This week is a huge one. We have a cup competition to proceed in after a leggy performance last week then we take on Leicester, with an opportunity to derail their title bid.
Gooners, this is the week. I’m telling you. It’s going to click. We’re going to be popping corks in our covid bubbles. Wild scenes as someone runs naked down the Holloway Road because we SMASHED Brenda and his team of wannabes.
There’s hope as well. Whenever we lose a game, which has been often this season, the misery brigade come out in force… because they don’t want to hear what’s brewing at Arsenal, well, someone put the #TeanmPOSITIVE news out on twitter yesterday and it’s good.
Shield your eyes, here’s the Premier League since Christmas Day. pic.twitter.com/Amb3InXSrn
— Josh Williams (@DistanceCovered) February 22, 2021
So you don’t have to do it yourself: Since Christmas.
2nd best defence in the league.
3rd most goals per game.
5th best points per game.
Am I taking my clothes off ready for a streak based on the above? No. But it adds weight to the narrative that things are getting better whether you like it or not.
When you factor in the messy hand we’ve been dealt this season, namely, our best player has been more injured this season than he ever has in his career, 62 red cards, 26 players left out of the squad, no preseason for a rookie manager, a rookie manager… well, you start to see the green shoots.
Am I forgiving the first half of the season? No. It was shite. The coach made a bad bet on Willian. Auba lost his mojo. We totally botched squad selection. We started the season believing we could be a fine margins team… this was a terrible mistake. It happened, we didn’t sack Arteta, and that’s that.
But now we have to look to the future. Many of the problems are on their way to being mended.
We ditched most of the deadwood causing problems behind the scenes.
We addressed creativity with youth and a loan player under the age of 31.
The coaching looks like it’s finally starting to kick in.
The football is exciting.
There were a lot of people saying that Pep G was trolling Arteta when he praised him after the game. I’m not so sure. Bielsa did the same. I think people forget that he made him a vital part of his backroom team for three years, he doesn’t do that as a favour. He correctly called that we’ve been the better team in most games since Christmas.
I also find the ‘HE TREATS PLAYERS BADLY’ commentary a bit painful to read. Jose Mourinho and Gareth Bale? Thomas Tuchel double subbing CHO in week 2? OGS and VDB? After years of bemoaning the Colney creche, we’ve now got feelings about binning Matteo G who dived in his own box at the weekend and cost a goal? Please. Nothing will ever be perfect, but let’s be honest, the culture at the club needed a reboot.
Last season, we fought and battened down the hatch. There weren’t many performances you could get excited about, but we were winning. Spanish Tony Pulis banter was fair.
Post-Christmas, we’re performing even when we’re losing. Performances matter, because at some point, they’re rewarded.
This week is when the performance need to convert. Arsenal need to have a 5 game run to restore some faith. If we beat Spurs, Benfica, and Leicester… it’ll go a long way.
Now is the time to make some moves. City was always a long shot. I don’t think Spurs and Leicester are on the same planet. Benfica certainly aren’t. Time to pull out the big wins.
So, short one today. Jump into the podcast if you haven’t. Enjoy your day. See you on the other side.
Wengerball wasn’t used as an example of how the league can be won, but it’s definitely good and progressive to play nice attacking football with a good defence.
Dangote has been trying/wanting to get his hands on Arsenal since 2011.
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i like what artetas doing. doesnt surprise me that most ‘fans’ have not noticed how emery robbed us of our identity, which was hanging by a thread b y the time wenger left…arteta came in and without time to bring us back to attacking possession game, continued w the counterattacking, only doing it 5x better than emery could HAVE (not of) and won us the FA cup. Then what happens???? surprise surprise he tries to give us back our identity and THE PLAYERS were not up for it. Not hard to understand seeing as late wenger and emery were hardly… Read more »
gooner grower
i think a lot of people wouyld agree that we could have won the league multiple times more playibng wengerball if we’d replaced PV and in general could have landed players like hazard
zarchase
with a defence like the one Arsenal had and a general abandoning of defensive structure during the latter years, I doubt it.
Pedro if you wanted a young manager who is making things happen it seems you should’ve backed Gerrard instead!
you may doubt it but the players we sold went on to win the league almost to a t. RVP Cesc Cole Sagna Nasri. our garbage replacements obviously did not but the point is youre cherry picking and your memory is selective
Zacharse we’ve only been an attacking possession team under arteta a handful of times since he came what are you on mate. He played most of our matches with wing backs and flooding the midfield with DMs. We won the cup last year with our primary creative threat coming from CB long balls out to Auba. The idea that arteta has somehow restored an attacking possession based style to arsenal since he cane is literally comical. Only when he had so many injuries and suspensions that he was forced to stop being so convertible with setup and player selections did… Read more »
China, always said he was an elite thinker
Conservative*
Also China, Zach is exactly right in his sentiments.
Since Christmas, we’ve been very good… it wasn’t an accident we started playing better football. He has always said he wants to play that way. As Pep said, tactics are nothing without players, well, we’ve not really had the players and now it looks like we are starting to.
Gerrard is starting to look like the one that got away whilst we’re here hoping arteta will stop shitting on our big young talents
Pedro Arteta has been here over a year before we even vaguely started to play offensive possession football. He would not have started playing ESR if he hadn’t had his back to the wall with injuries and suspension and a relegation battle on the cards The idea we couldn’t play 4-2-3-1 before ESR came in is also patently not true. You’re confusing arteta being exceptionally conservative with his hand being forced. It wasn’t. You cannot seriously believe ESR can single handedly change our whole game and there’s nothing else we could’ve done without him. You reaching so hard you’re going… Read more »
It doesn’t matter who arteta wins against, he will drop easy points elsewhere, and there will be real functioning teams with far better managers in the europa anyway, I expect us to go out against benfica regardless we aren’t scary in attack, I can’t ignore my lying eyes. Rodgers will outsmart arteta like last time. He has yet to realise that at best auba is an impact sub currently. Didn’t rest Saka for benfica. Keeps playing xhaka. Won’t play Cedric ahead of bellerin. Sabotaging Pepe. Martinelli. All huff and huff and huff and no puff. Our defense cannot be a… Read more »
Let’s see where we are at the END of the season.
It’s the only table that counts.
Talk about trying to reframe the narrative…
China, he kept ESR in the squad and booted Ozil, of course he had intentions of playing him.
This idea that there was an accident in a squad that caused so much controversy because of who wasn’t in it is so boring.
But… it doesn’t matter what you think about how it happened. It did. Now we’re seeing improvements in our attacking play and we’ve still mostly kept solid.
5 in points per game since xmas. top 3 for defence and attack. hard to argue it.
ES Your thinking of the popularity in South East Asia is way off as far as Thailand is concerned. The story is similar in Malaysia and Singapore. Bojangles is better placed to give facts for Vietnam although on a trip a few years ago to Ho Chi Ming and Da Nang resulted in me seeing no visible Arsenal support compared to many Liverpool and Manure shirts being sold and worn. My arrival in S E Asia mid 2019 saw many tourist and expat Arsenal shirts with plenty of Thais wearing our colours. There were a couple of Arsenal merchandise shops… Read more »
Leeds, quite clearly, the table isn’t going to be the only thing that matters at the end of the season… for a lot of clubs.
Pedro the table will be what matters for us if we don’t win the EL. Why wouldn’t it? @Tony yeah I’m China you can get a lot of supporters for one off preseason matches in Beijing or Shanghai, but in daily life here arsenal are not discussed at all. Everyone here I’ve ever spoken to about football has always talked of city, Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool. I think I’ve literally only ever met one arsenal fan knowingly apart from at the arsenal Chelsea pre season game in Beijing 3 years ago People here in general are just not interested in… Read more »
Pedro
So, if we are playing peak Wengerball by the end of the season, and lying 10th or 11th, would it be worth it?
I don’t think so. As mentioned in the blog, results have to come too.
China
come on bro, if you can’t tell the difference between what we did last season and this season there’s not a whole lot more i can do for you. our possession play is poor to be sure, look at our mf. look at our strikers. but we’re fearless playing out of the back which is a big deal. with O, saka and ESR at least we’re able to do a bit more which i think is what Pete is talking about
One thing people have to remember with Asia is that the time zones are incredibly unfavorable for watching English matches. The early games are 8pm kick off… the late and European games are 2am etc. add that to the East Asian work ethic where kids have to spend so much time on their homework and don’t have much time for side hobbies and in China it’s almost impossible for young kids to get into English football seriously. So in order to attract their attention you can’t sell them a story of how this team on the other side of the… Read more »
I should have added my friend is always travelling around the world for his businesses, so I get interesting feedback from him and other business and MC friends/bros whenever we see each other in person or online.
Zacharse last year we won the cup and finished likely higher up the table and with more points and we did so with a slightly weaker squad This season we were in a relegation scrap in the first third of the season. Player selections and formations were poorly selected. Tactics were poor and substitutions poor. We got knocked out of our staple trophy the FA cup and the carling cup. Youth players were poorly utilized and some of our talented youngsters were getting forced out and completely ignored whilst old dross played every week. The stars aligned when artetas hand… Read more »
Emery was sacked because he was shit in his second season, but if emery had overseen this season Pedro you would be absolutely slaughtering him for it.
You know it and I know it.
“5 in points per game since xmas. top 3 for defence and attack. hard to argue it.”
I might get a ban for this, but fk off Pedro
We’ve played 11 games. * of those 8 were against the bottom half of the table. ONLY 3 in the top 8, that being Chelsea, Man Utd and Man City. (which were all at home)
China
theres no miracle coming.
what you’re saying AND what i’m saying don’t have to be mutually exclusive. like ive been saying since sunday, ive given arteta credit for trying to restore us to something worth watching and it hasnt panned out due to a number of very real, non-astrological based things. some of them im sick of- auba playing like we’re in the top 4, bellerin, on and on, doesnt mean arteta’s wrong to try.
also, we’re not as far as some think from being able to perform to a much higher degree. the nature of team play is that only one player in the side can drag you down further than youd dream. see liverpool’s CL final 2 yrs ago. doesnt mean klopp was wrong to set his side up the way he did, just means he was right to ship off the nincompoop GK
China1 Very similar to Thailand re kids. Education is the one constant for Thai kids; it’s relentless the amount of learning they do. My son, nearly 13, is about to find out just how much he’s going to have to study 7 days a week and on average 14 to 16 hours a day. They go to school at 7:30 for 8am start. Then do outside and internal extra classes from 4pm to 9pm, and then do school homework generally finishing around 11pm. That was my daughter’s average day and we never pushed her t do the extra classes; it… Read more »
Arsenal might just need Wenger back in a supervisory role like Furgeson for the Mancs
wouldnt mind if wenger came back
as long as he did it pro bono
Zacharse yes we’ve been better but only for a couple of months I don’t honestly believe it needed to take 12 months for arteta to put a few games together with us looking vaguely attractive and offensive And I really do believe it was the stars aligning that instigated our improvements. ESR played because Willian and Pepe we’re both out around the same time. That’s also the main reason why Saka was put on the wing. Why wasn’t saka on the wing in the first third of the season despite the fact we already knew what he could do? This… Read more »
guess we’ll have to wait and see
zacharse
February 24, 2021 03:59:19
wouldnt mind if wenger came back
as long as he did it pro bono
lol
Zacharse
“wouldn’t mind if Wenger came back, as long as he did it pro bono”
Now you’re going to over excite the AKBs needlessly with that statement.
That’s mean but funny.
Tony,
I don’t what your financial situation is, but for most Thai’s that is hardly true if you’re from say the Northern, Northeast provinces like Chiang Rai or further east like Udon Thani, roi et, families are mostly still rural and do not put importance on education. ( for financial reasons). Actually, if you’re living outside of Bangkok this is true. Tourist areas like Phuket are an anomaly.
I don’t know what*
5 in points per game since xmas. top 3 for defence and attack. hard to argue it.
Maybe we should start a petition so the league doesn’t count points pre Xmas.
He speaks for Thai bourgouise
Screw the point per game grasp for straws. Those PPGs were calculated with optimum selection and the blip of a streak. Now Arsenal is back to the Arteta normality points for the last 5 games:
Arsenal = 4
SUtd =3
WBA =3
Ful = 8
NewC =6
BHA =8
That is relegation level type points per game nothing more nothing less expected from Arteta. Late Thursday more misery as the Arteta train crashes.
This is not what we signed up for. We were supposed to push for top 4, now we’re making excuses, and telling the world there’s more to Arsenal than winning. What was the point in sacking Wenger if the plan was another long-term transition where we’d excuse failure? Sarri moved to Chelsea, a team that played 5 at the back for two years, before that they played under Mourinho, both offered drab pragmatic football. Sarri installed a style by October. Is it perfect? No. Can you see where it’s going? Yes. Bielsa, a bat shit crazy manager, took an uninteresting… Read more »
We’ve added Gabriel, Partey, William, Mari, Cedric to squad that was deemed top 4 and we are 11th in the league but all is ok because we have Soda Moyes as our manager. Anyone remember when Pedro used to blast Wenger for playing players through the red zone now Arteta is doing that to Saka but it’s all good. Anyone remember when Pedro said Wenger and Emery were the reason players had injuries? Well Pedro has gone quiet since Partey has had more injuries with us in half a season than he did with 4 years at Atletico.. Like that… Read more »
When Wenger used to go on crazy runs at the end of the season to finish top 4 and Pedro would be “the league starts in August bla bla bla”?
Take it easy on Pedro he is hurting as well because 10th is not what anyone on this board dreamed of, it was top 4 what they dreamed of. Like the comment from Tony, Arsenal being a laughing stock in his neck of the woods.
Well, I see everyone on here is actually not getting brainwashed by pedro’s weekly posts. That is at least a good thing. A fan base who calls a spade a spade can see when there is real improvement. That is not to say there is nothing true about what pedro says. But it is massively skewed to make his subjective points. It seems defending arteta to the death is what he chose. There is some progress since Christmas about the football we play. But the results have to be looked at too. If we fail in the Europa league and… Read more »
i think we can all accept Pedro hurting but the point they gets people active to go in is when we were hurting under wenger he was bluntly calling the manager out for everything that should be changed. Even more so for emery. But for arteta it’s different.
Pedro mate you had non negotiables for wenger and emery so we just ask you don’t start negotiating when it comes to arteta!
Soda Moyes lmfaooooo
The stuff that keeps me on le grove since non negotiables drowned in sauce
Every team in this league play good football from time to time, scratch that every professional football club. This fact that whenever we string 10 passes together some come here to tell us what Arteta is trying to do is taking shape notwithstanding.
What will show progress is how far we go in Europe and where we finish in the league. We have already regressed when you consider the games lost column.
This is just absurd now, all this constant excuses.
Its EL or bust
Thursday is the day…..
Got to win this sucker…. its our only salvation…
#freemartinelli
#artetaneedstoplaymartinelli
#wtfisartetadoingwithmartinelli
#martinellihattrickcomingrealsoon
There has been no semblance of attacking football on a consistent basis. its dependent on our line up, and opposition,
ex Leeds
There has been little improvements in this area. Saka has been our savior, along with ESR…. outside of that, it still is a stagnant and low creating offense we run, if you really want to think we pre plan our attacks
_____Leno
Soares__Gab_Mari__KT
________TP________
Saka_____ESR____Martin
_________Laca
_____Leno
Soares__Gab_Mari__KT
________TP Dani________
Saka_____ESR____Martinelli
_________Laca
THis is what I meant.. cant count Im about to go to sleep
Socrates The northeast cities, such as Udon Thani and Khon Kean generally cover for the rural essentially village areas’ educational needs. Obviously it’s all about affordability, but the government have funds if students need university loans. Families in villages or poorer city dwellers will decide who In the family is going to be helped financially, so that they can look after their elders in later life. In essence it’s a revolving care system from cradle to coffin with education being the key to their financial well being. You can’t get a shop sales person’s job here without at least a… Read more »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzzYxTPYAcA
my son dreams of playing for Arsenal still…. despite all our shit,
this 10 year old dreams of playing for Arsenal.
That is the final thought of my day before I go to bed.
Him scoring in the CL final against Barca for the win…
Goodnight
“Its EL or bust
Thursday is the day…..”
Thursday isn’t the Europa League final, it’s the second leg of the round of 32. Just thought this reminder is necessary. Getting past the round of 32 in the EL does not guarantee a manager in a big club his job.
So Chelsea are reaping the benefits of following the most rational merit-based capitalist system of firing an under-performing employee and replacing him with a better candidate, while Arsenal are more interested in preserving the “culture” of the club by readjusting their targets to console themselves of their LTR satisfaction. It’s like finding a 3/10 on Tinder, uninstalling the app and putting her on a pedestal for life even at the expense of a life long erectile dysfunction and overworked adrenal glands.
The most illuminating thing teen boys need to learn is that its normal to have an erection when around beautiful girls, its nothing to be ashamed of
Is there any chance Arteta can do a work experience at Leeds for a few weeks?
You know, just so he can get to understand what playing the game at 100% and enjoying it at the same time is all about.
Leeds are so refreshing to watch.
By the way, all players are capable of playing like that for 90 minutes if they are given the right directives.
It’s a mindset and buying into the philosophies.
Sorry, I just remembered, except David Luiz.
Imo, any coach that instructs his players to keep possession, in and around there own penalty area for a minute or more, is not up to scratch.
We are the only team that plays like this.
their own
I absolutely guarantee you Mikel’s going to use martinelli very sparingly now akin to how he used to use Pepe. And much like Pepe he may struggle to get going due to constantly being dropped and subbed. And this will then be given as evidence that he’s not ready for regular game time
Sid it’s normal to feel aroused or in extreme cases rock a slight semi but if you were walking around pitching a full on tent around the pretty girls at school then I think you may have been doing it wrong 😂😂😂
Not quite sure what’s happening to my posts, I guess it could be that I am trying to post a link.
The simple facts are that the current form guide over the last 10 games, 8 games or 6 games paints a far different picture.
Graham62February 24, 2021 08:12:23
Imo, any coach that instructs his players to keep possession, in and around there own penalty area for a minute or more, is not up to scratch.
I have been saying the above and its by design, under Diet peps instructions, its a charlatans method of increasing possesion stats.
Graham62 – Arteta is already doing work experience, at Arsenal. I assume it’s some kind of internship scheme for up and coming coaches that we are are doing as a favour to Man City. I can’t see any other explanation.
“So you don’t have to do it yourself: Since Christmas.
2nd best defence in the league.
3rd most goals per game.
5th best points per game.”
But what if the season starts at Easter??????
Dangote has been saying he will buy Arsenal since 2015. And he has been repeating it ever since. I think he said he will try to buy Arsenal after he completes his refinery project in 2021. Lets see if he can walk the walk. + Why would Kroenke sell? He fought hard 10 years for complete ownership and now he has it. And he is a smart enough businessman to know not to sell when the stock is at its lowest. Personally I don’t think it will happen. Kroenkes will try their all to get us back competing for trophies… Read more »
Sid
Its not to increase possession stats but to draw the opposition team high up the pitch.
‘Its not to increase possession stats but to draw the opposition team high up the pitch.’
Seems the opposition is NOT biting since we have lost 11 games.
Dangote is too black to be allowed that much stake in the city of London
Nicky Oppenheimer, isabel dos santos, Sawiris, Moise katumbi
Lol
China “I absolutely guarantee you Mikel’s going to use martinelli very sparingly now akin to how he used to use Pepe. And much like Pepe he may struggle to get going due to constantly being dropped and subbed. And this will then be given as evidence that he’s not ready for regular game time” I would put Willock and Eddie into the category of “used sparingly” and ” constantly being dropped and subbed”. It is very difficult for ANY player to make an impact with limited game time . What we have on Le Grove is if Martinelli fails to… Read more »
Pierre
I think the Europa league should be sacrificed in favour of beating Leicester just like the FA Cup was when we beat Southampton. Wouldn’t you agree.
ESR should be the CAM, Saka on the right, on the left alternate Martinell/ Pepe while at CF alternate Auba/Ode
The Martinelli and Auba combination against ball playing teams. The Pepe and Ode combination againt park the bus teams.
Ode as CF you reckon Sid?
We warned at the time chasing a champions league spot at the expense of the FA Cup would prove fruitless and as it turned out we were right.
It might just be crazy enough to work out
There are far too many posters on here who argue that a club’s popularity is based only on “current” success and that heritage has no relevance. If I accepted that argument then Manchester United would be out of the equation, because they have not won a League Title since 2012-13 season and have won only two Champions League Trophies in their history. Similarly Liverpool has won just one EPL Title since its formation and like Man Utd have won just two trophies of any significance since 2013. Arsenal’s support has been founded on being “the second choice” of many supporters… Read more »
Pierre
Why do you think Martinelli is favoured more on here than Willock and Nketiah?
Is it because we see something in him that warrants further investigation and, specifically, more game time?
I do though feel more than slightly concerned about Arteta’s handling of all these players. Add Nelson to that list. Oh, and Saliba and Guendouzi.
ES
United have won the European Cup/CL three times – 1968, 1999, 2008.
And although they last won the title in 2013, it is far more recent than Arsenal.
More significantly, they have won 20 League titles, compared to Arsenal’s 13, and over history Arsenal have spent longer in the top Division than both United and Liverpool (19 League titles).
ES
Arsenal, as a brand, have regressed steadily over these past ten years or so.
Commercial success is centred around the club doing well and progressing. Shirt sales, amongst youngsters in particular, will benefit if they feel they are following a team that they are proud of.
Arsenal remain one of the top sporting brands though and given success and progression on the pitch there is no doubt that we can reignite our commercial image.
@PEDRO!! Why don´t u make a “like”-system on le Grove so we can see the general sentiments toward your current positive approach and the negative posts about Arteta and the team. I really feel the negativity taking over in the comments and it is killing my vibe and joy. It is easy for me to embrace my own position. After the latter 10 yrs of wenger and then emery, I have decided to grant Arteta 2,5 season to turn the ship around. Maybe with the exception of Tuchel who prob would be more ruthless benching old and out of form… Read more »
Who’s concerned about tomorrow night?
Graham
We’ve never beaten Benfica in a competitive game.
Niles you weren’t here the Wenger or Emery days were you.
Goobergooner – yes since around 2010, just never really posted, just read.
Nothing has changed except the manager and Pedro’s non negotiables
Martinelli is 19, and coming back from a big injury He’s incredibly raw in aspects of his game. Saka has 5 goals, which is as many goals as all the the other teenagers in the league combined Teenagers, and players in their early twenties ripping up the league is the exception, not the rule Aubameyang didn’t break through until 24/25 Gnabry until he was 24 Grealish didn’t start finding consistency until last season 24/25 Maddison had 2 loans, then a seasons in the Championship, and is now into his 3rd season in the Premier league. We’re not in a position… Read more »
Haha and I’m not trying to shoot down your positivity, just talking jive like the rest of this crazy bunch
Progress?
Last 4 league games
Arsenal 14th . Won 1 lost 3 for 5 against 6.
Last 6 games
Arsenal 11th. Won 2 , Drawn 1 lost for 8 against 7
Last 8 games.
Arsenal 9th. Won3 Drawn 2 lost 3. For 11 against 7
Last10 games
Arsenal 6th. Won5 drawn 2 lost 3 . For 16 against 7.
So things gradually slipping or improving?
Niles is right. A lot of impatience here expecting a manager to turn around a poorly managed club with poor recruitment in just one season. This football naivety creates an unrealistic expectation level, winning the FA Cup didn’t help either. Slagging off the Manager is one thing but when some of the genuine Gooners here joined in with the trolls to spend an entire day, yesterday, slagging off the club, our past achievements and even our heritage, you have to shake your heads. Embarrassing read. When Emiratesstroller tried to say something he was abused when all he ever does is… Read more »
When we loose the next two games , is it oh well what if we win the following two games?
Stats can prove anything you want them too
Even now, Arteta is making it hard for his supporters.
– He talks about needing fresh legs for the Thursday’s game. But he played our best player, Saka for the full 90 mins last game.
– For two games in a role, Auba had the worse score given by all Arsenal supporting sites. Auba is now jogging like the demotivated Ozil on the pitch. Martinelli is so much faster and always gives 110%. He was ignored completely.
– Pepe on the right with Bellerin was not working in the past. But Arteta still wants to try it again and again…
Graham
The fear will be if they score an away goal which is likely, so Arteta will shrink into defensive mode again with tippy tappy which he likes.
Mans a fraud
Niles, you have to distinguish between people who are trolls and others that genuinely believe that the club is moving in the wrong direction. Despite what some people might tell you ‘just support the team’ doesn’t actually benefit anyone, blind faith over evidence based analysis is actually harmful. For those of us who have been fans for decades we’ve seen these things play out before so we’ve got a good idea of the likely outcome. Right now Arteta is looking like a middling coach/manager along the lines of Terry Neil, a good cup coach but never likely to do much… Read more »
“There are far too many posters on here who argue that a club’s popularity is based only on “current” success and that heritage has no relevance”
That is because half of them on here don’t like Arsenal mate. I mean, why would an Arsenal fan discredit past achievements? Why would a genuine fan say we have no heritage or legacy? I do not know a single Gooner who would do that. If someone went onto the pitch at half time to spout this absolute bollocks, there would be a riot.
I love ES’s posts.
Always factual and calming.