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@uta1886 @OBG_AFC And there we didn’t have briefs so had in few beers in that fan park thing with some old school City they were gob smacked at the pull of the Arsenal

@OBG_AFC I also went to a pre season against citeh in Helsinki. This was the year Wigan beat them in the cup final. The Olympic stadium sold out, 20k+ Arsenal fans from all over northern Europe. About 200 City fans. That's about the size of them.

Let’s have a moment of silence for the Asterisk FC "ultras" who think football was invented in 2008. 🤫 ​In 2006, while Arsenal was opening a 60,000-seat stadium as Invincibles and Champions League finalists, Citeh115 was a mid-table irrelevance finishing 15th with a 30-year trophy drought still in full swing. ​The stats for those of you who only started watching when the oil money checks started clearing: ​🏆 Leagues: Arsenal 13 | Citeh115 2 🏆 FA Cups: Arsenal 10 | Citeh115 4 🏆 Total Major Trophies: Arsenal 27 | Citeh115 9 ​We had more than TRIPLE your entire history before you became a arab plaything and bought your success. #AFC #Invincibles #AsteriskFC #Citeh115

@uta1886 @OBG_AFC lol I was there “ what you gonna eat , sitting in the gutter eating bread n butter division 2 is calling you what you gonna eat#

@OBG_AFC I remember an end of season at City away, they'd already been relegated. Arsenal fans doing a conga round the away end, giving it '30 pound a week, 30 pound a week, division 2 is calling you, 30 pound a week' That's about the size of them

@laughinggooner2 @Ch1Hudson He’s never forgiven Henry for twisting his intestines

@Ch1Hudson 😂 one bitter cnut Chris

put sky on..see Danny Mills switch off

@gooner_south @gavlaathegooner Superb City mate

@gavlaathegooner Me and the Mrs never been to Budapest … so we booked it for the CL final weekend … just by chance … we ain’t there we’ll just enjoy the city 😉

Can anyone see what’s in the distance … ? It’s a CL semi final baby EIE

Jeez that’s dreadful news about Manninger RIP Alex

@paulantino66 @laughinggooner2 @willow1886 Possibly worse for Atleti having lost both the finals they reached to their cross city rivals

@laughinggooner2 @willow1886 Athletico Madrid as well

The biggest club in Europe who has never won the CL…. at present!

@BikerPaulie89 @JonSpurling1 Still unbeaten in the CL which takes some doing tbf whilst being well off form since the turn of the year , I’ll take 3 more mind numbing watches if we lift old big ears

@JonSpurling1 Yeah, we was shite - but we are our shite! And in semi and on top of the league.

Not a great watch, but getting into the semis for the 2nd year in a row is a great achievement. I’d like to think it might quell the ‘vulture culture’ from our own fans for a few days, but I doubt it. Onwards. #COYG #Arsenal

@paulantino66 @hollywood_niall In regards to Ebe the drop off is a consistent & worrying thing about his game

@hollywood_niall @MickKilroe Me and Mick don’t include people who drop off 😉

Zibimendi bounced back well from Saturday thought he was out best player tonight

@paul___donohoe Another painful watch Paul

Well…it was like watching paint dry but we’re through

Madrid bitching like fuck 🤣

Fucking hell our corners have been pony

@Talkinoutmyarse Not one PL club was prepared to take a punt on him when he scored bucket loads at Cov goes to a waiters league and scores even more gets a good agent ends up winning the Euro Millions

Must only be and a few others that think gyokeres ready isn't good enough at the top level

As someone on Spirit of Shankly pointed out, this is just the original concept for the Premier League being delivered. The vision was to move football up a couple of social classes, which to me means price out the less wealthy and encourage a "better" class of clientele with more disposable income. They focused only on the vast riches the PL would bring and they were right. However that model only works long term with regeneration of new fans. It works if you are never gonna get relegated because the group of die hards whose loyalty and love for the club could not be quantified on a balance sheet, have already left and they are now doing something else with their match days. Most of them likely realise that it's quite useful getting the time back and similar to when you break up with an ex, there is rarely any going back. Without the diehards, who indoctrinated the next generation into being obsessed with the team, where does the next generation of fans come from? Good luck convincing a young person to spend what little they have left after paying their rent and other increasing costs, to allocate a big chunk of what's left for an overpriced season ticket. Not happening, football is not high on the importance scale when you can watch every game on telly. As for the "better" clientele they attracted, they will abandon ship as quickly as they arrived come any form of hard times. What the clubs are doing right now with ticket price rises is simply ensuring that they have no loyal die hard fanbase left in 10-15 years. These changes will be forever. No more capacity crowds for just playing in the PL, owners will be forced to try and actually win stuff. If they don't, goodbye fans. If they do, those fans will demand they do it again. I'm from an era that did not place expectation on clubs, we just handed over our money and went to football, because that is the way it was. I'm still clinging on but with next year being my 50th watching West Ham and having been banned this season for breaching health and safety, I'm pretty sure it will be my last one. Unless the owners who fucked my club up completely, finally get the message and fuck off back to their mansions. The people who own clubs know the square root of fuck all about the generations of fans who helped build that club to be the thing it was before they demolished everything they inherited. They do not comprehend love or loyalty because in their world, those things are cash transactions. Football as we knew it is on life support, but the owners won't realise until one day they look around that vast stadium and see a handful of fans watching the latest pile of average they decided to serve up. #BSOUT

@aliladiere Whatever it was he failed the audition miserably

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.

@TonyDennis10 @Alarsenalnews_ Striker 🤷🏼‍♂️

@Alarsenalnews_ What for ???

Would you take Thierry Henry for the remainder of the season?

@marky249 Proper gimp behaviour

Absolutely freaks that pretend to be footballers so incredibly weird

@giffin_cli46305 @willow1886 Yeah he would be in the reckoning

@MickKilroe @willow1886 Bournemouth manager for me .. done miracles with them and they play attacking football

That of course is the issue, I love what he has done for this club, but if we come away with nothing, sadly, Mikel’s position must be challenged. I’m sure Berta won’t be happy if that happens, I’m sure one will go.

@afcstu1978 @willow1886 Lol I’ve not had a drink since last Tuesday either mate

@MickKilroe @willow1886 Fuck me Mick, I’ll have what you have had today. I can’t see anything other than a repeat of Wembley a few weeks ago. I hope you are right, obviously!

That was a life time ago where our players had pride, heart and big bollox, today’s players have none of that.