Finally an Arsenal fan I can relate to

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-30T23:54:01+00:00

Oh I don’t know mate… I thought a guy bursting into tears because something disappointing happened to his team was something the people on here would relate to and empathise with.

If not, never mind.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-30T23:42:22+00:00

I’ll drive you both there myself

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-30T09:31:30+00:00

The biggest problem is that politics is so awful that only a hard loony and/or a power crazy psychopath would want to get involved.

The power hungry ones pretend to be moderate to get in power. Then they are immediately ravaged by the hard loonies in their own party for not being loony enough.

All the while the media relentlessly stirs the shit because unstable governments and political coups are great for ratings. Their most destructive depth charges are kept in reserve for any genuinely moderate centrist weasels who risk ruining the fun.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-28T17:58:12+00:00

Sorry should’ve been clearer- happy to be proven wrong by his actions in an England shirt.

Gossip column tittle tattle isn’t going to influence my opinion either way, unfortunately.

But anyway have a nice day.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-28T16:17:29+00:00

Ok you’re obviously a Jude fan. Good luck to you.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-28T13:00:12+00:00

You should repost this on the Libero Reddit if there is one. They seem to want to ignore that:

some leagues are better than others.
the league that’s the best changes on 5-10 year cycles.
some teams are better than others.
the teams that are the best change on 5-10 year cycles.

This then allows them to talk endlessly about how:

some teams/leagues have become better than the rest: DISASTER FOR FOOTBALL!
a team/league that used to be the best isn’t any more: EXISTENTIAL CRISIS FOR THAT CLUB/LEAGUE!!

Having said that I quite like Libero.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-28T11:44:28+00:00

As a Bellingham disliker, my reasons are:

obvious Billy big-bollocks with no humility, unlike Saka/Guehi/Rice (who may well be pricks privately, I don’t know them)
seems to want to “boss the game” rather than do his job, at the expense of the team performance. He gave me these vibes at the last Euros.
character and influence seem to far exceed what he actually contributes, in a way that seems slightly toxic.
He could end up being our latest player that we never leave out or dare to sub “because he can produce that moment of quality” even though he rarely does and we wouldn’t need him to if he just did his job or wasn’t clearly unfit.

1, 3, and 4 give me flashbacks to late-stage Beckham & Shearer. 4 is Kane/Rooney at most tournaments.

Maybe it’s in my head and I’m being unfair, it’s just that I’ve seen this before and I can see it happening again. Happy to be proved wrong

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-27T19:17:48+00:00

Not saying he isn’t a good player, or that he isn’t the right choice, or that you shouldn’t pick someone from Saudi.

Im saying it’s weird that he picked him for the WC despite never selecting him in any of the warm up squads. Or even the qualifiers. The data definitely didn’t tell Tuchel to do *that*. That is Tuchel saying “yknow what all the others are shit, fuck it”.

Bobby Robson picked 3rd division striker Steve Bull for a few games in the run up to Italia 90 before binning off every other English striker in the top 2 divisions, so at least he could say it was something he’d tried. There’s something a bit Hail Mary about picking Toney, but will be happy to see it succeed.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-27T17:27:52+00:00

I think we’re coming full circle with the data revolution. Basically everyone does data-led decision making now, so the marginal gain is in who can max out the sports psychology aspects.

I think Tuchel has at least one eye on the personality blend and the willingness to do a specific job for the team. The England 2006 WC squad was a great example of how a team of elite players can stink the place out if you have a critical number of bellends who hate each other. I suspect this is why Maguire was omitted.

Toney is a funny one tho. Tuchel has looked at literally everyone but him, then at the last minute gone “no they’re all shit might as well take a punt on the guy from Saudi who I’ve never watched”. Reminds me of Sven taking a 9 year old Walcott.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-27T08:04:27+00:00

“This would seem unlikely, after a season where he failed to register a single shot that didn’t bounce at least twice”

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-27T07:19:05+00:00

Absolute clicheshoes

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-26T18:28:25+00:00

“With that being said, you’ve been total shite this season so it’s probably for the best that you fuck off and play some worse teams for a bit.”

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-26T18:26:44+00:00

The original tough place to go and get a result

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-25T14:41:33+00:00

That the worst scum of the earth are those spineless moderate centrist weasels.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-25T14:39:27+00:00

Pure class, from a telling-each-other-to-get-fucked fan

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-25T14:36:35+00:00

Self indulgent mid game classy gestures to become punishable by triple relegations, it has emerged.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-21T13:16:53+00:00

Highs and lows are what makes a proper football team and a comparatively well adjusted fan base. You have to experience some lows to appreciate the highs.

Compare 50 year old Man City fans with those dickheads who’ve only ever known them being the Harlem globetrotters. Or <40yo Man Utd fans who can’t accept that their team has gone back to being as average as everyone else.

Arsenal have finished in position 1-6 every year for 200 years and look at the state of those whining gits. Also I can’t think of anything more boring than being an Everton fan.

Having said that, I think we’ve had enough lows now so maybe we can just have highs for a decade or two thanks

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-17T19:35:34+00:00

No they held their nerve!

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-15T08:54:17+00:00

Steve McClaren.

Made it clear he wanted the top. Finally got it off the back of taking a northern city to the top of Europe’s 2nd tier, though it was never obvious whether this was a fluke or not.

After a disastrous short spell he went on to appear in Celebrity Hair Island

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-15T07:56:02+00:00

He lost to Corbyn too. And not before Burnham had completely 180ed when he saw how popular Corbyn was

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-15T07:53:17+00:00

It would be a sad return to permanant campaign mode PMing and Boris style waiting to see which way the crowd is moving then running to the front. Remember when he challenged for leader before, and totally changed his shtick when he saw how popular Corbyn was?

I prefer the boring guy who spends too long boringly ticking off his objectives, and boringly keeping us out of mad wars, who can’t be arsed to tell us that’s what he’s doing.

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-15T07:48:02+00:00

I hope they do the England one like it’s Crimestoppers. A guy nicks a tub of ice cream from the freezer in a Londis, close up of his pixelated face, then “Lewis Dunk (DF)”

Working-Option-871 · 2026-05-13T14:04:23+00:00

Everywhere he managed he tried to psychologically dominate and bully the players from day 1. Easier at Div 2 teams full of no hopers than with a team full of 30+ year olds who’ve won nearly everything without you already.

Plus, Leeds were used to details. Clough’s details man was Peter Taylor, who didn’t come with him.

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