yes he lost and welched on it
Typical from an akb
His analysis was so wrong during the match. Trying to describe it as if we were playing for the draw just to keep the streak
Of 21 going.
Ridiculous. We were all over them. Should have scored 4-5.
Any game that shows our problems to the coaching team but we still win is more useful than a stroll in the park. Fkin sell Mikki in the winter. The exchange we did with Manure was valued at 30m I think. We’d be extremely lucky to get 20m after a year of stinking the place up. Use the 20m and invest in a proper AM. Let Sven do his magic. Iwobi is trash, shit, terrible. Okay I get it. He’s been having bad several games. But he’s 1. Young! 2. Haven’t paid a dime for him. 3. Homegrown. He is… Read more »
Cesc
Come on, why would Emery sell Lacazzete. Our two strikers and Torreira are our biggest strength. We have plenty of trash to offload and use the proceeds to fund incoming transfers.
Sitting in 3rd place.
Hope Leicester do Tottenham.
Sell mkhit. Ramsey gone. Wellbeck gone.
I doubt emery sticks with Iwobi.
I doubt emery sticks with Iwobi
If this form continues
TR7
I can see it happening.
With our resources needs must.
Iwobi is a horrible player. I am astounded Emery has persisted with him for so long. Even Smith Rowe is an upgrade on him.
Be great if Leicester could do us a favour, I don’t see it though.
Man City have scored 8 goals in the first 15 mins of PL games this season, which is better than anyone.
There’s merit to starting games well and scoring goals early. Our drab first halves need addressed before too long.
Relieved for the win and thought the lads dug deep when pretty much running on fumes.
Never wanted Mikhi in the first place. Surely he has to be sold now.
With ESR and others coming through we can sell Iwobi as well.
Down to bare bones CB wise so doubt we’ll get a CAM and winger/RM.
Ideal solution is to sell/get rid of Mikhi, Ramsey and Ozil next month.
Raptora
I didn’t realise the FA gave teams extra points for fielding young players that didn’t cost a dime.
Mkhitaryan Iwobi and Kolasinac are all fucking shit. Get rid.
Anyone who doesn’t see the tactical play of iwobi is blind. Granted we should have better winger, but to say he’s shit is over reaching. He’s the best winger we have. He stretches play.
The only thing Iwobi stretches is his bum
gambon,
I’m saying that if we decide to sell Iwobi right now, we’d make 20m profit.
If we don’t sell Mikki his price is gonna keep dropping.
Iwobi takes less than half of Mikki’s salary.
Mikki is 30 in a month, Iwobi is 22.
If we want we could sell both.
But if we are to keep one I’d keep Iwobi.
Sweet three points. Auba and Torreira need a rest. This ref was weak
Really bland selection coupled by awful substitutions. I am relieved we won. Shit match. Onwards and upwards
Iwogbi is just an Gerboue-lite tbh lads.
Today really was about our new signings. Thought Sokratis was brilliant, he’s our best defender. He really needs an elite CB alongside him to give us a good pairing. Guendouzi makes some silly mistakes but is a real talent. So mobile and agile, real eye for a pass. Reminds me of Vieira in some ways. Torreira is class. No nonsense player that unfortunately Wenger never would’ve signed. Our issues are very clear to see now were 25 odd games in. We can’t defend and we aren’t creating enough. It’s obvious that we need AMs and CBs as well as a… Read more »
The problem with today’s match was
1. We played 3 CDM.
2. ZERO Wingers.
Hence the lack of creativity. When we switched 2nd half, they had gone full defensive
Hope Smith Rowe and Eddie play this week and play well enough to merit ousting Mikhi & Iwobi.
No one is ousting iwobi
Gambon
Agree. Sokratis has not put a wrong foot in. He’s been great.
We need summer to get rid of mkhit and Iwobi. Wellbeck and Ramsey gone.
Hopefully find a buyer for Ozil.
A winger maybe even 2. CM. A #10. A CB.
Gambon
Agree, although I wouldn’t be so absolute as to say we can’t defend and don’t create much. We can do better with both, particularly defending, but the signs are good.
Sane and Sterling running riot at Chelsea defense, City blessed to have two top quality wingers.
Gambon
Been saying that since posting here: players are the club’s core assets if bought right and coached well.
Our commercials and TV money depend on results on the pitch.
It’s not rocket science