if Alonso takes the Chelsea job after taking the Real job he’s maybe not that smart.

thirTEEN?!

Ao Tanaka is a great player

Marcus Rashford has won the league with Barcelona but not with Manchester United. obviously the first part of that is quite obvious right now but I nevertheless feel like this could become a quiz question in the future.

not to be wise after the fact (obvs I get the reasons to stick with a winning formula) but I’d have preferred us to use Kai in front of Eze, Odegaard, & Saka yesterday because I think it’s our best front four and I want us to get those players into a rhythm together ahead of PSG. hope we now do.

clearly he’s saying 51 here. perhaps in honour of Winston Churchill unseating Clement Atlee. a message to Keir Starmer?

Mosquera right back for the rest of the season then I guess? any chance @JurrienTimberlake?

That is a foul..clear cut

always said I like VAR.

the Battenberg Derby

please lads. please.

#WelcomeToArsenal #KylianINTheNameOf

what I’ve learned today is that I’m far less relaxed about All This than I thought I was yesterday.

Brentford the better side here, which is going to make the inevitable even more painful.

very funny that there is the possibility that Brentford will need to lose to Liverpool on the last day in order to qualify for the champignons league. I hope it happens.

the Michael Cox “I voted for no one in the FWA PotY award because the premier league is bad this year” is stupid on its own terms (ever heard the phrase best of a bad bunch?) but it is obviously even more stupid when you consider there are FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER English sides in all 3 UEFA finals.

I have an idea

interesting article in BBC Countryfile Magazine on Tottenham Hotspur fans

This year will be just the fourth European Cup/Champions League final between teams from two different capital cities — and the first since since 1971: 1962: Benfica v Real Madrid 1966: Real Madrid v Partizan Belgrade 1971: Ajax v Panathinaikos 2026: PSG v Arsenal

another classic graphic from the Fab Rom stable. why has the Eiffel Tower been bombed? nobody is sure.

this is good imo, takes some pressure off (me, personally—I doubt the players care). there’s no banter to be had in losing to PSG, but losing to Harry Kane had the potential to confuse Tottenham fans into thinking they were relevant.

why has Vincent Kompany dressed like an extra from Step Up 2: The Streets?

have Bayern Munich considered not conceding 6 goals?

ok and not to kink shame but why’s he wearing a pvc shirt here

for me, no—this is a much stronger team. that 2006 run was the last hurrah of a once great side in transition. the 2004 team that lost to Chelsea, however, would beat this current Arsenal team.

IT’S A GREAT DAY

they’ve got…Andrea Berta on the pitch. they think it’s all over. it is now.

petition for @arseblog.com to release the It’s A Great Day Song and get it to number 1 in the pop charts.

[Ian Wright voice] it’s a great day!

love seeing Max Dowman celebrating with the team. it’s like when the cool year 13s adopt a year 8 lad, sneak him into the pub and give him pints until he vomits. by rights you are a child and shouldn’t be here, but we’re all in on it now.

what a time to find out Big Thicc Gyokeres is Powered By Fucking™

I like Clarence Seedorf. he seems Arsenal adjacent.

hilarious graphic, thank you Fabrizio

penalty ✅ scabby rebound ✅ clean sheet at home ✅ fuck you ✅ bring yer dinner ✅

I’m not having fun

Saka, Lewis-Skelly, Ebere Eze, Declan Rice, David Raya: five beautiful Hale End Boys doing it for all of us.

beat West Ham, Burnley, Palace: win the league. you take that.

oh for god’s sake

we’re just not seeing Timber again this season are we?

guy who has only been managed by Boss Baby, playing at his second football club: getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this...

disappointing absence of this meme on the TL btw.

good result, enjoyable game. time will tell whether it was right to conserve energy or if we should have pressed on for more goals I guess.

look, how much of it is us being good and how much of it is Fulham having diarrhoea and/or no interest in the game I just don’t know, but that is the best half of football we’ve played in a long time.

Mikel Arteta has finally got his tactics right (Bukayo Saka playing soccer instead of being injured)

Sorry, that should stand. Ricci doesn’t have an off side.

Miles Lewis “Helter” Skelly in midfield, excited to see it.

doing my daily catastophization and looking at City’s fixtures. they’ve got both of Palace and Villa, who are in European semi finals and will have all focus on that. the timing is probably kind, particularly if Villa lose to Forest. but not if not.

literally impossible to do this without thinking too hard I’m afraid