Arsenal fans loading up #MindTheGap memes

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Today could mark the biggest week in the career of the mighty Unai Emery.

Spurs fans; fresh off petitioning the UK Government to make Top 4 an actual trophy so Pochettino can be reclassified as a proper coach, are nervously chewing their nails at the prospect of Arsenal fans gearing up their best #MINDTHEGAP memes.

They have to go away to Stamford Bridge to play a bruised and battered Chelsea. Spurs themselves are fresh off the back of a BREXIT beating from the LOCAL heroes of Burnley. They’ll likely be mentally fatigued and feeling symptoms of queasiness, fearing a giant bout of Spursy like behaviour is about the disrupt their GREATEST EVER SEASON.

I live for this. Remember back in the day when Arsenal would land in Februray, exactly this point in the season, bright eyed and bushy tailed because we were in three tournaments… only to get spanked by Monaco in the Champions League, lose to Blackburn in the FA Cup, then get slapped out of the league with three distressing defeats.

Could that be ‘plucky’ Spurs this evening?

Which Chelsea will show up? The team that rode Manchester City hard with a carefully crafted tactical plan that was both pragmatic and disciplined. Or will the players down tool, write their own team sheet and let the gods take care of the Sarri situation?

Who knows… but at the moment, I’m dreaming of a momentous collapse of the homeless ones.

Arsenal welcomes Bournemouth. They haven’t managed to build much consistency of late, but we know they can cause problems for us. They’ve scored 38 goals this season, which isn’t bad for a team that sits in 12th. However, their defence is shocking, especially on the road, so I’m hoping Emery stacks the team to break them early doors just like we’ve done in our last two games.

We really need fresh legs at the weekend. The quicker we can kill off the game and go into the energy conservation mode, the better… even more important because we know Spurs do not have that luxury.

In other news, Rob Holding is back in the training looking very pleased with himself on the Arsenal Twitter. Cannot wait for him to be back in the first team.

Leicester have binned Puel and brought back Brendy Rodgers! Great news for the Premier League. The exLiverpool manager deserves to be in mix over here and hopefully he’ll have a successful return. We need more nutters in the league and I live for his prezzers. Leicester really don’t fuck around, do they?

In blander news, Arsenal apparently fancied Atlanta’s Almiron this January, but the club couldn’t pull together £16m for him. Quite unbelievable. It’s always tough to know if someone will adapt from MLS, but that’s not the point, the point is we wante him, but could only muster a loan ask. Rapha Honigstein noted that the same thing happened with Nkunku, a player I watched score at the weekend, a player who definitely isn’t going to be available this summer. He really could have been handy for the run-in.

Think about this situation. The tightest club in the league, with Mike Ashley at the helm, had more money to spend than Arsenal this window. How can we be pleading poverty with £400m revenue? The only thing I’m thankful is that Emery didn’t lead us on. It would appear that going private with Stan is like giving £100 to the guy in the white van at a petrol garage and hoping he comes back with a flatscreen TV.

Except the flatscreen was Denis Suarez… and there’s water leaking from the remote. Bad times.

Right, BIG game tonight, let’s hope for an easy win, no injuries and a big fat spanking for Spurs.

COME ON YOU GOONERS! x

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azed

3-4-3 again

Jenkinson and Ozil start.

azed

No Xhaka in the match day squad.

Nelson

@Jim

Type too fast 😀

Crimson

Finally a start for Jenkison. 😂

Dissenter

Pedro,
Our next manager is going to be Viera
He’s gaining good experience at Nice while Arteta is still ASSISTING Guardiola.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
It’s 2021 and we are set to hire a new manager after Emery who is leaving to manage Spain.
If you had a choice between Arteta [6 years professional assistant manager] and Paddy V [with 3 years of proper football management at Nice], who of the two will you choose?

salparadisenyc

Play it safe… at home… to Bournmouth.

Dissenter

Watford will beat Liverpool today.
That the shocker for the day.

Luteo Guenreira

Pierre

Get your opera glasses ready, chum. Your boy toy is taking to the field, huzzah.

Dissenter

Caballero starts for Chelsea!

The revenge of Sarri has began

Dissenter

Pedro
You ducked the hypothetical scenario I posed though.
One has assisted a very successful head coach for 6 years
vs
A club legend who has done a decent job with modest resources at Nice, probably qualified them for the CL once in three years. One that has learned from the school of hard knocks.

Nelson

“Caballero starts for Chelsea”

There goes our hope of another Spud loss.

Dissenter

Nelson
You really think Kepa is better than Caballero?

Nelson

He costs at least much more!

Pierre

luteo Guinreira

Making childish homophobic comments will gain you many friends on here.

Next time try using adult humour if you have a point to make.

Un Battle Angel

Pedro I didn’t threaten, how can I? It’s not like I’ll ever cross paths with him. Anyway. Line under the sand. Was a particularly bitchy and needless comment from the blog’s undisputed king of dumb dumb posts. Some of the world’s best managers start off as assistants or backroom coaches before taking the reigns of their own sides The argument has been done to death Solkjear is now proving what can be achieved with a risky appointment rather than the dull safe hands approach. Look at Chelsea. Avram grant, Phil scolari, Sarri. Compare that to when they’ve taken a punt… Read more »

bennydevito

Un nai ,

That momo is freaky as fuck, thanks for letting us know. My 12 yr old son watches Fortnite videos and my 2 little girls watch Peppa pig. YouTube are failing their users big time with that freaky shit being allowed to be uploaded, they should have enough staff with enough AI algorithms running to block that shit out.

I’ve never heard of it so thanks.

DaleDaGooner

Does anyone have links for the game? travelling and need to watch this….many thanks

Receding Hairline

Suarez should have started in place of Mkhi or even Saka

azed

“Suarez should have started in place of Mkhi or even Saka”

I disagree.
We need to take 3 points from this game so no time for experimenting. 3 first half goals and then bring on Elneny and Dennis to see out the game.

bennydevito

For me there are many paths to the top of the mountain. Become a manager by working alongside a great one as his assistant, or cut your teeth at some lower tiered clubs. No way is the right way over the other. As for Arteta, the fact that Pep has taken him on as his assistant must mean that Pep sees something in him from his time working at City as a coach. My problem with Arteta was a personal preference that someone to come in to take over from Wenger had to be proven as a manager in their… Read more »

TheLegendaryDB10

Anyone has a stream link?

Ronaldo7.net has stopped showing live PL games. 🙁

Pierre

To get live streams , go onto Twitter and type Arsenal v Bournemouth , normally works.

jwl

And it’s Arsenal,
Arsenal FC,
We’re by far the greatest team,
The world has ever seen….

Danny

Looks empty

Danny

Well done Ozil

Nelson

Ozil scores

GoonerDave

ronaldo7 changed domain to .live
Working fine

Nelson

Kola assisted

Samesong

Give that man a payrise! 🤪

Thomas

Awful goalkeeping.

TheLegendaryDB10

Right. Gambon tip of using Totalsportstek earlier thus morning is a good one.

Google Totalsportstek and Arsensl shoukd lead you to a list if streams to choose from.

Glad to see that we scored! Found the link just on time

TheLegendaryDB10

GoonerDave

Thanks for the tip. Will bear it in mind!

Nelson

Kola is our main man

Nelson

When we have the ball, 3 CB’s are a waste.

Guns of Brixton

OZIL IS AMAZABALLS!!!

azed

Where the fuck is Carl Jenkinson?

Kleinfeld

decent stream anyone?

R.S.P.C.Arsenal

River Trent…

azed

decent stream anyone?

ripple.is

second page

Nelson

Our defense is still weak

salparadisenyc

Kozzer putting on there

Danny

Suddenly they’re all over us.

bennydevito

Thanks Pedro, absolutely.

azed

We need players who can run at the opposition.

Marko

Cute af from Mesut and Mhiki

Nelson

Why we change the formation again. We need another attacker. I don’t understand why??? TYes! another goal

Guns of Brixton

Miki

Hehe

We are taking the miki… no ? Ok

TheLegendaryDB10

Mhki scores!!! 2-0 to The Arsenal!!! Come on!!

Let’s make these turds up down the road shit themselves!!

azed

One more in this half then we coast in the 2nd.

Luteo Guenreira

Pierre

Nothing I said is homophobic, in fact I am celebrating your Man-Boy infatuation with the lad. Take your time responding, you must be busy still wiping the couch down after that goal and assist from Ozil.

Marko

We need players who can run at the opposition

Very true. It’s all to feet and in front of the opposition.

Danny

A bit easy there

Nelson

Ozil is very calm with the ball. Another attacker, he would try to shoot.

Champagne charlie

That Ozil guy is alright

James.wood

Say what you like about Ozil he can make the game seem so simple .

Just Another Customer

Great time to pad his assists stats I bet you’re creaming yourself right now Pierre. How many matches we won now with him in the starting lineup?

azed

WTF?

Guns of Brixton

2 1

Bit of a classical arsenal move there?

Couldn’t make too easy cud we?

Naah lets make it hard for ourselves

Gazzap

alan smith talking shit. Thats a foul on guendouzi. clear foul.

TheLegendaryDB10

Fuck…. and we concede already. That’s where you see that Guen is still a bit green.

Thomas

Lol Ozil with another game against a pub team to pad his stats. Fraud.

DaleDaGooner

Reason why i don’t understand the constant inclusion of Guendouzi….he’s too lightweight and gets mugged off the ball easily.

DM

Really poor from Guendouzi, that. Still, it might be good for him. Needs to learn to be much more careful with the ball in those situations, and better for it to happen now than against Spurs or another big one

Marko

That’s what slow playing out from the back can do to you. Just dumb as fuck

useroz

Why oh why. Guendouzi

Never fucking learn

Auba shitty shots other than tap in

Nelson

Guen should pass the ball at once. You don’t stop the ball there.

Just Another Customer

That Guen like I said is so weak that got easily dispossesed just like that. No upper body strength at all.

salparadisenyc

Classic Arsenal right there.

Nelson

diving Ha! Ha!

Marko

There’s just no movement. No one showing for the ball. I thought Mesut was supposed to control the game

Just Another Customer

Now suddenly it has gone a bit nervy thanks to that liability.

DaleDaGooner

Yeah, Aubameyang and his shit end product at times….

useroz

Auba cannot pass properly

Auba cannot shoot other than tap in

Jeez…

DaleDaGooner

Aubameyang was put into this game to grab goals, so far he needs to show better in his hold up play and movement

Just Another Customer

And most of the time he can’t even beat the offside trap. What’s the use of explosive pace if you don’t have the brain to complement it.

DaleDaGooner

jeeez Jenknson…better pickout needed

Just Another Customer

Even Jenko put a bit of shift into this one.

useroz

Another shit cross from Auba ffs

Wtf not a pen when Papa was pulled down

DaleDaGooner

shit crossing…shit passing, shit hold up play, shit movement, fortuitous striker though

useroz

Jenk out of sync quite a few times

No major issues so far.

InsideRight

Yet again we see the weakness of the defence, but yet again all the transfer speculation is about wingers and midfielders.

What’s it going to take for Emery, Monchi, Kroenke Jr, Raul and the suits to graps that we need to rebuild our defence???

Luteo Guenreira

Torreira an underrated free kick.

DaleDaGooner

Yet again we see the weakness of the defence, but yet again all the transfer speculation is about wingers and midfielders.

In this game? Only weakness so far is with Guendouzi losing the batteles once he is harassed, defense hasn’t been bad, even Jenks has been ok.

Micheal

Any streams please. All links seem to be down.

Marko

I really hate that 3-4-3. We don’t have the players for it. It turns into a boring 5-2-3 very quickly

useroz

Manure went 1 up

Chelski drawing. Spuds

DaleDaGooner

ronaldo7.live is working

vickingz

The uselessness of auba is so apparent. People should just stop trying to compare him with laca

InsideRight

@ Dale Every time Bournemouth get in our half the crowd gets tense. The guy next to me in the West Stand literally puts his hands up to his eyes and says we need 3 goals in every game just to be sure of not throwing it away – and even 3 might not be enough. Guendouzi isn’t a bad player. I just think with his youth he doesn’t make good decisions. He changes his mind about what he’s going to do and turns back and forth, inviting a close down and getting pressured into a poor pass or coughing… Read more »

Marko

yet again all the transfer speculation is about wingers and midfielders.

Konate, Ben Wissaka and Grimaldo are some defensive links

useroz

Guendouzi carelessness aside, feefence not cool tonight.

Leno saved a 1 v 1 and Kos sliding- blocked the follow up shot almost with an open goal.

Jenk and Kolac not good enough to do a 3 5 2 seriously

again Auba can do so little…

TheLegendaryDB10

Micheal

As Dale said. And do like me click on link 32. It looks like it’s actually working.

Radio Raheem

Thought it was a foul on Guendouzi for their goal. Couldn’t have got to the ball without fouling him.

Micheal

LegendaryDB10

Thanks. I was on Ronaldo and it kept crashing and eventually crashed altogether. Everyone is complaining.