Who else is getting very excited about the Spurs game?
Have you been sending all sorts of shit to their fans?
No response?
Send some more.
THEN BATTON DOWN THE HATCHES IF IT GOES HORRIBLY WRONG ON SATURDAY.
Airplane mode for 6 days straight.
Look at that meme, a thing of beauty. Crafted from my own fingertips. It’s incredible because it is relatable. It’s relatable to me because I MADE IT.
There’s been a lot of chest thumping from fans saying ‘IT’S ALL ABOUT WHERE WE FINISH’, and yes, this is true, and if we deal with Spurs, United and the slew of tough away games, then yes, Emery is the master of the universe.
Arsenal is everyone’s best pal when things are going to shit. They are the sleeping bear that Timothy Treadwell is goading in the meme. This weekend will mark the total collapse of their season, or it’ll mark a nasty cut to the Achilles heel of our #Top3 dreams. United are plodding along very efficiently, Chelsea has title blood in their veins, so despite sitting pretty… it could all turn Shaqiri gurning levels of ugly if we don’t strike while Spurs are weak.
Again, I’ll reiterate this point: 3 of our best players are coming into form and fresher than James Blake one-liner on Twitter.
That is a huge advantage if Emery can keep them all motivated until the end of the season.
Some great numbers doing the rounds yesterday. Mikhi has better stats than Dele Alli, Zaha, Lingard and Willian despite playing less games than all of them.
Maybe Sven did pull off a madness? You only appreciate them when they’re dead… or resigned.
Bobby P has taken a huge gulp of air and got down to some serious brown nosing with the mighty, infallible, NEW King of Arsenal.
“He fits the mould of the type of player that Arsenal look for with our style of football. He’s excellent at dribbling, has superb vision & his overall technique is top class. He has spent a lot of time working with Iniesta which has improved his game massively”
Trying to cover his tracks, he weighed in on the Ozil debate after the German had been returned to first team duties.
“Its vital that Emery finds a space for Ozil in the team. It would be a big step backwards for the club if they sell him. He recently extended his contract & there’s no arguing that he is one of, if not, the best player in Arsenal’s squad”
HARRY KANE ESCAPES BAN FOR HEAD BUTT BECAUSE HE IS SENSITIVE. F*cking jokes, blud.
FINALLY, Mesut Ozil has scored in the last three games he’s started with Jenko. All this time and the answer to unlocking Mesut was sleeping in an Arsenal-themed tent outside the training ground.
FIRST NAME ON THE TEAM SHEET THIS SATURDAY, FAM.
Right, I think that’s about as much Arsenal as I can handle today. But before I go…
Kieran Trippier’s own goal last night is even better with the World Cup commentary from his free kick v Croatia and Titanic music 😅 pic.twitter.com/SMjme95ie7
— Ryan Williams (@razza699) February 28, 2019
Mornin’!
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Trofee
Tr4phy
Hello
A 5-5 draw.
Pires reckons we could be in for Rabiot on a free this summer. I doubt he knows anything but would def take that!
Right enough doubt we will beat the filthy dustbin lids tomorrow and put them in their place. COME ON YOU GUNNERS! Morning JD
“if we deal with Spurs, United and the slew of tough away games, then yes, Emery is the master of the universe.”
Talking about hypocrisie… lol
“there’s no arguing that he is one of, if not, the best player in Arsenal’s squad”
This one made me laugh, too.
Im loving all the bravado and positivity because we’ve just won 3 of our easiest games all season, but lets not get ahead of ourselves. We will know where we are in the grand scheme of things after the next 3 games. Spurs away Rennes away UTD at home I think deep down we all know we’re going to absolutely shit ourselves tomorrow. I’ve never known a team to have so much polarisation between performances based on opposition quality as Arsenal. Only Everton are comparable. Players like Xhaka play with huge swagger, and 95% pass completion against Southampton at home,… Read more »
Even a draw would be hugely damaging for Spurs, and puts another nail in their title-shot-that-never-was coffin. Hilarious stuff really.
Spurs 1 – 2 Arse
Predictions:
Jenko is selected
Jenko provides assist to Ozil, who scores winning goal using his “Ozil bounce” technique.
Xhaka achieves 95% pass completion.
I’m being positive.
Or as Gambon would say, deluded!
Id take not getting bet against the Spuds, simply because we tend to shit the bed away from home. I wait to be proven wrong and we put in a professional, no mistakes performance – it gotta happen sooner or later right?
I dont see Utd getting anything other than 3 points tomorrow. So a draw for us and a win for them sees then 1 point ahead of us. Beating Utd at home is what we need to do to move 2 points ahead again.
kane to score first arsenal to win 1-3 laca, auab and miki to sore for arsenal, two assists for ozil simples …laca second half weapon… just works better for us when we have something serious comming off the bench be it auba or LACA
I’m feeling positive 2-2 🙂
Is a draw would be so bad ??
Jokes post Pedro good one lol
This game is a cup final for both teams
I’m gonna be positive and say we pull out all the stops and smash those cunts
Arsenal with a comprehensive win!
And yes ozil to score 6 with the patented ‘ozil bounce’ as you say
Gambon
Carry your pessimism to one side. Arsenal to smash the Spuds by 2 goals. Poch on course to dropping 2 games without a shot on target
“And yes ozil to score 6 with the patented ‘ozil bounce’ as you say”
6? Even in the school of optimism and positivity, this would be regarded as impossible 😂😂
These next few weeks are why we watch football, no? Massive, season-defining games coming up.
Could go massively wrong, could go extremely well. It’s been said by many on here that ‘unknown’ is ‘exciting’. Let’s get after it. Beat the Spuds and the Mancs and I might buy an Emery poster. Lose them both and our results against the big 6 aren’t any better than under old Arse.
Gambon has caught some GOH negative fever. Oh yeah. It’s powerful stuff.
Mystic you crazy old coot. Winning by two goals isn’t “smashing” anyone.
I think both teams are wounded. Normally these games are high scorering affairs and I think this one will be no different.
Upwards of 6 goals shared. Spurs ARE the better side no matter what anyone thinks but Arsenal are capable of pulling one of these games out their bag.
3-3 4-2 or 5-1 either way wouldn’t surprise me.
“Manchester United risk losing David de Gea unless they make him the club’s highest-paid player alongside Alexis Sanchez”
Can’t get enough of this one.
Think we will win tomorrow. Extremely disappointed if we don’t.
Spurs have looked leggy for a while and we should overrun them for a change.
Its not even negativity, its pattern recognition.
– Arsenal win easy home games
– Arsenal struggle in away games
– Arsenal are abysmal in big away games
No amount of fan bravado is going to change the way our players perform tomorrow.
I saw one forum had 75% of Arsenal fans predicting an Arsenal win, yet the bookies have us at 3-1, suggesting a 25% chance.
Football fans arent very bright.
The overwhelming chance is that we are beaten tomorrow.
Some people on here are too negative. Yes fine we’re not exactly all conquering but it will take time to get to where we want to be, and the next couple of games could be a huge step in doing so.
We’re 11 points better off than at this stage last season and haven’t done badly to get ourselves a chance. If we don’t show up tomorrow and get made mugs of then is the time to be negative, for now let’s have a bit of belief and hopefully go there and compound the scums misery.
Gambon
Relax. I’m winding up the sons of bitches on here that continually pull me up for being down on Arsenal.
I’m with you. Stats say we’re easily beaten but sport is sport and we all know that even Arsenal can pull one off every now and again.
But the saying is ‘the bookmakers rarely get things wrong’.
Put it this way, if spurs score within 10 mins, it’ll be a landslide.
“Football fans arent very bright.”
lol
Jdavey and others.
This 11 point better off thing is relative.
If everyone else has improved too, ergo, it means fuck all.
We could finish with a higher points total but still miss out on CL football. So what exactly has been achieved?
It’s like losing 25-0 or 1-0. Apart from the obvious goals against tally, it’s still only 3 points.
HL
Gambon’s right. Football fans and the players are arguably the dumbest bunch of miscreants to be found in sport.
No other sport has so many douchbags. Fact.
A bit harsh Guns/ Gambon- ‘heart ruling the head’more than anything else- a heavy dose of wishful thinking. Being rational all the time is a bit ‘Spock like’.
GoH
Well the difference is that last year we were cut adrift in 6th and even sometimes 7th, and this year we’re currently 4th and in with a chance of getting the CL football we all crave.
So I see that as definite improvement, we were never going to be challenging for the league this year as Unai hasn’t got a magic wand to improve us so drastically from the shit heap Arsene left us in.
Progress is positive.
Gambon/GoH
It’s not necessarily the case that football fans are “not the brightest”
It’s just that we’re all seduced by hope.
Jenko assist and Ozil to score, I firmly believe!
Emery declared Manager of the season!
Bob I’ve said this many times and I’ll say it again. I have never ever hated spurs. Growing up I detested Liverpool in the 80’s and then United through the 90’s into the 2000’s. Why? Because they were rivals. I’ve never considered spurs to be a rival so I can’t share in this irrational ‘hatred’ for a club that has never posed a threat to mine. Now, if we’re talking areas…Tottenham is absolutely the worst place to find yourself waking up drunk and worse for wear after partying in soho. I did this many times as the no.73 night bus… Read more »
If someone mentions that Finish bastard, Jenkinson again…please ban them, Peter.
This idiot is shit. Period.
The white Eboue…without AIDS.
Finnish.
Commenting on an Arsenal blog saying you don’t hate spurs, strange.
Jdavey
Why?
Should I follow the other idiots who “hate” spurs and don’t know why?
Should I hate black people because others do?
People who are thinkers generally don’t do the ‘norm’.
Spurs are just another team. North London’s first team. Let’s not forget that.
Because they are filth and our closest city rivals and that’s what football is about, the cliche thing of ‘bragging rights’ also has a hand in it. Who gives a fuck if they’re north London’s first team!
Anybody who expects Spurs to be weak tomorrow is clutching at straws. It’s Arsenal. and they are playing at home (or as near as they’ll get this season). So a tough no-nonsense approach from them. Which is why I’d be surprised if Ozil starts for Arsenal tomorrow. It would be an invitation for Spurs to run midfield. And given space and time, Ericsen can open up the Arsenal defence as easy as a can of worms. Nor do I expect a two-pronged strike force from Emery. More likely he will attempt to stifle the Spurs midfield early on, lie in… Read more »
“You keep throwing in the cheap American connection to smear those that don’t want to hold Kroenke as the reason for our problems“
Those? It’s Banford I hold that view of, because he’s pathological in his defence if Stan on here every time he’s referenced. So I whip it must be an American thing, given it’s obvious as it comes that the guy is a fucking tragic owner.
Yeah I’ve never got the recent AFC obsession with Spurs. Its basically an inferiority complex since theyve overtaken us.
The other day people were celebrating Trippiers own goal.
Actually celebrating a goal that harms our top 4 chances.
Its basically footballing virtue signalling. Everyone competing to show how much they hate spurs.
lol Guns.
“Actually celebrating a goal that harms our top 4 chances. ”
Yes but c’mon man, that was so funny!!
We have small man syndrome.
We should be our own entity worrying about ourselves, we don’t.
Look down the leagues and you will find the minnows doing the same thing.
As long as you best the next village over, we’re all good.
Pathetic. Small club mentality.
Overtaken us, my Arse. You really are a plonker, repeat plonker tbh.
We are a nailed on certainty for 3rd.
Gambon
See where you’re coming from about the trippier OG, but it is always nice to see spurs suffer!
Also it might not be harmful to our top four hopes in the long run, if we win tomorrow and reel them in.
GG9
They have. Fact.
Spurs are a better run club.
They actually spend their cash.
Better manager.
Better players.
Smaller wage bill.
Better stadium.
Better football.
Do not let hate cloud your judgement. And why do you even hate spurs? Daddy? Grandpapa?
Whatevs.
It has nothing to do with an inferiority complex, I for one have always hated them and I’m sure 95% of arsenal fans would agree.
What the fuck has spuds done that says they’ve overtaken The Arse. Nothing, that’s zero
Have they, how?
“Better stadium.”
How can the homeless ones have a better stadium?
No complete stadium, no money, no silverware if worth since 1961. How???
Eulogising about how good of a club spurs are the day before we play them in a massive game, haha pathetic.
Guns of Hackney
Waking up this morning to your top banter.
You’re bat sh*t crazy mate.
The last time I made a prediction, it was for Watford to beat Liverpool, guess that didn’t work out for me.
Spurs are a better run club. Yeah the stadium debacle is the envy of every club in the world. They actually spend their cash. Haven’t bought a player in two transfer windows and will have to sell to buy in the summer. Better manager. Who’s fucking off to Madrid in the summer. Better players. They have a couple of good players but the difference is less quality and more lack of balance at Arsenal. Smaller wage bill. And a whole click of players running contracts down because they can get more money elsewhere. Better stadium. They’re homeless. Better football. The… Read more »
But really how does Spurs get Eriksen to play in £85k weekly?
Marc
Poch isn’t going anywhere.
He doesn’t have the bottle for a bigger club
Any manager who’s dating that it will take 10 years to win a trophy will wilt under the klieg-light of a big club.
Poch has a bit of fraud in him.
Spurs – better run? (Eventually) getting Poch in, maybe. Everything else, it so much. Take the two stadiums. The Emirates was funded via a project finance loan. The stadium was built on time and on budget. the Emirates may not have the “soul” of Highbury, but most would agree it’s a pretty damn good stadium in terms of size and facilities. Spurs are currently homeless after a delay which will approach a year having spunked a massive cost overrun in a budget more than double ours, because Levy, high on his success in the transfer market, thought he could also… Read more »
* not so much
Dissenter
“But really how does Spurs get Eriksen to play in £85k weekly?”
It’s easy you sign a player who hasn’t caught the eye of the bigger clubs and put him on £85k per week. He then improves, realises he’s too good for the Spud’s and leaves on a free for more money.
The good thing about being a grandad Arsenal supporter is you aren’t stereotyped to have to keep knocking Arsene Wenger, coz my Arsenal is more extensive than your blink of an eye lid experience you dumb clink bate plonkers.
Dissenter
“Any manager who’s dating that it will take 10 years to win a trophy ”
The Poch is a good manager but not the second coming some make him out to be. What I don’t get is winning is a habit, Mourinho always pushed in the League Cup because it gave the players a medal and made them “winners”. Turning the Spud’s into PL champions is an almighty task why not pick up a cup win or 2 on the way?
Garden walls can run over budget and time…what do you actually think it takes to build a football stadia? The manpower. Infrastructure. Okay, let’s laugh at Spurs but the fact remains they are doing very well at a fraction of our monster budget. That’s humiliating.
As I said. Small man mentality.
Spurs have to walk a very fine line with the stadium project
That’s where Poch comes in. They have to qualify for the CL to even break through once the payments kick in.
They could be in a puddle of their own making if they don’t qualify
Why did they build something so grand that will cost thrice thier annual revenue?
In no way have spuds overtaken us.absolute bollocks!above us for now in table.well see if that lasts.last trophy of any sorts 2008.milk cup ffs! Prior to that 1991 fa cup.yes you read that right 1991.With regards to their new stadium.slightly bigger for crowd capacity,a thousand or so.big deal.lets see how they get on with the finances & adjustment.wiil they manage to add or even keep new players.who knows.will poch stay? Judging by recent comments.unlikely.woth Real Madrid & Manure sniffing about.so not by a long chalk have they overtaken us as a club.
Marc
Erickson has renewed his contract twice since he came to Spurs. It was only the last contract offer that he refused.
The lad isn’t very bad or has a piss poor agent.
“what do you actually think it takes to build a football stadia? The manpower. Infrastructure.”
Well we managed it and the reason it’s gone pear shaped is because the Spud’s tried to do it on the cheap. They’ve made some really stupid mistakes – no penalty clauses that are used in every major project to stop cost over runs etc being the most obvious.
I worked in Tottenham for 28 years
Loved winding up the locals
“Allardyce’s mindset is quite amazing. The man who has managed 7 Premier League clubs and England yet recently complained about a lack of opportunities due to the presence of foreign coaches. ‘I think you are almost deemed as second class because it is your country.’”
– Tim Stillman (@Stillberto)
Charlie George and Allardyce would get along well.
‘Tottenham growing increasingly concerned that Mauricio Pochettino will quit for Real Madrid this summer’
The beginning of the end.
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11675/11651445/tottenham-boss-mauricio-pochettino-makes-trophy-gag-at-awards-bash
At least he has a sense of humor about it
@Dissenter : meanwhile, rumors about the return of Maureen contiue to grow in Madrid.
(why they don’t ask to arsène, I have no idea)
*continue
There’s a lack of opportunities for fat Sam because he’s first and foremost a shit manager
To Pedro’s point, I think some have been lulled into a false optimism re finishing fourth. Ultimately, United and Chelsea still have better players and are probably more likely to finish fourth. Just to put a number on it, I’d say we have a 25% chance of finishing fourth. I’d love to see it, but I don’t expect it.
There’s also talk that Pogba is hell bent on returning back to Juventus if United don’t qualify for the CL
There are high stakes on all for many clubs.
At least we have plan B, which is the EL, I hope Chelsea get knocked out really soon though..
@Bamford : one thing’s for sure, for the 4th spot trophy, it will be incredibly tight this season.
“Koscielny and Lichtsteiner both fully fit. No new injury concerns for Arsenal ahead of tomorrow.”
– Charles Watts
Its not even negativity, its pattern recognition.– Arsenal win easy home games – Arsenal struggle in away games – Arsenal are abysmal in big away games Gambon is true. It’s been a pattern at Arsenal for many many years. I’m sure he’ll admit though to course correct such a pattern will take time. Also when you think about it isn’t it by and large and issue for most of the big teams as well. Chelsea may be able to beat City at home but they struggle at City. Liverpool struggle at Wembley but do well at Anfield. It’s not unheard… Read more »
The combined effects of the cost overrun on the stadium (aka garden wall) and Poch leaving would be a knockout blow for the Spuds, especially if a few of the main players leave.
That would make all the small men (aka Arsenal supporters) happy
Bamford there is false optimism among some but others know exactly what they are doing, they are painting a picture fourth is a cake walk so as to be able to say Emery tanked fourth place.
it might surprise a lot of you when Spurs hire a manager who actually goes on to win something, i am not buying this projected collapse once he leaves narrative.
I’ve got to say this:
I fucking hate Spurs and everything to do with them. It’s in my blood. For those Arsenal fans who don’t get that then good for you but for me tomorrows match is not just “another match”, it doesn’t matter that its 4th against 3rd, it’s about putting those cunts in their place.
Either you get it or you don’t.
Ten years ago the company I worked for in Tottenham closed.
Spurs had been buying up property in the area for about 5 years prior to that
Their new stadium has been going on for a lot longer than people think and cost more than they are saying
I think people are talking us up for 4th so that when the inevitable happens they’ll jump on it and Emery. It’s pretty obvious what is going to happen. All we need to do is still be in with a realistic shout of Champions League football after the next 2-3 league games. Spurs the potential slip for obvious reasons. Either way the United game will be must win and it’s at home so we should
To what extent do people think Emery will start as below? How optimistic or pessimistic does the below make you?
___________Leno
_____Must__Sokr__Kosc
Lich___Xhaka___Torr___Kola
______Mkhi_______Iwobi
____________Laca
I think that will be defensively solid, but I don’t see us getting a goal. 0-0 draw, or 1-1 draw. I guess that might be all we really need to get, though.
Thought Poch once suggested he’d like to emulate Wenger and stay 20 years at Spuds. Surely he wouldn’t want to go just yet…
Tomorrow… barring last minute injuries to out already depleted (quality sense) defence, why would we not have at least a 50/50 chance to win?
We seem to be able to score goals , the PL table says .
Koscielny and Sokratis are building up a partnership that was forged in games against weaker teams.
It will be interesting to see how well we do against the better teams in the next three games.
I still think our best chance is in the EL, so long as Chelsea get knocked out soon.
“Lichtsteiner both fully fit”
lol at this age, you can’t be fully fit anymore.
Anyone would think spurs v Arsenal is Celtic v Rangers.
It ain’t.
Receding
“it might surprise a lot of you when Spurs hire a manager who actually goes on to win something”
Go and google the list of managers Levy has appointed, the odd’s aren’t in his favour of getting another one right. It won’t help when during the job interview Levy will ask the candidate “how much money do you have in your wallet? – that’s this summers transfer budget”
Hackney
Your boredom with Arsenal and with football is not nearly as interesting to others as it is to you.
@GoH : thank God, it ain’t so shit!!
“it might surprise a lot of you when Spurs hire a manager who actually goes on to win something”
They will hire wenger, just a feeling… lol
No 3-4-3. I don’t know how many times more we have to see it before realizing that it doesn’t work we don’t have the players for it and it doesn’t make us defensively more solid. If anything it adds to the defensive struggles cause you end up with people like Kolasinac and whoever playing in midfield and having an excuse not to track back or get into position and it also forces us to play out from the back and can split the CB’s apart too much I feel. Honestly no. Go with 4-2-3-1 and play one of the strikers… Read more »
Bamford
Your self satisfaction and overall smugness isn’t as interesting to us as it is to you.