By the way, I'm still salty about Dorgu's screamer against us. Ball hits his arm, then the next touch is his thunder strike. Did not hear Mr. Schmeichel beyotching about inconsistent reffing after that one.
Interesting, I had assumed that like the UCL and the Conference League the final of the Europa League would come after the season ended. Either way they would probably going to rotate v City and their form hasn’t been great, so I wasn’t counting on them to take points off City.
I also couldn't help but notice when Trossard scored, the first player to join him in celebration across the goal line was Saliba who absolutely launched the closest sideline reserve ball into the stands like he did when Timber scored vs. Chelsea.
For anyone to make the argument about consistency in regards to the var decision means they're acknowledging the correct call was made.
It’s reactionary? This happened earlier in the season. White played three matches in 11 days, got injured in the fourth we lost him for a few months. I also don’t understand “was white trying to injure himself.” Explain that. My post was asking to protect White since he has a track record.
Just want to point out that Trossard had a goal chalked off for when White held Leicester City's Danny Ward. And that Newcastle last season had a goal chalked off against Brentford when Wilson held Brentford keeper. You can't hold keepers. Never have been able to. The headless from Schmeichel and his "special comments" saying we have been doing this all season then hilariously can't cite examples of us getting goals from holding the keeper is exactly what I expect from a poor pundit with a hate boner for Arsenal.
Whites injury was really unlucky, contact injuries usually are in this case I less it's like what happened with Jack Wilshere where his play style led to a lot of contact injuries. Hopefully for Benjamin it's just bruising and swelling, and he misses the Burnley game but is back for Palace and the UCL final. I have doubts Timber is back this season and it's no surprise that with White back in the team the last few games Sakas goal contributions have gone up.
So are we showing the mentality of champions to grind out a must win game? Or coming close to bottling? What's the discourse saying?
Social media is hilarious today, everyone claiming we are VARsenal but ignoring the fact that since VAR has come in statistically we are worse off with it. Everyone keeps saying when Arsenal hold the keeper and foul the keeper it's a goal that's allowed but when WHU did it to us it's overturned. But you ask for evidence and the best they have is Saliba briefly holding the Man U keeper in MD1 and the ball wasn't in play. Or its clips of White standing in front of the keeper which is legal. The melt downs are legendary. Honestly I hope we batter Burnley and Palace with open play goals and win comfortably but winning games 2-0 with corners and own goals would break everyone. Anyway City fans suspiciously quiet about the red card and penalty they should have given away.
We got an absolutely critical 3 points. However we did it, we did it. And that's ultimately what matters. And how the narrative goes about our season if we manage to pull off one or two trophies, I'll leave that to the "football historians". Right now I'm not really worried about narratives as much as having potentially lost our 2 choice/starting fullbacks for the last 3 critical games and how disruptive that may or may not be for us.
Arteta putting Rice at right back for no reason and then wasting 3 subs to correct it. pic.twitter.com/PnVAeo1I2r— Paddy Power (@paddypower) May 10, 2026
Rice went to RB when we brought on Zubimendi for an injured Benjamin White and the next sub after that was Calafiori for Mosquera. I'd argue he made 1 sub to correct it.
Zubimendi should not have come on for white. If he subbed on Mosquera, Calafiori is not subbed until the 70th minute for Hincapie. Zubimendi can come on later. The Zubimendi and Mosquera subs were mistakes because we took off Caliafiori and put Rice in the wrong position. Arteta didn't really get it right until Odegaard entered. Which he took Zubimendi off for after half an hour. Arteta big brained it and almost blew it.
Speaking of bitter rival discourse, I had forgotten about the Arteta trousers thing from a few years ago when we were also close to winning the league I do have to wonder why he chooses to dress like he's still in the lower sixth form?
hahaha It looked like implemented both heinze an stoinverberg recommendations after those conferences
During the match they said Cala was a tactical switch but post game Arteta said Whites injury was bad and Calafioris injury wasn't too bad. The normal move was Mosq for White and then if Calafiori couldn't continue it should have been Hincapie for Cala not MLS moving to LB. Love Zubi and he is a massive reason we are winning the league but he is clearly gassed.
He dresses like shit for a man making $15m a year, but maybe its his good luck charm dressing like that. Thought he effed up majorly but remedied it quickly. I went to sleep in the 2nd half and rewatched it after. Not really going to get into style points or whatever it is what it is. 3 points and 6 away from winning the league. I really can't believe it's been this ********ing long man. Insane. UTA 1 down, 2 to go.
A quick google seems to suggest this is a thing with him - always wearing the same clothes. It's just unfortunate that he chose what looks like school trousers and shoes back in the day Maybe one day I will find enough energy to dig into this - but it is curious, and i had noted when he got attention when we came so close to a surprise title that other fan podcasts were mocking the trousers
He looks like shiite, and that coat is abominable. That's another thing, Adidas has to release a Wenger style coat. I bought like 4 deadstock Puma Wenger coats. Incredible stuff. Adidas gear leaves me cold, no pun intended.