Here we go. The big one. The Europa League final. The success of our season rides on this one game. Win, and it’s fancy players and the hope we can move up a level next season. Lose, we watch a Europa League manager do his thing on a budget all summer long. Those cold sweat Banega/Nzonzi/Gameiro nightmares will become Freddy Krueger levels of reality.
One of the biggest selection questions we have this evening is whether Petr Cech plays, the manager seems to be leaning in an uncomfortable direction.
“I respect him a lot. His career is amazing. First, like a person and second like a professional goalkeeper, I think he deserved us to trust in him. Not because I am saying to you here, but because his career says to us that he is a gentleman. Tomorrow he can start or cannot start. I am going to decide. But both for him is done with respect. Really, I think how can we not believe in him?”
I love a romantic story and I love Petr Cech. The greatest goalkeeper in Premier League history. He was such an outrageous pro back in the day. Literally a brick wall.
… but this is elite sport. Fine margins. 2% here or there. The reality of Cech is he’s our second best goalkeeper. The second reality is that he’s pretty much nailed on to be Chelsea’s new Sporting Director. There is no line of business that involves proper money and talent that would allow him to lead or present if he were already committed to someone else. It’s called gardening leave my darlings.
The manager kind of hinted the final choice wasn’t cut and shut.
‘I want to do something important with him in the last moment of his career – and this has been my conversation with him, playing or not playing. We want to win for us.’
There is no longer a decision to be made. Sentimentality didn’t win us the 2008 league cup final. We are not obligated to provide a romantic end to his illustrious career. If there is something nice to be done, buy a gold watch or get a banging Cookie Cake from Lakeside. Don’t risk the future of our club on someone that’s retiring to the enemy.
Football is the Serengeti, no one cares how many antelope you mauled, no one gives a fuck about the cubs you fathered… when push comes to shove, Scar is always going to be there, ready to shove you off the cliff into the abyss. Hakuna Matata is for meerkats, songful wild boar, and cucks… NOT KINGS OF THE FUCKING EAST AFRICAN PLAINS.
(Auba is west Africa, but my sources say he’d easily be adult SIMBA if he was part of my metaphorical east African Disney metaphor for ElITE football)
If Emery plays Leno and he rolls the ball into his own net, no one will blame him for playing one of the players of the season, and arguably, one of the best keepers in the league. Play Cech and lose, mistake or no mistake, people are going to gun for the manager. Cech’s very selection would be a black mark against Emery’s decision making and backbone.
Also worth noting that Cech slated the low-pressure environment at Arsenal.
“I completely disagree with people who say, ‘When you pressure comes, [you don’t win]’. No. I think we lose points where there is not enough pressure. So, we went to Everton [on April 7]. You know you win, you go third… you lose, you stay fourth. We lost. That week with Wolves [losing at Molineux, either side of defeats to Crystal Palace and Leicester], it was the same situation.
“There was always a cushion, there was always, ‘It is not such a disaster’. We should probably create more pressure on everybody because that would give people more to think about.
I agree with the above. Unai should show him what a high-pressure environment looks like because the above can’t all be on Wenger. Make no mistake, you can change a culture in a year. We need a strong call. Our new man needs to show his teeth, just like his heroes Pep, Simeone, and Jose would do.
They’d all pick Leno, no doubt.
I thought it was slightly odd for Emery to be talking about how he mismanaged Aaron Ramsey’s fitness (what did I tell you?), but whatever. We need to stop dissecting the issue and move on. We didn’t want to pay the money he was after, so we yanked the deal, let’s accept the consequences like adults and hope there’s a good plan to replace.
Chelsea news is looking spectacularly shite for them. Hudson-Odoi is injured, can you believe it, I even wrote about it a month ago, what a fucking dunce I am.
Total banter is Sarri seems to be having a meltdown about his future.
“For me, at the beginning of the season, it was really very difficult to understand my players, to understand the mentality. But, after a very difficult month in January, in February they started to change. Or probably I changed, I don’t know. In this moment I love them because I have 20-22 wonderful men and wonderful players. So now I’m really very happy with them. I have to consider the future. And I have to consider that I love English football, I love the Premier League.”
Hahahahah!
Very good. He also threw a tantrum at the end of his final session.
Sarri is understood to have been unhappy that the team’s final training session was open to observers, as per Uefa’s stipulation. A Chelseaspokesman said: “Maurizio’s frustration displayed at the end of training was not related to any of his players, but was due to not being able to practise set-plays in the final 15 minutes of the hour-long training session as it remained open to media.”
There was presumably exasperation, too, that N’Golo Kanté had been limited to around half an hour of gentle running with a physio. The knee injury picked up at Cobham on Saturday is likely to see him start the final on the bench at best. The midfielder spoke at length with the medical director, Paco Biosca, on the pitch before going inside for further treatment. Sarri had earlier rated his involvement as “50-50”.
This is either unreal mind games, or he’s just pissed the club will sack him if it goes badly tonight. The Kante news for me feels pretty real, he’s injured. Bench him and it’s bad news for them, start him and there’s a huge risk of doubling down on his injury (literally what Emery said happened with Aaron). Sure, he’s not playing his best position, but he’s still a World Cup winner they don’t have on the pitch.
This game is going to be huge. We have two of the most potent strikers in world football to feed. We have one of the greatest creators the game has ever seen, hoping to show that he cares. Laurent Koscielny, a great servant of the club, is likely manning his last ever major final for Arsenal as captain (god help us if we go super-cuck and give it to Petr). LT looks fit and raring. Someone has the chance to be a hero against Hazard. Unai Emery has the opportunity to take his season from ‘meh’ to, ‘ohhhh, maybe?’
If Arsenal approach this game like we did the Spurs match in December, we’ll be a huge problem for Sarri. If we head into this game thinking Emery’s success in the tournament somehow gives us a divine right to win, we’re fucked.
Regardless of your confidence, Chelsea are the better side.
… but this is a cup game. Last time we played Chelsea in a cup final we KNEW we’d lose, we dropped an absolute classic of a game, and won like heroes.
We need some of that magic tomorrow.
This game is monumental for our future, our reputation, and our pride.
COME ON ARSENAL, MAKE US PROUD!
See you in the comments x
❤️ “Hi boys, I am thinking of you. An amazing game is coming. I want to wish you all the best for the game – and bring the trophy home please!
“Come on boys, I miss you my friends!”
🥰 @19SCazorla is going to be right behind us tomorrow night
🏆 #UELfinal pic.twitter.com/Q0ALpFUO95
— Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) May 28, 2019
Trophy !!
Oh yes !!
Tro4phy!
Tr4phy
If Arsenal win today, I hope Pedro grants me the privilege of first comment starting tomorrow !!
Damn you DM!
I feel nervous but I. Am. So. Excited!!! I really can’t wait for tonight!
Come on The Arsenal!!!!
Crikey mate, nervous for this one but let’s bring it on home!
Come on baby give us that sweet CL cash.
Emery can say it’s about the trophy. And it definitely is, a European trophy Arsenal have never lifted before. Beautiful to think we will be European champions.
But actually it’s really about the money for us right now. Equally or even more so. Argue the philosophy and who is responsible for it till our deaths. We need that cash. Even if only so no one can use money as a cheap excuse for a mediocre summer and another season of running in place toward 4th/5th next year.
Come on Arsenal this is so important for our next few seasons I am already nervous
Pedro
My view is that Leno should play in goal and not Cech. This is not because Cech
is moving back to Chelsea, but because as you suggest Leno is our first choice gk.
We have to focus on ourselves, if Kante does make their starting XL – he won’t be at full pelt, and irrespective of that training ground ‘bust up’, we must play the game of our lives this evening.
Finally, pick the best team to do the job. Forget sentiment.
Lacazette can be Rafiki.
Nerves are a jangling.
We will win.
EmiratesstrollerMay 29, 2019 08:05:32 I have been criticising Wenger for more than 10 years. Not the 3 you suggest. ——— With all due respect,you criticising a manager(Arsene)is wholly different from wanting or calling for a manager(Arsene) to be expunged or discharged from his managerial duties, given he was past his due date of expiry, is an entirely different scenario or argument altogether. So you might have criticised him for a decade on tactics, substitutions,player purchases/sales,etc,etc.. But you certainly were not calling for his contract to be terminated forthwith over the last decade,let alone over the last three years. I think… Read more »
One of the most important games in Arsenal history. I dont care about the EL as a trophy, its trash. It is however, so important to the future of this club that we are playing CL football. I think we win in injury time. We have many advantages: – We have more goals in the team – Emery has known his team for weeks now – Emery is very detail focused, Sarri is a hipster loser – We need to get in the CL, Chelsea are already there – Our players get bonuses for winning, CHelsea already have theirs The… Read more »
How we have missed the ‘little magician’
Amazing…
Such a huge game tonight, our most important game in the last decade, but still Pedro had to find a way to mention his God, Pep.
Let’s hope Santi will bring us luck for tonight.
“We need some of that magic tomorrow.”
Erm… not tomorrow, but TONIGHT.
“I dont care about the EL as a trophy, its trash.”
Another totally stupid comment by the great specialist in stats…
Auba is from Central Africa not West Africa…..not that it matters.
Gambon
Agree. Couldn’t give a shit about this “European trophy” nonsense, it’s a shower of shit cup that you don’t want associated with; and if you are, then only as winners.
This one is about our ability to better craft a future we all want to see, it chucks the hat back into the ring and we can at least pretend to be relevant for a summer. We need this, the money, the CL status.
COYG
hakuna matata Pedro. your right Auba is a simba. simba is a lion for those who don’t know. Am from kenya Pedro and feels awesome to read that here.
The boys today have to turn up and win the game. Good luck to the arsenal
What we had learn today : A TROPHY IS TRASH, IT’S PURE GARBAGE.
Many thanks to gambon.
Pedro I am now going to refer to today’s interview in Daily Telegraph. Emery has made it crystal clear that he does not expect to be at Arsenal more than 3-4 years maximum. His explanation for this is not a lack of loyalty or that the grass is greener elsewhere, but because the head coach/manager needs 100% intensity to be competitive and that is a relative short time cycle as Conte showed at Chelsea. Second he has identified the weakness at Arsenal. He pointed out that pre Wenger the club had a reputation for being competitive and difficult to beat.… Read more »
And to his pal Champagne Moron, of course.
I would be playing Leno all the time over Cech. Cech to my mind is showing his age and his legs are gone. You can see that clearly in his play when the ball is at his feet. He cannot play out from the back and tends to as a rule hammer the ball down the field when its played back to him which will be buns to a bear to Chelsea. If this current Chelsea side have any strength it is in the fact that they are very good in the air at the back. So if we play… Read more »
@Arsnil : there is another way to see things…
Cech is not stupid, he knows that we wants Leno in the cage. And the fact that he returns to Chelsea this summer is another concern. But I think that, in fact, those circumstances could motivates him even more for tonight.
Fair play to HighburyLegend
He is right to be outraged (as he always seems to be……anger issues)
Its a huge competition. We can join European Giants Sevilla, Shaktar Donetsk, CSKA Moskow, Zenit St Petersburg and Galatasaray if we win tonight.
A Cheerleading piece of early morning Codswallop today( certainly not up to our PedRo’s usually exalted standards- but (IOCTY4I) It’s a post that will undoubtedly curry favour with The AFC Delinquents and Deplorables – but the more discerning posters- know its mainly old fashioned Guff…. PedRo: “””… but this is elite sport””” May I remind him and others- this is not elite sport! This is The Loosers Cup in Baku and it is footballing Filth. Pure filfth. Saturday in Madrid- is Elite Sport, dear Boys and Girls. (Liverpool and Klopp v Spurs and Poch.) There will be no glory for… Read more »
Here comes the resident imbecile who adds little and takes away so much from this section. But hey, something needs to keep this comment section interesting.
Won’t celebrate to highly if we win the Europa.My focus would be on how we push on from here.What vision,plan ,strategies are in place to make us a force to be reckoned with.Signing players early,getting rid of the dross.Fitting round pegs in round holes,as opposed to fitting square pegs in round holes..
“Emery: Trophy win tops CL qualification”
Thank God, our manager is not as stupid as gambon or CC…
Pedro
cmon ffs, ban this village idiot already
Just launch the cunt into space already, ffs.
If only we can play Santi in Xhaka’s position.
And concerning CG… well it’s even worst, he’s a Chav.
Man CG, have you been smoking whatever Elon Musk was having
A coach asks a player to rest,player says he is fine to play and gets injured, coach takes the blame.
Mind you player in question was “marginalized” earlier in the season hence was fresher than his team mates yet he has broken down again.
As for the Europa league being “trash”… Lol
Big words from fans of a club who have never won the champions league, especially a supporter of a manager who has competed twice for this trash cup but never won it.
It’s true that the Europa League isn’t as prestigious as the Champion’s League, but that’s UEFA’s fault for devaluing everything and making a mockery of the word “Champion”. I’d prefer to go back to the old format of European Cup, Cup Winner’s Cup and UEFA Cup. More competitions, no safety nets, no back-door routes if you screwed up the league etc. All that aside, I still want us to win it. It’s more valuable than the FA Cup after all, and second only to the league in terms of competitions we were in this year.
Also, we need to play Leno. He’s our first choice keeper, if we don’t play him we’re not seriously trying to win.
By all means, if it’s 2-0 to us with 5 minutes to go, sub Leno for Cech and let him lift the trophy or something. But if we start with him, our chance of lifting it at all is reduced.
‘Simba is a lion’
– No shit. Really thought it was a Disney character.
Fred L
Your language is utterly appalling.
No one uses that dreadful word- as much as you.
The English language is rich,diverse and forever burgeoning – can you find another one to use please…
Pedro
Do we really need such dross talk on such a special day?
Biggest day for 13 years and CG gets away with it yet again.
Atletico Madrid former winners too, as well as ManU, Real Madrid (UEFA Cup), Liverpool, Juventus, Inter…
Oh yes I’d love us to win this trophy. Does the other European trophy Arsenal won still in existence?
Biggles come off it.. The FA cup is a prestigious tournament and beats the Europa league hands down, too bad all it basically does is qualify you for the Europa league. Weird that. We don’t need anyone playing down the competition, we got to the final beating Napoli and Valencia not Wigan and Aston Villa. We are playing one time champions league and Europa league winners Chelsea. All this it’s a trash cup comments is nonsense. Some of the teams Gambon reeled off in mockery are well respected teams in Europe, I wonder where we as arsenal fans get the… Read more »
List of trophies in order of importance:
1. Champions League
2. Premier League
3. Europa League
4. FA Cup
5. Carling Cup or whatever it’s called these days.
Graham62
Leave him online.
We can all laugh at him if we win.
We can all take his “it does not matter” position, if we lose.
CG is a useful foil.
For a club that hasn’t won a shit load of European trophies, Arsenal do have some very high taste snobbish fans, especially on this blog
CG
This is not the ‘losers cup’. It is a ‘gateway’ to qualifying for Champions League.
Frankly I am sick and tired reading constantly how the’ Cup Competitions’ are
unimportant.
Guardiola stated clearly this season how much he valued winning the FA and
League Cups as well as Charity Shield.
Let’s be honest Arsenal are currently nowhere good enough to win the League
Title and Champions League so let’s focus on what we can win and stop denigrating the competition.
Receding
Sorry – its an absolutely trash competition.
The only reason teams now take it seriously is the CL spot. Why do you think UEFA did that, because they were bored?
Or because they saw teams like Braga, Rangers, Fulham and DNipro in the final, and realised no-one cared about it?
The very fact that everyone has been saying since last May, that Arsenal & CHelsea would be in the final, shows how weak it is.
Eintract Frankfurt finished 7th in Bundesliga, and should be in the final if it wasnt for that complete twat of a CB Hintregger.
This don’t want to be cuck with hotwife anymore. Enough is enough. Time to be the bull instead.
@Graham62 : concerning CG, I’m afraid you are speaking in the void…
Raheem
FA Cup ahead of the Europa League.
At least every UK team is in the FA Cup.
The EL is a second tier competition. Its basically for teams that arent good enough to be in the CL.
The very fact that teams that finish 3rd in the CL group are parachuted into the EL tells you all you need to know.
Gambon
This is our level, this where we are now, Athletics Madrid whom we all love to adore won it last year and their players and fans were over joyed, your almost always negative stance to all things Arsenal is way too boring at this point
The recent winners are not that bad though so the (((prestige))) is still there if you get what I mean lads.
Ridiculous the comments on here.
But to be expected from some.
Under Wenger plenty of the fan base became snobbish and delusional and it still manifests itself.
No wonder other club fans laugh at these Arsenal types.
Thank god there are more grounded Arsenal fans around.
And the FA cup is not more important than the Europa league, at least not in 2019
@gambonmoron : why don’t you just go support Liverpool, Tottenshit, or both ??
They are in the most prestigious final on earth!! lol
Spuds are in the final of the champions League despite finishing over 25 points behind Liverpool in the league.
When Liverpool won the champions League what position did they finish in the league?
EL is a biggish trophy, win it and revel in it.
Gambon would still be the one on here rambling and screaming tonight if heavens forbid we lose
There is a reason why we are widely ridiculed by most other fans in world football. A joke set of fans we have,
How poor to trash this trophy on the day of the final.
We all know why it’s being done though.
I really wish this club could fast forward ten years and we get the stench of Wenger away from this club which includes his delusional snobbish fan base.
Just like the man himself. Funny that.
Gambon so it’s the premier league or champions league alone for you
One you last won 15 years ago the other you have never won. Explains your frankly miserable outlook on all things football.
Wonder your thoughts on the FA cup, it’s English so it must be tough to win right
gambon just want one thing (sad to say that he’s not the only one…) : a defeat tonight.
And another excuse for Emery’s head to roll…
I am just glad we are facing Chelsea in the final. Imagine it is some other club from one of the minor leagues.
gambon is one miserable cunt!
Why don’t we just abandon game because it’s a shit trophy…..
“Gambon would still be the one on here rambling and screaming tonight if heavens forbid we lose”
Of course. Its one of our most important games ever.
Not sure if it’s his defense coping mechanism but it sure takes the joy of the cup day for me if that line of thinking continues. This is no Wenger cup run where we know it will be meaningless because we were stuck in purgatory.
This is an uncharted territory, the unknown and I’d rather go through it with excitement rather than dread.
Lol..the FA cup is what I will call a shit competition if ever they was one. All the English teams compete for it actually makes it worse. Championship teams play second string sides in the FA cup, think about that.
Gambon
Thanks for eloquently emphasising to the Delinquents that this soccer tournament is a complete and utter farce.
If has no kudos,glory or any decent teams in it.
It’s a money laundering racket.
Its only saving grace – is if you win the dammed thing- you dont have the ignominy of being in it again the following year!
If Arsenal lose tonight.
They -by my reckoning- will probably have another 14-18 Thursday night fixtures next season to ENJOY.
EMERY dare not loose this Ebening!
List of trophies in order of importance:
1. Champions League
2. Premier League
3. Europa League
4. FA Cup
5. Carling Cup or whatever it’s called these days.
I would say winning your own league is firstly the most important. Yes the champions league is the holy grail of all but winning the champions league and only coming like 7th in your league is bs. just my opinion.
“Gambon so it’s the premier league or champions league alone for you”
Well, the PL is by far the most important.
All trophies are good to win.
This is just not a serious competition.
Man Utd won it, the fans never mention it. Chelsea won it a few years back, the fans never mention it.
Its a stepping stone. Nothing more.
The very fact that no-one wants to be in the EL tells you all you need to know.
I don’t understand the mentality of those who denigrate every cup competition in which Arsenal reach the Final.
Manchester United won this competition two years and Athletico Madrid last
year. Both Liverpool and Ajax have finished runners-up in last three years.
Do you think that their supporters have the same view of the competition as the posters on Le Grove?
Gambon
I would remind you that Valencia beat Barcelona last week in their Cup competition. Do you think that Barcelona did not want to win the League and
Cup double?
Gambon
Did you watch the FA Cup final? Remember when we met Villa in the final? Hull?
From the semis the Europa is a decent competition. Apart from when we beat Chelsea in the final the FA cup has been crap recently.
Emirates
Man Utd fans, and Chelsea fans literally didnt give a fuck about winning the EL
Chelsea dont even have a parade planned if they win.
What UTD fans did give a fuck about was getting into the CL.
What do you expect from these Wenger sweeties Emirates Stroller?
The prat used to tell them every season for the past decade and a half that Arsenal were serious contenders for the EPL and CL.
These Wenger sweeties think big.
Even the so called purists slating the Europa Cup can surely see the significance of this game in the grand scheme of things. Winning the cup could provide a much needed history and springboard to our club in terms of attracting players, retaining laca and auba and make the club attractive for any future managers with pedigree.
I get the funny feeling that the ones insulting the Europa cup are the same ones who are shamelessly gunning for Emery to be shown the door at the earliest.
I mean people even used Griezman winning it and the world cup last year as a reason why he should be world best. We last won the league you so desire in 2004 and haven’t won in Europe bar the old cup winners cup in 1994 so maybe you are supporting the wrong club if you think the Europa league isn’t our level at the moment one we hope to use as a springboard to bigger things. Arsenal fans do not have any right whatsoever to be snubbish to an European trophy unless your CG who is just a poor… Read more »
“CG”
For crying out loud, it is LOSE, it is not LOOSE
Definition of Lose – to be deprived of something, no longer have or keep something etc
Definition of Loose – something not firmly or tightly fixed in place etc
The bigger picture is beating Chelsea
I hate them.
I don’t care if it’s a friendly. Beating those scumbags gives me so much satisfaction.
Gambon who mentions winning the FA cup? Conte and Van Gaal both got sacked the year they won it.
I am not holding brief for the Europa league but placing the FA cup above it because all English clubs play it in is one of the stupidest stuff said on here, sounds like something CG would say.
I will take a second place league finish over the Europa league but I sure won’t swap it for an FA cup.
For me its the domestic league, the champions league. Everything else you make do as circumstances dictate.
Radio
To win the FA Cup, you compete with every team in England. The winners, more often than not are big clubs.
To win our 3 recent FA Cups we beat Spurs, Liverpool, Man Utd, Man City & CHelsea along the way.
To win the EL, compete with teams that couldnt finish in the top 4 of the big leagues, teams that get to the CL knockout stages,
Its a terrible competition.
Its like winning the CHampionship,
No-one cares about winning the championship, they care about getting into the PL
The EL has become the “chsmpionship” of Europe.
Gambon
Chelsea don’t have a parade planned because they’ve won it before oh and they’ve also won the champions league before, we’ve won neither and who cares what other clubs do by the way…
Siddarth
Sorry but youre mental if you think players are lining up to go to the EL winners.
Its CL status that matters.
Anyway, off to Twitter, lots of Arsenal fans out there really looking forward to the game later tonight so I’ll soak up all the build up there rather on ” Le grovellers” thanks Pierre, finally found an appropriate time to use this
Batistutua
So trophies are only improtant when you havent won one before?
You think maybe Liverpool wont bother with a CL parade, because you know, they won it 5 times already?
Just accept it, its seen as a trash trophy.
CG still allowed to post… go figure.
No one cares about the FA cup no matter how many English clubs play in it.
It qualifies you for the Europa league ffs
Gambon
Great Points as always.
Think – you are wasting your time..
Some on here – are totally brainwashed and are unable to think for themselves.
The Education system back over in The Old Country – must be on its Knees.
Incredulous.
@gambon : just accept it, you’re seen as a trash fan.
Chelsea fan’s think its snobbish of the club not to have a parade planned. Athletico Madrid seemed pretty pleased with their win last year. I didn’t notice any of them ashamed of the shit cup.
You can thrash it if you like but don’t big up the FA cup in the same breath. It rubbishes your argument
Gambon
See what you mean. Yet as a club without much of a European pedigree we could do with the trophy. I remember Liverpool going nuts winning it with Houlier, ManU hoping their win will be a springboard to post-Ferguson success. Could turn out to be a really important post-Wenger.
As for the FA cup it only gets you to the Europa, Europa gets you CL. That’s a clear flight path if ever there was one.
Christ, is it that hard to fathom that some don’t get their dick rock hard at the EL trophy?
We win today I won’t be punching the air at that sweet trophy, it’ll be the fact we’re in the CL again, competing again (hopefully), able to upscale the summers ambition.
Quick question:
Who wants to defend the EL next season should we win it today? I’ll wait..
Liverpool fans certainly didn’t trash the Europa League when they were involved in it. That’s rubbish. They realised at what level their team was at that time but still got behind their club and respected the competition they were in. And that was when Europa League was not a ticket to CL.
Learn something from them.
Gambon
As matters stand Arsenal do not have a cats in hell chance of winning the League let alone the Champions League.
So for once be graceful and hope that we can win the Europa Cup and progress to Champions League next season.
The club needs every crumb of success we can manage if we are going to get
back to the level we were at 12 years ago.
“Who wants to defend the EL next season should we win it today? I’ll wait..”
Ha ha
And here it is.
Like i just said, how can it be a big competition when no-one actually wants to be in it?
“So for once be graceful and hope that we can win the Europa Cup and progress to Champions League next season.”
Even in your defence of the EL as a trophy you are making my point for me.
How many fucking times:
The EL trophy is trash….but this is one of our most important games ever.
Get it?
CG
Out of curiosity what have you achieved personally in your life? You seem so
dismissive of what Arsenal do.
My guess is it is absolutely “zippo”
Gambon
It isn’t a big comp, it’s a collection of Europe’s also-rans, then the CL also-rans for that season.
It’s great to win for the CL spot on offer, but do me a favour with any prestige associated with it. It’s so good I never want us to compete for it again… 🙄
Auba and laca will be too much for them tonight and we will stick it all over the rent boys, come on you gunners.