Not over till the fat lady sings............

89 minutes at 1-0 Son went through 1v1, he’s one of the best 1v1 finishers in the league, scored with his eyes shut from the position he was in and he hit it straight at the GK. That was the title.

It’s foolish to ‘blame’ Spurs, they’ve done much better than I thought they would v City tonight, just as Man U did v us at the weekend. Spurs didn’t deny us the title, they had the chance to do that a couple of weeks ago and were 3-0 down to us at half time.

There’s still a chance of course but it looks likely another 2nd placed finish behind a club with 115 so far unanswered charges for breaking the Prem rules

Strangely, it still feels like we have a chance. Upsets do happen in football!

So painful missing out....
Son with a great chance to level it before city's second.
It's over now but I'm so proud of my team for taking it to the last game.
Phenomenal run since we returned from Dubai but not beating villa has cost us.
We have been brilliant and in another season we would win the league.
So gutted but so so proud we pushed them to the very end.
No bottlers here!

As if they were ever capable of - much less than able to - get a result.

Surrender monkeys.

Villa are in the Champions League. Many Spurs fans celebrating the result that meant they couldn’t get champions league.

I don’t blame spurs fans for not wanting us to win the title, but there should really be some quiet shame on wanting that result. ie you might be pleased but you know you’d embarrass yourself if you tried to celebrate it too hard or rub Arsenal’s nose in it

Strange that their fans thought they had some influence on it, suggesting they’ll play badly to let City win. City were always more than capable of beating Spurs no matter how well Spurs played. City were the only ones who could have beaten themselves tonight and they nearly did with that error for Son’s chance

Keane said something to the effect once that you can always count on Spurs to let you down. My guess is he was talking about NLDs when they were vying for a title run against us.

In any event, City are a juggernaut. The media talks about our big score lines but in the run in City have been unstoppable. They've not given up many goals at all. Their defense is better than ours recently. No shame in losing to them. I also think the media has expected more of us than Liverpool when they were City's main contenders. They were seen as over matched by City, underdogs, who were putting up a strong fight. With us, we bottled it.

Tottenham fans will cheer the score line. They will take some pride in they had their chances, and didn't lose by a cricket score. But in the end denied us a title.

Anyway, I have a feeling next season we are going to finally do it. This season has told the players they can. For three consecutive games in all competitions against City we not only haven't lost but only conceded 1 goal and that was last summer. We will build on that. Just like 2004 was a result of disappointment from 2003.

City’s last 5 games they’ve conceded once but conceded an xG of 4.5. Possibly some very good gk-ing bailing them out of opponents are missing some big chances the average footballer would score. Clinging to any kind of hope that if they give up those same chances v West Ham that Bowen sticks them away

Very proud of my team. Proper team. Proper club.

Million miles from those loser mongrels down the road. Never were. Never will be.

Rejoice in your victory loss, sad little cowsons.

City play West Ham who have lost 3 of their last 5 games. Everton has been playing well, they haven't lost in last 5 games so we'd have to fight anyway had Spurs drawn.

Anyway, I still think Timber will be huge for us and make us much better. And if we get a holding midfielder who is great on the ball, freeing Rice to venture forward a bit more it will move us up to a higher level.

Actually, its rub of the green. If Son had scored ...

Not saying they are lucky, but City do seem to have the Gods on their side this season, in that they have had remarkably little bad luck in the league in 2024 in games they haven't been so dominant ... eg this one, the one against Liverpool and the one against Palace.

Hopefully the gods will realise that they are being ridiculous and redress the balance by inflicting some freakish bad luck on them for a change. We're not asking much, just a draw.

Or them hitting the post 20 times and failing to score.
Or Ederson chucking it into his own net.
Or some clodhopping defender who has never scored for WH scoring a Worldy from 40 yards.
Or anything really, not fussy.
Just a bit of *(&^ing luck please!

Pretty pathetic really. They can't win anything so their only joy is putting a stick in our spokes.

Not for me Decaf. West Ham will have their boardies and sun tan lotion on by now.

https://sport.optus.com.au/news/all/os7 ... -tottenham

Ange is pretty pissed off with something at Spurs. Maybe it’s the whole clubs attitude to this game. He is not beyond walking away from a contract if people give him the sh/tz. Maybe he’s told them what he wants in the transfer window and they are happy with the squad but given he talks about the last 48 hours I suspect it’s about the clubs attitude that they are happy to lose to City. Small club mentality with a chip on their shoulder will not sit well with Ange. He demands absolute dedication and to win every game.

I will be shocked if City don’t win by 4.

It’s over. Glad I missed the game.

Don’t for a second think West Ham will get a result againest city. They will get smashed to pieces. Don’t give it one iota of hope honestly. Theres something grotesque and thoroughly boring about city’s dominance now.

Sunday will be a day of gratitude to say thanks to the lads for an incredible effort this season. In any other year they would be title winners and certainly in a footballing sense are comparable and even better to other sides we’ve had that won the league.

For me our player of the season was Declan Rice who brought more control to our game however it’s testament that there could be several contenders Saliba, Gabriel,Ødegaard or Saka. I hope they keep the core together and make tough decisions on the players on the fringes to allow us to strengthen and re enforce and come at this again. Most important thing is the retention of the manager with a new contract who has unquestionably been responsible for Arsenals resurgence.

Ah well, victory through harmony

His comments were very interesting, talking about the last 48 hours revealing a lot and the foundations of the club are not as strong as he thought. Spurs fans with their attitude to this game may have done more damage than they could imagine. The best manager they’ve had in years is having second thoughts. And I do rank Ange as their best manager certainly since Poch, he wants to be there has the ambition to be the best, wants to get rid of the old cliches, and if we’re honest he had them playing some football at the start of the season which had me a little bit worried. Now it seems like he’s saying similar sorts of things as Jose and Conte - almost blaming the irreversible culture of the club as a barrier to him trying to move the club forward

Give the absolutely huge advantages City has over us for them to be a 1v1 Son kick from potentially losing the title is cutting it far too fine for them.

It’s interesting that in many of their title races many fans of the other big 6 clubs prefer City to win it that the other team. I do if Arsenal aren’t in with a shout. There is total apathy to City winning it and I do think that grates with Pep in particular. If City win it you write it off as cheating, of course ‘they’ win it as they should every year. If your rival wins it then suddenly the spotlight is turned on to your own club, if they could do it why can’t we, and add in the fact that no one knows a City fan over the age of 12 but we know loads of Liverpool, Man U, Chelsea fans, you simply don’t have any rivalry with City or their fans.

Btw that was the first Conte moment for Postecoglou. He’s not a happy bunny.

Gone by Christmas

Come on WHU!

going to be a day of getting sent stuff like this

https://x.com/FutOffsides/status/1790482552441987211

I'm not getting too worked up about this but there was a distinct lack of chat or clarity on the potential offside of De Bruyne for City's crucial opening goal. I haven't seen the actual VAR check lines on this so we can ignore whatever lines some nerd on twitter has drawn but the still image shows it is very, very close so it is strange not to have a bit more narrative, discussion and explanation around it

If you are not onboard Ange wants you out. Arteta was given permission and the money to allow this to happen at Arsenal. Look at our turnover of players: even ones who were virtually paid to leave. I doubt Spurs have an Edu to facilitate such a change. They are in effect on year one and we are at the end of year 4. Make no mistake when he gets upset he will walk away if the responses are not reasonable . Just like he did with Australia. Some defining moments coming up for Spurs.