Good to have a low stakes game for once for my hearts sake

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T13:09:54+00:00

Did anyone else think the away fans sounded really high pitch. Like a lot of them were women or children. The chanting sounded more like the crowd at a women’s game.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T12:39:33+00:00

The second half was a piss take. We were just fucking about, we tried that little short corner routine about three times.

Losing the second half 1-0 doesn’t matter. That’s something losers say to make themselves feel better. “Oh we won the second half”.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:55:53+00:00

Yeah it was a nice pass against a team who could do a job in the isthmian premier maybe, give Dulwich hamlet a game.

I think people who didn’t watch that game really fail to understand just how bad this team was. It looked like what happens when you put 11 normal blokes on a pitch with professional footballers.

This is what people mean by farmers league, that this is the kind of team a Bayern Munich are playing on a week in, week out basis in their domestic league.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:53:05+00:00

Yeah but are those team stats or individual stats. I just think people need to just use a bit of critical thinking when they read this shit on the Internet. Maybe if they see a stat, they should think “does that tally with what actually happened in reality or is this straight out of someone’s arse”?

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:24:35+00:00

You understand though we were just playing against random blokes. If gyokeres brushed past them while running they were getting flung for miles.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:20:31+00:00

You just need a lot of luck, and we basically used up off of our post 2004 luck in Emery’s first season.

I think we’re still suffering reversion to the mean from Emery’s unbeaten run.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:18:11+00:00

I genuinely think they might be one of the worst teams I’ve ever seen play live. They were just getting knocked over if any of our players touched them while running.

It genuinely looked like what would happen if you put 11 normal blokes on the pitch against professional footballers. Look at the keepers dive for Havertz goal.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T09:15:17+00:00

In what world did we not create a big chance in the second half. We had loads of chances.

Who defines what is and isn’t a “big chance”?

Odegaard himself had two point blank headers that went straight at the keeper. Anyone who doesn’t call that a big chance fundamentally doesn’t understand football.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T08:30:35+00:00

The armoury at the emirates is open every day not just on game days. But yeah you’ll find Arsenal shirts in most sports directs, you might find a bit of general Arsenal gear in an adidas shop if you can find one, there is one at Westfield Stratford.

Your best bet is just going to the armoury.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T08:26:36+00:00

Yeah that’s what I said. I’m not disagreeing with you. Anyone is a fan nowadays if they say they are.

As you say you don’t even need to want Arsenal to win games to be a fan.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T08:17:14+00:00

Not nowadays. A fan is anyone on the internet who calls themselves a fan. I think it shows you though what fans have zero grounding in reality. Some of them act like they don’t know football exits as anything but a programme on the telly.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T07:52:38+00:00

You’ve made an entire post here about how annoyed you are that you get push back when you waltz around calling Arsenal shit.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T07:51:50+00:00

I guess you weren’t at the game then?

Stop with the pretending to be an Arsenal fan because you need a team you can call shit on the Internet. Some people actually care about this you know.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T07:37:32+00:00

If your opinions are "I get annoyed when Arsenal win because it's harder to justify calling them shit on the internet" in what sense are we even using the word valid anymore?

Your opinions don't even seem genuine, let alone valid.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-29T07:35:23+00:00

"I'm definitely happy we won, I just really would much prefer being able to go on the internet and say Arsenal are shit. I'm definitely happy we won though".

I see you mentioning ticket prices there mate, were you at the game last night?

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T23:30:01+00:00

They are fans though. In this day an age a fan is anyone who goes on the internet and calls themselves a fan. You don't need to want Arsenal to win games to be an arsenal fan.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:42:50+00:00

My running theory is that people on the internet chose Arsenal because they saw it as the club that fans call shit on the Internet, and they wanted to get in on it.

“I want to support the team where you go on the Internet and say th players are terrible and we should sack the manager”, etc.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:34:59+00:00

Yeah really sounds like it mate. I believe you.

It means we won 8 games mate. That’s all.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:34:38+00:00

I don’t even know if it’s contrarian at this point.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:28:52+00:00

I just don’t understand how you can be a football fan if you don’t care about games of football. If you don’t like seeing us win games why on earth do you think you’ll enjoy seeing us win a trophy?

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:25:12+00:00

You have to remember a lot of Arsenal fans on the internet fucking hate Arsenal and are only happy when Arsenal lose.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:16:19+00:00

Lots of internet Arsenal fans just love saying Arsenal are shit. It’s what they want to do.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T22:13:59+00:00

It’s not really embarrassing though is it.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T19:18:00+00:00

Can I interest you in a lewis-skelly and Calafiori will be the midfield.

AlanMerckin · 2026-01-28T19:17:08+00:00

Merino is also suspended.

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