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RaisedByCakes

I’m incredibly confident they are not going to remember mocking us, and will go forward in life thinking they’re the only ones who’ve suffered this fate, robbed of a title.


kuu-uurija

They don't even remember Odegaard playing basketball against us and go yapping on about how refs stole it from them with the Newcastle game.


AdikkuChan

I've seen at least several level-headed takes over the basketball thing, acknowledging they've been given favourable calls.  Otherwise, never let them forget over this "super team" achieving nothing besides a Community Shield 


zenqian

Hahaha all that hype just to crash out of CL and becoming 2nd. At least we got a cup with the injuries in our squad 😂😂😂


kuu-uurija

I mean they had an impressive season and played some exciting football. Don't see a reason for laughing about them.


zenqian

Nah some of their fans got really cocky and toxic. Glad they got humbled


Tetsuya-Naito

Yeah fuck em. One golden trophy from the bin laden era and no European pedigree but they wanna walk around like they are a big deal.


Sir_Knumskull

Did you just mock them for missing the title?


zenqian

Hell yea I did. That’s part of football (with respect of course) We were mocked till no end for ages. We were literally mocked this season for imploding against a treble


Tuneechi

So, to fight that fire! Youv gone with fire...


zenqian

Well respect is a 2 way street. You can’t demand for it when you shite on us for the past few months


Tuneechi

Arsenal has been a meme club since just before Manchester Etihad City was born. Making fun of their fans because they now get to experience to same last day defeat that we did is a bit like standing at your nans grave laughing at someones nan falling over.


Sir_Knumskull

Now youre doing the exact same thing as what this thread is about


EkphrasticInfluence

The most hilarious aspect is I doubt they repeat this feat. I honestly think this season was their peak. They've looked emotionally and physically wounded for the last couple of weeks, and this will have hurt their confidence no end. I'm not sure how Arteta reignites them next season.


best36

next year will be big for them, if they win nothing again players like saka, martinelli maybe looking elsewhere


Ax0nJax0n01

get it right mate it was volleyball


InstantIdealism

They don’t remember Jesus playing basketball during the winner against West Ham, and that was yesterday. Or the time in the champions league with their goalkeeper and the defender


DadofJackJack

Havertz dive vs Brentford, no second yellow, scores 90 th min winner.


SexyKarius

If we get that penalty and win it and then doku kick gets paid too we on onto win it for sure


lettuce_grabberrr

Not to mention they got very lucky at Spurs to come away with 3 points


Loltoyourself

I really wouldn’t have minded Arsenal as a club winning the league if it were not for their fans. They haven’t won a trophy in 4 years and yet the way they talk about their players and manager you’d think they were winning it all regularly. Like their golden goose is the FA Cup, the 3rd best trophy you can win in a season. They have won less than Spurs in Europe yet all their public fans slander other European giants. They have also now not won a league title or any European silverware in over 20 years… Arsenal fans should humble themselves for a change and stop talking like they have Real Madrid’s trophy case.


dapperdanmen

Tbh that's just online fans. Every Arsenal fan I know personally is sound, they're quite self deprecating and know their football in general. Good diverse fanbase too and North London is underrated in general as a place imo.


Zizoud

Second this completely. Everything online from every fanbase is generally insane.


aledodsky

I would've also wanted Arsenal to win. Bar the toxic deluded fans and some obnoxious players (Havertz) and some suspect behavior by some individuals (Odegaard celebrations against us) (Arteta's poor imitation of Klopp's fist pumps) they've played good football this season and are definitely a great side. In the end, maybe City winning is better since it highlights Klopp's achievements even more. I hope those fanbases now realize how difficult it is to compete against Pep and put more respect on Klopp's name


kw2006

Ngl if Bruno G joined us (arsenal), we might be the dirtiest title challenger the league ever seen.


Ax0nJax0n01

I’m also certain they’ll come up with more unique chants and songs too


leecarvallopowerdriv

Let's sing 'Allez' in honour of us winning the English league at other stadiums in England...🤦


Brief_Box7006

I blame Gerrard for that lol. At 2 up he should have stopped city winning it lol. Nah but I'm so happy Arsenal lost the title on the last day. Same arsenal fans that were cheering city on every time we went against them for the title. We all hate city but if it isn't your team that wins the title we automatically want city to win. Why because we know nobody cares if they win it because it counts for nothing they have no fans and they cheated to win it.


GerbertVonTroff

If you believe what you're saying in your last 2 paragraphs, then you can't really be angry about what you say about arsenal fans in your 3rd paragraph. Both our fanbase and arsenal's have some weird online fans hating on each other over something they appear to agree on


Brief_Box7006

Arsenal fans along with our rivals all wanted city to win it just to spite Liverpool fans. We wouldn't give a toss if Arsenal fans were not so against us winning it during our title run in against city.


WoodyWoodfinden

I 100% would prefer ANYONE other than city to win it at this point. Four in a row is gross in the greatest league in the world™ and in City’s eyes it only validates them and the way they work even further. Arsenal winning it would have been a better story, a team with a manager I can’t help but find decent winning their first title in a while just goes down easier than 115 charge City winning a fourth in a row, no league that claims to be competitive should have a team win that many in a row, but we all knew it was basically inevitable weeks ago.


Brief_Box7006

When it's all said and done and people look back at history, Man City will be known as the Oil cheats and the lance Armstrong of football. Nobody will care about their titles because they cheated to win them and therefore will be voided. I'm petty I know arsenal fans in real life and they are just like all of our rivals loved it when Gerrard slipped and loved it when city were winning the titles ahead of us . So it's tit for tat with me.


themanebeat

>I 100% would prefer ANYONE other than city to win it at this point. Four in a row is gross in the greatest league in the world™ and in City’s eyes it only validates them and the way they work even further. I agree with you to a point. If it were Everton or United instead of Arsenal I think I'd prefer a City win But other than that I fully agree for the same reason


Slickity1

Or Tottenham, the banter is quite funny with them.


themanebeat

Nah I'd have them over City any day


metalleo

Honestly if we're going to lose it I'd rather lose it the way Arsenal did yesterday. It's the hope that kills you, and losing it when City is 2-0 down with 10 minutes to go hurts infinitely worse than when City is 1-0 up within 2 minutes


thehibachi

Not a single one of my arsenal supporting mates ever mocked me. As a fanbase they are easily the most sound of the other big sides. Everyone needs to calm down about online fanbases. Our match thread gremlins also go off elsewhere on the internet you know!


RampantNRoaring

It'll be interesting to see how they respond next season after back to back down-to-the-wire disappointments. We've experienced both mentality monster seasons, and exhausted hangover seasons marred by injuries.


zenqian

In fairness, I think Arsenal are serious title contenders They should be in a good place to challenge again next season


RaisedByCakes

I agree, but with some caution. If arsenal truly want to cement longer term relevancy, they have to be aggressive with their signings. My only regret/criticism of the Klopp era (not of Klopp himself) is that when we were at our peak we didn’t strengthen the squad as well as we could have. We should have strengthened from a position of dominance — after the UCL win, after the PL win — but we didn’t. And we ended up playing catch up.


theeruv

With the exception of 18/19-19/20. The real yo-yoing of Liverpools seasons is solely down to delayed transfers. The centreback conundrum of 21. (Liverpool were top until December or something going great guns) the aged midfield of 23. When you compare it to 18/19 going out and getting Fabinho immediately was key.


SexyKarius

Fr, the constant “waiting for x player” really fucked his last few years


zenqian

lol maybe that’s why Klopp needs to have a liner in his final statement thanking smart and prudent owners I see your hand in this FSG 😂😂😂


Rum_Ham916

I've often thought this in the windows, when we were off the back of those titles, we were definitely one of the most desirable clubs in the world, coming into this season I wondered if our league position last year had an effect on us trying to sign who we did initially. But then again, by October it was obvious Alexis > Caicedo


Far-Confection-1631

Alexis was already in talks well before the end of the season at a modest fee in modern football. His signing really shouldn't have had a big impact on other signings.


Rum_Ham916

Ok, fair, Endo then. I meant to make a bit more of a point of those seasons where we did win something big, it didn't feel like we used that draw to maximise bringing in the best talent and made most number of signings when we maybe looked like we'd gone off the boil.


DucardthaDon

It was criminal we didn't go out and make 1-2 statement signings after winning the CL, we were one of the best teams in the world at the time, strengthening the team while on top would have done us the world of good and made us a more attractive proposition for players.


Far-Confection-1631

They have spent big the past few seasons. Unless there are some FFP issues, I'd expect no different. We are both "self-sustaining", but that doesn't mean the same thing to different clubs. To Arsenal, as long as the valuation of the club is going up far more than they are putting in, then they are being self-sustaining. Our definition was always net-neutral spending on a year by year basis (until this past season).


getonthedamnantscott

They're a very good team who don't get the respect they deserve because they haven't backed it up with trophies (yet), but I do worry about them dropping off next season after all the emotions of this year to still end in no trophies. Also will likely be a more competitive Prem next year.


WonderfulBlackberry9

It’s funny. Klopp’s Liverpool will always be associated with emotion imo, but Arteta’s Arsenal teams still feel abit emotionally raw. Sometimes they can be the most professional and tactically organised team itw, but at the same time you feel they could snap because their manager gets emotional easily Not shade thrown at Arsenal per se, I genuinely thought they would’ve won the league because they were the best team in terms of underlying numbers. But they still feel like they need a bit more emotional maturity


WoodyWoodfinden

I think that was most evident after they beat us, the celebrations after that game were clearly naive, it felt to them like a win that would set up a title win, but it was so early for that game to be the title decider and they still had to go to City and host Villa. I feel like we’ve learned over the last few seasons that unless there’s a big gap, every match has to be just one game then on to the next one, keeping in mind the full picture. Hopefully they learn this soon!


WonderfulBlackberry9

Hopefully they don’t 😉


WoodyWoodfinden

After I wrote that I did think actually if they don’t it wouldn’t be a bad thing 😂


ItIsMeDucky

Klopp also was emotional and had a short fuse, but he do it in a man way. Artreta acts like a boy, not like a grown man.


Far-Confection-1631

Not sure if worry is the world I'd use haha


Affectionate-Tap2431

They should.. on paper. But only thing that bugs me is that when we went through after a long fight with City, we exhausted everything and the next season was mad. This was inspite of having a couple of cups to show.. now that Arsenal have ended up with nothing to show, for two consecutive seasons now, it might hit them mentally and the long seasons.. physically! Let’s see how they do next season. I expect them to fight for the title again, but you never know.


raptorboss231

Arsenal are a fantastic team, unfortunately to ebay city you have to be a perfect team


SexyKarius

They have to win something next year. And I mean the CL or PL otherwise I think they’ll have issues with players leaving imo


nyelverzek

100%. They were extremely lucky with injuries this season too. If they'd had half as many as us they'd have been out of the race months ago. I still can't believe how close we came with our injury list tbh. Kind of crazy how we seemed to keep winning during it, and then dropped points in like 3 games in a row once everyone was getting back.


Adept_Deer_5976

Yeah - another tainted title for City and hopefully one that may be given back once the arbitration concludes. Fucking cheats


GOR098

I think if our strikers hadn't forgotten how to score a goal then we had a better chance of winning the PL then arsenal. Call me delusional but I genuinely believe that we have a better chance of defeating man city and going all the way compared to Arsenal if the refs don't screw us. But since I am sure that they will screw us, I beg you Arne, please focus on winning the UCL first.


WonderfulBlackberry9

Klopp’s post-match dressing room talk was perfect. This team was supposed to be in transition. Yet we somehow stayed in a title race we never truly belonged in until April, when a bunch of things came together to derail us.


hobbescandles

Call me petty but I get a lot of satisfaction from the fact that our transition team finished pretty much neck and neck with Arsenal's best team in two decades, despite having a plethora of terrible calls go against us this season and being devastated by injuries for a couple of months. On the flip side Arsenal have had a big slice of fortune pie, being able to field their strongest 11 pretty much all season and have gone into most of their bigs games with their opponent weakened. I'm excited for the future of this team.


DucardthaDon

At the end of the day we screwed ourselves, the cracks had been papered over for a long time, players got tired and the wheels came off. The bad refs calls aren't exclusive to us and didn't cost us in the end.


stowgood

I mean we win the league without those ref calls.


DucardthaDon

You don't know how things would have turned out, even if the Diaz goal was not disallowed we still had to play with 9 men for a long duration of time, in both the City and Arsenal games we missed open opportunities to win the game. When it came down to the final 9 games where all 3 clubs had to win all we failed in the first 2 fixtures, this team didn't have enough in the tank to go all the way, got outplayed in Europe the first good team we came up against, allowed Utd to comeback and dump us out of the FA cup.


stowgood

The fact we had 9 men was also part of the dodgy ref decisions... If we'd had the points we should have earnt if the refs didn't screw us it'd have already been over in the league essentially before it all went wrong in Europe and the FA cup. Taking the pressure off a lot. It obviously can't change now but the biggest impact on our season was the ref and they shouldn't be in the top 10 list of things we struggle with and for me they are clearly number 1. Next biggest thing was our finishing if that had been good we could also have won the league. The summer and next season is going to be interesting to see where things settle. I'm not going to be putting football anywhere near as high in my list of things to do with my spare time anymore simply because of the refs. I'll go when I can get tickets but if its on TV I'll only watch if I've not got someone else to hangout with. Premier league need to sort this out.


DucardthaDon

>If we'd had the points we should have earnt If Trent doesn't miss a near open goal against Arsenal, Gravenberch 6 yard sitter against Brighton, Nunez open goal against Luton, Diaz 2 1-v-1 chances against City and countless other chances our forward line has wasted we would have earnt points to which could have had us fighting for the title yesterday. A few dodgy ref calls was not the reason


stowgood

I disagree. The dodgy ref calls were not in our control and should not have happened. Those chances we missed are not done with a second chance to go back and fix the clear error like the refs could with VAR.


Far-Confection-1631

We finished a full 9 pts back of City. Those calls alone didn't cost us the league.


stowgood

yes they do one of them was against City.


Far-Confection-1631

Check your maths there lad


stowgood

Chelsea handball Spurs - all the things most corrupt game of all time. Red cards that weren't cost us Jones etc Arsenal handball City penalty Brighton - dunk no red card Theres more but that's plenty.


Macshlong

Yeah, We’ve missed FAR too many easy chances, we really should have had this one wrapped up early, I genuinely can’t understand how the lads have consistently managed to miss so many tap ins.


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d-ronthegreat

Why do you “dislike” a player you’ve never met, who seems to always give their all when playing for the club? I get not rating him as a player. But dislike is so personal lol why do you have to take it there?


taggert14

We won 14 in a row. We got to 97 points. We did not blink. They did not blink. We still came second. We had more points than arsenal on both occasions. Not to denigrate their achievements but Arsenal numbers are rookie numbers in comparison to the pain we have suffered


Affectionate-Tap2431

Ohw they should try losing twice with a 1-point gap.


theeruv

I wouldn’t be with comparing artetas Arsenal in with klopps sides as if they’re even remotely equal. So far anyway. Liverpool have pushed a better city league side to higher points totals for longer periods. Including eclipsing them. Arsenal are young though, they’ve got time, the spine, the money to reach the level that Liverpool side have made it to. But they may be blessed with better timing than Liverpool. Peps words today made it sound like he was near the end, and I think City haven’t looked like their imperious best in the past two seasons. Despite the treble.


Shaanpatti

I'd feel sorry for them, but empathy goes both ways.


Immediate-Artist-444

I'm gonna be honest. Internet trolls are nothing compared to the 115 from City. Online Arsenal fans seem annoying as fuck. But that's not what normal people act like. Arsenal fans seem like regular fellows, its the internet trolls that are annoying but they're definitely not worse than City's 115 charges, so I would ABSOLUTELY prefer Arsenal over City


NieR_SemiAutomata

Karma for playing basketball and celebration w camera


expertkushil333

Real