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Man City v Arsenal - Sunday September 22nd 1630 PM GMT KO

Mirth

These headlines have made me more pumped than ever. I forgot what it was like to be a credible title challenger in this country and the amount of shit Wenger had to deal with in the early 2000s. Once he started to wane, the headlines were kinder because we knew our place - behind Liverpool and Man United (and now seemingly Man City).

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/2327080/merson-criticises-wenger

As much as I think some of these headlines are a product of modern day click bait, stories like the above from even our own ex-players pretty much show that there’s no winning them over. We could win the league or reach a CL final and the angle was ‘ok, but why would you pick Fabregas and Van Persie over salt of the earth English lads like Pennant and Bentley’

Clrnc

Just realised they tried a dig at us. Against Qarabag. At home.

Clowns

Claudius

Clrnc I don’t think spurs realise that they are a joke

Burnwinter

Clrnc We stopped them playing "their football" two weeks ago, but hey.

Gazza M

Clrnc hahaha this is pathetic even for them. this narrative about us being bus parking dirt bags is one of the dumbest things to catch on, but I like it. it will add to our siege mentality for the next few months, and leave everyone looking very dumb when we start playing good football again.

Mirth

Gazza M feel like we’re in an alternate timeline where we weren’t the team with the second highest number of goals scored in the league last season

USArsenal

Mirth
Yes, thats very true.. However, we have only scored 8 goals in 5 games thus far this season. We all know our offense has not really clicked into gear yet, and much of that is not having everyone back in full swing (and now injuries).

Rohit

I am loving it honestly. Feels like when Wenger had the whole English media after us and Fergusson, the best that there was then, rattled.

Sicario2 - Tier 1

USArsenal

And having ten men for 20 percent of our games….

Fuck the media, especially that reporter that was trying to stir shit with Pep, that was embarrassing.

Honestly, we should have enough fuel now to fly into space and hopefully grab the Prem title on the way.

FEBravo

We also had tough fixtures. The next three will tell us a lot about where our offence is

flobaba

I have long said that as long as Mikel and Pep are friends we are not their true rivals. I hope they become bitter enemies and can’t stand the sight of each other. Would mean we are doing something right.

Go on then Miki, tell us all the information. Spill the beans on these corrupt hypocritical egomaniacs. Fuck em

Burnwinter

flobaba I hope they become bitter enemies and can’t stand the sight of each other.

Pep definitely wouldn't be happy if we were to take his crown while City undergo some kind of sanction. A great example of a man who only accepts life when he's winning, it's a good trait in a manager of course.

Mirth

flobaba agree. Also ask Tito Vilanova if Guardiola’s friendship means a damn if you happen to cross him.

flobaba

Burnwinter exactly this. If and when we take the crown and if we can stay in supremacy for a while you will get to see a loser Pep. He does this all the time, the slimy fucker. The only reason he brought up that 115 charges thing is he’s using it to galvanize his team again. It’s similar to when he said in the press conference there were a bunch of premier league clubs ganging up against City. He needs to also have his players in war/siege mentality mode. It’s different with Klopp. You know there was a mutual respect there due to recognition of achievements. Pep is Artetas mentor. Arteta needs to buck that image. And become the master himself. And he has the ambition to do so. By any means necessary. Would be greatly surprised if they remain friends through the course of all this.

USArsenal

Ehhhh i dont know if thats true. I think we can (and are starting to) have a good rivalry with them despite the two of them being friends. They can be friends off the pitch, but when it comes to game time, the players will make sure the rivalry is pretty warm.

flobaba

This is football bro. It gets personal. Go ask Fergie and Arsene.

RocktheCasbah

flobaba but Fergie and Arsène were starting from a place of huge disrespect, the exact opposite is true of Pep and Super Mik.

Qwiss

JazzG Souness is absolutely one of the ones that accused us of being too soft for years.

None of these people gave us a chance of getting anything out of that match when Trossard went off. They hate that Artetas proving them wrong.

JazzG

Qwiss Bitter failed managers at the highest level, that is why they sit in the studio because they're good enough to be involved with clubs at the highest level.

Burnwinter

It's ridiculous that we've got someone like Souness who typifies the English mythology of "getting into 'em" criticising us for defending with ten men in one of our toughest away ties. Take a seat old fart, in your prime you wouldn't have got near our XI.

flobaba

Not sure Mikel is respected in that sense by Guardiola

Burnwinter

flobaba He isn't, and I don't think they'll have any long rivalry ... if we gain the ascendancy I think Guardiola will depart City.

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