https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/ar ... 5py534dvlo
BBC lead headline is asking whether our celebrations were too much. Yep, that sounds 'nothing but positive'

Sky sports decide the best person to interview about Arsenal reaching the Champions league Final is the biggest Arsenal hater in the country Jamie O'Hara - who literally only stays relevant by talking about how much he hates Arsenal

ESPN have a host post match asking Jurgen Klinsmann how much he wants to punch Arteta in the face, and other pundits saying they'd want to assault Arteta if they were playing

Talksport are talking about over celebrating instead of focusing on the win.

He was rambling towards the end of it because he knew he had put his own foot into his stupid mouth. Very Trump-like

O'Hara, Robson, Klinsmann etc - absolutely pathetic morons

Funny how these biased morons have no issue with team and managers they like doing certain things, however it's different when it's Arsenal

Celebrating a goal or a win? Unacceptable if it's Arsenal.

Manager getting animated on the touchline? Fine for Ferguson, Klopp or Mourinho - not allowed for an Arsenal manager.

It's just embarrassing.

What's interesting now is we're seeing some very sensible decent pundits like Shearer/Rooney be very congratulatory and positive about Arsenal - while we're seeing a few same old morons go on their Arsenal hating bandwagon.

Ultimately it just shows them up for the sad human beings they are.

https://x.com/jeppedabjork/status/20520 ... deo/1?s=46

PSG celebrating getting to the CL final last year by beating us in the semi-final. Fireworks, group runs to the fans, joyous scenes.

I don’t recall anyone, anyone suggesting they over celebrated.

I was lucky enough to be at the match last night. What a fantastic evening. So happy for Arteta, the team and of course the supporters to have reached the final.

I turned off Talkspite this morning as Gabby ‘thickas2planks’ Lahore was moaning about the fireworks at the end of the match. I just thought we’ve reached our first CL final in 20 yrs on a brilliant night, why would I want to sully it in the company of people who’s only objective is to be negative and talk $hite about a truly uplifting and joyous evening?

Looking forward to see which side, PSG or Bayern over celebrates their semi win progressing into the final tonight. Should be a media blitz about how said winner got too excited as they hadn't won the CL final yet.

https://x.com/EGTVEgal/status/205205466 ... deo/1?s=46

Is the criticism because Ireland is mostly Man U and Liverpool fans (if they support an English team) so they play to the hate watching audience?

The knots Cunningham twists himself in to try to make his point. ‘I’m not being blinded by the facts!’ Haha

The question I always return to is why are these people willing to die on a hill that they really have no skin in the game for? They aren’t historic Arsenal haters, but their opinions are so strongly negative, not just a throw away comment, they cannot bring themselves to say anything positive and are willing to look like a complete fool for this. What have we done to them? Psychologists need to study it

https://x.com/skysportsnews/status/2052 ... -j6VVZXEoA

Hasselbaink joins the Celebration Police force.

Surely these people are aware of the ridicule and abuse they will receive for stuff like this, does the clicks it generates make the ridicule and abuse worth it?

I don’t really follow Irish media coverage but I have seen that guy on the left of the three pundits. He’s the guy who believes the Brentford goalie (Irish) is the best in the world and the Brentford and Ipswich managers (Irish) should be Manager of the Year in their respective leagues.

Fold into that mix that most of Ireland is Man U or Liverpool* - both of whose main challenger over the last generation has been each other or the Arse - it’s not difficult to join the dots.

Bless ‘em all.

Edit - * fair smattering of Everton too

Nothing would amuse me more right now than Bayern v PSG to be a stinker of a game, no shots on target by either team, tight, tense and decided by a scruffy own goal for either side. The winners celebrate wildly!

Oh yeah that'll be quite a sobering event on the 31st May. Given if Arsenal over celebrate their winning the final on the 30th. The flight back from Budapest will be in party mode dusk to dawn.

https://x.com/lxomessismofcb/status/205 ... -j6VVZXEoA

Only 1:35 of ball in play during the 5 mins added last night. We managed it brilliantly. I hate it when teams do this to us, but it’s more on the ref to add time appropriately not on your opponent to not push the limit of what they can get away with. Also the clock doesn’t stop for every ball out of play.
It shows that anything you can do to slow the game down and waste time completely works with pretty much every official

Duffer and Given were laughing at him. I don't think Cunningham is all that as a commentator. The stats at the end about our number of goals conceded fairly cut the ground from under him. And yes Ireland is swamped with manure and Liverfool supporters.

Took 4 minutes to wipe that scenario out.

When Saliba and Gabriel are on the pitch in the CL Arsenal haven’t conceded an open play goal for 25 months

So far it looks like it will be PSG in the final, Bayern need 2 goals to just get level.

People quickly forget because we lost both games actually how close we were to PSG last year in the semis. They had 3 good finishes and a number of ridiculous saves from Donnarumma. Our xG was over 4.5 across both legs which was about double PSG’s xG. We created the better chances. PSG’s team is virtually the same, gk has changed and Hakimi may be out. Our team will likely be 4-6 players different.

I definitely think we can beat them and we can hurt them in open play, and I’d 100% be firing up the set piece machine. Other than their CB I’m not sure I see much aerial threat of aggression.

We can definitely beat PSG.
It's a one off game and we beat them last season.
The problem is they have individual killers in the Georgian beginning with K.
Doue and Dembele plus the class act of Vitinha.
If we are to beat them it has to be a solid team united effort where everyone is disciplined and does their job.
We may need to keep it tight and frustrate them a bit

Bayern have been utterly rubbish.

PSG over celebrating a CL final against Arsenal.

We got criticised in some quarters for over celebrating...
Yet look at psg tonight.
Seriously some people need to *%^@ right off.
Why would you not celebrate getting to a champions league final after 20 years???

Why the long face, ‘Arry?

Exactly David. Why wouldn't anybody be happy about getting to a final? Expect a huge celebration if Arsenal win the league. No holding back.

These people are sour grapes

They are slight favourites at the moment. But if we can keep up our current momentum and don't face any major injury setback, I think it will be close to a 50-50 final. A classic boxer vs brawler context.

I posted last week when Rich put up a clip of Kenny Cunningham. The fella is a bit of a nut. He's one of those really intense, over-serious guys.

For years, Ireland's tv punditry was streets ahead of the UK. John Giles, Liam Brady and Eamon Dunphy were a great mix back in the day. They had no agendas and had the freedom to speak honestly while their counterparts on Sky were hyping the shite out of everything. Sadly, it has gone down the populist, clichéd route now, although Brian Kerr is still worth listening to. Didi Hamann is good too even if he occasionally goes a bit off the wall.

There is no anti-Arsenal agenda here though. In fact, most people I know want Arsenal to win the league because they are fed up of City and Pep.

You are right about Everton....for my generation.

Over celebrating is obviously not their issue, it’s the team doing it.
People have become used to two things:
1) City winning virtually everything which can be written off and excused by pointing at the money
2) Arsenal being no hopers, a laughing stock, zero threat.
When we are doing well it puts (or should put) far more scrutiny on their own clubs poor performance.

We/Arteta have built the club back up from the absolute pits. People will talk about the finances involved but it’s completely disingenuous when you add in wages/total spend, and consider how many new players we had to buy, in Arteta’s time we average I think under £30m per signing.

It is jealously of the highest order. The goalposts are continually shifted to downplay what we’re doing, hence all the talk this season about boring football and set-pieces.

I have never in my life seen such a collective negative reaction to a team as I have this season to us. Rival fans will always do it, fans are mostly irrational but supposed neutral commentators and pundits have gone way too far. I’m desperate for us to win both and I hope every Arsenal fan rams it back down their throat if we do

Pep in his first 3 seasons of CL football with City went last 16, QF, QF….this is off the back of being a multiple CL winner and having years of experience in the competition.

Arteta’s first 3 CL seasons with Arsenal and his entire career he’s gone QF, SF, Final(so far)

This is a hard competition

Telegraph Guardian Independent all praising us and Arleta. The BBC has several headline all were positive bar that one. Talksport had several people on including Jordan and Murphy were effusive in their praise.

Why dignify such people by reacting? Every team celebrates getting to a final.

The club need to sort out the new contract for Arteta. Hopefully it can get sorted in the summer when there is more time.

we’re in the champions league final, still can’t believe it.

You’re missing the point. I’ve never said there aren’t positive articles. But you said the morning after our game you’d seen nothing but positivity towards us in the media. I gave at least 4-5 examples from some pretty big media outlets where the focus was not on us reaching the final and was on over celebrating, our boring style, Arteta antics on the sideline etc.

I’m not asking for wall to wall 100% positivity, but I do think it is unfair for the lead story and focus to not be a positive one when Arsenal get to the CL final. And I think this season I’ve proven countless time over that other big clubs achieving the same as we have so far this season would receive overwhelmingly positive reaction and any negativity would be left to jealous rival fans alone.

yep, it's a great feeling, I like Tim's take on Arseblog:

"We still don’t know our fate this season, whether we win two, one or zero major trophies. What I do know is that nights like this are to be enjoyed and squeezed and rung dry of every nourishing drop. They don’t happen often but, when they do, you talk about them and remember them for years to come. Nights like this sustain you."

I agree with him, it's about savouring the best moments, you can win everything but never enjoy it, and vice versa. Suck up the great feelings.

For a number of logistical and family reasons, I can't go to the Final. Annoyingly, because of my away credits and CL attendance, I have just got my invitation to register to purchase two tickets via Window 1. I get two further chances through the Window 2 ballot. The ticketing is all handled by UEFA so to purchase my allocation of tickets, I need to download the UEFA App and register. As soon as I do that, the tickets are locked to my phone. I can transfer the tickets I don't need but only once I've used my phone to get in. My phone has to be at the ground. Of course, my extended family and circle of close mates are all desperate to go but I can't see a way around it. It's a clever anti-tout system and ordinarily, I'd be full of praise but on this occasion, I'd love to be able to share the tickets around within my gooner-mad bubble.

https://x.com/gffn/status/2052312050362 ... -j6VVZXEoA

Weird tactic from PSG, they’ve done this from kick offs as well, purposely kicking away possession to squeeze in the opposition.

It's a pity that you can't go, let alone transfer the tickets. You would have thought that a supporter with your level of attendance could be afforded some flexibility. Obviously, it is good that they are trying to keep tickets away from touts, and I suppose some supporters wouldn't be as honest or generous as yourself, DHD, but it can’t be too difficult to have an allocation system with flexibility for our best supporters. There will be thousands there on corporate junkets.

But then over on ESPN you've got presenter Dan Thomas stating he would have liked punching Arteta in the face. All due to finding it abhorrent that Arteta leaves his technical area, runs up/down the sideline, gesturing and shouting instructions to his players.

Sour grapes and envious indeed. But later on air Thomas apologised for his Arteta comments.