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We're the original banter club and we've been bottling high pressure moments for years
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We're the original banter club and we've been bottling high pressure moments for years
I’m just glad our players are showing far more bottle than the arsenal fans on here.
The fans don't have to show bottle, the players need to show bottle. All fans need to do is support the team the best they can, the rest is up to them.
You can't blame fans for having PTSD. Some will remain cautious but remain optimistic, others will be more forthright in their views, some will be overly cocky. All sorts make up a fan base.
We’re playing the best football we’ve played for 19 years, and that’s causing PTSD ? PTSD is finishing 8th 2 years running behind West Ham and Leicester . This right now is heaven, I’m Enjoying every second.
Do you understand what PTSD is? It's generally triggered after a bad thing, not while the bad thing is happening. Hence the name.
What’s the bad thing, all I see is great things.
But the previous bad things - like finishing 8th twice in a row - are causing PTSD episodes for Arsenal fans.
Much like how I fully expect United to collapse, having lived through a number of false dawns over the past decade.
Different team though, I mean that team deserved to finish 8th, it wasn’t bad luck or anything. This team now plays football on a different planet to even what we produced last season. Why not just enjoy it, we’ve waited long enough to see it.
Why would you think we aren't enjoying it? Of course we are, you'd be mad not to. But you can enjoy something in the moment without proclaiming with certainty that we are going to win the league or are the best thing since sliced bread.
Being confident about winning the league is just that, being confident. It may not happen but we are playing title winning football.
Have to be honest. We had such an easy calendar for the first 27 matches. All our points are down to pure luck. And help of VAR lines.
If you cannot enjoy this Arsenal side, maybe you don’t like football. The neutrals should always ever be for the underdog. And we are since before the kick off of the season.
We have hunger and a soul. City is a cyborg team. They play really good but were is the spirit?
Arsenal will be a more enjoyable winner. Refreshing for everybody. Youth at their best.
If you cannot enjoy this Arsenal side, maybe you don’t like football. The neutrals should always ever be for the underdog. And we are since before the kick off of the season.
We have hunger and a soul. City is a cyborg team. They play really good but were is the spirit?
Arsenal will be a more enjoyable winner. Refreshing for everybody. Youth at their best.
Easy there. Underdog would be someone like Leicester. Not one of the richest clubs in the land.
Like the poster above said, it's okay to enjoy your team winning without demanding that everyone else does the same.
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I hate teddy sheringham but this is absolutely hilarious
Because this is the first time you’ve challenged for a title in how many years? No one was ever going to make you a favourite or an outright challenger. That doesn’t make you an underdog though.
You have had a great season no matter what happens and if you win the league you deserve it but the real challenge will be next season. If you can sustain yourself as a challenger or you revert to the same club you have been for at least 10 years, in the wilderness. I hope for the sake of football you will truly return to being a top club, even if I have to see more of that smug cnut Lego pep.
If you offer me the title this season and 10th next, id bite your hand off.
That's great
That was good!That's great
You obviously missed the prestigious Florida Cup and Emirates Cup in pre season.
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Cringe as f*ck.
Inevitable
Should be titled the second coming of Jesus
Tifo Football with the cursed illustrations 
Palace goalkeeper injured which means they have no senior goalkeepers available for Brighton game and likely for the arsenal game this weekend 
I've accepted that Arsenal are winning the title and I'm at peace with it.
they need more shots on target (or at least one) to change a result than a senior goalkeeper.Palace goalkeeper injured which means they have no senior goalkeepers available for Brighton game and likely for the arsenal game this weekend
Pity they don't have a Karius!Palace goalkeeper injured which means they have no senior goalkeepers available for Brighton game and likely for the arsenal game this weekend
If or when the Square head wins the league he needs to send a big bottle of Champagne to the FA , they've given them a leg up, more than once this season. Whoever picked the fixture list must have been a gooner. Lee Dixon I think it was or the shit house Keown.
You might need to explain this to me!
Not sure how can anyone preempt injuries and suspensions. This is just not valid anymore, was maybe valid for first few months but just not anymore.
Also we have had to deal with many injuries like currently for the past few weeks we had both our main striker and backup striker injured. We have had injuries to Partey and Zinchenko among other players so thats not it aswell (ETH please take a note).
And one might think that we have had lucky decisions go our way, well everyone is entitled to their opinion but what we know for sure is that PGMOL has apologized to us more than once for giving decisions against us incorrectly.
While I still don't expect us to win the title. City are just too much to handle over a season but that shouldn't take away what we have achieved with a very young squad.
We have to be intelligent and play for a draw at City. Same we should have done at the Emirates.
Arsenal’s success is in their hands.
To win it, Arsenal has to be nearly perfect, City has to be perfect.
No shame if we lose to perfection.
Arsenal’s success is in their hands.
To win it, Arsenal has to be nearly perfect, City has to be perfect.
No shame if we lose to perfection.
If you go back through the thread, the idea that Arsenal are doing well largely due to the fixture list is a constant fixture. It never made a great deal of sense, but 27 games into the season it’s downright mystifying.You might need to explain this to me!
You’d think that a league system where each team plays each other home and away across 38 games would preclude such an argument… but it hasn’t done.
We need to stop being so sensitive. You can’t expect opposition fans to be reasonable when they see us winning the league. Everyone else is Lucky or cheating apart from your team. We’d be the same. Opposition managers will be envious and jealous too, but that’s exactly where we want to be. No one noted our injury record when we were in mid table. You get to the top, you are there to be shot at.
Oh I remember it well. I can understand it after 6, 8, maybe even 12 games or so. What I couldn't understand is where it's coming from after 27 games like you say, and why it was brought up now.
Was actually nice to hear ETH talk about our lack of injuries as well. Bar Jesus missing a big chunk of the season, and lads like Smith-Rowe and Nelson most of the season so far, it's nice for a change to have players that are a bit more robust. Too often in the past we had guys like Wilshere, Diaby, Vermaelen, Cazorla, Rosicky that we just struggled to get fit or keep fit. It's nice to be at the other end of the scale for a change.
Arsenal's schedule is not something I've bothered to look into, but broadly speaking you most definitely can have easier and harder fixture lists. The fact you play the same 38 games in a season is only one element of the competition.