Arsenal Banter

06 Mar 2026 09:17:29
I was just wondering if that knobhead OHara will be putting on his City shirt for the Carabao.

06 Mar 2026 10:07:06
Geezer is a first class. 🛎️🔚

06 Mar 2026 10:32:36
I like him. He makes me laugh.

06 Mar 2026 09:59:12
I missed St Totteringham's Day at the weekend!

My favourite day of the year and earliest ever on record.

05 Mar 2026 08:52:25
Just wondering Ed25 mate, if you got any pull with David Moyes, can you help us out, can you tell him, I am very close to a few stressed out Gooners and could you take it easy on us weekend after next😂😂😂
Hope you are safe and well Ed mate.

{Ed025's Note - hi Bill im good thanks mate and hope you and your family are well my friend, i expect Arsenal will win the game but in all honesty i dont really care because im fed up watching the game in its present state, its all about the winning at all costs now and the entertainment and fun seems a thing of the past, all this crap dragging and pulling at corners and set pieces rolling around pretending to be injured and general cheating at every opportunity is not what i signed up for, Wimbledon of old got slated for it and now we seem to celebrate this anti-football guff being celebrated and when you do win the league playing like that then im afraid its the death of the game as we know it, this is not the Arsenal i want to see Bill, you have had some great players and great teams in the past and a lot of those would be turning in their graves if they knew how this Gunners team are willing to play the game, sorry for the rant but im just really pissed off at watching the game played like this..

05 Mar 2026 14:32:51
I think no one is really happy with the performance, but at the minute we need to do what it takes to be able to win our first league in how many years. This will bring in valuable experience to the team and management.

Get us over the line this season, and next season you will see a much better performance. Everton has always been tricky for Arteta, and we don't usually walk away with 3 points, but I'm hoping Moyes would want us to win rather than City.

05 Mar 2026 09:45:01
Your entitled to your opinion Ed mate, glad to hear your well and we are all good here mate
Take care

{Ed025's Note - cheers Bill..

05 Mar 2026 12:05:59
Hello Ed mate, understand your frustration and I am also at a point where I am thinking should I watch the games or just check the result afterwards. But again, I think back to the past seasons where we were so close yet the title slipped away. This must be heavy on the team and Arteta's minds and that is why this approach to secure 3 points at any cost. Once we win the title we will have the monkey off the back and we will be free to play the game as we like it.

Just imagine the psychology of the team if we were not to win the title from here. Having said that I am also wary if we will be able to sustain this protecting a 1-0 lead for the next 8 games because the margins are very small and our luck is going to run out soon, hopefully after 7 games 😀

{Ed025's Note - i dont think you can play any other way now Highbury, your team ethic is to bully teams from corners set pieces and throw ins and gain advantage by fair means or foul mate which will ultimately get you the title but lose you any respect that usually champions deserve, you may not give a toss about that of course but for me its football that is the biggest loser in all this my friend..

05 Mar 2026 07:39:16
{Ed's Note - KeeDal has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool Concerns Over Slot, Standards and Squad Attitude

04 Mar 2026 21:51:14
Well done boys! That's what champions have in their locker. Really happy.

Would love to see done decent football but at the business end of the season, it's about getting business done.

{Ed025's Note - i remember when football was in the entertainment business SY, this is just drudge mate..

04 Mar 2026 23:03:19
I posted another post that did moan about the performance, but praised the stubbornness. I still love great football and miss it.

05 Mar 2026 07:59:00
Personally, I was too nervous to notice or care what the game was like! It was all about the 3 points. If Hurzeler wants to talk about 'only one team played football', his fan base are after him for, yep, boring football! You can't make it up.

Maybe, over the season, they should play a bit more and not score the same number of goals as Spuds 🥔. A new pantomime villain, who will be gone soon. Poor game, but three points, apparently. Coyg.

05 Mar 2026 08:33:14
It wasn't pretty, Sussex mate, but at this stage of the season, who cares. As for Hurzeler, if we are so bad but points ahead of his team, then what does that say about Brighton?
I know it's great to entertain football fans, but what with the last 3 seasons playing great football and finishing runners up, and all the pundits saying we need steel and have to learn to win ugly, and all the latter Wenger years of playing great football and being 20 Pts behind at Christmas, if we win but it's ugly, well, so be it.

Hope you and the family are all safe and well, Sussex mate.
Take care.

05 Mar 2026 09:18:06
All good here, Bill, and trust the same with you and yours! Moanio, let them have the ball, we'll take the points. Fergie, we'll take the ugly 1-0 and 3 points. Arteta, the anti Christ, boring, dark arts, etc, etc. Teams rolled us over in the past, not now. They would give their right arm to be where we are. Are we the new Millwall, 'No one likes us but we don't care'? Remember, we played great football under Wenger in his later years and didn't win the league, and were admired for the football but didn't win the league.

Don't believe everything you read - most of it is lazy thinking. Check out Opta ball-in-play stats and also 7 minutes extra time. Appeasing Hurzeler, and taking into account any time wasting, so nothing to see here. Coyg.

04 Mar 2026 23:01:17
I 100% agree with you Ed.

I couldn't watch too many games like that & I bet everyone here would agree

However when things gets serious & we need to fight / dig in; we've melted. Tonight we stood and fought. Champions have always needed to do that in every sport. Every winner needs a dark side

Agree - we need to be entertained

{Ed025's Note - i have to say SY i was hoping for better, i have said from the start that i would love Arsenal to win the league...but you know what mate i dont really care if they do or they dont anymore, this is not entertainment or football as i know it mate, it resembles all in wrestling with a mix of cheating and play acting rolled into one...sorry but thats just how i feel..

05 Mar 2026 20:18:56
Hi Ed - I've not been happy with the poor performances all year. Zero creativity & entertainment. I'm with you. I would not pay to watch that week in / out. I don't think Arteta knows how to attack & defend at the same time & couldn't pick a striker if his life depended on it.
However - I was tired of us being bullied and getting rolled over. Being naive in games and being out "street smarted".
So it was nice to see when we are playing shat that we can be more street smarted and have some fight. There will be the ODD game that's required. I don't want it every week but to show we can't be bullied is a good statement. Now we need to show we can play also. Always thought United of old could out play, our fight whoever and whenever when they were at their best.

Do you really think we cheat?
Do we really have lots of people diving?

Yes corners are boring, playing to win corners is terrible etc

{Ed025's Note - all of the above actually SY...and i think its getting worse, this is not Wimbledon of the 80,s mate this is Arsenal ffs and you have a style and a history to live up to, when you do win it you will become the worst team the history of the premiership to lift the crown and always be tagged as that imo and deservedly so, the thing is that with the players you have you could be so much better than this and should be the toast of the footballing world, that might not bother you one jot of course my old friend...but it does me..