Dan Connelly

✅ "I'd bring in a new rule..." ⛔️ "You miss the next league game if you pull out of international duty!" 😡 "It's a mockery for so many players to pull out!" Gabby says the #AFC stars who withdrew from international duty should be banned for the Gunners' next league game! ❌

@BenObeseJecty What is there to sit and listen to? A PM that lies and avoids every question?

Absolutely pathetic from Reform UK MPs as they stage a mass (well, eight) walkout of #PMQs. Obviously pre-rehearsed but very much reflective of their thin-skinned demeanour in Westminster. Rare to see them in the chamber at all to be fair.

@OptaAnalyst @johncrossmirror just FYI if you want to change your headline

Taking all delays into account, Arsenal spent an average of 31.4 seconds to get the ball back into play from corners, goal kicks, throws and free-kicks last night vs Brighton. There have been 195 instances of a team taking longer than this in a Premier League match in 2025-26.

33 days…… On average it takes 13 days from the comment to the sanction, when players in the past have called the @FA_PGMOL cheats, & the FA have acted swiftly……why has Rodri’s taken 33 days so far?

@LabourfutureUK And Labour are pushing the rest of us into poverty to pay for it.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said that Reform will push children into poverty. Reforms flip flipping over the two-child welfare cap will mean children and families suffer. Reform are not for families they are for the elites. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@LiquidAy Plus he spent years abusing Arsenal and their fans, now cries about it?!

🚨JUST IN: Adrian Durham says an Arsenal title win would be “unbearable” and admits he’s backing Manchester City to stop them. He actually believes Arsenal have been the best team and will probably win it, but claims it’s the fans he can’t deal with, not the football. Meanwhile, critics still label them “Set Piece FC” after another corner double secured a 2 to 1 win over Chelsea. Can @talkSPORT tell me one thing Arsenal fans have done that no other clubs has done before or after? These guys are just desperate at this point.

@StanCollymore Stan, we couldn't care less if our team entertained you or anyone else, when we win 4-0 we are criticised. Why would anyone's enjoyment but our own be relevant? As we are told everyday we haven't won the league in more than 20 years, I'd take a 1-0 own goal win every game!

I think it's great that Arteta recognised that basic British staples ( corners, free kicks, physicality, defending properly, shape etc etc) were needed ( alongside technique) to feel he had a chance of winning a 38 game marathon. Graham's Arsenal, Wilkinson's Leeds spring to mind with title winning teams. In short, win however you can. But.... Arteta and Arsenal ( documentary) has been shoved down people's throats as a purists "trust the process" narrative which is disingenuous. He basically shed every ounce of his Man City "this is how we play" under Pep to become a pragmatist. Again, nothing wrong with that but it will be criticised legitimately as an "easier" way of winning rather than sticking to a purist's principles. Also there's the entertainment angle. Not of Arsenal season ticket holders who I'm sure couldn't give a fig about style, just "feel the heft" of that trophy. And that's fine, but ALL Premier League clubs rake in huge amounts because it delivers entertainment, that's literally what the League and broadcasters now sell as their main tagline , so rugby at corners again will come under the microscope. Arsenal fans won't think I'm a natural ally, quite the opposite, I think on social media a lot of their discourse (for a club who've never made a dent in the European Cup, a club from the home of football, and its capital) is bizarre and has genuine delusions of grandeur that to me is funny, but I'd back them up 100% to support a team that wins however they can within the rules. Because we all want the same. But here context and nuance isn't present, it's either shit or great so your point has a lot of merit. But there's one final argument I'd propose for everyone who likes Premier League football, to answer. If you spend £1BN on a team and rake in money from a global audience wanting entertainment, is there a responsibility on that team to entertain or not? Me of 30 years ago would have said a firm no, Wimbledon or Liverpool of 1988 had polar opposite styles and that fit hand in glove and I loved it( "The crazy gang has beaten the culture club ") Now? A billion on players and hugging at set pieces and over reliance on corners is a MAJOR part of the game plan ? I'm still 60% "play the fucking way that wins " but there's zero doubt that a paying audience globally ( who allow Arsenal or Liverpool or United to spend a billion) are entitled to say... Entertain us.

@AnfieldSector @michael_reid11 Wait, have you checked this is ok? Their fans are awful precious about Arsenal doing this sort of thing and @Carra23 will be spitting about this ruining football

🤯 Liverpool have now scored 7 consecutive Premier League goals from non-penalty set-pieces - the longest run by any side in the competition's history. @michael_reid11

@LewisSteele_ AHH so it's ok to be set piece FC now, brilliant.

Liverpool top of the set-piece table in 2026. From the start of the season until New Year, they were joint-bottom. It was a huge problem area and now a real plus point.

@KemiBadenoch @MartinSLewis Every week you should answer your own question when he doesn't like you did a couple of months ago.

Returned the favour and 'ambushed' @MartinSLewis in my office today with a group of graduates suffering under Plan 2 loan repayments! But good on him for coming over to Parliament for round 2 of our debate on my plan to cut interest rates on student loans. Martin and I don't agree on everything - but we know that graduates are being shafted by the current system, and we both care enough to try and change it. And unlike Keir Starmer, Martin is willing to listen. Once again Starmer didn't answer any of my questions on student loans earlier today in PMQs. It's because the PM knows that under his government graduates are getting poorer and job opportunities are disappearing. Labour have no plan for young people. I do.

@johncrossmirror AHH let's try and find another angle to have a go at Arsenal, well done John, what a true hater you are.

Arsenal top of the league, producing English football’s next superstar… But some way to catch up on the academy business… Chelsea best in the business as they’ve made £393.5m on academy sales in past five years, according to Football Transfers. Man City £256.7m Arsenal £112m The story of a rebuild and targets… mirror.co.uk/sport/football…

@FabrizioRomano Isn't this a pen to Everton?

Kobbie Mainoo on Instagram. 🚨⤵️

@WelBeast Imagine that was Arsenal

9 red cards so far this season. Chelsea Football Club have discipline issues. Discuss.

@Keir_Starmer And Labour wants to push the rest of us that work into poverty to pay for their welfare bill.

Shameful. I’m incredibly proud that this government has scrapped the cruel two child limit. Reform wants to push hundreds of thousands of children into poverty. thesun.co.uk/news/38258787/…

@Rory_Talks_Ball Linesman didnt flag until Wolves players started appealing, really weird that was.

He’s well onside!

@SkySportsNews He spotted the camera, thats why he did it 🤣

"In that moment I didn't think it was right where they were operating" 🗣️ Liam Rosenior explains his exchange with Arsenal staff on the touchline whist both sides were warming up 🔵

@charles_watts AHH but we know how City are with rules 🤔

"Why should he not play?" Erm, because it's the rules Pep.....

@TheAthleticFC Chelsea needed to score, Arsenal didn't, why was the onus on Arsenal to make it entertaining for anyone?

Chelsea’s fans taunted the Emirates with chants of, “We’ve won it all.” They have a reputation as winners, Arsenal as a perennial project. Right now, however, it’s Chelsea who look more like a work-in-progress. And while Tuesday’s semi-final wasn’t pretty, Arsenal fans won’t care. Their team is here to win, not entertain. 📝 @Gunnerblog nytimes.com/athletic/70200…

@Rory_Talks_Ball Gary Neville seems to think Arsenal need to go for it as well, really bizarre comments from him.

This first half is the perfect advert for scrapping 2 leg semi finals in the Carabao Cup Chelsea playing to nick a 1-0 Arsenal only need a 0-0 Neither team wants to commit the intensity of a proper cup semi final

@Rory_Talks_Ball Random I know but Rory, what do you make of our pitch at the moment? Both goalmouths looks worn and brown, a few patches on the sides as well, never seen this at the Emirates before.

Compare Rodri’s weird referee conspiracy interview and Guardiola’s 5 year net spend rant With Arteta’s speech about the next 4 months and Rice’s interview about what this team can achieve For the first time, it feels like Man City are feeling the pressure more than Arsenal