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me on the way home from the conti cup final: wow that game really zapped me, i might just pass out as soon as i get home

me wide awake at 1 am: 🎵 stinastinastinastinastina blacksteeeniuuuuuus 🎵

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if i have to go to wolverhampton for this team, they'd better win the bloody trophy

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barcelona are playing like arsenal so i can only assume the reverse will be true too 🙏

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roses are red london is too stina's gonna put 4 goals past you

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good news: i've been channeling all my rage from yesterday's game into writing a chapter of the leila fic

bad news: it's not the next chapter

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me at the emirates next weekend:

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at least now we're out of the fa cup we can concentrate on all those other competitions that we've definitely got a chance of winning...

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being family fc is lovely but this is competitive sport, you don’t win games with group hugs and a pretty kit. the entire team, jonas included, need to look at themselves and realise that they’re never going to win trophies if they don’t put a bit more fucking effort in

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i'm so close to being done with this team, week after week they play like absolute shit and only start to play with a bit of urgency when they're still losing in stoppage time, really does feel like a change in management is needed because the talent is there but the tactics are not

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She’s one of our on her own

😭

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once again i can count the number of arsenal players who've had a good game on a single finger (it's leah, again)

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oh pals i am ✨nervous✨

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there was a lot of things that were awful today, the mindset first of all, Arsenal is one of the most inconsistent clubs ever, if you are a top class club you can’t afford this kind of performance, especially if you want to fucking improve and have some concrete goals like winning the league, if we stick with this mindset, we are lost.

there are also some other evident problems, like poor players, and I will always stick to my opinion that Jonas is not a good manager, such poor playing choices, we can’t go on like this, it’s really embarrassing.

+the evident refereeing problems, it’s ridiculous that at this level we can’t have some fucking decent referees

overall, it’s an huge amount of shit.

ultimately if the reffing had been at least partially competent we would’ve won the game but that doesn’t change the fact that every game we play is such a mediocre performance from 90% of the players on the pitch, it always seems to be 1-2 players having a moment of magic that wins us games not the overall team performance and that’s why our GD is so shit

i’ve been giving jonas the benefit of the doubt because the pool of available managers who are up to standard is so small if he goes i don’t know who they get in who would be any better but you’ve gotta start questioning him. he’s clearly an incredible people manager, that’s why the team vibes are good and all the players love the club and he’s shown he’s got good football intelligence when he does punditry too but the style of play and lack of an arsenal identity on the pitch is 100% down to him. he needs to be doing more in training during the week to give them a winning mentality and needs to be better in choosing the team and subs so they’re all fighting to show how good they can be. there’s just too much complacency from the starting xi and not enough hunger from the subs who come on to prove themselves. for me that’s the difference between jonas and emma hayes and ultimately the only reason chelsea win everything, not because there’s a massive difference in quality of the players in both sides

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being family fc is lovely but this is competitive sport, you don’t win games with group hugs and a pretty kit. the entire team, jonas included, need to look at themselves and realise that they’re never going to win trophies if they don’t put a bit more fucking effort in

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current mood:

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what winds me up the most about arsenal is the casual style of play, never any intensity, just leisurely passing the ball around then making a stupid decision when they eventually get the ball into the box. was exactly the same in the spurs game, even games we won like liverpool last week there was no hunger to win from any of them