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
Pedro
Just read your 14.41 post. I can understand your earlier proclamations that IG had a plan. He did but a bunch of old farts namely the AFC Board were so poor they always out voted any motions IG tabled. IG knew he couldn’t win but before he went to pastures new he fed enough rope to Wenger to hang himself. Ozils contract is that piece of rope.
Baldrick had a plan as well – a cunning one at that.
Marc – Baldrick came undone when there was a blight infection with turnips. IG had a problem with his last batch of snake oil.
I’ve been to a few of the AISA gatherings and seen both Ivan and Raul in action. My thoughts on Ivan was he really was trying to paint a bullshit universe of “look How great we are helping kids in 3rd world countries” It could have been at a UNESCO shindig . His “I’ve searched across the world to find the right guy and found he’s sitting next to me “ Wenger reappointment drew gasps of disbelief in his sheer chutzpah. I know that Raul divides people but genuinely he seemed more engaged , passionate and also at times pissed… Read more »
I don’t get handkerchiefs. A filthy snot rag in your pocket that gets you and everything you touch covered in what ever it holds.
I try and carry tissues with me when I have a runny nose. And when I cough or sneeze I do it into the crook of my arm which isn’t ideal, but again I never understood putting your hand over your mouth, yes it stops you making the germs air borne, but the next thing you touch gets covered in them.
Everyone should carry tissues – no excuse not to and this is a wake up call
Mind you -there will still be millions in China coughing up in the street right in front of people. Again its the older generation who are the worst
On a totally different note, I would love to see Martinelli be used as a CAM. He can cause mayhem behind the main strikers and the basic skill set required would easily be there. He would impose himself far more than Ozil. This also leaves space for Saka to move to LW once Tierney is back
So possible 1st 11 for next year
Leno
Bellerin-Saliba- Mari-Tierney
Beast DM (tba)-Ceballos-Martinelli
Pepe-Auba-Saka
That would mean only one new signing; ramp up further with Grealish for Ceballos?
That clears the path to sell Elneny, Mikhi, AMN, Sokratis, Xhaka, Ozil, Lacazette
Bring back ESR to also compete for CAM, promote Balogun and Azeez to 1st team squad (Greenwood and Hein to U23s) and we are on the way to establishing the Dortmund model
Aaaargh… no football…. Goddamn SARS-CoV-2!! (That’s the name of the virus. The disease it generates is called Covid-19) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019) On a more serious note, 2 good reasons why not playing tonight is a good thing: 1) The decision was ultimately made on a health basis. As much as SARS-CoV-2 is not a killer in a Ebola, Hantavirus sense, this fucker is highly infectious nonetheless and not to be underestimated. 2) I just feel that we would have been slaughtered mercilessly by Citeh tonight. So I am just glad that we have a bit more time to get this team to… Read more »
I’m well up for your plan Northbanker- makes a lot of sense to me.
Liverpool level the tie
The pace is so quick in the Liverpool – Atletico Madrid tie.
Atletico were standing up to the physical challenge pretty well but it’s a bit relentless.
Liverpool clearly trying to bully Felix out of the match as they see him as the danger link man. Picking on him and aggresive towards him.
NEEG He did but a bunch of old farts namely the AFC Board were so poor they always out voted any motions IG tabled. I am curious about this statement. Can you back it up with a link? From the way I have always read his statements is that , IG was just a mouthpiece for the board and the club. He never did anything to upset the cart. Never protested or pushed something that could be considered an attempt to make changes (until AW was failing so badly that he tried to muster what little acumen he had left… Read more »
Come on Atletico Madrid!
A. Madrid’s 4 4 2 defense is very tight. Pool’s three attackers couldn’t find any room to play. Ox was there best attacker.
What a game LOL
Schlep Schops on the brink of going out.
Adrian the hero.
Madness
Llorente has took his goals great.
Fuck the scousers.
Better than the Invincibles my walnut.
Adrian Adrian 😂😂😂
We had our fair share of Adrians at this club
So pool need two goals…
Happy to see the arrogance wiped from VVD, TAA, Robertson, Salah.
They’ve won the shittest premier league in a generation with the help of VAR. Stay out the ‘greatest PL sides ever’ convo, you’re not worthy.
C’mon city hope they win this cup to stick it up uefa.
CC
They can’t even run through the PL finishing line they’re tripping over it. They’ve look knackered for a couple of months now, with an international competition in the summer meaning no proper break next season could be tough for them.
Hahahahahahah
Morata getting TAA to lose his fanny and then he goes and scores a minute later. Brilliant 😂😂😂😂 ya hate to see it.
Superb.
I fucking hate Scousers.
That was a fun fucking 30 mins extra time.
They talk of those great European nights at Anfield. It certainly was tonight
🤣🤣😁
Hats off to Los Colchoneros.
Your always going to face loads of attacks against you at Anfield 1-0 up from the first leg but straight from kick off you could see that Atletico Madrid were up to the physical test.
And they were sharp and quick when they had the ball.
Well done to those boys.
They have Everton away on Monday night – Everton will be well up for that one can Klopp get a response.
What a grand 2 days, spuds and scousers OUT. Fucking get iiiinnnnn.
Cue RH policing the happiness of gooners.
A Arnold is a bit of a cunt.
Going in on Felix in the first half trying to hurt him and then the Morata incident.
aArnold is a petulant kid glad they are out
Pool of piss losing. Excellent!
No Invincibles. No back to back CL. Just the cure for these deluded scumbags.
They are my two most hated teams so I have had a great couple of nights
So glad not to see Klopps stupid teeth tonight
Isn’t that Klopp out of 2 competitions in a week or so?
That’s just piss poor management!
What a player Partey is btw
Marc
They’re not in the same tier as the greatest sides, the last month has confirmed that to me.
The league is shite (I’m talking the big 6), and they’ve been fortunate with VAR as the alternative table indicates. Plus, with VAR they’ve had protection from and shithousing and poor decisions to overcome and show character.
Watford, Chelsea, Atletico have just completely exposed their stomach for it. Petulant bunch.
Partey had a great game for sure.
To be fair, Liverpool dominated that game. Absolutely comical defending/keeping.
Fuck the Scousers fuck the spuds fuck corona
Lolzzzzz
I love it
Daniele Rugani diagnosed with coronavirus.
Marc
“Isn’t that Klopp out of 2 competitions in a week or so?That’s just piss poor management!”
3rd April 2004 FA Cup Semi-Final: Arsenal 0-1 Man Utd
6th April 2004 Champuons league knockout 2nd leg: Arsenal 1-2 Chelsea
CC
Agree 100% – the worst part of it is the media salivating over the idea of them becoming dominant. They have a good team, defence, keeper and forward line are very good their midfield is shite when you look at the midfields of former top teams. They don’t have a CM who’s fit to lace the boots of a Vieira, Scholes, Keane, Cesc or Gilberto.
Calypso
Not sure what you’re trying to say?
MarcMarch 11, 2020 22:53:19
CalypsoNot sure what you’re trying to say?
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I think he’s trying to say that your favorite child snatcher Wenger did the same thing.
And the chav retard’s about.
“I think he’s trying to say that your favorite child snatcher Wenger did the same thing.”
And fuckwit ? So what ?
This is what happens.
All you Klopp fan boys…
And they are a lot on here!!
You will burn out your players by not rotating
This short rotation, and style of play will not pay off late in the season…
When fatigue kicks in… and the losses happen… this is what happens!
Hell yes
I hate Liverpool and happy they lost!
So this heavy pressing game- im kinda glad we have backed off from this. Its not sustainable.
The PL is being exposed for what it really is right now All the bluster and hype about it being a strong leave but it isn’t at the moment. We have two excellent teams in the country – one is not even having a good season. The other (Liverpool) are an amazing team but the only reason they’re miles out in the league is because they are good and the rest of the league is crap. They’ve had a really easy ride. Two games against the third best team in Spain and they’ve lost both. It doesn’t mean they’re worse… Read more »
The alternative is this and worse: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8101383/Shocking-X-ray-images-coronavirus-does-victims-lungs.html EVERY football game in England ‘WILL be held behind closed doors with NO games to be shown in pubs and matches to be streamed live to ticket holders… and plan could be implemented as early as THURSDAY’ Every football game in England will reportedly be held behind closed doors No games are to be shown in pubs and will be streamed live to ticket holders Government plans to combat coronavirus spread could be unveiled on Thursday A Cobra meeting is expected to move the official response to the ‘delay’ phase This will result… Read more »
Has Graham62 posted recently?
Hope you and your family are well, Graham.
I think the yanks spread this virus around the world because they just love using the word ‘lockdown’
Everything is on ……. LOCKDOWN!!!
> I hate Liverpool and happy they lost!
🤝
Well said that man
All Europe is banned coming to USA
Except 🇬🇧
Interesting
Wonder why this idiot president would make that decision? Has to be some political reason
What if folks travel from Europe to uk and then to USA within 5 days???
Folks in uk have corona
Makes no sense
Ye but we’re as hard as fucking nails and all that
But in all seriousness … good point
Hahaha. Tough fucks
Have a flight back to the UK booked April 9th 🙄
You can leave but not come back
Yeeee that’s what I’m thinking. Worse case scenario being stuck home for an English summer. No thanks.
Well not really 🇬🇧 Are still open to come to USA for some reason
Other destinations you can leave USA but not come back within the month
At this point I’ll just be looking to avoid anymore hysteria that might be on the horizon.
I say the horizon. I mean like the next few hours. NBA season suspended. I’m not sure the MLB season will even get going at this rate, or, it’ll be behind closed doors. Which for many of the teams won’t really affect attendances all that much anyway 😂
The CDC only conducted 8 COVID tests yesterday, local health departments listed as zero on the daily tracker
Genius Trump; ‘Stay calm, it will go away’ .
It was a semi political speech all about trump saving the USA
Yawn
We need a shit load more tests and beds in icu
I breathe a sigh of relief every time I hear of any strict measures being brought in
Banning flights and football games etc won’t end this pandemic but they’re entirely necessary baby steps and going in the right direction
More of this, please 🙂
“You can leave but not come back”
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave – guitar
Hotel California: the cocaine song!
As was the album, such as Pretty Maids all in a Row
Timeless Album, though
Guns of SF
He’s cut the budget of the CDC and NIH with every one of the three budgets he’s proposed.
Failure to prepare is indeed preparing to fail.
Tianjin (population 13 million) has now fallen from 130 cases down to zero! I’ll be allowed back to the office in 2 more weeks if no major changes between now and then Shopping malls are only just beginning to open after 2 months of being closed, but numbers of customers are restricted, temperatures being taken everywhere, digital sign ins with gov etc. I just went to a coffee shop. All seating taken away, not allowed in without a mask. Temp check, sign your name and phone number and scan a gov qr code just to get in the door. From… Read more »
Dems need to hammer this a hole out of office …, sad but this crisis highlights his utter failures
Last week trump said the 15 who had it will get better
What a fool
So Trump publicly states a couple of weeks ago that Covid-19 was a hoax, and now he’s banning Europeans from entering America.
Priceless and what makes matters worse is America will probably vote Him in for another term like Obama.
Mind you The UK has nothing to shout about when it come to Prime Ministers.
Voters in the US and UK seem to gravitate towards BS merchants and outright liars, Trump – Blair etc
He will eat his words
CNN showed a montage of trump and his comments dismissing Coronavirus
Its shocking actually
And still no explanation as to why 🇬🇧 to USA is still open
＃free RedTruth
＃Clemencyforthe bin
Where is red truth
So just what the world needs is a pandemic virus that makes people avoid each other even more.. People already don’t talk to each other and only communicate through text messages and video chats..so yeah lets get into “social distancing” . Lockdown everything. (free Yank “lockdown” reference for Baying Mob)
We are all gonna end up like the Matrix floating around in tanks in some government basement somewhere plugged into a virtual reality world.. I tell you.
Although even in a virtual reality world Mourinho would still be finished as a manager. 😀 Got to love the Spuds.
I’m in the Bay Area
Social distancing has been around here for a long time
Normal for This Area
150 iq people that can’t walk and chew gum let alone be “social”
Coronavirus is terrible, BUT Malaria is still worse from the humanist perspective. In the next 12 months more people will die from it, and more people will be infected, and the symptoms are typically worse, so it will cause more suffering, and most among 1.000.000 – 2.000.000 yearly deaths are children. BUT Coronavirus will be worse for the economy because of the location of worst hit areas. (Tropical countries seem to have few problems with it) Hate to be a contrarian, but Covid got about hundred times more coverage in the last month than malaria in the last decade, even… Read more »
Midwest virtual reality matrix bot mourinho would use the sizable fortune he has amassed over the years to pay a team of hackers to ensure spurs’ transfer budget was £500m to ensure his managerial slide into irrelevance can be hidden by elite signings
Yeah Kris big pharma gains Little from eradicating health issues. The cash cow is long term medication and treatment
If big pharmaceutical had really wanted, probably half of the world’s major health threats would’ve been eradicated
Seems like every year there is a magic bullet for various forms of cancer but one way or another the new solutions end up disappearing into oblivion or the expected benefits are greatly watered down in practice
China1…. hmmm you could be right… Although you know in virtual reality world.. CG would be like Neo…trying to get Wenger his European trophy in the sequel Wenger Reloaded.
Would rather Trump, Un Na Nai they are the real deal WYSIWYG so you know what you are dealing with,
than the fake smile, spineless, prepy, ivy league types, who stand for nothing,( Sanders should realise this)
Im telling you this for free!
I’d rather not die with trump in office. The world is always in grave danger with mr unstable
Sid I don’t like obama one bit, but on disease control, funding and pandemic prep he actually did a lot for America. Trump undid all the good work.
Those are the facts regardless of which way you lean politically
I voted for sanders
Will end up voting for Biden as it looks he will take the ticket
Not my cup of tea but better than the madman in office right now….
I foresee Bernie changing his tune to attack trump and Biden as well … needs to show American he is the best to defeat trump
Obama was a true statesman. Smart articulate and had a vision
Will never see that again in a long time…
Great prez…..
Hopefully his jock sidekick can defeat the anti Obama -trump
Guns careful! You might get labeled an evil commie!!
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/offbeat/what-is-the-coronavirus-dance-south-africa/
You heard it here 1st!
Like folks on here don’t already think that lol
I can care less 🤙
I’m all about moving the needle for the better … most folks just don’t like change much….
Expected liverpool to go out, but not by conceding as many as they did.
Athletico have to be one of the favorites now.
Athletico I don’t like. Boring anti football but on occasions like this you can see their grit and ability to nullify the most explosive teams. Something to be said about defensive nous
Much too often it’s the attack that gets the attention as it should … but still . This is classic simeone…. great tactician
I actually see laca being very good with that team .
You naughty little commie you!!!
🤘🔥🤘👍😤
Arteta is more of Simeone,Poch
Less of Pep, klopp, wenger dont expect sexy expansive swashbackling football from him even with his own personel.
It also reflected in his playing style as a footballer.
You heard it here 1st!
Arteta the creative goal scoring machine
Arteta didn’t have the means to be a swashbuckling attacking player sid.
The guy had limited pace, wasn’t technically tricky, wasn’t naturally gifted etc
He was a clever player, a hard worker with a professional attitude and had good vision and passing. Read the game well.
He was miles off being an elite player, but he used the tools he had as well as you could’ve hoped.