Jason Britton

@Isaacbrooks5 @aliladiere That is my hunch…….better language, better place on pitch, less history with Oliver …… but obviously don’t know for sure

@aliladiere You could be right but could it also be he’d be better to deal with Michael Oliver than Gabriel?

Rice being captain on the weekend was a message to someone. I won’t name any names but there is a reason why he wore the armband and not Gabriel like previous games.

Amazing how many people that out of 89, 99, 00, 01, 03, 05, 16, 23, 24 and 25 it’s 89 we are going to emulate now. I hope they are right! And it may be that we do it. But seriously saying “remember 89” means so little if your head is so far in the sand you are blanking those other years

Remembering’89 is remembering how so many wrote us off. Blown It. Finished. Washed Up. And We Did It

Mmmm October. “Zubimendi can’t play every game” #arsenal

@JordJoyce @LeGrove Mmmmm

@JordJoyce @LeGrove Zubimendi can’t play every game. Today was Good rotation option. Plenty of chances created before Odegaard injury. We’ll see it again. 3 points in the bag. If you followed the thread no one is saying rice-ode-eze is *the* way to go; just the question is not simply “ode or eze”

I don’t know why I so strongly believed it was impossible for Odegaard and Eze to exist in the same midfield. Very excited that this is the way.

@AFC_GLEN My guess was he was better suited to dealing with Michael Oliver than Gabriel - language, location on the pitch, previous interactions. But clearly I don’t know

Does anyone know why Declan was made Captain ?

@stonca @JonSpurling1 Didn’t think renewals were open yet

@JonSpurling1 I've already renewed my ticket for next year, when I spoke to the club they have said the waiting list and demand for tickets is crazy, regardless of the outcome, we'll be alright and we'll go again, with hope we can prosper. Anyone saying anything different is pure hyperbole.

‘Broken beyond repair.’ What? If we finish 2nd? Give your head a wobble, get some perspective and toughen up. I don’t quite think we’re in a Sheffield Wednesday or worse - a Bury situation. We’ll all be back in August whatever happens. #Arsenal #COYG

@YankeeGunner His form has dived since Christmas because of lack of rotation. And we are now paying the price. I’ve been saying we’ve been poor since Christmas for some time. Winning when poor is a good sign but if you keep being poor you run out of results eventually. Clive’s really disappointing comments last week on people expressing that view was a low light of all the AVP’s I’ve listened to. I’ve Watched AFC home and away since the late 80s and yet that’s nit a valid view apparently. Very poor

Agreed re the not giving up but people keep quoting what happened in one year (1989) when we pulled back from the brink and not those years when we did not. 1 in 10 years we did not blow it doesn’t mean this year will be a repeat of 1989

@HandofArsenal Michael Oliver management strategy

🚨 Declan Rice captains Arsenal today

@TheSecretAcct @PeteMatthew @meaningfulmoney It’s not 50%.

Good discussion about pensions. @petematthew @meaningfulmoney The big change with pensions from 6th of April 2027 is them being IHTable as well as being taxable as income for the beneficiaries. However for me they’re still a no brainer. Putting in £48,000 and the government adds £12,000 and you get a further £12,000 off your tax bill if you are a higher rate taxpayer so that’s is a 50% return before you even start investing. Yes you pay income tax taking it out but if you can keep it within your 20% band then it’s not too bad. Plus, you have yours knee rate band of £12,570 too. Also of course you can take 25% out tax-free i.e. £15,000 and that assumes no growth course. So my plan is to draw it down to zero by gifting it or spending it during my lifetime. Inheritance will be my ISA, property and my family investment company share portfolio. I might buy some life cover to cover the inheritance tax. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

@tickets2arsenal Here for it

This is going to boil blood 😂 !! #afc

@Jxor17 @ArsenalBallots Exactly this.

@ArsenalBallots Blocking bot accounts maybe. They just also released a few for sporting aswell

It seems like the club had hundreds of tickets held for guests or something and they released them all today for Bournemouth Strange.

IYKYK and if you don’t, then it’s not for you #afc

@limmylammy @SilvasSegments Depends how many goals they (and we) score

@SilvasSegments Even if we loose to city we can still afford to drop 3 points at some point and still win the league on goal difference even if city win all their games

Is four points from the next two Premier League (BOU (H) & MCI (A)) fixtures enough for you?

@10akhil @REDactionAFC I’ll be in my seat early enough to call it brunch

He has done it. @REDactionAFC has got Mikel to tell fans to bring their dinner! Or lunch in tomorrow’s case!

@10akhil @TheArsenalFan1w @REDactionAFC If you are still on the boat at this stage, I suggest you stay on the boat and don’t start telling Mikel how to play

@TheArsenalFan1w @REDactionAFC Prefer the brief ‘win the league’ personally.

@espionaricpoet @timstillman_ Slightly tongue in check….. I’ll have to make that clearer in future. But poor treatment of English fans has been going on for years and nothing gets done. If only we had a sports minister……

@JasonKBritton @timstillman_ How is the pm meant to stop this? It's ok, he's got nothing going on

Yeah policing around the game was a disgrace, frankly. Absolutely no need for it, not a sign of trouble and these charged up meatheads with batons eyeballing everyone and being aggressive. Just happens so often on European aways and UEFA do not give a single shit.

@4TheArsenal_ Bookmarking this because I think you’re wrong. Come back to it in end August.

Forget all the noise about Arsenal needing to sell. We will sell of course but I’m telling you now, Arsenal will make some massive signings if we win the league. Revenue is as good as ever at the moment & Mikel has already said about the importance of not standing still

@BlackScarfMarc 36 teams in the UCL (not 32). The way to remember this is sp*rs got a trophy for coming **37th** in the year we were in the top 4 teams in Europe.

As soon as UEFA expanded the CL and stopped teams dropping down to the Europa and the European Johnstones Paint Trophy, they pretty much confirmed that English clubs will walk to the final of those two bob tournaments every season. With the 32 best teams in a CL closed shop, only the total shit is left in the lower competitions, so English teams will have a piss easy route. The way that lot did last year; weakest Europa League in decades.