THE FOOTBALLING GODS LISTENING TO LT ASK FOR A POSTPONED GAME
Here we go everyone, top 4 destiny is in our hands, all we need to do is go to the current Champions and beat them 4-0 in an away game.
Simple, right?
Not really. This will be a beast of a game. Or will it? No, it will be, because we’re Arsenal and we are the best friend of ANY manager under a little pressure.
Pep G is going to go all out to make sure Arteta gets what’s coming to him. Mikel left the nest, he must be punished. He’s basically the European Union right now… my dad was all like, ‘free me from these crazy rules that don’t affect me’, then the EU was like, ‘How do you like queues at airports, bitch.’
Pep is basically queues at airports.
OR, there is a counter-narrative. The season is done. There is only one thing left for Pep to achieve, that’s a raised middle finger to the bastards at UEFA for kicking him out of the Champions League. Sane and KDB are coming back to fitness, will he risk them? Probably. But how hard will they go knowing they have a HUGE game against Madrid on TUESDAY. They also have an easy game against Burnley on Saturday.
City either rest players, which might work for us. Or, the players rest themselves, putting in a half shift.
Or, they absolutely fucking batter us.
Arteta has made us tougher to beat. He hasn’t been beaten on the road since he joined… he’s also not played a City like club.
I’m hoping that he packs the midfield with players that can put in a shift and move about. I’d love him to spring an counter attacking game, I’m just not sure we’re equipped to change the way we play so early on in the Arteta story. We can barely play the one way he’s trying to implement at the moment (personnel issues).
UPDATE
Ok, so the game has been postponed because the Olympiacos top dog has coronavirus and the Premier League don’t want to risk anything.
That’s the sort of elite strategising I was hoping for when we signed Arteta. He saw the sniffles, sensed the moment, and jumped on it. Stone-cold killer. I love it.
We were not in good shape for that game. Now we have the chance to bring some injured players back into the mixer. The opportunity to find a bit of form… and the big one… pray City are further along in the race for Champions League glory. Imagine if they reschedule in between a semi or a quarter-finals? WOULD BE SO GOLD.
Anyway, short post. I trust after 2 weeks, the chances of Arsenal players being struck down with anything are slim. Let’s wait it out and rack up 3 points against Brighton this weekend (if we play). That’s an absolute MUST.
On the virus thing… I really hope they don’t cancel the Premier League. Just play it behind closed doors. Let’s not lose our minds, there’s a way to play games without mass gatherings.
Before I go. CAN WE ALL SEND A LOL THE WAY OF SPURS FANS AND MOURINHO FAN BOYS!
‘I think Jose has changed, he has new backroom staff, he’s over his marriage issues, he has a new outlook’
Totally spanked by a young progressive young coach that basically said dissecting Spurs from a tactical perspective was a piece of piss.
‘Look at the injuries’
Grow up, those players gave nothing, there was no plan, they are stuck in 2011. You HATE to see it.
Cannot believe anyone would watch his smirking prezzer after and still pine for him… that after a week where he cunted off his record signing in the press. He’s poison and finished. He literally thinks he can call someone a fat bitch in the press and they’ll be motivated to impress him. He does not understand the kids of today, and I am so, so glad about that.
Right, see you in the comments. x
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surely that’s a draw – 09:03:33
LOL
damn it.. I read the whole thing and missed out on 1st and 4th..
Pinoy
I’ve had that happen a couple of times before lol. I’ll accept a draw 🙂
Cheers DM! Until next post
“On the virus thing… I really hope they don’t cancel the Premier League”
Would be the funniest thing ever – “Liverpool you know that first PL title you guys have been chasing for 30 years? Well sorry we’ve just cancelled the competition better luck next season!”
Pinoy
I’m off to NYC today for a little over a week so I doubt I’ll be competing for a while, it’s all yours if you can beat the others!
Arteta BEASTING on his high level sniffles observation strategy
We hired the right guy, Pedro
Jose looks like an old tramp.
My inside sauce told me that arteta heard Auba fart and escalated it as a suspected corona virus case to Raul
Job done. Fuck off city
I was quite surprised how Jose set up his team last night…He set them up to fail. A central midfield of winks and Celso, vertonghen and Ndomble on the bench , Alli played as striker . It’s not surprising they were overrun. What did he expect , surely if he didn’t want to play Ndomble, he should have a played a midfield of Dier ,winks and Alli and brought in vertonghen to play at the back. Lamela is a waste of space so he could have played moura and celso as his offensive players with Alli supporting. The way Jose… Read more »
Marc it would be fucking Golden
Imagine that high pitched gutteral squeal you’d hear raining out of the city if that got announced
Music to my ears lol
I also think it would be hilarious to see them win the title in an empty stadium LOL. Imagine how fucking underwhelming that would be!!! Straight up hilarious. Where do the players go? A lap of honour to the stands? Just 20 or so grown men running around a massive pitch jumping on each other and shouting in an ominously quiet arena
GOLDEN
what will be quite telling if it happens is that wolves will probably dispose of Olympiacos easily as they have a functioning midfield which again is why I think Sheffield and wolves will finish above Arsenal , seriously think our CM’S ARE THE WORST IN THE TOP TEN prem teams really really poor but it is personnel and I don’t think this is something Arteta can fix ?
China
Mate it’s gonna happen – also no open bus tour through Liverpool celebrating the win.
I say bin it all off and forget this season CL places should be assigned on alphabetical order!
Marc the first day of the season is always my favourite for the same reason
Alphabetical order is a beautiful thing I tell you
Enjoy NYC, DM!
“hope they don’t cancel the Premier League. Just play it behind closed doors. Let’s not lose our minds, there’s a way to play games without mass gatherings.”
The players don’t need protection? The next guy you are marking on a corner might be carrying the virus
I remember when we were linked with Serge Aurier. Thank god thatnever materialised. If he’s good enough for Champions League, there’s still a chance for me yet.
“I say bin it all off and forget this season CL places should be assigned on alphabetical order!”
AFC Bournemouth
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Brighton
Sounds good to me lol
PedRo “”””Totally spanked by a young progressive young coach that basically said dissecting Spurs from a tactical perspective was a piece of piss.””””” Well that may have been the case. But would Liverpool play as well without Mane, Salah and Firminio? Because thats what Spurs and Jose are now dealing with the loss of Kane, Son and Erikson. As for young progressive coaches – our MA certainly ticks that box. Well, he had a 1 zero lead going into a home a fixture against Olympiakos. (A team , incidentally Jose and Spurs scored 6 goals against in their CL group… Read more »
Top whatever?
On the one hand, CG despises and denigrates the Europa League ‘loosers’ Cup and doesn’t think Arsenal should be playing in such a low-rent competition.
On the other hand, he highlights us crashing out of the Europa League as a stick with which to beat Arteta.
Perfect CG logic on display.
Pierre
Dier played yesterday. He stationed very close to Alderweireld and Tanganga. He was a DM/CB combined.
Jamie,
I can’t believe you put the words “CG” and logic in the same sentence.
To do that you have to 87% deluded.
Jamie “””Perfect CG logic on display.”””” And Ill explain further, It was not particularity a criticism of MA. Although I don’t know if Arsenal have ever lost a European tie having a 1 goal advantage from the away leg. It was criticism of all this total unadulterated nonsense spoken about these over hyped young progressive coaches that folk bark on about. (Funny they are the ones that don’t seem to win the trophies,) Heard it all for years, Eg, Terry Venables was a young progressive coach in comparison to George Graham at the time when he was at Spurs and… Read more »
Wasn’t this blog, as well as a large minority of posters, pining for Mourinho earlier this season?
Nelson
“Dier played yesterday. He stationed very close to Alderweireld and Tanganga. He was a DM/CB combined.”
I know he played , he played as centre back in a back 3 , not in midfield.
Tottenham played a wing back system.
As glad as I am that Spuds got dumped unceremoniously from the CL yesterday, the stark reality is that we too were turfed out of EL by a vastly inferior team to RBL. That RBL team would have also handed us our arses in similar fashion yesterday. If this team is to go anywhere this season and especially next. Significant changes have to happen. Just see how we were taken to the brink of hell by both Everton and West Ham. If I see Ozil and Xhaka in any Arsenal lineup next season , then I know another year is… Read more »
Eduardo, a lot of folk wanted Mourinho… even me for 1 day.
Liverpool FC — the non Invincibles and hopefully the non- Champions of 2019-20? Even if they were awarded the title now, it would always have an asterisk by it which we could use to wind up your nearest Liverpool supporter whilst showing them a rerun of our 1989 League Title….
Pedro
What do you regret more?
“Eduardo, a lot of folk wanted Mourinho… even me for 1 day….”
or
Championing Gazidas night and day and twice on weekends for months on end?
I told you Gazidas was nothing special… 😉 I was right about him and you were right about Arteta… I say we’re evens.
Global, bit of a non-comment there.
1) Who cares if we went out? That was 14 days ago. This is now. We’re laughing at Spurs.
2) ‘Arsenal won’t improve if we don’t make changes’ is sounding the klaxon for the obvious. It’s the new pivot for people that thought we’d sink further under new management.
Edu and Arteta will make changes this summer, it’s not in question. The extent is reliant on where we finish in the league.
Leeds, Mourinho for sure. That was a dark moment. I’m not really fussed about the Gazidis issue. Plenty of very successful people have been enamoured with a grand plan and a convincing instigator. I met him. He’s smart, he seemed constrained by the system, and he had a plan I thought was good when Wenger left. Ivan was also hired by the Elliot Group, one of the finest activist investors in the world, so I’m in good company with believing in him… except I didn’t have as strong a trail of evidence to go on. The plan was good, the… Read more »
Pedro
I know that plenty of AC Milan fans would disagree with you…. they can’t wait to see the back of Gazidas.
He’s nothing special… just very lucky to have latched on to the football/Arsenal gravy train before it left the staton.
We’ll agree to disagree. 😉
I told you Gazidas was nothing special… 😉 I was right about him and you were right about Arteta… I say we’re evens.
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Wait, what?
The verdict on Arteta is in and he’s been declared a success?
Based on what I wonder.
I think you’re too kind on gazidis Pedro. He talked a good talk but there’s a huge difference between being smart and capable (in the context required I mean) and just having a way of talking and convincing people. Most of what gazidis said was extremely light on detail. It was the kind of standard marketing sound bites you’d expect from anyone in that role speaking in front of the cameras. Very little he proposed was ahead of his time or out there. Wanting to be like Bayern Munich was a throwaway comment and most of the rest of his… Read more »
Un
Your comment was probably deleted because this isn’t a forum for spreading disinformation.
Everyone knows Coronavirus is a hoax perpetuated by Democrats and fake news media to hurt Trump.
You should know this.
I gather Milan fans hate gazidis because they are actually ambitious and won’t tolerate bulls hit for long before making some noise
Not like arsenal fans who would’ve gladly let arsene screw their wife if he’d asked nicely.
Win lose or draw, Milan fans know who they are and how big their club is. Imposters won’t last long
Un, yes. I deleted lots of comments. I don’t care for anyone’s hot take on the virus.
Unless it’s Toms accurate portrayal of what’s really going on.
Tom leave it out. Corona virus was made by gazidis by fermenting pickled eggs in arsene’s anus. The filthy bastards
China, disagree. Gazidis was clearly capable, he was running Arsenal at a profit, moved us through some tough times, kept us top 4. He was just very average. Then when the shackles were released, he didn’t manage the new model properly and then ran away. His ideas at Milan were great on paper, now he’s facing the music, two legends running a shit show, now he has to fire people the fans love. Disaster. His new idea, hire Ralph Rangnick is a great one, but he’s fucking that up as well. He has good thoughts on paper, but he can’t… Read more »
China1
Is that from WHO or the CDC office?
🙂
Serie A talking about play-offs to determine final league positions.
Amazing if the same thing happens here and City pip Liverpool to the title!
It’s so transparent, these agents must think we are idiots. In the past week, I’ve seen loads of “stories” talking about how Sokratis could leave the club.
Decent player, nothing more nothing less. If these stories were designed to elicit a groundswell of opinion from the fans to convince the club to give him a new contract… oh boy they’re in for a surprise.
If we get anything over £10m, I wish him well… put the money towards a collection for new world class centreback.
Liverpool fans must be tense at the moment 😂🤣
Virus,WTF is Redruth.I for one love his sarcasam.
Pedro what exactly was gazidis doing to keep us running at a profit, making top 4 etc?
Wenger ran the playing side, wenger ran the recruitment wenger ran the footballing finances, there was no director of football working with him etc
What exactly were gazidis contributions outside of making tea?
Tom WHO of course!
I think there’s no way in hell the PL can be cancelled with the title not still being given to Liverpool
The entire rest of the league has some or a lot of uncertainty about it, but the title is so far in Liverpool’s grip it has an awful accent already.
It would be literally criminal for the FA to not let Liverpool have it from here
China1
You’re bit harsh on tea ladies there comparing Gazidas with them… what did they ever do to you?!?! 😉
Sincerely sending you and yours my best wishes, especially during these interesting times!
I’m surprised Liverpool and Manchester based games are to be called of due to the Covid19 pandemic. Most of the disgusting people that emanate from those cities are far worse than any virus. In fact for scousers, the Covid19 is like having a wet nose.
It would be hilarious if Liverpool were denied the title due to a virus. Literally shit your pants funny.
I can’t tell if we should be panicking about Coronavirus or not? Some people claim millions are going to die while others say it less fatal than average flu bug. I went for blood tests yesterday and the two nurses thought it was all a bunch of bullshit. One nurse was Irish and she, her husband and three kids are going to Ireland for a week and then a week in Italy. She thought hysteria is good for her travel plans because all the tourist spots will be empty and her family will have building to themselves, she was most… Read more »
Pedro gazidis didn’t even run the fucking board meetings mate ‘When wenger has a plan, we listen. When he doesn’t, we don’t say anything’ rings a bell… Gazidis said a few nice sentences, most of which were outright lies. That was his contribution. He used to love doing the classic ‘we have money and we’re going to look at proper signings’ type comments just before season ticket renewal time, then vanish as soon as the renewals came in That was a really disingenuous and cultish thing to do Pedro. He didn’t have a plan apart from making sure wenger was… Read more »
Jwl you should be very concerned that a nurse can’t recognise a public health crisis in front of her The death rate is 10-30x higher than seasonal flu and significantly more contagious. It’s also contagious for around 5 days before you even have symptoms so you catch it, give it to your loved ones and a couple of colleagues before you even notice you have it It’s frankly staggering that nurses would think it’s bullshit when it’s resulted in the lockdown of not only 1/4 of the world’s population, but now Italy as well. I wouldn’t trust that nurse to… Read more »
China1 – I would be delighted to have been offered Gazidis job.
Paid millions to work for Arsenal and no responsibility, that was a good gig for Gazidis, I hate that the club allowed situation at all but Ivan took his chance to be well paid grifter.
Quite thread. Makes a few league cancellations seem trivial if this is what’s going on.
https://twitter.com/Yascha_Mounk/status/1237731864233807872
Also that nurse really hasn’t been reading the news has she lol
She won’t have buildings to herself… they’ll be closed lol
She thinks they’re going to have the entire country locked down but keep museums open and staffed for her pleasure?
Are you sure this woman is qualified to be a nurse???
Yeah jwl mate Ivan got was it £3m a year for a few press conferences and bringing wenger his morning hazelnut latte
He also got to take credit for being the CEO of a financially successful company for most of a decade despite that being entirely the work of the wenger lol
I can’t access twitter due to the great firewall. Any good quotes from that guy?
If CV-19 was a player he would be World class and 2nd to Messi
China1 – apparently tourists are taking photos from empty museums, nurse mentioned seeing photos on twitter of empty uffizi gallery, but I honestly have no idea what to think.
Also, remember that you live in China, one of the most regulated, censored countries in the world and The State decides what is truth. There have been many articles in Western media about how Chinese government is using Coronavirus to increase their control over population, this ‘panic’ is quite convenient for bureaucracy to increase monitoring of their people.
I’m from Kenya and my dad works between London and the Maldives…he just arrived yesterday and told me he was shocked to see that the Corona virus screening at JKIA(Our capital’s airport) is more serious than the one carried out at Heathrow…make of that what you will
Flying back from Budapest.
Glad it’s been cancelled
Echoing Pedro when it gets plated hoping city in final then they will play weak team.
Pedro,
“Gazidis was clearly capable, he was running Arsenal at a profit, moved us through some tough times, kept us top 4.:
Nope
That was Wenger keeping us in the top-4, not Gazidis.
Jwl those museums will not remain open. Why would they? Why would the government tell everyone to stay home but have a long term plan to keep museums (of all places lol) open? Also what I’ve told you isn’t propaganda, it’s scientific fact and verified by the entire scientific community globally. If you want to know what the death rate is, google it. If you want to know how you can have it and spread it for 5 days before even showing symptoms, google it. If you want to know if it’s actually a big deal, ask some Italians, or… Read more »
Corona virus has completely fucked that old joke with the punch line “So I fucked the one that was coughing”.
Can’t believe jwl hasn’t been on with that one already!
China1 – I took your advice and used Google.
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So how exactly does the coronavirus stack up to those epidemics?
For one, we know that the coronavirus outbreak is not as deadly as the SARS epidemic of 2003, which killed around 10% of the 8,098 confirmed cases of the respiratory illness.
And it’s far less deadly than Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, which has killed around 34% of the roughly 2,500 confirmed cases since it was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-compared-to-sars-swine-flu-mers-zika-2020-3
Pedro I do not understand why so many posters were enthusiastic to appoint Mourinho and Ancelotti as our Manager. Surely these two fall into the same category as Wenger in that they are well past their “sell by date”. What exactly have either of these two done in recent times? What we see is that they have been recruited by clubs at considerable cost and have barely lasted two seasons in their most recent jobs. My guess is that Mourinho will not last more than another season at Spurs. Levy in contrast to the Board at Arsenal is not a… Read more »
Emirates
“My guess is that Mourinho will not last more than another season at Spurs.”
Mate if he gets to Christmas I’ll be fucking amazed.
” from sale of unwanted defenders and midfielders such as Sokratis,
Mustafi, Mavropanos, Holding,Kolasinac, Elneny,Maitland-Niles and Mkhitaryan.”
What about Xhaka!
Marc – I’ve been making jokes about how you should be fine as long as you don’t drink mexican beer but my family and friends don’t think they clever.
Some light reading
World Health Organisation formally declares this a pandemic https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-outbreak-declared-pandemic-by-who-11955521
A bit of info on Italy, also mentions death rate in Italy so far has been 5% (that’s 50x higher than flu) https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-scared-italians-finally-heed-call-to-stay-at-home-as-deaths-rise-11955061
Impacts on some American universities like Harvard already being felt
https://www.yahoo.com/news/barely-kept-crying-schools-universities-004713428.html
Western outlet yahoo corroborating the same things Ive said based on info from inside China about the situation here https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinas-coronavirus-cases-rise-infections-012155292.html
Daniel Altos-
What’s your dad saying about the Maldives? I used to live on Villingili.
jwl
Mate that’s because they’re not fearless like me and you – we can laugh in the face of a very contagious virus that has a low mortality rate.
Marc
I was being “optimistic” regarding Mourinho. You are probably right he might
last until Xmas.
Whilst Xhaka is not the flavour of the month with most posters on Le Grove I
think that he serves a purpose for Arteta in the squad. Players like Maitland-
Niles and Guendouzi are more likely to be offloaded ahead of him in current
climate at club.
Jwl, you need to read more mate. You’ve actually demonstrated a misunderstanding in your very first sentence. Those viruses were ‘only epidemics’ as in confined mostly to a comparatively small number of people in a comparatively small number of countries. are all vastly less contagious/were contained before becoming more serious. Corona virus is a pandemic – by default this means it is spreading rapidly throughout much of the world. The spread has only been contained by a couple of countries to date. The death rates were higher but the number of corona virus deaths will completely dwarf those due to… Read more »
China
The thing about Corona is so far it’s mostly killing older people especially those with existing conditions.
The vast majority of people infected with it will either be fine or may not even realise they’ve had it. If it was wiping out those aged 0 – 50 it would be a difference case altogether.
Marc – indeed, people around me not impressed with my fearlessness of death.
China1 – I honestly don’t know what to think, article I linked to and articles you present are contradictory, I am not medically trained, so what is truth?
Yep Marc you’re totally right. Death rate is often below 1% of the young (0% for children so far), but can be as high as 10% for the elderly and those with conditions So for you and me we’re not likely to be killed by it (though some people still get horrendous symptoms, it varies from person to person) But the real danger is you or I get it, we give it to our parents before realizing we are ill. Or we give it to our colleague who actually does have a medical condition etc. The major outbreak in Korea… Read more »
Jwl – don’t trust any one article, do lots of reading from lots of sources
Whilst this and that will slightly differ, the core truths will repeatedly come up again and again in countless different places whereas the more ‘out there’ disagreements will not
Bang on about Mourinho. Stick a fork in him Turkish, he’s done!
Which health workers would you prefer?
1. Ze mental strength without ze handbrake
2. Protagonists coBid-19
3. Saucy health workers
Give your answers for free!
Kim Peh Dro will deal with dissidents
China 1 All the cases in UK that is 6 are 70+ and had underlying ill health apart from Corona Virus. You and I have a different opinion about what action can and should be taken. The facts are that UK has at the moment fewer cases than most other Western European countries. You and others highlight actions taken by China and Italy whose situation has reached epidemic proportions. I would like to point out that the Brits are amongst the most “travelled” nation on the planet so it is clear that taking “heavy handed” action such as what Italy… Read more »
Jwl my last virus post for tonight because I’ve already spammed this place to shit and I’m annoying everyone with it, but you should read this (breaking news) https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-outbreak-declared-pandemic-by-who-11955521 121,000 cases – rising exponentially 4,300 dead – rising every day 40% increase in cases in north Italy in a single day ‘WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: “We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction.’ (What I was spamming on here along with moray all morning) Head of WHO continued…‘ “In the past two weeks, the number… Read more »
JamieMarch 11, 2020 16:43:11
Daniel Altos-What’s your dad saying about the Maldives? I used to live on Villingili.
Jamie…Maldives is still good,nothing there….there were a couple of scares from some italian tourists at the hotel he works in,but it turned out to be nothing
So on a more interesting subject Mourinho’s on his worst run of form ever and the Spud’s next match is ManU on Sunday.
Mathematically a draw is the best result for us but it’s so difficult to not want them to get stuffed. Their next six fixtures:
ManU – H
West Ham – H
Sheffield Utd – A
Everton – H
Bournemouth – A
Arsenal – H
I was talking with a colleague yesterday. There needs to be some serious introspection from everyone in regard to our own personal hygiene habits, and none of us are absolved from this. My dad still carries a handkerchief around with him, I’ve always thought this defined him as old fashioned, and maybe it does, but you know what? Maybe we have to go back to that. There’s not always disposable tissues available when you sneeze or cough, and even if you are 100% focused to wash your hands after that event you will still have to move through several doors… Read more »
That’s a beautiful fixture list for spurs
China
After that they’ve got:
Newcastle – A
Leicester – H
Palace – A
There’s no way they’re getting CL football next season even EL looks unlikely at the moment.
baying
Just carry a packet or two of travel tissues with you – I always do.
It’s really not difficult.
Handkerchiefs are filthy, why would you carry pathogens in a piece of cloth in your pocket?
My mind is filthy, I carry that everywhere too. Used tissues in your pockets are filthy. Your hands are probably filthy now and you’re pressing them everywhere. Point of the opinion was everyone needs to have a good long thing about their own personal hygiene, however you want to do that.
Or of course you could just be a rude cunt and disregard everything, up to you really.
More I hear about peoples hygiene habits the more repulsed I become 🤢
There is nothing hygienic about handkerchiefs. They are the worst method to spread germs. No one will be going back to them and they need to die out with the older generation.
It would be more productive if people learn to cough into a tissue. Generally people do that with sneezing but for some reason think a clenched fist is okay for coughing.