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I concur. Worked with him professionally qhen we worked in the same hospital. He is professionally sound. Thank you @DrJoeAbah for the recommendation.

Absolutely. Martinelli deserves 2 assists for this goal. First, he nodded the ball ahead for Dowman to pick up on, then blocked off the advancing Everton player as he raced back....

#Arsenal haven't won a title in 22 years. Since then, we were derided for our beautiful football, with the Gary Nevilles of the world describing us as weak, spineless, naive and arrogant, and using phrases like 'men against boys', 'messed around' and 'over emotional'. We've now found a way to get over the line. Many of our marginal wins would have led to dropped points in previous seasons, but we we have found solutions such as set pieces and defensive disciple that kick in when our technical level drops, and that's why we're seven points clear. Winning duels, making recoveries and keeping your shape is a boring cliche, but they are the basics that every title winning team has had. It may not always be enjoyable to watch, but ask yourself, would you prefer a scrappy 1-1 or a 2-1 defeat on the days it's not going right, or would you prefer the team to grind out a win? We had the days of feeling robbed because our football didn't lead to the results we felt we deserved. This team has both. Players like Rice, Gabriel, Hincapie, Timber and Saliba allow us to play suffer ball when needed, and force the opposition to play in the areas we want to reduce their threat, but they can also mix it with the best ball players and slap teams like Tottenham and Villa 4-1 and Leeds 5-0 and 4-0. The Invincibles learnt this too. They outplayed everyone in 02/03 and fell short. In 03/04 they returned with a ruthless desire to get over the line, and it led to a title with plenty of 1-0 wins. We forget what it takes to get to the top, especially when it has been such a long climb, but this team is doing it. Criticise Mikel Arteta all you want, but look at where he has got us. Look at the standards we hold the team to. Look at how many clubs are trying to replicate what we're doing. This is a glorious position to be in. Now, buckle up, and get behind this team. We've got a title to win.

Arsenal are bottlers” is one of the laziest narratives in modern football ,and it doesn’t survive contact with reality. 2022/23: Youngest team in the title race. No one expected a challenge. They finished on 84 points and accelerated the project by years. That’s overachievement, not bottling. 2023/24: Took arguably the best club side on the planet to the final day. Won 16 of their last 18 league games. Finished on 89 points. That’s title-winning form in most seasons. Losing narrowly to a machine isn’t collapse, it’s elite competition. 2024/25: Decimated by injuries across key positions. Defensive rotations disrupted, midfield balance constantly shifting. Still competitive. That’s resilience. 2025/26: Seven points clear. Composed. Structured. Mature. Strong defensively. Managing games better than ever. This isn’t a team that crumbles. It’s a team that has grown year on year, from promising to contenders to dominant. The only reason the “bottling” tag exists is because Arsenal dared to compete earlier than expected, and people froze that moment in time. Progression isn’t bottling. Pushing greatness to the brink isn’t bottling. Building sustainably at the top level isn’t bottling. It’s called evolution. And when the trophy comes, the narrative disappears overnight.

At this moment, Arsenal should and must play the most unconventional or unorthodox football the world has ever seen because that is how we are going to win the league. We are not going to win the league by playing how the opponents want us to play. We are not going to win the league by being tactically predictable. We are not going to win the league by pleasing opponents, pundits and rival fans. We are going to win the league by being ugly and unwanted. We are bringing it home by being strong, intimidating and bullying opponents. We are winning it by playing not their brand of football, but a different kind of brand that they are not used to. They want the Gunners to be a bunch of sissies on the homestretch. They want us to be tactically weak and predictable in the final games so that we can lose grip, and then they'll be right and justified to say we 'bottled it' or Arsenal cannot win a major trophy as they are used to debating in their one-sided studios. They want the Arsenal to succumb to pressure. But we will not let them. We will be physically strong and dominating. We will win by being incredibly defensive. We will win from set pieces. We will win from long throws and long passes. We will win with the least possession. We will win with a non-performing striker. We will win without our players in their useless roosters of the season! We will win with the fewest shots ever registered in a game of football! Mate! We will just go to the pitch! Thwak and dhwag the ball! Hoof it around, score and get the three points and come back home. Because at the end of it, no one remembers the team that played the best football and won nothing. No one remembers the number two. It is the champ that the world recognises and remembers! Let's be unorthodox! Let's be infamous, because it is the 'Boring! Boring! Arsenal that wins!' Have a great day gooners! We are not in the business to please rivals and biased pundits! We are in the business of winning the league and annoying them while at it!

Arsenal is now like the typical, iconic The Horse, the Man and the Son by Ebenezer Obey. For years, Arsenal played Wenger ball, fanciful, expressive football, one million touches in the final third, beautiful to watch… yet with little to show for it. Then the critics came: “They are spineless.” “No cojones.” “No mentality.” “No leadership.” Okay, Arsenal listened. Now they have added a bit of Wenger ball, a bit of gidigbo, a bit of score one goal and lock it up, and developed the cojones to start bullying the bullies. So you asked for change, and they responded to your call, huh why are you now bitter? As Obey sang 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 Ko s’ogbon to le da, ko si wa to le wu Ko si ona ti o le mo to le fi t’aye lorun o.” At this point, your opinion no longer matters. What matters most is 3 points. Eight more finals to go. 🕺😀

It's simple. People hate it when they can't be you. The anti-Arsenal rhetoric frankly, is ridiculous and has gone out of hand.

In all of this, the kit man remembered his job and picked up Calafiori's jacket. An all-round controlled, enjoyable evening.

Thought-provoking.....

@SizweLo Incisive.....

People in the Global South are asking why Russia and China are not intervening in Venezuela instead of just issuing condemnations. The truth is that China’s and Russia’s lack of physical intervention highlights the often unspoken cold realities of geopolitics. Like everything in geopolitics, the reasons are complicated. However, a few things immediately stand out: For one, Russia is already at war in Ukraine, 10 000 kilometres away. This is not a small detail. Power is finite, and states act based on capacity, risk, and return. Russia being tied down in a large, grinding war thousands of kilometres away is decisive here. Military intervention is about logistics and sustainment. Opening a second front in the Western Hemisphere would be a strategically reckless move. Second, geography still matters, even in a globalised world. Venezuela sits deep inside what has historically been treated as the United States’ strategic backyard. Any overt military intervention there would immediately trigger confrontation with the United States on its home turf. Unlike Russia, which has had a minor military presence in Venezuela, China lacks the power projection capabilities to challenge the U.S. Navy in the Caribbean, especially against the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier group currently stationed there. Venezuela is not what Ukraine is to Russia or Taiwan to China in strategic terms. It does not sit at the centre of Russia’s security perimeter or China’s long-term territorial ambitions. States are far more willing to fight when defeat would threaten regime survival or core sovereignty. Venezuela does not meet that threshold for either nation. While Maduro often touted his “ironclad” friendship with Putin and Xi, these relationships have proven to be largely transactional. When faced with the prospect of a direct kinetic conflict with the United States in its own “backyard,” both Moscow and Beijing have prioritised their own national security and economic interests. Also, unlike NATO, the agreements between Venezuela, Russia, and China do not include mutual defence clauses. Legally and strategically, neither country is obligated to go to war for Venezuela. Beijing’s 2025 policy papers on Latin America emphasised “strategic partnership” but steered clear of military guarantees, prioritising a “peaceful multipolar world” over direct confrontation. In fact, China has not been to war in many decades, and this is by design. Its model of power projection prioritises economic leverage, infrastructure, trade dependency, and diplomatic insulation instead of warfare. Intervening militarily in Venezuela would undermine the very image China works hard to project, that of a non-interventionist alternative to Western coercion. By condemning US “hegemonic behaviour” and “illegal abduction,” China presents itself as the defender of international law and the UN Charter without firing a single shot. This is not to say China has nothing to lose in this situation. Quite the opposite, actually. Venezuela owes Beijing an estimated $60 billion. A US-installed administration could use the legal doctrine of “Odious Debt.” A new government could argue that the loans provided by China were used by the Maduro regime to “finance narco-terrorism” and “suppress the people,” and therefore, the debt is not the responsibility of the new state. Trump and his handlers would likely support this move. Cancelling Venezuelan debt to China would simultaneously relieve Caracas’s balance sheet and inflict a significant financial loss on Beijing. Oil exports currently directed to China as debt repayment could be rerouted to the US and Western markets, leaving China with unpaid loans and stranded supply contracts. A US-friendly government would likely redirect oil exports, which currently go primarily to China to pay off debt, back toward the US and Western markets, leaving China with empty tankers and unpaid bills. This explains why China is currently “fuming” but physically stuck. They know that a military confrontation with the US in the Americas would be a total loss, but they also know that a US-led regime change could lead to a total financial default. Beijing may have hoped that Maduro could survive long enough to pay back more of the debt. Now that he is captured, China is shifting to a legalist defence, using the UN Security Council to demand that “private contracts and international debt obligations” be respected by any successor government. China has essentially been “priced out” of Venezuela by American military force. The “might makes right” reality today means that Beijing’s $60 billion investment may have just vanished into the Caribbean along with Maduro. So, both Russia and China are forced to resort to attempts to shape outcomes through vetoes, financial mechanisms, energy deals, intelligence sharing, and diplomatic delay. This is the same MO deployed by South Africa, which is leading the diplomatic charge at the UN, accusing the US of “state-sponsored kidnapping” and “state terrorism,” arguing that if a leader can be plucked from their capital by a foreign power, the UN Charter is effectively dead. The argument here is that international law has become “meaningless,” and we have entered an era where if a power can enforce its will in its own backyard, it will. This puts pressure on the rest of the world to decide whether it agrees that “might makes right” or not. Both Russia and China are now using the US action to win a diplomatic war in the Global South. By allowing the US to act like a gangster, they can point to it as the “true aggressor” and “lawbreaker” on the global stage. More cynically, they can use the “dangerous precedent”, as noted by the UN Secretary-General, to justify their own future actions in their respective spheres of influence in Taiwan and Eastern Europe. In that sense, Venezuela is a marker of a world drifting from “rules” toward raw enforcement, and forcing every state to decide whether “might makes right” is now the governing principle.

This is what the mother of Tyler Robinson had to say about him? Yeah what a great human 🙄🙄🙄 #tylerrobinson #CharlieKirk

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What kind of pre-emptive reportage is this???? My goodness....

Lovely....

A father's voice.......

Sending you a truckload of hugs.....please stay strong.

Very interesting article - budgeting without plans to execute. Inadequate funding then opens the space up to the possibility of corruption in determining what gets funded @DrJoeAbah, thank you sir.... financialnigeria.com/how-unrealisti…

Marcella !!!!!!! Memories of Edinburgh......

This means so much. @SIGNtweeter has been part of my story from the very beginning, and to be featured like this is truly special. Thank u for the work u do, the hope u bring, and for letting me be part of somethng so meaningful. One surgery, one patient, one opportunity… always

It's only fashionable and trendy to criticise Arsenal. Hardly do people give us our due credit. I'm used to it now. Fan since 1998 and proudly so....