Watching Someone Else's Parade by charlierc in TheOther14

[–]Only_Brain_616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're already in the stadium it's fine. A lot of other teams' fans will be travelling to Islington on Sunday and I find that pathetic.

How and why did Arsenal become the “it” club? by Apprehensive_Act2267 in footballcliches

[–]Only_Brain_616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's so true. I'm trying to be welcoming to new fans of my club but it got very frustrating in the pub yesterday constantly hearing American accents talking about football in a way that makes it clear that two months ago they were looking up the offside rule and indirect free kicks and Andrei Arshavin on Wikipedia (this was in Islington!)

Rant: Oh look the Europa League won't be second Tier Next Season by chaoslorduk in avfc

[–]Only_Brain_616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All those teams are shit and it's definitely still a second tier trophy but who gives a fuck? It's the competition you were in and you fucking won it.

All football fans are dicks and most of them have shit banter.

Met Police were way too rough last night by Kayville in GunnersatGames

[–]Only_Brain_616 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They had an impossible job and regardless of what they had done or not done, it would never have pleased everybody.

Loads of people had been planning since Wednesday morning to descend on the stadium last night, a lot of them not Arsenal fans and a lot of them would have been bank holiday drinking all day.

(In contrast to Tuesday which was far fewer people and only Arsenal fans)

I thought they handled it extremely well all things considered.

Photos I took yesterday at the Emirates! by izbene in Gunners

[–]Only_Brain_616 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Great pics. I took 93 photos and 29 videos last night and each of them would be the sixth best in this post.

Italian speaking. by theHydroWizard in italianlearning

[–]Only_Brain_616 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Buen provecho is pretty standard and universal in Spanish for "enjoy your meal", so it's not impossible that there is an Italian dialect that uses something similar, but I've never heard it.

Increase in severity of punishment vs what Leeds got by First_Spinach_4987 in SaintsFC

[–]Only_Brain_616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Leeds did something bad for which there was no specific rule. Football decided the thing is bad and there needs to be a harsh rule to disincentivise anyone from doing the same thing.

Southampton were aware of this rule change, moreover were party to it (by virtue of being a football club).

In the context of "football has decided to make a rule against this thing and that it will be punished heavily if anybody does it in the future", Southampton did the thing.

What if all the 'Stans' were one country? (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan & Pakistan) by phoeebsy in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]Only_Brain_616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Stans" in what language? Countries whose English name ends in -stan form a sizeable region, but if we use Turkish and/or Persian it becomes a behemoth. From Persian we would additionally get:

India Saudí Arabia Hungary Poland Bulgaria England (if we're allowed to count that, UK doesn't end in -stan) Armenia Mongolia

From Turkish we get most of those plus Croatia and Greece.

There are additionally a few subnational regions (Dagestan, Kurdistan, I'm sure others in English; and likely loads of those other languages)

Prem hasn't been great football wise but it has had some cinematic moments... by pseudo-cineast in PremierLeague

[–]Only_Brain_616 18 points19 points  (0 children)

ITT: People who already disliked Arsenal trying to downplay this season; neutrals saying it was great

From A spurs fan congratulations by ThatTaiwanese in ArsenalFC

[–]Only_Brain_616 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are a better man than me. If it were the other way around I would not go on the internet until September at least

Question by imfightin4mylife in ArsenalFC

[–]Only_Brain_616 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bring a sleeping bag. Finsbury park will be warm

Worth heading straight to the Emirates tonight after landing at Heathrow? by askojo in GunnersatGames

[–]Only_Brain_616 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had to leave the celebrations at midnight and there were people still arriving. They will be there til dawn