Annoyman

All the Arsenal fans I know IRL are sound for the record

25 minutes ago, KMitch said:

Watching Arsenal fans having a meltdown on r/gunners is hilarious right now.  The past few days they've been trashing Villa as being a tin pot club and acting like Buendia to Arsenal was a done deal because, who in their right mind would turn "the biggest club in the world" down.  Now, the narrative has shifted to "maybe Arsenal didn't bid at all", even though insider sources from both clubs confirmed bids had been made, or "Villa must be buying Grealish's replacement because he's coming home to Arsenal", because "Villa don't have that kind of money".    I used to think Spurs and Newcastle fans were the most delusional in England, but Arsenal have pulled way ahead in the crybaby titlerace.  Can't wait to watch the muppets on AFTV and Barstool Sports lose their minds again when we rip them apart twice again next season.  

Anyway, great signing.  We're paying a premium, but he's come off the back of 3 great seasons with Norwich.  We're have all the pieces to play 4-3-3 perfectly now.  

                  Martinez

Cash - Konsa - Mings - Targett

McGinn - Douglas Luiz - Sanson

Buendia - Watkins - Grealish

 

 

Reddit is a premier hotbed of Gooner derangement imo, there seem to be a lot of systems thinking sports science American clowns who have drunk the kool-aid a little too hard to prove theyr'e legitimate soccerball fans

Ah this **** rules. Big fan of the club's recent signings just being like "ah here lads we've signed a good player", no fuss, no underwhelming chicken sandwich at the chairman's house

Count me among the people slightly baffled to discover Norwich fans apparently hate us and consider us a sideways move ¯\(°_o)/¯

On 03/06/2021 at 16:26, BleedClaretAndBlue said:

Undefeated against them in the 4 games since coming back up. Think we equalled the head to head in doing so too. Time to pull clear next season

I think the last 0-0 left us one short still - we've won 75 to their 76

They deserve this to be fair. The red card killed the game really, it looked like it would boil over and produce a red at one point, but it ended up coming from an apparent complete accident instead

If it stays like this I wonder if the early run of fixtures could be important next season. They can play football are good on the counter and have a striker who will score goals, but they need to not get that Brighton thing this season of narrowly losing a bunch of games they played well and getting that stink of failure hanging around

Shout out to Pontus Jansson sauntering leisurely onto the pitch eating a protein bar at a corner then immediately getting knocked senseless by a goalbound shot from his own team by the way, huge vibe

Dean Smith doesn't look anything like bacon. Alex McLeish definitely looked like breaded ham though

Bamford will no doubt be issuing the "is it because I is privately educated" statement forthwith

It is harsh on him after the season he had tho! 7 assists nothing to sniff at for a striker, and he had as many spuriously disallowed goals as Watkins did

46 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

When they scored, the lack of away fans, and therefore the lack of reaction to the goal, gave us the surreal sight of the Holte End still applauding what they thought was an Emi save with Chelsea's players halfway back to the half way line to restart. These are strange times.

Only tangentially related but do you remember this one win against Stoke at VP 10-11 years ago where they had a first half goal somewhat spuriously disallowed for a push on Stephen Warnock, and their fans went so mental celebrating it that they still hadn't noticed it was disallowed until like a minute after play had been restarted? Never seen anything like it to that level.

It was like our fans went from winding them up over it to like, desperately trying to get their attention to let them know because it was getting kind of weird

Delighted the Holte got to see one get smacked in the net in front of them. El-Ghazi being so calm on penalties really racked up some points and there was a really good spread of goals and assists across the whole front four in general

Targett was the 2nd best player in enough games to be in with a shout for player of the season overall IMO, though today was a very tough one

Shame Leicester bottled it again, but not sure how I would have felt about a situation where City winning the Champions League was somehow the banter outcome

A real spread of big performances tonight with fierce competition for 2nd place in the man of the match rankings. Watkins is looking so sharp and intelligent out there in addition to running his legs off, just tremendous. He's scored a fair few goals this season from capitalising on errors, but his movement and alertness causes so much nervousness in defenders and goalkeepers you can't  put it all down to luck

Not content with scoring a great winner to take the points in a tremendous match, El Ghazi also committed a foul then acted like he'd been shot dead in the process despite there being no meaningful contact at all from Allan. Deliciously satirical. I wonder if anyone else caught that reference

Sam Johnstone trying to put El Ghazi off by...clapping like a seal? How ironic

Just terrible to watch. There was no reason to concede an offside on that counter at the end

Christ this is wretched

It had never occurred to me that it was even possible to have difficulty marshalling Joelinton

I can never tell if Dwight Gayle looks like he's 12 or 53

Traore, bless him,  was absolutely infuriating today. The only person on the pitch who made more bad decisions than the referee.

As cynical as the Jagielka foul was it's still a yellow all day long.

It should have been obvious to me to switch this off with ten to go but still I stared at it

Ref's a clown

Halsey never really stood a chance in life, given that his parents had apparently given him "**** Off" as a middle name

Just re: Grealish, I don't think he dives much (when was he last penalised for it, not counting the charlatan Kevin Friend?) and the vast majority of the many, many fouls on him are legitimate free kicks, but he absolutely acts like every foul has nearly killed him, and he tends to act like it's an outrage he didn't get a free kick on the (fairly rare) occasions he just loses possession or gets bullied out of it, and he and a rotating squad of our other players will strategically harangue the ref demanding players get yellow or red cards

I mean I can understand why, because he gets fouled insanely often and referees often tolerate the opposition's designated shit-kicker fouling him 6-7 times in a game before giving a now-irrelevant yellow with ten to go, but there's no point hallucinating that he's an angel

I sort of feel like it might be nice for Villa and Leeds fans that they don't have to play each other for a bit now, a lot of energy being expended on the same ol' recriminations

4 hours ago, VillaAlex said:

I was quite surprised at Jermaine Beckford's punditry, a lot better than some of the crap they have on.

Yeah he's not bad at all

Just to confirm if it were needed that the funny overacting thing wasn't Bamford, who wasn't playing today

Oh hold up what

Hope Anwar cuts a ten minute wrestling promo in the postmatch

Hinchliffe baying for Targett to be sent off after completely downplaying Klich bringing down McGinn on the break while on a yellow is deranged