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I am not going to give up before I qualify for motherfucking @InstaFragOCE Open.

@Dirty71592 @Civixplorer It's not the Alps, but South Australia has some decent mountain ranges, great vineyards and the Adelaide Hills are picturesque, especially this time of year.

@Civixplorer Does Western and South Australia have mountains terrain?

☀ Mediterranean-type biomes around the world.

@SamW_AFC "a lot of bang average players" x.com/Dylan_OCE/stat…

One thing I'll give to Arteta is the fact he's actually kept us in this title race with a lot of bang average players + injuries to key ones.

@GunnersGalactic @BodegaaCat For years I've been seeing Arteta stans on Twitter and Reddit boasting about how they have endless amounts of "receipts" from "doomers" saved and screenshotted that they're going to unleash the following May. You'd think they would have learned by now.

@BodegaaCat Amount of dude that been telling me don’t delete I’ll come back to this in may. 😭😭 Imma be the one coming back😭

“Why are you complaining? we’re top of the league”

@BodegaaCat If you still believed in Kai Havertz after January 12, 2025, I don't know what to tell you.

Missed two big chances and lost 2 important duels to go 1v1💔

@patricktheheel Went straight from the Arsenal game to WrestleMania night 2

CM Punk

@ThurgzFTBL @chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 I do, but if we fourpeat 2nd (never done in footballing history) and Arteta keeps his job, the fallout would be so big that Xhaka getting booed will pale in comparison to the vitriol our fans will be spewing (and rightly so)

@Dylan_OCE @chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 Fair enough. There has been frustration.. 100% but nowhere near what we’ve seen in years gone by. Not sure if you remember Xhaka (Whilst captain) being boo’d off the pitch?

Arteta is my guy and always has been. Never, ever flip-flopped on him. And I still believe we will win the Premier League, the first of many under him. However, if we end up trophyless, he simply has to go. Nothing to do with “AFTV mob”. This is Arsenal FC, not Mikel Arteta FC.

@A_Jaywalker @PoznanInMyPants The Real Madrid fans who boo after one loss are ridiculed because everyone knows they'll still probably win a trophy by the end of the season. Different to Arsenal fans despairing over a run of dropped points & cup exits knowing full well that it'll ultimately decide the season.

@PoznanInMyPants And this year every loss has been painful. When I take a backseat and analyze our online fandom, I feel they are pretty entitled on average. Like, I always chuckle when Real Madrid fans boo their team for losing like 1/2 games sometimes. Aren't 'the idiots' doing the same online?

The problem with a painful loss is it brings out ALL the idiots with their absolute conclusions. And there are a lot of idiots.

@ThurgzFTBL @chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 Based on the chats I have with fans that regularly go to games.

@Dylan_OCE @chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 Based on what? Your account is based in Australia.. when did you last physically go to a game? Again, not a dig.. just a question.

@ThurgzFTBL @chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 It's already getting toxic at the stadium again. If we actually throw away the title again, it'll get really ugly. Even worse than late Wenger and Emery's tenure.

@chefsito_01 @MoArsenal86 When was the last time you went to a game? Not a shot, a genuine question. Before Arteta & it was TOXIC. (We boo’d our captain off the pitch vs Aston Villa). The atmosphere & feel around the ground is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT now. There is genuine belief.

@OllieArsenalFC @prettyboygooner I don't think it's ever happened in any league, at least not any top flight European league. This is genuinely unprecedented terrain that Arteta's dragged this club into. Sick of this "beautiful" project.

@prettyboygooner English Football* Never happened since the inception of a top division in England.

The first manager in the history of the premier league to 4-peat 2nd

@TikiTakaConnor Gonna be completely honest, if we finish this campaign trophyless I don't want him here next season.

Arteta has been talking about games being decided in the boxes for years now. Arsenal spent a lot of money in the summer. The issues haven’t exactly been resolved. His negligence in running players into the ground and not giving them adequate rest when the opportunity comes is comfortably his biggest flaw in my opinion. Timber and Zubimendi touching the field against Portsmouth. Saka against Mansfield. Why? Sign adequate players to come in for your stars and you won’t arrive in April without your best players who are injured because they’ve been flogged. It has happened every single season since he got here. Man City were struggling then went and took two of the best players in the league and now look at them. He has to learn for next year regardless of what happens this campaign.

No matter how Arsenal’s season ends, Arteta has worked near-miracles. This squad has no business being here when you look at that attack, it’s not even top 10 in the league. Zubimendi hasn’t moved the needle and Rice has his own limitations.

@ondrejhajek0 @dee4life2137 @YankeeGunner Fluke goal off of a Donnarumma howler. Means nothing if he can't score when it actually matters. FA and EFL Cup disasterclasses last season showed he's not that guy, today proved it beyond reasonable doubt.

@dee4life2137 @YankeeGunner It was a huge miss, but he still scored our only goal. We really shouldn't just expect a brace from a player.

Now to go discuss that with Clive, Tim and Paul when id prefer to go back to sleep …

@EduardoHagn At what point will you start actually asking questions of the manager?

Ødegaard has to be sold this summer. You cannot be such a bystander in these games. Put your body on the line.

@scorpzgca00 @osowxvyy

@Dylan_OCE @osowxvyy Ahahahaha

WWE might not be for me anymore

@ZeMo60 @WrestlingHumble

@WrestlingHumble This is what we do

The show was bad that’s obvious but the major thing this WrestleMania lacks is there is no distinct identity to it. The aesthetic, vibes and presentation are all over the place.

@DBoredman @viperwave I remember that guy

Been getting really into Depression YouTube again.

@MKElite_ @BobbyPOTUS If I remember correctly from the DVD commentary, Johnny's fight with Butterbean took place the day before this scene.

@BobbyPOTUS This is a great stunt because nobody is laughing, it isn't funny at all, and even Knoxville is nervous and stoic before it which almost never happens

You're telling me that Jackass has a scene where Knoxville gets shot with riot control equipment and everyone's like "jesus they use these on people" 20 years before the 2020 protests

@afcjxmes Agree with pretty much everything, but why do you think that Arteta will switch things up if this proves to be a winning formula, instead of just doubling down?

I’ve been thinking about this and it comes down to a managerial philosophy issue. Arteta’s ‘defence first’ principles basically mean: a.) We don’t sign a certain profile of player that is needed to unlock games and (importantly right now) deal with high-pressure situations. We wouldn’t go near mavericks like Vini, Cherki, Olise, etc because they don’t defend like their life is on the line. As a result you get a load of workhorse attackers who aren’t willing to take risks and lose the ball 9 times out of 10 for the 1 time it comes off. b.) Players end up so hyper-fixated on OOP work that by the time they’re in positions to go 1-vs-1 they’ve already expended themselves physically and mentally. Consider how Klopp spoke about Salah’s defensive requirements (or lack thereof) during his final season. The results are clear to see. Ultimately if it gets us over the line then none of this matters. The issue is that when you play this way you start to lose home advantage and the margins that are needed to get these things over the line. I’ve said for a while that if we win this season Arteta’s philosophy will change but for now we’re clearly trying to limp over the line as we are. I just really hope it pays off because fans’ patience is wearing very thin.