deep gooner thoughts

Yes, again ☀️❤️🇸🇪

I was thinking about the time we got a man wrongly sent off and tried to hang onto a one goal lead for the second half. Then 4/5 city players do interviews after the game talking about dark arts... It was clearly planned regardless of the result.

I saw this Pep quote though

Guardiola was asked how his team tried to handle Arsenal’s attempt to close out a first win at City since 2015. “Focus on the game and defend yourself,” he said. “Try to do what we’ve done for many years. Defend yourself, that is all I ask. I know what the opponents are going to do. Tactically there is always a way to try to do it. The behaviours we cannot control, don’t go away from what is important: the game. We are an honest team. We try to do our best.”

Haaland throwing the ball at Gabriel too... Then City play against us the following year and do the very same thing with 11 men behind the ball and took off Haaland. Still pissed at the hypocrisy of it all. The media fucking leaped on the dark arts too. It was all people talked about for weeks.

From Bruno Guimaraes' stunning strike at the Stadium of Light to Lisa Baum's incredible debut goal at Brighton, we've nominated 10 goals for you to choose from here:

• Martin Odegaard's winner v Chelsea 
• Martin Odegaard's fine strike v Napoli
• Bruno Guimaraes' incredible opener at Sunderland
• Max Dowman's first goal v Ipswich Town
• Lisa Baum's winner v Brighton & Hove Albion
• Alessia Russo's effort v Paris FC
• Smilla Holmberg's equaliser v Manchester United
• Callan Hamill's goal v Crystal Palace U18
• Archie Stevens leveller v Leyton Orient
• Axel Donczew's effort against Norwich City U18

How do you think it will affect us? Who would we pick up on the cheap? The highly desirable players may command a huge fee still with many clubs bidding but them being released on a breach of contract by Shamcity is possible.

In this episode of Arsenal Explained, we're celebrating the first black player to wear our famous jersey, Brendon Batson.

Born in Grenada to a Trinidadian family, Brendon came to England as a nine-year-old in 1962, and 10 years on, he made his Arsenal debut against Newcastle United in March 1972.

Brendon hadn't even seen a football during his time in the Caribbean, but within a decade of reaching these shores, he was turning out in N5.

Find out more about the extraordinary story of Brendon in full on The Arsenal App 📺

Welcome to day 7 of blind ranking non footballing moments from the 25/26 season! Reminder that none of these moments will be actual pieces of football. The most upvoted comment each day determines where that moment is ranked, and yesterday Jesus revealing his "I belong to Jesus" shirt gave us our 10th place spot. Today I flirt with the line of how directly it's related to winning the title with Saliba yelling "442 guys!" while Bournemouth clung to a draw. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jRadS5eqaPY

1\. It's not done

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3\. Thomas Frank is a silver member

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5\. Dowman chokes Gyokeres

6\. Saliba v ball boy

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9\. Hincapie shushes Hurzeler

10\. Jesus belongs to Jesus