Nick Campbell

A break from my Arsenal fanaticism to mention a cute little dungeon about a dead god & desecrating a tomb for a game jam. I'd appreciate if any Shadowdark players took a look & gave it a whirl. trowetrove.itch.io/gristle-vine-t…

Same. I just don’t get the haters. I don’t what the guys at TDK don’t like. This is George Graham & Arsene Wenger football when the situation warrants it.

@immatechy Please how that one tactic looked different last year, the year, before, the year before that, and the year before that. Oh and also the year before that.

This season alone, Pep Guardiola has changed his tactics like 2/3 times. Arteta has been playing one tactic for the past 6 years.

Two things bother me about the narrative building around Arsenal. First, we're told constantly that the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world. Fine. So what does it mean to be consistently fighting for the title in that environment? You can't celebrate the league's brutal competitiveness and then dismiss sustained title challenges as not good enough. Pick one. Second, and IMO this matters more, failure in elite sport is not losing. Luis Enrique said it. Many others have said versions of it. Failure is not trying again. It's accepting the ceiling. It's going through the motions. Arteta has never done that. Every setback has been fuel for the next attempt. The problem is social media runs on binary outcomes. Win or fail. Hero or fraud. No room for nuance. No room for the manager who rebuilt a club into genuine title contenders and is still hungry for more. Simeone has been at Atlético for over a decade. Two league titles, two Champions League finals. Still no European Cup. Nobody serious calls that failure. They call it one of the great managerial tenures in modern football. And I'm convinced that given 14 years like Simeone, Mikel will win more leagues than him. Arteta may or may not win the league this year. He may not lift the Champions League this year or next. But as long as he keeps pushing, keeps trying, keeps competing at this level, failure isn't what this is. Find another name for it By the way, if City wins the league, the achievement would of course be enormous.

The disgrace would be match-fixing and throwing the game. Some people genuinely are morons.

I think it's so funny how many football fans forget that ESR was sidelined for a year due to growth injuries while the same age as Dowman, Nwaneri, & MLS. You kind of want them to develop more physically before you tax them.

This is why you are not in charge of a club.

@ErlingProp He’s not winning it for you. He’s trying to do it for Bayern.

Go and win that Champions League for us Vinny

@QuantK22 He literally had space to operate and so did everyone else. The man marking isn’t as tight as it is in the EPL.

Can anyone actually tell me a good reason as to why he’s so much better in the ucl? And don’t give me that “cos teams are more open” shit cos look at what Sporting were on last night lol

How is Europa league quality opponents harder than Champion’s League opponents? In what world did anyone Tottenham faced capable of beating PSG like Sporting did. Or on the level of Bayern. All of whom Arsenal beat to get here. You lot are daft & dumb.

@paddypower Last week. And the week before. And some were even injured the week before that. And th week before that. It’s almost like they needed time to heal. … yay biology and medicine function as expected.

Incredible to think that a lot of this Arsenal team were injured last week. Their medical team deserves the Nobel Prize.

@Ayhd126H No. & no. But also, Jamie Vardy is awesome & people want to have a drink with him.

since Vicario won a European trophy , has he had a better career than David Raya? because didn't Jamie Vardy have a better career than Harry Kane?

@TikiTakaConnor I think he finished with 10. They were counting on the Arsenal broadcast.

Sporting full back has made SIX fouls. No card. How is he not persistent fouling?

@_Afcbanks Because he was half-a-mile behind when the pass started.

How’s this offside?? 🤔 x.com/BanksVidz/stat…

@alexmoneypenny For real, if you watch Kyle Walker talking about how Pep hates receiving in the middle where you stop & turn, it's because of turnovers. He prefers you let it roll & turn to go with it. Buys you half-a-second at most. But it's not easy to do. Arteta was there teaching KDB this.

@alexmoneypenny Reason: turnovers.

Mikel must hate carrying through the centre. He must have a reason, but good lord is it frustrating to watch.

Oh... poor Europe who were all Sporting Lisbon today. Your hate watch failed.

@Footballtweet Then why aren’t the most watched teams?

The two players in world football today who make you sit down and turn on the TV to watch them whenever they play...

@LFCGeezy Maybe it should tell you that trophies aren’t enough for how most clubs measure success.

Funny how they all lost their jobs before Arteta won a trophy 😭

@prettyboygooner Pretty certain it’s you.

People don’t hate Arsenal, they hate fans like YOU. Delusional fans like YOU are why we get clowned.

@FootballFunnys Fuck off. We came into this season with EPL or busy. That would be considered a success. Everyone else pushing a narrative about a quadruple doesn’t change that.

After all the talk of 'Quadruple' and 'Trebles' if Arsenal failed to even get a double, then this is hard to disagree with... 👀