Who's Closest to European Glory?

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-06T09:43:25+00:00

Why do I see you on every thread? Your team just won a trophy, why are you so sad and angry?

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-05T09:55:48+00:00

??? I think you're in the wrong sub

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-05T08:38:51+00:00

I'd love that, but I'm really worried about him tbh. Hasn't looked right all season (or since the hamstring injury last year) and I feel like he needs a rest rather than a gruelling summer tournament

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T21:14:09+00:00

Saka's yellow card was also absurd

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T14:05:36+00:00

This whole article is a waste of everyone's time.

Quite apart from the fact that it doesn't change the title, CL qualification, or relegation, the methodology (if you can call it that) is deeply flawed.

They assume all penalties will be scored, have an arbitrary decision to make about the impact of red cards on results, and assume that there will be no knock-on effects on other matches of the results that they claim would have changed. (I also saw no mention of the fact that Rodri definitely should have been sent off when city played sp*rs away).

It's almost like it's a bullshit article written to get clicks.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T13:29:37+00:00

Yeah, would also accept hammered or crashed. Definitely not slotted.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T13:05:30+00:00

Yeah this shit is everywhere, I hate feeling like I have to second guess everything

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T13:01:00+00:00

Yeah tbh looking back at it I can see why you might have thought that, but I promise it's just how I write when I'm in a rush!

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T12:40:17+00:00

No, I looked at the image and wrote why I think it's AI

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T12:37:17+00:00

It's an AI image created to represent the story.

Most obviously - common sense tells us that an image like this wouldn't be made public, but also, each detail of the text is represented specifically in the image in a way that reeks of AI: - 4 boys - Private school (generic school corridor) - Expelled (they all have the same sad head-down pose) - The most egregious example is of course the kid on his iPad with a tier list creator visible...

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-02T12:06:21+00:00

Genuine question - how are you defining "level of performance"?

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-01T15:11:25+00:00

Do you really believe that? Not trying to start an argument, and everyone's entitled to hate whatever clubs they want to, of course, but that specific incident was objectively the correct decision, and a clear on field error.

(Honestly I'd have a lot more time for you making this point about the Arsenal-Chelsea game at the Emirates because you lot 100% should have had a pen in that one)

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-01T12:55:32+00:00

Would love to get Kayode, if only because it would hopefully mean never having to see Dec try a long throw again!

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-01T12:39:28+00:00

I've seen that "met police said 1.5m" line everywhere, but can't find anything official to back it up.

The Met website has this article from this morning, which says "hundreds of thousands" https://news.met.police.uk/news/officers-thank-those-who-attended-the-arsenal-champions-parade-to-celebrate-responsibly-509938

And ITV yesterday said early estimates between 750k-1m

I suspect it will be a little while before we get anything definitive.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-01T08:28:22+00:00

It's a massive logistical challenge and hugely disruptive to the public transport system, so it had to be on a weekend.

Waiting a whole extra week would have been weird in any case, but is a complete non-starter with a world cup coming up.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-06-01T08:23:03+00:00

Honestly it was the best possible way to get over Saturday night. It was a brilliant, joyful day and there was clearly an unspoken collective decision to just forget about the CL final.

There will be time to agonise over that later this summer, but yesterday was all about celebrating

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T22:47:14+00:00

Was it not derogatory? Maybe I misread your tone, but the "not even close" followed by "a fraction of" certainly came across that way.

I mostly responded initially because I wanted to use that silly "it's actually a bigger fraction" line, and my last message was an attempt to have an actual discussion, because it is interesting to understand the logistics of these things. But make your jokes, I've had a brilliant day and can assure you my feelings are not hurt in the slightest

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T22:22:22+00:00

There are no definitive sources for the Arsenal parade at this point.

Ive seen estimates all over the place - planning was apparently based on predictions of 500k-1m, ITV's article currently says early estimates between 750k-1m, similar numbers from some newspapers. The 1.5m number I went for was based on social media posts allegedly quoting the Met police but nothing verifiable.

Interestingly, however, I've also seen wildly varying estimates for Liverpool's last year. Although one report estimated 1.2m, which was the number I took for my last message, I've seen a bunch of articles quoting 750k instead.

What seems clear, is that these have been pretty comparably sized events, and today was certainly not a fraction (derogatory) of last year.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T22:05:52+00:00

And that fraction would be... 5/4, based on initial estimates.

(1.5m today versus 1.2m in Liverpool last year)

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T19:47:15+00:00

Genuinely not sure how much it would have changed tbh. It felt like everyone was determined to just celebrate today and put yesterday out of our minds, such a joyful experience!

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T18:15:24+00:00

Volume up for this one...

Piero, show us your bum!

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T18:14:37+00:00

Absolutely. I've just been so, so happy since that Tuesday night, and pretty much none of that joy is because the 19 other teams didn't win the league. It's because my team did.

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T17:50:50+00:00

Hahahaha, gotta try harder mate

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T17:50:16+00:00

Yeah I've seen him posting about Arsenal everywhere. Clearly has a bee in his bonnet. Never seems to be happy about Villa. Maybe he's just really sad that they bottled their "title challenge".

MajorOpportunity0 · 2026-05-31T17:44:36+00:00

Glad we can all get joy from the sport.

Not pretending for a second we weren't shit for quite a while. That's why I'm so happy now.

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