05 May 2026 22:13:13
Bad enough that Liverpool are really, really bad at the moment. But, to see Arsenal progressing to the Champions League final, and clear favourites to win the Premier League, makes it all that much worse. Say what you want about Arsenal and Arteta, and their unsportsmanlike conduct and awful way of playing, but they are in with a real shot of making history.
They are going to be even more unbearable than usual.
05 May 2026 23:49:16
They will get smashed by PSG.
06 May 2026 00:06:46
I'd agree, flidby, but in a one off game anything can happen, I guess. Ideal scenario is that the impending CL final distracts them from the league and they lose both.
In any case, we have been in 5 out of the last 20 CL finals, so they'll have to go some to have anything close to our European pedigree.
To put that into context, we have been in a quarter of all CL finals in the last 2 decades. That is incredible given the amount of teams who have thrown billions at it in that time.
We are very spoilt.
06 May 2026 00:33:54
It is far easier to stomach them winning anything than City scamming another treble.
Arsenal are just a football club subject to the same rules and forces as Liverpool. City are a proxy political entity that cheated us out of two more titles that we'd have certainly otherwise won, and are throwing every effort possible at subverting the jurisdiction of the game with this ridiculous court case.
The whole country should appreciate them not winning.
06 May 2026 03:20:37
Agree, Lowe1FC.
Arteta learned the dark acts (tactical cheating on the field) from Pep, and has taken it to an all new level.
Don't understand the hate against Arsenal when compared to City, who cheated at all levels.
06 May 2026 06:32:52
They won't get smashed by PSG in my opinion. Arsenal are very good defensively and aggressively. I can see them frustrating PSG or Bayern and winning.
06 May 2026 06:38:56
You see, I find it far easier to ignore anything City do.
I've come to properly despise Arteta and that Arsenal team.
It will be a very bad day for football if Arsenal win the double as it legitimises everything Arteta has done.
06 May 2026 06:48:06
Wassa, Ignoring everything City is the tribal, (in my opinion) immature perspective on it.
Arsenal's success is a reflection of good decision-making as a club, and it tells other clubs to get their act together. If City had their way, football wouldn't be a competitive sport - they'd simply quash any and all attempts to threaten their dominance in a way that legitimate, competitive clubs like Arsenal could never do due to said forces.
Ignoring that due to some "unbearable fans" (get off Twitter - you won't notice) is small time.
06 May 2026 06:59:26
Arsenal are anti football whereas Slot's current Liverpool team takes the beautiful game to another level.
Like watching poetry in motion.
06 May 2026 07:04:09
What has Arteta done that's so bad, Wassa?
06 May 2026 07:25:18
It is far from tribal, Lowe, and it isn't immature in the slightest. The idea that my hatred of this Arsenal team comes from some tools on Twitter is fantasy, mate.
With regard to City, whilst those 115 charges still linger in the background, everything City do is meaningless to me.
As for Arsenal - please don't treat them as some plucky underdog. Arteta has spent over a billion pound in his time as Arsenal manager. He's net outspent Pep by some distance over that same period, and they've only been outspent, I think, by both Chelsea and United. So don't bring financials into it.
My hatred of Arsenal is purely and simply down to two things (1) the play style and the (2) this "dark arts", i.e., cheating.
They cheat, every game. Gabriel, as an example, constantly drawing falls and falling over as a centre half to give them back possession, it's embarrassing.
If a mouse farts near an Arsenal player, they are ok the deck.
Arteta practically interfering with play every chance he gets by getting close to the touchline. He knows exactly what he's doing - it's like having a 12th man on the side pressing opponents. Watch him last night - it's cringe inducing.
Then there is the playing style. I can't respect any team that spends over a billion pound to play like prime Pullis Stoke. Rival fans used to admire how Arsenal played the game. Now they have succumbed to that "win at all costs" attitude. Everything they largely stood for under Wenger has gone in the bin.
The fact is, if every team approached the game like Arsenal now do, it wouldn't be worth watching.
06 May 2026 07:46:30
They were beyond lucky to not concede last night and should have had at least one penalty given against them. If they give up that many chances against PSG, then they will lose.
06 May 2026 08:17:21
I don't want them to win either comp this season, but in reality I don't really care.
They have had a ridiculously easy draw in the CL this season, so reaching the final is no achievement.
In the league, if they win, they will have been the least worst team.
I know many said it about us last season, and I personally dismissed this view, but looking on it now I can see their point.
I would prefer City and PSG/Munich to win.
06 May 2026 08:38:06
I'm with Wassa, I've grown to hate Arsenal under Arteta. Loved Wenger's teams. They went from 1 nil to the Arsenal to great football, now they're playing 1 corner to the Arsenal. Not condoning City's cheating by any means, but Arteta is having a bigger detrimental effect on football than City's cheating. No one wants to watch Arsenal, or teams trying to copy them.
06 May 2026 09:03:39
2nd that Ron, League has been getting worse and worse for a few seasons now, we weren't great at times when we won it last season and dare I say, boring mostly. Every team playing the same way and a lack of tactical and exciting managers to blame.
Hence the need for Iraola for me. Hope PSG bury them and City win league, but it looks like City have blown that themselves.
06 May 2026 09:18:15
Arsenal have made a CL final and hats off to them. They will be hard to beat in the final regardless of who they play. That much we do know.
Now that being said, I cannot stand the way Arsenal play under Arteta with all the cheating, diving tactics they do (can't stand it when Macca does it either), and some of their fans have become just absolutely insufferable. Keep in mind that under Wenger, we had no issues with their fans as they were very humble, likeable and we shared our deep dislike for Utd. We were cool, right?
When Arteta came, all that changed. They started taking pops at Klopp, denigrating his/our achievements just to make Arteta look good and on the level, w/o the cache to boot.
That did it for me and to me, this is where the dislike and disdain for them started and this, across rival fans including ours, in my view.
This is why I agree to an extent with Wassa & @Scouse. Can't stand them and their arrogant manager. As for City, I don't care. Why? Simple. When they brag about all their trophies, I would like to ask them (considering the incoming verdict re: all these 115 to 130 charges on their head top) to tell me which of their trophies do they think are actually legal, at this point. I bet you, they couldn't tell you. That's all I need to know.
06 May 2026 09:37:22
They will bottle both, don't worry.
06 May 2026 14:23:40
"You see, I find it far easier to ignore anything City do."
Wassa, I find myself in the same boat, mate.