Let’s have a little pep talk before we get into this blog.
You… yes YOU need to pick yourself up off of the ground.
All this crying on the internet that you think we’re going have a bad day is weak sauce. It’s low-fat mayonnaise on a plant-based-meat alternative kebab. It’s asking the Doner Operator to box it up so you can have it for lunch tomorrow.
I will not tolerate this type of meekness today.
Arsenal are in control of top 4 with two games to go. It doesn’t matter that Spurs have taken points off big teams, it doesn’t matter that the mainstream media are slobbering over Antonio Conte, no one gives a fuck what G.Nev thinks.
The simple arithmetic is this: We need to beat two sides we have outperformed all season then top 4 is ours.
We are better than Newcastle.
We are better than Everton.
The players aren’t going into this game having a mental breakdown, so I don’t expect you to misbehave on a big night like this.
Channel your inner winnertivity. Go into that Group Chat clutching your cojones (real or metaporical) and shout YES, GLORY TO ARSENAL! TONIGHT WE TASTE VICTORY! PRAISE TO SAKA! PRAISE TO ODEGAARD! PRAISE TO BIG MO!
Now go to your boss’s oak drinks cabinet. Open a bottle of something expensively aged. Pour yourself a stiff one, crush it (no faces), then head back to your desk. If they ask who sent you, tell them Pedro, it’ll be fine with HR, I promise.
Are you set? Good, now let’s talk football.
Arsenal look set to have a pretty decent team to choose from. Gabriel and Ben White went to Newcastle, I would take that news as meaning it is highly likely our defence will have 4 of our 5 starters. That is absolutely massive considering the occasion.
We need huge games from all of them. Aaron Ramsdale needs to exude his early-season confidence, Ben White and Gabriel need to do their jobs with confidence and calm, and Tomi just needs to be Tomi. I don’t know what the fullback choice will be, but having the Lord of Chaos at left-back is probably a worse option than Tomi there with Cedric on the right. Both options are less than ideal, let’s be honest.
In midfield, it’ll be Xhaka and Mo Elneny, they just have to play with discipline and heart. Newcastle don’t have a great defence, the biggest job of the evening is going to be what we can do in their box. Our midfield needs to give a platform to the youngsters in the final 3rd to do some damage.
I don’t know how Arteta is going to mix it up in the final third, but whoever is there needs to take their chances.
Newcastle play out the back, perfect for Eddie to sniff our opportunities, the press is going to be important.
Trippier is on his second game of the season, the perfect chance to run an older player ragged.
Targett on the other side is there to be got at.
Our reality is fans is that we are going to have to watch Arsenal suffer for chunks of the game. West Ham had basically nothing to play for and they went two up against City and should have scored two more. When we were gunning for the league in 1999, we went on an outrageous tear post losing to Villa on December 13th, we didn’t lose a single game, we were looking really good for the league, then we went to Leeds, who had nothing to play for sitting comfortably in 4th, and we lost to a Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank late goal.
Newcastle have nothing to play for outside the joy of being really fucking irritating to our end-of-season run. They are under the lights in front of their rabid fanbase, they’ll want to exit the season with a scalp, Arsenal would be a pretty good one.
They’ll come at us at 100mph. We have to ride out that energy. We have to kill the moment. We might have to take the game into the last 20 minutes to win it.
Prepare to suffer, but be positive about the game, these boys have shown deep character all season.
Spurs was an aberration.
The job to be done is clear. So let’s do it. No excuses. We can taste that Champions League music in the air.
Right, on that note, see you in the comments. x
I genuinely forgot Odegaard was on the pitch. What a meek player.
The club has pissed 6 years of any potential progress up against the wall with Arteta.
lol Elneny has been awful.
His attempts to stop that lob shot over Ramsdale was pitiful.
Good night Vienna
Most exciting project in world football, weve just renewed the silly little bullshitting cunt for 3 years. 6 defeats in 10 at the sharp end of the season, generational scenes. We are so lucky.
Couldnt make this shit up.
Shambles.
Absolutely shocking performance
At least we have had one moment on goal now
I said this a couple seasons back but I honestly don’t think we will win any major trophy for couple decades and don’t think we will make top four for a decade
I kinda think Everton will beat us too. This is relegation caliber football on display from the arsenal.
absolute fucking disgrace
Wow.
Think it was Odegaard there, got to be far stronger in the challenge.
YESSSSSS 💪💪💪
DONE, DUSTED
FUXK OFF ARTETA
Guimares has been shit hasn’t he Pedro
That contract extension looking sweeter by the day 😂
Can’t make this up
We’ve been looking worse and worse in the course of the game. How dafug is that even possible?! Don’t we have a manager? Our game absolutely died the moment Arteta started to make subs. He’s so bad, he got not even one right or the change of his game plan.
Fucking absolute disgrace
”We protected Arteta’s value by extending him for 3 more years. Smart smart smart.”
LOL, says it all about how we are run as a club.
Spunk our load on a new bumper deal for Tets BEFORE he has secured top 4 and he goes on to massively bottle it.
Wow. Fucking horrific.
And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.
Guimaraes can’t keep Shelvey out of the side remember, ladies and gents… would not have improved our midfield in any way…
It’s over, the kitchen sink defense didn’t work.
Bruno G could have been playing for us btw.
This capitulation is worse than the 8-2. This Newcastle team isn’t even very good.
I hope you watching Pedro?
That’s all she wrote.
And the book was finished a while ago
Clown show couldn’t even do the basics and clear are lines. That ball though the middle and know one tracks Callum wilson
That’s seriously fucked up we should have bought hem and he scores the second awful awful week to be us
bahahaha now lets get turned over by everton…7 defeats in 11 just given this clown a three year contract. hey ho may as well come back in a couple of years once he’s gone
Good thing we didn’t buy that fraud Bruno G who couldn’t compete with Shelvey.
Fucking Embarrassing!
Project is now dead, completely dead.
Good luck to saliba and Pepe at their new clubs
Can’t watch this anymore
Arteta will never get this side into the CL.
Everton will probably come to the Emirates and get a good result.
We are so spursy these days
We were FOUR points up, with THREE games to go
why would ownership care one iota about this guileless performance and/or our final position in the standings, after all they offered the extension to our novice manager directly on the heels of a 3 match losing streak…this little smug prick actually bragged about it several weeks later because he didn’t have the balls to reveal it at the time
Raptora totally right he should be our number 8;
That we will finish 5th is solely due to brilliance of ESR and Saka – two academy products.
Ramsdale what a 🤡, told you he became famous early on making ordinary saves look like world class saves. He never really looked good.
The arsonist Conte having the last laugh.
Oh well
And of all people, Bruno G put Aeteta out of his mystery
Conte is shit, I heard
Oh dear. Thats that.
My lad is in tears.
We have been awful. Why though has this game been like a CL final to Newcastle? Weird
Arteta has taken all the fire out of this team. They have nothing.
Arteta really has nothing to offer as a coach. He still too naive to Coach a club as Arsenal
Gutted
Absolutely terrible performance.
Newcastle ‘reserve’ Bruno G with his 5th PL goal since Jan!
No players available in Jan who would have improved us!!!
Fuck you Arsenal ruined my night again
“Good thing we didn’t buy that fraud Bruno G who couldn’t compete with Shelvey”
Jesus Christ… Pedro writes some absolute garbage sometimes.
The shit show is over.
No St Totts day when it was all in our hands.
Shameful.
When was the last time that arsenal lost 3 in a row 3 times the same season? Because we are going to lose woth everton too
Elneny’s kneecap will go backwards if he makes a forward pass.
Martinelli is so bad
Next year Man U, will be up there as they have a good manager, we will just slide down.
Thirteen defeats , a third of our games.
He get a new contract, why?
Disgusting way to end the season.
Not trying to be funny but what was the point in beating The Chavs, Scum United and West Ham!? Only to be served this?
And they actually gave him 3 years…..would actually be surprised if he survives next season.
Oh well!! JAM TOMORROW!!
“Good thing we didn’t buy that fraud Bruno G who couldn’t compete with Shelvey”
Jesus Christ… Pedro writes some absolute garbage sometimes.
Weak pathetic performance
Out played by Newcastle
Next 3 years looking gruesome
We’ve been absolutely destroyed by Newcastle and will probably face the same against Everton.
This has been a collapse. The Chelsea and Manchester United wins gave us false hope, but now look like the exceptions to what has been an end of season collapse on the scale of Emery’s. Maybe worse, given the strength of our position for most of the second half of the season.
So glad we extended Arteta before waiting for the season to finish.
so many people on here defending this rubbish last time against spurs….incredible and worst apologist seems to be the guy who writes the blog. just awful ….. this is sacking form and we give him a new contract…same old kroenke drivel
Maybe Arsenal can play spoilers on Sunday and send Everton down!
Gutless Wonders!
By the way forget about Gabriel Jesus, Oshimen, Darwon Nuñez, they wont sign for us.
fvcking ant and dec.
fvck off
This all perfectly describes Arteta at Arsenal.
Bruno G. could’ve been playing for us but instead, we have Elneny who we are offering a contract extension to.
Ben White own goal same week Saliba won Young Player of the Year in France.
Top 4 lost to Spurs.
This is fucking awful. 13th defeat this season. Timo Pukki is our last straw. What a season.
All the bad decision making tots up.
This got baked last summer spending 50m on a crap cb you didn’t need.
We now have a mid as bad as this
Tavares and Martinelli were combining well on the left so what does do? Brings on Lacazette.
Has anyone seen him do anything?
FML.. I am logging off now.. Not even in the mood for an OtW.. Simply terrible.. Playing with 4 out of contract players is just a recipe for failure
Rap, most players Pedro has rubbished have come good.
Strangely iam calm, not angry or dissapointed. I guess that’s a happy space to be.
wtf did he bring laca on for????????? only thing he’s done is get a cut on his head
Don’t forget this is the most elite project in world football
Buffalo it’s not the spurs game that lost us 4 th it’s 6 losses in the last ten we should have been 8 clear by the time we played spurs
Eddie Howe > Generational
Call us Mystic Mac
Cos we predicted these things loool
What a shirt show
why oh why would you give anyone a new contract at that stage of the season when we were in that kind of form and having had a mediocre season – utter and total madness, sends all the wring messages
The club is going nowhere, many of us on here called it and where chastised for it.
Pedro’s agenda on here is disgusting.
This will get spun like a finely prepared Pizza crush for Pedro’s post tomorrow, just you watch.
‘Youngest team in the league, elite manager/scouting/data collection, going to ‘bang’ next season, REFS, etc etc.
Don’t worry, this season has passed the smell test at the Emirates because the fans are literally bouncing inside the ground and they can see something special is happening…. no, seriously. They love this stuff.
A lap of honour after the Everton game, a standing ovation, and after £250m and two and a half years we will have clawed our way back to where Emery got us.
Unlucky gooners.. 4th spot being a step too far.. now let’s all slag off the club, manager, and players
At least the defence has improved this season, ohvwait its shipped even more fucking goals. Arteta fuck off now you creepy little cunt.
I’ve just seen the defeated sad face of Xhaka and then it dawned on me that we never have a happy ending with Xhaka involved.
The Xhaka curse continues
We fucking literally GIFTED THE SPUDS CL football, gave away the 9 points after the international break
Sack the fucker outta my club …
We want characters, winners and trophies, not fuxking process, non negotiable and projects
He’s nothing MORE THAN A SPANISH WAITER.
CLUELESS MANAGAGEMENT.
Arteta does have magnificent hair, for whatever it’s worth.
on the bright side, at least we’re still scoring goals…
I hate arsenal
“Jesus Christ… Pedro writes some absolute garbage sometimes.”
Pedro has been wrong about everything.
Who was calling for a new contract for Elneny. He’s been nowhere near a Newcastle midfielder all game. He’s never been good enough.
Saka already a world class winger btw.
sorry, I meant at least we’re still defending well
The first 60 minutes of this game, before we threw the kitchen sink, have to be the purest expression of Artetaball. Soulless and gutless crab football played in 3rd gear. And we have 3 more years of this to look forward to.
I feel sick.
Can Arteta not motivate this lot? I thought that the bad aditude players had all been shipped out by Arteta?
I’m sure Saliba can’t wait to join the project.
I feel sick.
Can Arteta not motivate this lot? I thought that the bad aditude players had all been shipped out by Arteta?
I’m sure Saliba can’t wait to join the project.
We are just falling apart.
And that really is that then.
Not buying anyone during the Winter TW was probably the stupidest of ideas.
The MF was the weak link for most of the season, so why was it not possible to strengthen with someone???? (Like Brine Guimares)
“Rap, most players Pedro has rubbished have come good.”
Pedro knows fuck all about football. I think he has shown that over and over throughout the years
When I was in the military,the worst label that could be levelled at anyone was a lack of Commando spirit-this team lacked Commando spirit.
To not turn up and compete in what for some might be the biggest game of their lives is unforgiveable.
I blame the players,have some personal pride,chaps.
Thats the season over for me.
Have a good break,Gooners.
Only 6 mins? Should be 45 min
I genuinely thought we could pull it off. But back to watching Europa league now. How much more money is Arteta allowed to spend before there are expectations? Anything below 4th next season and he needs to go. This league is too competitive to put up with nonsense. He has failed to deliver in all of our crunch matches since that Fa cup final. And the way we crumble isn’t even a glorious failure. We shit our pants. Villareal, Spurs, Newcastle, two 8th finishes and after two years of process, now 5th. He has got the bare minimum to stay… Read more »