‘Bottlers’ Arsenal are ‘bathing in a waterfall of your tears’ after 6-0 win at West Ham
Arsenal smashed West Ham on Sunday to keep themselves firmly in the title race, and the fans want to know if theyāre allowed to celebrate nowā¦
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The real victim here
Stewie must be gutted.
That is all.
James, Kent
Bottlers? This Arsenal will not be brushed aside
How can any neutral have any respect for Arsenal after that? Disgraceful! Is Carragher going to criticise us for not keeping it down to a couple?
An outstanding performance all around. Raya wasnāt called into action a lot but he made a number of high awkward catches today. Heās sound.
Do we need an out and out striker? Five different goalscorers today. Similar goal difference to Citeh and āPool.
Arsenal are alleged ābottlersā after last season but after the Christmas blip we are back in it after a winning streak taking the leadersā scalp in the process. Are we bottlers?
This squad will not be brushed asideā¦.well done Arteta, Edu and the rest of the crew.
Chris, Croydon
ā¦So weāve just given West Ham a well-deserved thrashing but remember lads, no smiling or laughing allowed! Just head down the tunnel, get your suit and tie on, bow to the opponent and go home to sit quietly and meditate for 12 hours.
F*** that, we love football because itās fun. No-one can truly predict the future but we can enjoy our victories in the present. It shouldnāt be so hard to understand this so I can only conclude that our rivals are so rattled that theyāve lost control of basic mental faculties. And that makes us even more pleased.
Bathing in a waterfall of your tears,
Vish (AFC), Melbourne, Aus
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Oh Villa
āItās the hope that kills you.
Villa, why have you done this to me.
Paul
Blankety-blank
In response to Peterās article about the retro jerseys.
Iāve always thought clubs should sell sponsorless shirts as an option.
Thereās been a whole generation of Man Utd shirts Iāve never even considered buying due to the awful Chevrolet logo that was plastered on the front of them.
Iād happily pay a bit extra to drop the sponsors entirely and just have a nice shirt with the club badge.
Rob
You know it on Euros squad
After Southgate was at a few games this weekend I can see the press conference for the Euros squad already.
āAs much as we would like to take Mainoo/Jones/Gallagher/any young decent English CM there time will come in the future. But for now Jordan and kalvin will be in the squad. The former will be his last chanceā
It will be another chance wasted.
Jonny P, Hull
Liverpool won on Saturday butā¦
Blue cards ā No one has mentioned the impact it will have on players that receive them. You canāt have professional athletes playing for say 30 minutes, sitting on their arse for 10 minutes then going back on to play. These are hamstring injuries waiting to happen. Also as per other mails, does the clock start once they leave the pitch, what if there are injuries or VAR decisions is the time then extended ā Clusterf**k.
Covid Cup ā People are still referring to LFCās title win with an asterisk ā Why? Liverpool where something like 20 points ahead of City when the league was stopped, I think we only needed one or two wins to clinch it anyway.
Man City and FA ā These two go together. FA refuse to look into Cityās alleged financial breaches but continue to look at another possible Everton discrepancy and Forest. Why have the FA been so lenient with City? Also why do they let City wear their FIFA world club badge on their shirts? When Liverpool won it, they had to beg the FA to let them wear it for one match! ā donāt see any bias there then. About time you took some referees to Dubai for another Jolly.
Neil, LFC, USA
More on Man City
Wow, Mark, MCFC is bitter about these new rules with a ludicrous straw man argument to try and make his case about how wonderfully managed City are and how horribly managed every other club is. Itās not dishonesty to break the rules, itās just being ahead of the curve!
Mark, the reason they are bringing in these rules is because it opens a massive door to conflicts of interest. We already saw how two unconnected teams could attempt to bypass FFP rules in Italy, to agree to higher valuations of players they sold to each other. By falsely increasing their total income they could offset higher losses. By allowing clubs to transfer players between co-owned teams all sorts of financial shenanigans are possible from under-valuing to over-valuing players whichever is needed.
It wasnāt mismanagement that other clubs didnāt do this, but because they knew it was fundamentally wrong.
But the fact you are willing to publicly flog such nonsense shows that one area of City works very well ā their propaganda machine.
Paul McDevitt
Has Pep underperformed?
As a person who loves football, has a 40min drive home from work 3 days a week and runs at the weekend I have quite a bit of time to listen to podcasts. I frequent the main ones, Guardian Football weekly, Totally Football show, the Times and on occasion one from the Athletic. Barry Glendenning ripping the p*ss out of Chris Wilder for āsandwich gateā had me in tears the other week.
But as Man City have now won their 10th Game in a row and most media think that this all-concurring team will now juggernaut to another trophy filled season, we are hearing, reading, and watching the annual copy about Pepās greatness, how he overcomes hurdles and that he tinkers in a way no other manager does to get them over the line. Yes, we are entering the yearly Pep w*nk fest.
Pep is undoubtedly successful, trophy wise, but no-one really states that he has operated in quite literally the most optimal conditions anyone has ever had to work in. Here is the line up from his first Barcelona game: GK: Valdes ā Defense: Alves, Puyol, Marquez and Abidal ā Midfield: Yaya T, Xavi and Iniesta ā Forwards: Messi, Eto and Henry
They lost the game, but thatās not a bad team to coach ā I donāt see a Robert Huth, Igor Biscan or Tomas Brolin there.
I agree that he got them to change how they play, and it was a very impressive, new approach. But he was doing it with some of the worlds the best players, on the best pitches with the best coaches. He did not reinvent football. It would have been more impressive if heād done it with Valencia, or Getafe.
After Barca and a year out Pep goes to Bayern Munich. A team where only Jurgen Klopp has managed to break up the dominance by rolling six sixes first go. Remember, he took over a team that had won the treble the year before. He then fails to get close to repeating this, despite the massive financial advantage that has led Munich to win 11 out of the last 13 Bundesligaās. He gets spanked in the Semiās in the first and second year and misses out again in his third. Does this equate success? Does it merit genius status and the general level of fawning we witnessed?
And during his final year in Bayern, the petrol funded Man City prepare for his arrival. They handpick a backroom team to make him feel comfortable and no doubt start to buy the players he requests.
On this website we have had contributors, both mailbox and staff stating that Jurgen Klopp has not won enough. But when you stop and really think about this question your only answer is, should Pep have won more?
City fans will argue that up until recently they never broke a transfer record on a single player. However, when Pep arrived in the Summer of 2016, City paid over 50m Euros for both Stones and Sane, the year after it was more than 50m Euros on Laporte, Mendy, Walker, and Silva; Continued to this season, they have paid 50m Euros or more on 16 players.
Their closest rivals over the last few years, Liverpool, have bought 5 players for over 50m Euros in that same period. Now, spending money is no guarantee of success, but if like Liverpool you lose a player like VVD to injury it leaves a hole in your squad.
In his 8 years in the UK Pep has won 5 Leagues, 1 CL, 2 FA cups and 4 ELF cups ā with arguable the wealth of a nation behind him and a (financial) sword of Damocles hanging over his, and Man Cityās legacy.
In 3 years in Germany, it was 3 leagues and 2 cups ā with undoubtedly the strongest team with the biggest budget in the entire league.
After 4 years in Spain, it was 3 Leagues, 2 CL and 2 cups ā with quite possibly the greatest player of all time, 2 world class midfielders an armada of generational talent to support.
So, in my opinion Pepās a bit meh!
Ian H
Just to be clear
So just to confirm what Iāve read on here recentlyā¦
Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Spurs blackmailing the league to hoard gate receipts and create a massive financial advantage ā thatās football, thatās fine.
Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Spurs and Everton blackmailing the league to create a new division that hoards all the TV money and create a massive financial advantage ā thatās football, thatās fine.
Manchester United and Spurs going to the Stock Exchange and giving themselves a massive financial advantage ā thatās football, thatās fine.
Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United getting together with their mates to create a āChampions Leagueā designed so that they would qualify in perpetuity and hoard all that cash to create a massive financial advantage ā thatās football, thatās fine.
Manchester City investing in football clubs, to develop footballers in those football clubs. Well, itās just not football is it? Thereās no soul in it.
Got you.
Gav, Edinburgh
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