Nakhchivan restaurant, Baku, for FINE meats
It is official. Mikhi is out of the Europa League final. UEFA is kind of OK with a bit of casual racism, providing it’s putting football in countries that haven’t seen it at a high level before.
Smells bad people. Like your grandad’s nappy on a warm summer day. But are we surprised? Football’s governing bodies don’t care for anything outside cash money. FIFA literally let Qatar use slaves to build stadiums, their underlings were hardly going to buck scuzzy trends were they?
But what are Arsenal going to do about it? Boycott the game? Don’t be silly. There’s £80m riding on this match, that’s a lot of sparkly players, which is really all most British people need to forget any sort of human rights abuse questions, right people?
We were all pretty hunky dory about Silent Stan and his cute cowboy hat in the beginning— 10 years of soul destroying stagnation later, @JackMatchaBrew from St. Albans who is a disciple of beans on toast and a keen collector of vintage Panini stickers, is literally BEGGING for a man who allegedly threw an enemy in a vat of battery acid to take us out of our misery with a £190m investment in better players. We are a fickle bunch (but Jack, between me and you, I’m with you #GiveHimASeat).
It’s also a bit weird to lose your mind about this incident and be totally cool with that small sponsor from a certain country on our sleeves. I’m not saying Rwanda is a bad place, I’m not critiquing the wonderful people like an ignorant westerner, but Big Paul K, literally the Leo Messi of army generals, hasn’t exactly been Nelson Mandela of late (important read). A lot of good has gone on, no doubt, an OUTRAGEOUS turnaround job (think Rangnick taking RB from Div 4 to the Bundesliga), a progressive policy on plastic, an inviting hub for investment… but, as you’ve read, it’s not all great. 99% of the vote went to him in the last election, that kind of not great. We are taking money from a sponsor that might not be as classy as, say Emirates… no, that doesn’t work either… as say, Paddy Power… shit, they also crush lives… ok, let’s just say there’s a little bit of hypocrisy in calling for Arsenal to take a moral high ground this one time FOR NO BENEFICIAL REASON OUTSIDE FEELINGS.
… but here’s the thing, Vinai’s vision for the club is measured on feelings. If he was really ambitious, he’d shoot for this one big proud moment and take us out the comp. It’d be like the Kap advert, except we’d lose a shit tonne of money. But you know what, he won’t, and that’s my issue with the proud thing. We’re taking money from a strongman and we’ll just do our thing in Europa. I get it, I’d do the same, but my vision for Arsenal wouldn’t have been Tesco Proud Points.
We have to move forward, play the game, and shut the fuck up about all the surrounding bits and let the media start building hype about the actual match. No more sob stories about not being able to afford something expensive. No more petitions. No more crowd-pleasing ‘what we should do’ ideas. We’re playing the game.
So let’s talk about our goalkeeper. Petr Cech, in his last game ever. I think he should get the jersey, it’s the right thing to do, players are also very superstitious and… what?
HE IS MOVING TO CHELSEA AS A SPORTING DIRECTOR AND THE DEAL LEAKED.
To the bench Petr. You’ve been absolutely played here. Now you’re technically a Chelsea staffer, you cannot start.
How. Fucking. Dumb. This reminds me of the time we knew Cashers wanted to leave and we played him over Flamini in the Champions League final. DON’T DO IT AGAIN.
But, to counter, Mr Sarri is apparently the frontrunner for the newly open Juventus job. The Old Lady wants to play sexy football moving forward more in keeping with their flashy new brand, and CFC will let him go for £5m. Nothing like that as a little disruptor, am I right?
I was thinking about using racism against racism for winnertivity… hear me out. So Arsenal fans are good at the whole media thing. Let’s set up a fake Ancestry.com profile of Eden Hazard, make sure that it comes out as 80% Armenian. We’ll seed that news on social meeja using Arsenal fans to disseminate the misinformation like we dish out votes on internet polls. Then we’ll buy a banner plane and fly it over their equivalent of the TSA, it’ll say, ‘ASK FOR HIS DNA AT THE AIRPORT’. We’ll also flyer the city of Baku with well-produced advertising of his REAL nationality.
Hopefully, this will be enough to throw the authorities… he’ll be stopped at the airport. It takes two weeks for DNA to come through, we win the Europa, the WHOLE thing is a banterous scam, and the papers write how we used racism to prove that transfer clickbait is a scam… no… I’m getting mixed up. We used local racism to prove that love won’t help you cross a border. Ok, ok, I’m working on the case study narrative.
Scoff all you like… but do you have a better plan?
Back to Azerbaijan, I nominate Starapraga beer as the choice go-to. Why? Well, their website still uses flash, which is super vintage hipster. It’s a local beer… I found one called Afansa, with a really cool horse on it, but it was made by Carlsberg. This brand appears to be doing very well, stealing market share from the big boys, so it has an underdog spirit like Arsenal in this game.
Have one, and let me know how it goes.
SEE YOU IN THE COMMENTS.
I write this to enjoy it. I don’t need to deal with the sniping. Very true. I said the article was pointless btw. I’m willing to move on from it I just want people to know that you can get banned for something so utterly innocuous as criticising a particular post. Which is a bit ridiculous. There are others allowed to run amok around here but others not so much. Anyway it’s all pretty pointless you can do what you want it’s your blog. As for the if you don’t like it approach if it gets to the point where… Read more »
Say no to the Werther’s Pedro, it’s a trap!
Midwest, Juve is a prestigious job.
MGooner
Strange I take the complete opposite view. Garlic, Onions and Ginger contain natural chemicals that are there to fight off viral or bacterial attack. If you’re coming down with a cold or the flu eat something loaded with all 3 plus some Chillies at the first sign and you’ll be fine.
Marko Bamford
Chat shit, get binned Hahahaha
Now keep your heads down, your powder dry and your noses clean, and your socks pulled up.
Jamie.
You really think Emery can actually be mentioned in the same bracket as Mourinho and Wenger?
Your brain has gone soft..punch drink . too much Euro Vision trash for you young man.
Two of the greatest managers in the history of the game and Emery In the same bracket..??
(I suggest- you dont watch it anymore…)
Pedro
The one time fancying the Old Lady’s not some pervy thing!
Pedro _
It is prestigious but not a better job then PL… Pep and Klopp came to PL league because they wanted to be challenged at the top level.. You cant take games off here.
If your the best Manager you want to be in the most challenging league. Going to Italy or Spain.. the league doesn’t mean much .. then you have to win the CL basically to prove yourself.
Midwest, I love the PL, but Juve are built for winning the CL. So if you want trophies and to have a go at the big one every year, you go there.
On this occasion CG is actually right you cannot mention Emery in the same breath a Mourinho and Wenger.
Emery is 47 and still has his marbles, Mourinho and Wenger have both lost theirs completely.
CG –
I didn’t compare Emery to either Wenger or Mourinho. I just wanted you to give us a little insight as to why they’re good candidates to take us forward after Emery leaves the job.
Things like “Well, Wenger is great at tactics, and Mourinho is a real man-manager.” I don’t want to put words in your mouth, but you get the drift.
You can’t bin CG for saying he wants arsenal to lose the final. People have been saying this for years in the wenger era. Freedom of speech. As much as I detest that sort of talk surely the man has a right to express that view?
If you want to make it easier on yourself .. I would agree.. and you get Ronaldo for a few seasons. But If Klopp wins the CL and finshed 2nd in the League .. to me that would mean much more as manager then winning at the Old Lady.
I can see the Palacios rumours having some truth in them. His price is likely to go up post Copa America and right now 10-15 million looks a bargain
Marc
He’s not in their league. Jose and Wenger are legends of the game. Giants. Love them or loathe them it’s a fact. Emery is not even a footnot at this stage in comparison.
I think Nottingham Forest have won the European Cup/Champions league as many times as Juventus…..lol
Marko, everyone should know that if they insult my work and offer up nothing constructive, they will be binned. So thanks for clarifying.
Thankfully, that’s not a blog lesson to most on here.
@ Marc
You are correct from the perspective of the physical body 🙂
Since you’ve asked, from a yogic perspective, the physical body is just one element. If you are conscious of your magnetic/aura field and enhance it, you will automatically know what to consume and what not. But most people have next to no aura.
Pedro
If Juve have made the change in order to win the CL so you really think Sarri will be on their radar?
Seems to be a strange link to me. The Poch would make more sense, young highly rated coach ready to make the step up.
MGooner little bit mystic for me.
Mourinho is a cheque book manager and Wenger was a one dimensional manager.
MGooner –
If you haven’t already heard of her, you should check Jeong Kwan out. There’s an amazing Chef’s Table episode on Netflix featuring her cooking. Fascinating stuff.
https://www.eater.com/2017/2/18/14653382/jeong-kwan-buddhist-nun-chefs-table
Red truth
Yeah. So one dimensional only Fergie has won more league titles than either
They’re both responsible for the best teams the premier league has seen alongside Fergie too.
Fergie is another manager who spent his way to success.
As for what was said in the interview, that we are in talks with some players.
I’m not sure how exactly it all works, with the final budget being so dependent on whether Arsenal make the CL or not, what exactly happens to players we are in talks with now if the money expected to be there suddenly isn’t? They just move on to the next suitor? Curious if anyone knows more.
Dortmund doing early business
@MidWest, If you are Italian, short of the national team the Juventus job is seen as the ultimate graal. The job that every Italian manager aspires to. I think that you are also over-estimating the attractiveness of some of the PL managerial jobs. Also the way some clubs are run attract a certain type of coach. Chelsea and their revolving door policy only attract restless managers who do a job for 2~3 years, get sacked, get huge undeserved compensation. Rinse. Repeat. Nobody can build a legacy at this club. So if you are a builder and don’t need the money,… Read more »
For a middle aged man?
Marc spouts such continued puerile nonsense its actually alarming ..one of lifes followers, clearly.
A cheerleader to his bones.
Mourinho has one of the greatest football minds ever…
Under Wenger – we all watched football – that is now only imitated by clubs spending billions – funded by wicked sovereign states
And Marc wants to insinuate that Emery is actually comparable…
They are Giants in the Game
Emery is and always will be a pigmy in comparison
everyone should know that if they insult my work and offer up nothing constructive
I was so constructive though I told you gambon offered up the same point only better and much shorter. I can only assume that you didn’t get your morning soybean latte shite and were in a foul mood. Still though
Marko just can’t help himself…..
No wonder he’s always in bother. Come on mate. Don’t do it to yourself. Who are we going to laugh at without you and Bamford here?
Wenger’s philosophy of walking the ball in the net was so fuckin BORING!!!!!!
Un
You, dude.
It is a blog of love. Love turns to shit sometimes though.
Like the scorpion of the fable, some people can’t help themselves. It is in their nature to sting. You give them a reprieve, but instead of changing their way they straight away come back to insult, belittle, condescend.
Marko – stop being a whiny cunt, you promised to stop complaining multiple posts ago.
Chelsea spent wrll over £200m on transfers between 2003-04/2004-05, so much for Mourinho’s coaching ability lol
Fuckers like CG make me puke.
I piss on you like you piss on Arsenal.
Marko
Don’t ever tell a marketing person someone’s put it better and presented it better.
I got into all sort of trouble in my last role for pointing out a white board video marketing had put on the website told people to buy our competitors products. Got shouted down by everyone and bollocked until I pointed out the obvious – management then decided I’d made a good point badly! My view it was a valid point made bluntly.
Oh just fuck off, CG.
Fine I respond.
CG
I usually don’t read much into your posts but that one was honestly disappointing.
Fucking hell what has Vinai done other than not be Wenger. At this rate CG will demand that all 40,000 ST holders plus everyone on the waiting list are banned from the club.
LG
Well I am bitterly disappointed that the way the club is being run.
I can lie.
Or I can tell the truth
I never lie.
Cg
Behave
You’ve got to want arsenal to win. Emery will be gone in two seasons anyway and not before the so you may as well get behind the team and him.
Marko drop it, you came in and dismissed Pedro’s blog as pointless.
Grow up and move on, stop trying to wriggle about over it ‘just this, just that’. You were a bitch, end of.
Un
Two seasons??.
Too long.
He will be gone by Oct
He has nothing too offer
Raul will choose Benitez.
CG
He won’t be gone by October. He will see out next season
Marc
Did you see that interview yesterday?
Absolute piffle.
Are you not alarmed with it?
Crikey – you are an easily pleased chap.
What’s your sort code and IBAN no..?
Un
He will not have the impetus of being the new manager next year. He has nothing to offer- barring a scattergun approach of bringing in another 6 players .
He does not have Ramsey
He has lost Ozil and Mikki.
(They will get him the sack.)
Crowds dwindling
Next season- we could actually do a Fulham
That is – get through 3 managers. ( especially if Raul is playing his games)
How long do we have to bear this?
CG
No didn’t waste my time on it – all the headline points were on here, Sky Sports, BBC Sports and God knows where else.
Talks cheap I’ll see what we do during the summer. My metric on that will change depending on whether we get CL football or not. If we don’t as I’ve already said Emery will be on thin ice.
You seem to think you can lead Arsenal fans because you know better, you’re irrelevant do the club even know you exist? If you knew you knew fuck all it would be a start.
“Next season- we could actually do a Fulham”
Really Pedro – this is just pure trolling.
What a prick.
CG
I can’t keep up with your stupidity when you decide to kick it up a gear. Carry on.
“How long do we have to bear this?”
Lol
This CG character is clearly just out to annoy people. Best to ignore.
With Midwest,
CG is full Kerouac, sometimes it works others not.
CG, you have to calm down a bit…
You can’t be hyping Wenger then slamming Emery, it looks like you’re on the wind-up
We tried CG’s version of Arsenal under Wenger and ended up a laughing stock.
Everton 1 Arsenal 0 Arsenal 2 Palace 3 Leicester 3 Arsenal0 Wolves 3 Arsenal 0 Arsenal 1 Brighton 1 Teams that finish the season as badly as this – very rarely turn it around by the start of a new season. Sure 6 overseas players will come But we will continually be disjointed. And have a reactive and third rate coach. Man city Spurs Liverpool Chelsea Man Utd (50/50) Wolves Leicester Everton All look more mobile ,younger more Athletic than us. They certainly have better managers. I will not be in the minority wanting The New Regime out by November… Read more »
CG, how can you have such clarity about Emery… but still be in denial about Wenger?
When I said ‘ Do a Fulham’ I meant not by being Relegated – but by having 3 managers.
Cast your minds back- when Koeman finished the season badly at Everton.
He got sacked after 5 games .
Then they had Unsworth
Then they had Big Sam
I am predicting next season
Emery
Freddie
Rafa B next season.
A season from hell awaits
I have watched soccer long enough to know – when trouble is brewing…
Clarity about Emery
Now we know why CG still posts
He has Emery figured out apparently, the worst coach in the league
Emery European Honours:
UEFA Europa League: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
Wenger European Honours:
Lol, lol, lol
Why does CG keep calling football ‘soccer’?
PedRo We( all know more about football than Emery ) Was it Gambon- who stated that he has not had the same team for 75 games!!! 75 games!!! That’s BS. That’s bluff. His only strategy is to stay in his post as long as he can( with his coaching cronies).. all decision making is underscored by this single strategy.. If you are as proficient in The Loosers Cup- as he is – by default you are third rate. No one else decent is in it. I mean who wins this garbage 3 TIMES!!!!!?? You will all come round eventually Good… Read more »
Surely Emery gets to keep the trophy, if he wins it for the fourth time.
Yes the answer to all our dreams the Europa league trophy.
The reason Emery has won so many Lea is because he isn’t good enough to play CL football.
It’s like being Miss Skegness 2019.
It’s like being winner of rear of the year – over 20 stone category
It’s like being player of the year in the Djibuti 3rd division.
Don’t give him a trophy. Give him an enormous wooden spoon.
It’s more like Sevilla are not good enough to win the Champions league not Emery.
Its patients night in the asylum
Lea, Djibouti third division,the FA cup qualifies you for the Europa league but the Europa league is garbage while the FA cup is prestigious.
I bet Man Utd would swap places with Arsenal right now..hey gambon lol
I don’t know about y’all but I’m still trying to figure out what color my aura is… MGooner had me worried I didn’t have one. turns out I’m violet. Who knew. ? lol
https://www.auracolors.com/aura-colors/aura-colors-questionnaire/
Midwest
Mines is black….
I’d of taken you for blue Midwest.. like a rolling stone.
Skegness.
I miss the UK.
Mines is black….
_____
Lol that’s your soul Un… I think your aura is something different but I’m not really up on my spiritual glow colors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYz3E4MckSw
Hahahah Sal you are a Golden God! there can only be one Sal Paradise.
https://twitter.com/MarcGeschwind/status/1131047062542442503
Odegaard looking sharp
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/pierre-emerick-aubameyangs-role-chelsea-16181871
Thanks a lot Auba…… you couldn’t convince him to go anywhere else? Pulisic is dead to me now.
They gained pulisic but will lose Hazard that’s a downgrade big time
Anyone that wants us to lose any game is not s gooner and should go out their mums thong on and walk down old Street singing they love spurs
Hazard, Brandt, Sancho, Reus, Goetze
Dortmund can’t surely play all 5 of them at the same time, surely someone is leaving.
Have to say i admire the way Dortmund is run, such a well run football club, always several steps ahead especially when it comes to player recruitment
Mid
No my soul 05/06 Ribena
Yeah Pulisic is a downgrade for the immediate future for Chelsea.. He is just as skillful as Hazard on the ball and quicker… but not as good at shooting. Also, he isn’t as robust… Has a slight build compared to Hazard. He has already had muscular injury problems in Germany .. so if I had to guess I think he will be injured more over the course of PL season , will have to be managed closely. But I’m just disappointed he chose Chelsea.. Club over country…… won’t be rooting for him until he puts on the red ,white and… Read more »
Seems that ManUtd have suddenly realised that their squad is poor. For some of their players Winter is coming. It’s going to be the great culling.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utd-untouchable-anthony-martial-15806243
That puts our squad problems into perspective. Maybe contrary to what some keep stating, Arsenal may not have the sixth best squad in the league.
Valentin
No, it’s just that United are ambitious; they know they can’t accomplish what they want to accomplish with the fourth or fifth best squad in the league. It doesn’t mean our squad is better than theirs; it’s not, and no reasonable observer thinks it is.
@Bamford, Look at their defense and tell me that ours is not better than theirs. Ashley Young is their right back. Before Luke found some form, Valencia was their left back. Bailly is like Koscielny, made of glass. Smalling, Jones are their CBs. Take deGea out of their defense (and next year he is likely to be gone) and their defense is worse than ours. In attack, I would take Lacazette and Aubameyang over Sanchez, Lukaku and Rashford. Thier midfield is individually much better than ours, but because it is also unbalancef it is not a lot more functional. Pogba… Read more »
We only beat utd’s squad up front imo
We can compare defenses but ours is frankly horrible so I’m not sure we come out of that any better. Their keeper is better even tho Leno is good
Rather quite on Raul’s explanation on why Ramsey’s contract was pulled.
With 1 year to go apparently he had mega offers and if we wanted to keep him, we would had to match those. So we decided to not do an Ozil again ( though Rambo is twice the player).
But we all know the truth , Ramsey’s contract was pulled coz emery didn’t fancy him.
“Sportsmail revealed that the governing body have warned Arsenal that any protests from their supporters will not be tolerated. Officials have been promoted to be on the lookout for any anti-UEFA banners in Baku as well as listening out for chants.”
UEFA acting like a fascist organization again, no dissent allowed, just accept any scummy, shady thing they do and shut up. Disgusting.
United has just fired their U23 coach.
What about getting in there to pick off their best youngsters?
Angel Gomes, Tahith Chong, Mason Greenwood…
If the situation was reversed you know they would be in there unsettling our talent…
Lol, I can only imagine gambon and co trying to talk to the fans after we win the EL. Everyone celebrating while these lot Will be trying to whisper things like “this is papering over the cracks” or “he’s still a shit manager”. And on the other hand if we do manage to lose, the same smug smile with the “told you so, I knew it all along” attitude. Somehow I feel that,because gambon was one of the first on this blog to petition Wenger leaving, he wants to try to be the first to get the petition to get… Read more »
This should put the notion to rest that Emery pulled the Ramsey’s contract off….
m.goal.com/e/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2019/05/22/53965362/arsenal-did-not-offer-ramsey-new-deal-due-to-salary-balance
Raul in the DM this morning: “When asked, Sanllehi conceded that an ‘error’ had been made allowing Ramsey’s contract to run down, a situation Arsenal ‘cannot’ let happen in the future. He added: ‘The position of the club, of losing a player of the quality — not only the football quality but the human quality and club identification — of Aaron, we have to avoid that. It’s not correct for us.'” His error cost our club £10s of millions and yet he was not fired! But then Wenger/Gazidis cost our club £100s of million………….. Yup Stan has really got his… Read more »
So for the sake of clarity Raul was at Barca for what? 15 years dealing with player acquisition and sales and his first real test at Arsenal was to sort out Ramsey’s deal/sale.
Looks to me that Stan didn’t delve into why Raul was let go by Barca.
You couldn’t make this up if you tried.
“Arsenal will still attract the best players even if we miss out on the Champions League, insists head of football Raul Sanllehi”
Wonder how this Gazidis-esque statement is going to hold up by the end of the TW?
Why is the head of football even mentioning the negative “if we miss out” (losing) before the game?
As for the Cech debate, Emery should pick his best 11 where sentiment plays no part.
Right now Leno is our best keeper – play him!
Ospina is returning . Ugh. Napoli wouldn’t play him once more to trigger a £2 million payment and aren’t willing to buy him. I don’t blame them but he is unsellable and is not good enough to be no.2 to Leno. What a pain
‘Why is the head of football even mentioning the negative “if we miss out” (losing) before the game?’
Because there is a distinct chance we may not win the game.
It’s a 50-5- probability so he has to consider it. Would you rather he stuck his head in the sand?
Good to hear Sanllheli talk about ammunition. Let’s hope he uses it. Sounds to me like a lame duck shooting party.