What would you call it then? That's a bottling if ever there was one.
Greenlizard0 Premier League Football Thread ** spoilers ** [16th - 18th September 2023]
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Caporegime
They did bottle the league. They also bottled top 4 the previous season. If Arteta was manager of Manchester United the press would have had him sacked years ago but luckily for Arsenal he hasn't been as they are doing good now.
Soldato
loss of form, injuries, lack of depth in the squad. i hate arsenal with a passion (well not literally) but i don't agree with the 'bottlers' claim.
Caporegime
The media and fans were hounding him, but luckily we’ve got far better owners than you, and they believed in him. The Kroenke’s have never been ones for knee jerk sackings
Soldato
Russia has better, less corrupt owners than us.
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I wouldn’t call it anything, they got beaten by the far superior team over a marathon of a season. That team who won the treble with relative ease. They’ve won the league 3 years in a row are massively favourites to retain it again. Arsenal came from no where to be their biggest challengers, they shouldn’t even have been there. Not a single person would have thought Arsenal would have finished 2nd pre season let alone win the thing (Okay maybe that Ty guy). They done far better than they should have, more so in the first half of the season, well beyond what anyone was expecting then just returned to their natural rightful (not sure if thats the right phrase) place towards the end. If it was the other way around started a bit dodgy then went onto have a great second half would be a completely different story. They still won’t have won the league but you wouldn’t be saying they bottled it at the start of the season.
Caporegime
The amount of AFTV fans that were out for the Kroenke's blood was embarrassing. They are by far one of the better team owners.
I think when you look at Arsenals form in the back end of last season its hard not to call it bottling tbh.
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Meh, each to their own I guess.
Massive under dog, not expected to win it at all. Didn’t. Only playing way beyond expectation allowed them to I think, go favourites to win it for a few days. They always had to play City away so the gap wasn’t as big as it was portrayed as.
Massive under dog, not expected to win it at all. Didn’t. Only playing way beyond expectation allowed them to I think, go favourites to win it for a few days. They always had to play City away so the gap wasn’t as big as it was portrayed as.
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Caporegime
Only like Liverpool fans claiming they didn’t bottle the league
Ai Rob, we bottled it whilst getting 97 (ninety seven) points.
Completely different to imploding in the last third of the season.
Caporegime
He could have been referring to 13/14 which was a bottle job.
For sure, even so we didnt spend hundreds of millions to get there like Arsenal have. No Liverpool fan will claim it was anything but.
Caporegime
You spent 35 million on Andy Carroll two seasons previous which was the biggest fee paid for a British player and a very high fee at the time.
The way you butcher facts, figures and stats to suit your mad arguments never ceases to amaze me Adam
Don
Soooo, who thought it was a handball last night? I thought it was mega harsh.
I disagree, when Arsenal won the league Chelsea finished second and were growing rapidly following Abramovich's investment. They knocked Arsenal out of the CL that year enroute to the semifinal and were only knocked out of the FA cup by a single goal away to the winners (Arsenal). They then won the league the next season with 95 points (a record at the time). To say they weren't competitive in 2004 is unfair, they were the clearly the second best team in England at the time and well on their way to becoming the best team in England.
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If that's handball then every single handball by a defender this season and going forward is a penalty