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Dutch

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  1. Grilled pork chop with sautéed squash & zucchini. Not DAF
  2. Seems appropriate to revisit the greatest ad of the millennium.
  3. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6565385/2025/08/20/arsenal-eberechi-eze-transfer-tottenham-latest/
  4. Maybe related to the fact that he absolutely ran himself into the ground the past two seasons since there were so few attacking options? Kai looked absolutely spent the last matches he played before his hammy exploded. Must be bad (the whole season or large chuck) if they’re looking to add before the window closes.
  5. The shit stays the same, only the years change.
  6. As far as wins go, this the ultimate “fuck off” win: nick a goal against the run of play and the grind out a (probably undeserved on balance of the totality of the match) result. Given that wins at Old Trafford have been hard to come by for Arsenal (just our fourth since 2000)…Three points and thank you very much and fuck off manure. That said.. The narrative would be different had this exact match been played in April. But it wasn’t, and we’d all hope to see more fluidity and cohesion at the start of a season. The defending and goalkeeping were stellar, the attack was disjointed, the midfield largely anonymous. Arteta and the lads have two weeks to figure something out, because this performance gets us shredded at Anfield.
  7. Pretty? Not always. Three points? Yes.
  8. Lets. Fucking. Go.
  9. Don’t worry; Howard Webb will tell us on Monday how Taylor didn’t want to ruin the game or spoil the spectacle or some shit.
  10. Dutch

    The Wire

    There is a main character: The city of “Bawldamer,” and that is one of the (many) reasons why the series is so great.
  11. We all know exactly how this will go: Ben White farts in the general direction of an opposing player on an Arsenal set piece? Goal disallowed, red card, Howard Webb praises Michael Oliver afterward. Gabi XL heads clear? Penalty, DGSO, red card, Howard Webb praises [the fuckstick who sent Rice off v Wolves, don’t remember his name] afterward. Joelinton or Bruno tackle two Arsenal players to allow a gap for a set piece goal? Nah mate. Just a try-hard lad trying hard. Nothing to see here. Because that is EXACTLY how this will go.
  12. Looks like we know the 2025-26 “New Rule That Will Only Be Applied to Arsenal.” Fuck PGMOL. https://www.thetimes.com/article/c47fc99d-ea09-43f6-8440-7553fed36d77?shareToken=6cba35f37b355328f6fd5e74bb366671
  13. These are all lulz. Well done, VB
  14. Football moves fast. Zinny arrived a multiple-time PL champion and unquestionably elevated our level of play in 22-23. Electric in the inverted LB role and a big part of us taking 50 points before that WC break. Other teams figured out how to play against us, though, and exploit his proclivity to drift into attacking areas and his limitations as a defender. Then he has some injuries in 23-24, Kiwior fills in well for him as we finish 16-1-1, and then last season MLS explodes on the scene. He’s still only 28 and Ukraine captain. If he wants to move on for regular first-XI football, especially ahead of a World Cup, I would not blame him at all and would wish nothing him but the best.
  15. Zubamendi is going to be a massive player for us. Yes, it was just a friendly and no, he will rarely be gifted that much space in a PL match (seriously there’s like no opponent within 10 yards of him), but this first-time cross swung directly onto Gyökeres’ head… lots more of that please.
  16. Breffiss sammich. Black coffee.
  17. Yup. The top of the table is about fine margins, and the ability to find that extra handful of goals makes the difference. Both Liverpool and Arsenal lost five PL matches last year. The difference? We drew 14 to your nine (I realize some of those came after yall clinched, but still. Y’all found ways to win and not draw when the League race was still going). Arteta needs to add a curve and a change to his arsenal (pun intended), because everyone’s sitting on our fastball. And we’ve lost a foot or so on that “good ol #1.” What struck me from the Liverpool matches I did happen last year was the directness. It seemed there were always two or more guys making runs to get in behind, incisive passes into those runners, the ball always moving forward, never behind and rarely sideways, etc. Need a bit of that chaos.
  18. If these last two friendlies are anything to go by (we lit up preseason in 2022, btw), we’re in for a frustrating season. We play the same damn way every match and everyone knows it: Martinelli or Trossard totally isolated on the left because the LB inverts, passity-pass-pass around the box without incision, and then pray Saka does something magical. Arteta has needed a plan b for a while now, because everyone’s figured out how to play against us. At least we have a soft open to the season, no massive fixtures in the first seven. /s
  19. Many of those already mentioned, but I didn’t see Rocky mentioned, the original. That one’s always a stop-down for me. Full Metal Jacket and Step Bothers, too.
  20. Grilled chee has gotta be high up the comfort food rankings. Sometimes one just checks all the boxes.
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