What the fuck is wrong with people? I genuinely hope these people are found, prosecuted and banned from football and social media.
What the fuck is wrong with people? I genuinely hope these people are found, prosecuted and banned from football and social media.
Threatening people online is an example of how sick society has gotten and how much mental health is a problem of which we all need to contribute to for our own sense of wellbeing.
That said, Arsenal fans are deluded. We keep running around with a sense of entitlement like we have dominated something. The reality is that we’ve defended the FA Cup twice and nothing else. Every other success we’ve had has been sporadic. The reality that Arsenal fans need to accept is that we’re prestigious for a multitude of reasons, our brand of football, our class, the fact that we’re always there or there abouts. But our history has glaring deficiencies, the lack of defended title, the lack of European success. I’m at a loss as to why we deserve to win.
Even the expectations on Havertz make no sense. Liverpool got European success with a striker that contributed less than Havertz. Havertz is top 3 in terms of goals and top 2 in terms of goal contributions in the league. Yet I see fans clamouring for Osimhen who is perpetually injured. How does that move us forward? We don’t play with midfielders or wingers who feed through balls. Our actual issue over recent weeks, in fact this whole season has been how pedestrian our passing has been and that’s in part because we’ve been trying to shoehorn Rice at left 8 and have been playing Partey at 6.
Yeah I gotta say I just saw this post and felt like contributing, so cards on the table I’m not a huge Gunners fan or anything and I don’t exactly follow the Premier League due to the abysmal coverage in my country.
That said, I did catch the Man U match. Man U has some decent quality here and there and so does Arsenal, yet I was very underwhelmed with both sides. But in general, looking at the state of European football by and large, I feel like I’m underwhelmed a lot.
Teams are more interested in playing for minimum results. It seems to be a trend that first halves are super boring, no risk anywhere, no real pressure off the ball… It feels like the main objective is not to concede any goals. This makes the second halves more interesting, but you might also get a lot of goalless draws.
To compare, I also watched El Clásico yesterday. Aside from the fact that having yet another cup in such a busy season and that this one is the least significant, and skating over the fact that the final was played in Jeddah for some reason: Madrid showed some of the worst football I’ve seen all season. Barça played with guts, with fun, with dare and it payed off because the players had both quality and determination. I saw a team playing a great game. Real seemed to be going through the motions of the game and the amount of hard fouls in the late game showed a total lack of control.
I also watch a lot of Italian football and especially the matches that are promoted as being interesting fixtures often are so disappointing. The most interesting thing that can happen is a bottom end team beating a team in the mid of the table, or one of the top teams just does not bring it at all and you get to see some counters.
I don’t know if it was always like this, but the state of football seems to be deteriorating across the board.