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Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
"Oh dear, how sad, never mind"
Arsenal to the Champions League are what Lincoln were to League One.
You also said it should be a massacre. You probably bet on a home win, an away win and a draw in every game 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
Quite low quality for a final. Best piece of play was probably Havertz' finish early on.
I dread to think what sort of football Arteta would get a side full of ordinary players to play if he was ever in charge of an EFL team. I didn’t think PSG were up to much on the night, but they should have won it without the need to go to penalties or even extra time.
They'd be Lincoln City
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Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire
Arsenal are very good at what they do. Unfortunately, nobody wants to watch that shyte.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Arteta would probably employ the same style and tactics if he was at an EFL team with ordinary players, i'm pretty sure of that. Isn't he one of the 'Guru' managers, even though his football (apparently) is shit?Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Yet probably everybody on this thread, including you did watch it. ??Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
It was still interesting to see two teams with 100% opposite football philosophies face each other. I couldn't watch it every week though!Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
I agree. PSG were very average and bereft of ideas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
That would be doing Arsenal a disservice, it takes a lot of hard work and commitment to turn a team into a modern day Wimbledon.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
his histrionics on the touchline are cringeworthy, bet he had tantrums as a kid :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I like him, he seems to be a nice person, I just disagree with his football philosophy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire
I was not able to watch it, or even listen on the radio. However I was keeping up to date with the live text and live match stats on the BBC and it seemed, to me, looking at the stats, how very similar it was to quite a lot of games involving the City this last season. We were up against a lot of teams whoÂ’s only intention was to not concede, and it was made even harder if one of those teams managed to score the first goal.
However, as frustrating as it was at times, City played entertaining football and as a lot of the opposition teams were mostly filled with limited, but honest professionals, we mostly won, which made it all good.
If the same scenario is played out next season, it may be harder to break that type of opposition down. I am looking forward to seeing the improvement in our style that BBM surely would identify we need.
thats the one:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Except of course their 60,000 in the Emirates & the 100,000+ on their ST waiting list (who have to pay to be on the waiting list). My cousins have 8-10 ST which they’ve had since the 70s are constantly under pressure to sell theirs. Less than 1% on the waiting list got STs this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wales-Bales
They'd probably watch paint dry too if it said Arsenal on the tin :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
How often do the major clubs do an audit to ensure that families aren't renewing season tickets for departed relatives?Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
i doubt any club would do that , they are just happy to sell season tickets :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
Just saw this Paddypower advert https://m.youtube.com/shorts/dadQ7kEbVs8
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Wow, that's cringe worthyQuote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
If our beloved team had just won the Premier League and got to the final of the most prestigious club competition in the world do you honestly think any of our fans would be complaining about our style of play, especially when you consider how outstanding Arsenal were in the knockout phase of the Champions League.
To jump on the bandwagon now that they lost the final by a single penalty seems rather churlish. Arteta employed tactics that came within a hair's breadth of beating the finest team in the world. If Arsenal had played expansive football, in all likelihood PSG would have wiped the floor with them. And no, PSG were not poor, Arsenal just stopped them playing and for the most part it worked. Raya barely had a save to make, which tells you all you need to know about how well structured Arsenal's defence was.
Indeed, the best move of the match came from Arsenal and perhaps Havertz should have scored his second.
I'm certainly not a closet Arsenal fan but you have to admire the spirit of a team that came so tantalisingly close to winning the Champions League.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-over-arsenal
I suppose it would have really kicked off if PSG had lost?
Gabriel’s contribution to world peace!
I wonder if a fan could leave their season ticket in their Will to a Trust with a family member as a Trustee, with instructions to renew it every year out of their Estate?Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
PSG had two big chances to finish it before the penalties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
[QUOTE=Moodybluebird;5651993]If our beloved team had just won the Premier League and got to the final of the most prestigious club competition in the world do you honestly think any of our fans would be complaining about our style of play, especially when you consider how outstanding Arsenal were in the knockout phase of the Champions League.
To jump on the bandwagon now that they lost the final by a single penalty seems rather churlish. Arteta employed tactics that came within a hair's breadth of beating the finest team in the world. If Arsenal had played expansive football, in all likelihood PSG would have wiped the floor with them. And no, PSG were not poor, Arsenal just stopped them playing and for the most part it worked. Raya barely had a save to make, which tells you all you need to know about how well structured Arsenal's defence was.
Indeed, the best move of the match came from Arsenal and perhaps Havertz should have scored his second.
I'm certainly not a closet Arsenal fan but you have to admire the spirit of a team that came so tantalisingly close to winning the Champions League.[/QUOTE
Bear in mind that loads of posters on here just want to argue and pick a fight or steal a thread and know literally nothing about football.
.....or replying!
That would be irrelevant though if the club concerned invoke terms and conditions that tickets may only be used by the original purchaser in the first place.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
They don't need to make a will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie
According to the Arsenal Season Ticket Terms and conditions it is perfectly possible, subject to evidence, for close relatives to continue to get the benefit of the ticket!
6.5 If you pass away, the Club will issue your estate with a pro-rata refund of the unexpired portion
of your Season Ticket(s) with effect from the date on which the Club is provided with a copy of
your death certificate, or the Club will, if requested, transfer your Season Ticket(s) to someone
whom the Club is satisfied is a close relative of yours. In order to consider any such request the
Club will require the following information: (i) a copy of the death certificate of the deceased
Season Ticket holder; (ii) the name, any existing membership number, address, email, contact
telephone number and date of birth of the family member to which the Season Ticket(s) are to
be transferred; and (iii) proof of the family relationship between the deceased Season Ticket
holder and the person the Season Ticket(s) are to be transferred to.
I also watched Barnsley v Cardiff. It wasn’t to watch Barnsley.Quote:
Originally Posted by William Treseder
Indeed. 'Tis all about Terms and Conditions.Quote:
Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays
Did you look away everytime Barnsley had the ball ?😁Quote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
I’m not sure he would - that’s what he’s got a bunch of talented footballers who will nearly all be representing their countries in the coming World Cup to play like, I dread to think what he’d be like if he was in charge of, say, a Charlton Athletic.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
I’ve been somewhat taken apack by the amount of anti Arsenal feeling on social media since Saturday, but I shouldn’t be really. Speaking as someone who has liked watching the admittedly unsuccessful Arsenal sides of the last twenty odd years because they tended to play attacking football, I get no pleasure out of watching the current team. For years, the charge against Arsenal was that their defending let them down in big games - Arteta has cured them of that, but it’s been at the cost of individual flair and creativity. No one summed this up more than Saka who was praised by commentator and pundits alike for his defensive responsibility and team ethic on Saturday, but, like so often this season, was some way below his potential going forward.
Saying that though, it’s not their negativity that I most dislike about Arteta’s Arsenal, it’s that I’m not sure I’ve seen another team which employs the “dark arts” and gamesmanship as much as Arsenal do since the Leeds side I grew to hate as a kid. A lot was made of the ref blowing for half time before Arsenal could take a corner and I recall that nearly fifty years ago it was widely believed that Welshman Clive Thomas lost the chance to ref a World Cup Final because he disallowed what would have been a winning Brazil goal from a corner in a match with Sweden because he blew for full time as the cross was coming in.
Therefore, it could be seen as a brave call by Saturday’s ref to deny Arsenal the chance to take their corner, but I was all for his decision because they were taking so long to take it and you know full well that there would have been multiple fouls committed by red shirted players when the corner was finally taken that Arsenal, like they have done all season, we’re gambling on officials letting them get away with things that would be penalised in any other area of the pitch.
It’s not just Arsenal who cheat at dead ball situations, put on pitch officials and those in charge of VAR under huge pressure and take gamesmanship to unacceptable levels, but they’ve come to epitomise it this season as they largely benefited from tight calls for the last few months to gain what I’d call maybe the most unimpressive Premier League title wins of recent years. The irony being that, like that Leeds team from all of those years ago, they could have done equally well, or even better, if their manager had been prepared to realease the hand brake a bit.
I wouldnÂ’t be disappointed in the style if it were City in the final vs PSG, but as evidenced by the way we kept to our style last season, no matter who we played, I am inclined to think that BBM would have still played it his way.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moodybluebird
However, Arsenal are one of the biggest clubs in Europe (value wise), so to have gone with the tactic of a lower league team v a big teamÂ… I think I would have been disappointed if I were an Arsenal fan.
Once again, I can only comment based on the BBC live text and match stats as it happened.
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Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
After the deciding penalty miss ...
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