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Derka

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  1. the nba playoffs is always as good as the regular season is bad/interminable. it’s just a totally different game.
  2. holy shit i turned it off with like 2:30 left and just now got an update on my phone. unbelievable.
  3. you made the accusation, it’s your job to back it up and prove it. you rolled your eyes at the idea that arsenal has had a particularly bad injury run this year. back that up with something substantive. show me another team that’s dealt with this:
  4. also, defining success, or a coach’s job being “impressive” based solely on winning trophies is the dumbest possible way to support a football club. just be a madrid, bayern, and psg fan and call it a day if that’s how you feel. this isn’t binary; this isn’t “win a trophy and that’s impressive (see: this terrible tottenham team/season), or don’t win a trophy and you suck”. that’s such a fanatical, childish way to look at it. the transformation that those of us who’ve actually been paying attention to arsenal have seen has been amazing. the stability and competitiveness of the club is night and day from what it was when arteta arrived- night and day. he got rid of all the deadwood and terrible contracts, he’s recruited and signed a ton of young talent who are still entering their primes, and he has the club set up to be competitive for major trophies for years to come. we’ve gone from old and terrible david luiz and sokratis at the back to young and burgeoning saliba and gabriel, for example. and he’s had arsenal playing better and advancing farther than 95% of the league without having any support from the board to buy the strikers he’s wanted (which is about to change now that we’ve dropped edu for andrea berta). that’s impressive. if you’re only impressed by trophies then ghats certainly your prerogative, but it’s dumb. it means you’re more impressed by ange and tottenham than arsenal and arteta. just a painfully stupid way to assess “impressive”. TIL that UT Football has had exactly 4 impressive teams. damn.
  5. quote me literally any example of another epl team having an injury record like arsenal did this season. we literally have been playing without a striker for months.
  6. who here is seeking sympathy? arsenal had more injuries + more severe injuries than any other team in the league, plus a myriad of other factors working against mikel arteta, and yet he still has his side in second place, with a deeper champions league run than any other team. we’re talking about whether or not that qualifies as impressive. “not impressed” says fans of shittier teams facing way less adversity. lol ok.
  7. when arteta took over this club we were in a place where playing against the likes of liverpool, city, chelsea, and united meant losing 8-2, 6-1, or 4-0 on a regular basis. now, none of those teams have beaten us in the premier league in years. and that’s despite not having any goal scorers and while dealing with more injuries than any other team in the league: saying that there’s nothing impressive about reaching the CL semifinals while thrashing real madrid and finishing 2nd in the epl despite all of that adversity is just plain stupid.
  8. love ange. my favorite epl manager (aside from arteta, obviously).
  9. i don’t live at home with my parents, my dad abandoned us years ago. shows what you know.
  10. that’s black bruce lee there. 😳
  11. feels like bringing in gyorkores and rodrygo would definitely go a long way towards turning some of those draws into victories. our defense is the best in the league. we simply still need the striker/goal threat we’ve been needing for years. let’s get it done.
  12. question: did netflix say, “we just gotta have a tom segura long-form sketch comedy show, here’s a bunch of money tom, please make this show”, or, did segura want to have his own show, and threw a bunch of his own money into it and pitched it to netflix?
  13. gillie is 100% correct (except for the part where embiid is the best player in the world)-
  14. this idiot @Firemans4Horn has been ON ONE lately. just in here talking shit for no reason, and then not even backing it up. just yapping and stating shit for nothing. what a loser. from the moment he told me that liverpool had actually suffered more/worse injuries this season than arsenal (just straight up wrong, and by a mile at that), and that there was nothing impressive about arteta guiding us to the CL semifinals and second place despite literally not having a striker (plus the aforementioned, unparalleled injury crisis), i said, “ok, this guy’s got his head so far up liverpool’s ass he’s become the least objective poster here.” just stirring shit up and adding nothing of value. yeah he’s the man.
  15. again, i invite you to cite literally anything to back this up. i’m particularly interested in watching you try and do this considering that my views are diametrically opposed to those of AFTV. stop repeating yourself, and cite something specific.
  16. holy shit, stop it. ^^^^ there’s no victim here? this is a neutral situation? take your phony moral superiority somewhere else, you are the absolute worst when it comes to discussing anything with social nuance.
  17. lmao, y’all think incels came up with that? jesus christ this board is whiter than jimmer fridette’s socks: incels: “no women want me because they’re all evil spawn of satan who are only attracted to gigachads, i’m so lonely i think ill kill my self.” e-40: “don’t save that ho.” yeah that’s some real incel shit there. you two nailed it. 🙄
  18. arenas: queen going no.2 to SA:
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