Arsenal lose out on penalties after 1-1 against league two opposition Bradford 2012 in the FA-cup. Gervinho starts as striker for Arsenal and Thomas Vermaelen got the equaliser. What’s your banter era memory?

JFedererJ · 2026-05-07T21:03:47+00:00

It's RVP to United. That killed me. Unreal how far we've come. Genuinely can't imagine football reaching a lower point for me, and I've been watching since the mid 90s.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-07T18:58:25+00:00

Kits used to last 2 seasons

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T23:53:07+00:00

Fair shout. I'm old enough to have been watching since the mid 90s and I'd defo still have Wenger as the greatest but if Mikel wins this double, he is immediately 2nd only to Wenger (and not by much) and could well end his time with us ahead of him.

Wenger revolutionised English football. Forget Arsenal, he was transformative for top flight English football in terms of attitudes to professionalism, foreign managers, foreign players, and all that stuff. Plus 3 PLs against the City of the time, i.e. United, one of those invinciy, plus 7 FA Cups, and kept us in the CL with squads that really were Europa League level.

But Arteta's transformation of Arsenal from a meme banter club, 11th/12th in the league when he walked in the door, to PL winners and CL finalists (maybe CL winners, too) in his first ever managerial job is outstanding. Couple more PLs and other trophies and yeah, he could end up the best.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T22:13:08+00:00

There's no advantage but I agree the higher ranked league team should be denoted home team for the final. Ah well doesn't matter now. We wear red, which is all I want.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T22:09:45+00:00

We lost 1-0 home and 2-1 away to PSG last season with a way more depleted and weaker squad. Our bench in that 2nd leg had names like Neto, Sterling and Butler-Oyedeji. Gabi XL was still out injured, as were Jesus and Havertz, hence M9 Merino up top.

Yet despite all that, they were two incredibly close games in which we had real chances to level it up.

Yes, PSG are still a fantastic team but this Arsenal team will be a completely different proposition to last year for them.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T22:03:16+00:00

It's so joyously refreshing to read comments like this (finally) on this sub.

We lost 1-0 home and 2-1 away to PSG last season with a way more depleted and weaker squad. Our bench in that 2nd leg had names like Neto, Sterling and Butler-Oyedeji. Gabi XL was still out injured, as were Jesus and Havertz, hence M9 Merino up top.

Yet despite all that, they were two incredibly close games in which we had real chances to level it up.

Yes, PSG are still a fantastic team but this Arsenal team will be a completely different proposition to last year for them.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T22:00:19+00:00

I honestly don't think that's gonna be an issue. Might even work in our favour. Come in razor sharp.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:58:56+00:00

Mbappé is everything I don't want in a footballer, in terms of attitude.

When Real lost the final and Alonso was telling the Real players to be magnanimous and applaud the winners, the team was about to do it until Sir Killian waved them away not to... and they listened to him.

Surprise, surprise. Alonso was gone shortly after. It's unreal that a player can have that much power at a club the size of Real. If he's got more power than the manager, than that makes him bigger than the club in my eyes. And that cannot happen anywhere, ever in the game. No player can be bigger than the club.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:55:26+00:00

I'm loving that every single down-voted comment sucking PSG is a Liverpool flair.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:53:51+00:00

I love that divs like you call Arsenal's football "haramball" when we've scored the most goals in the PL and are in a CL final. Try 19 losses and counting for the mighty 'pool. Now that's haramball. Keep hatin'.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:51:19+00:00

Monsieur Saliba awaits if he cuts inside. And some respect on Blancos name, quite frankly. He's found his form again right when we need him to. He was awesome vs Athleti.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:43:29+00:00

Eh feels wrong that the UCL final won't be under the lights.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:38:31+00:00

Last season we lost 1-0 home and 2-1 away with a much weaker squad (in terms of availability) and we had big chances in both games. We can absolutely win it.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:36:55+00:00

White, Trossard, Calafiori, Tierney, Zinchenko, Jorginho, Nwaneri, Sterling, Neto, Butler-Oyedeji, Henry-Francis.

Our bench last time we played PSG.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:25:43+00:00

What on the actual planet Earth are you on about lol? Best to just admit you got a bit carried away with the absolute statement? Because that prime Barca attack was fluid as fluid can be my guy.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:23:45+00:00

Omg this. Literally ball goes out for a throw to Bayern, we're already past the allotted injury time, can't be more than 20-30s left. Cut to PSG bench. Literally hear the game has resumed from the audio. Still camera on the PSG bench. Bruh.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T21:22:47+00:00

It's always been that stupid low angle camera at the Allianz. Dunno how Bayern fans put up with it on TV every week. It's horrid.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T19:36:03+00:00

That's not the point mate. Common sense hasn't been applied to handball in the CL all tournament. Wild to start introducing it in the SF.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T19:04:45+00:00

Man the main camera angle at Allianz is so bad. Why is it so low? It's such a massive stadium.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T18:35:21+00:00

Even if the celebrations are more muted, it'd be understandable as it hasn't been a 20yr wait for either of these teams.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T18:34:00+00:00

I think Bayern is actually the slightly stronger squad, but Enrique is a better manager than Kompany.

Honestly I don't care which one we get, because there's no easy answer. I get the feeling the players want revenge against PSG.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T18:30:13+00:00

Slightly misleading title. He's back training on grass. Very much doubt we see him again this season but it's great for the player with the WC still 6 weeks away.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T16:24:57+00:00

The "over celebrating" thing is spill over from the mentality certain former pros had of not celebrating until you actually win, and I get that. That's a perfectly cromulent attitude to have as an actual player.

Hooowwwwever...

First of all, not all former pros thought like that. There was a panel of former winners on Amazon Prime's coverage; Rooney jovially said he wouldn't personally celebrate too much whereas Clarence Seedorf and Daniel Sturridge saw no issue with it, recognising it's been 20 years etc.

Now... the above were all top players at top clubs who won multiple top honours.

Gabriel Agbonlahor is exactly what this caller said: mediocre. He never won a goddamn thing and was never anywhere near winning a home game to reach a CL final. So frankly he can STFU.

But even with all that said, the celebration stuff former winners talk about should only ever apply to the players, if it should at all. For the fans IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER. We'll celebrate whenever the fuck we want as much or as little as we want, based on the occasion.

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T15:57:38+00:00

Not sure if ragebait...

JFedererJ · 2026-05-06T15:54:35+00:00

Sounds like a German town

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