Abhishek

🚨🚨🗣️ Wayne Rooney on West Ham United vs Arsenal Game: 🤯 “People keep talking about individuals, moments, luck, referees and all the rest of it, but when I watch Arsenal, I see a proper football team. I see a side that is coached at the very highest level. Honestly, if you don’t rate this Arsenal team or you can’t understand the level of football they’re playing, then I’m sorry, you simply do not know football. And I’m saying that as someone who’s played the game at the top level for years. This Arsenal side are unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. They are so compact, so organised, so disciplined in everything they do. There are no gaps, no panic, no unnecessary risks. Every single player understands his role. When you watch them, you almost don’t even see individuals anymore, you see a programme. You see a machine. Everything is synchronised. It takes a very high football IQ and tactical understanding to truly appreciate the level this team operates at. People will watch them and say ‘they’re boring’ or ‘they’re robotic’, but do you know what I call it? Elite. I call it winning football. I call it a team that knows exactly who they are. There’s a reason they leave no lapses for opponents. There’s a reason teams struggle to break them down. There’s a reason they control matches the way they do. That doesn’t happen by accident. I backed Arsenal from the very beginning of the season to win this league and people laughed at me. People told me City would walk it, people said Arsenal would bottle it again, but look where we are now. Two games left and Arsenal are on the verge of becoming champions. And honestly, I’m delighted for them because they deserve it. The fans deserve it as well. Arsenal supporters have waited a long, long time for this feeling. They’ve gone through years of frustration, banter, disappointment, nearly moments, false dawns, all of it. But they stayed patient. They kept believing in the club, believing in the process, believing in the manager and the players. Now they’re finally about to get rewarded for that patience. I think Mikel Arteta deserves enormous credit because what he’s built is not just a good side, it’s a culture. There’s standards there now. Serious standards. Every player fights for each other, every player works, every player sacrifices. That’s why they’re champions in my eyes. And I’ll say this as a Manchester United man, this is the level I want Manchester United to get back to. This is the standard. Watching Arsenal now reminds me of what elite football clubs should look like. The control, the hunger, the mentality, the structure. When you get to this level, football becomes enjoyable again for the fans because they trust their team completely. Arsenal fans can finally smile again because this team has given them something to be proud of. And I genuinely believe this is only the beginning for them. I think they’re going to do great things over the next few years. So to everyone who laughed at my prediction earlier in the season, you’re not laughing now. Maybe it’s time people start respecting this Arsenal side properly because what they’re doing is special.”

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Don’t let anyone deceive you! I dug it up and found it!! This absolute beauty was chopped off because Ben White touched Danny Ward’s hand!

@YankeeGunner And how ugly when Madueke is on

Weird how everyone looks better when Saka is on the pitch.

#Madueke single-handedly bringing the average team intelligence down. #ARSFUL

#Atletico fans’ support goes beyond just support. Throwing TP, bellowing at the referee, protests. Absolute hooligans.

There’s contact there and it’s late! It’s a penalty #AtletiArs

Eze is superb at the centre than at left, somehow. Unafraid to take shots.

@TheArsenalMind Poor defending starting from Eze not challenging for that duel properly and then the defenders just let Cherki dance past them

Eze has been lacklustre so far. Odegaard and Mosquera gamble have paid off.

@Jameesafc Nope. Just Madueke

Mosquera madueke odegaard liabilities

Madueke can’t cut in and take a shot FFS

Odegaard makes such a difference. #MCIARS

Madueke 🤦‍♂️

I’ve been terrible at playing a game that isn’t FC26. Hard to sub the instant dopamine with something instant-er.

You can question the quality of some of Arsenal’s football. But you cannot question their character. Still some way to go to the finishing line but Arsenal don’t look like slowing up. When Manchester City applied pressure in the title race, Arsenal responded. They found a way to win. They fought hard. Gabriel and Rice particularly immense. Arsenal are battlers, not the “bottlers” as their critics derisively depicted them. They're resilient. You can question Arteta’s use of set-pieces (24 of 61 goals in PL), the unseemly wrestling and occasional caution. But you also have to admire that in a crunch moment Arsenal’s manager sent on a 16-year-old ball-player with 28 minutes’ PL experience to turn the game against an obdurate Everton. Dowman delivered. Max stretches headroom at the top for Arsenal. Hard to dislike a team with a talent like Dowman. He brings more adventure. The clamour now will be for him to play more. Dowmania. And just wait for the inevitable World Cup speculation, media frenzy, Theo revisited, but don't forget the group stage clashes with GCSEs. Let's not put too much pressure and expectation on Dowman (although he sounds like he can handle it and has good people around him, including Arteta). Arteta also deserves credit for the way he has evolved this side. He’s bought/chosen well (Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Rice, Zubimendi, Gyokeres etc), loaned in well (Hincapie) while Hale End plays its part (Saka, MLS, Dowman). If they keep holding their nerve, Arsenal will deserve this first title since the Invincibles. They don’t quicken the pulse like some past champions but the Indestructibles absolutely deserve more respect than they receive. #AFC

@thevirdas I politely disagree, Vir. This kind of thing catching on is necessary. It’s fine if it’s done with a devious intent, it’s the impact that matters. In a country that’s so desensitised to the underprivileged, watching Hussain Mansoori’s videos can make many sit up & take notice.

If you’re going to help someone less privileged than you, a delivery person, a vendor, anyone…that’s wonderful, just do it. Maybe write about it in retrospect. Don’t film them for views. Don’t film them breaking down. Insta is full of good samaritans, click farming.

London gets a bad rap. It’s often portrayed online as a crime-ridden wasteland overrun by migrants. In reality it’s one of the safest major cities in the world: econ.st/4tu3koT

This broke my heart into pieces 💔 & Prime Minister of this nation is shamelessly busy flying kites and clicking pictures with cows. We are doomed as a nation.

How does central London get no 5G is beyond me. @VodafoneUK