Oh Martinez
Bless him!!!
He is in tears
Making me nearly cry

Martinez emotional at the end interviewer asking him about his family. Love this guy.

It’s a shame these players can’t lift that cup in front of the fans.

Fantastic.

Well done.

After that season, and considering the teams involved in the semis, that is a fantastic achievement. Not to be underestimated.

Stupid cup trying to get Aubameyang sent off

I actually enjoyed the fact that all the squad plus helpers got into the trophy photo

3 bad injuries and a soft sending off.

Oh dear. What a pity. How sad.

Only 3 shots on target all game from both teams. Chelsea had all their 3 inside the opening 10 mins. They will moan about injuries and the red card but quite simply Chelsea did not do enough to win that game.

Congratulations Arsenal!
Well done Arteta!
Fantastic job, Captain Aubameyang !
Salute you all in the team!

This was a first rate team effort.

This is such a boost for the rebuild.
FA Cup prize money
Quarter-Final winners - £720,000
Semi-Final winners - £1,800,000
Final winners - £3,600,000

All helps along with the win, Europa which could be a help attracting players along with the money from that. This is what it is, we've got a long way to go, but this is such a bonus.

Holy *%^@. How this horrible, seven year long nightmare of a season ended with a trophy I'll never understand.

Huge credit to Arteta and the team. I guess all that's left is to just take whatever transfer funds we have and give it all to Aubameyang. What a player.

FA Cup winners again. *%^@*** brilliant!

What a gutsy performance.

Everyone gets a 10 for effort.

As has been the case more recently, we look like an organised team.

Great win. Now need to somehow go back to sleep.

If you want the cherry on top of the FA Cup final cake, our win demotes Spurs from automatically starting the europa league in the groups stages and makes them have to play a few europa league qualifiers - no doubt in some far flung land - all due to start in about 6 weeks time for them.

Luiz bossed Giroud today. Didn’t let him get in to he game at all.

First half Arteta’s tactics were spot on. Balls over the top again. It is a tactic a lot of Arsenal fans have been crying out for for a few years with our quick strikers or simply a way to avoid a high press.

This is the start of the rebuild. I have the faith in Arteta and his ideas, detail, innovation, enthusiasm and his ‘non negotiables’. Start the squad churn now, Arteta will have learnt so much about his players in t TG he last half a season. Let’s see what he can do with players he wants rather than ones he had to take.

Hi socrates. You’re right, but risking the pedantry of John for using everyday language I would give Ceballos 11 out of 10 today. For creativity he may not be a match for Brady, Bergkamp, Hudson or Pires. But for work rate he’s magnificent and we need that as well as his decent level of creativity. I hope we keep him.

Danny Murphy does get some things right. Even after Aubameyang was declared the official man of the match, he said Ceballos was the best player on the pitch today.

How awful for them!!!
Bloody chavs
Last year europa final they pummeled us so this is extra sweet.
Pulisic proper enjoyed that goal and I felt sick and listless but boy did we come back.
It was beautiful to watch.
We really needed this trophy

Well done to Mikel and the lads. That is one of the most satisfying FA Cup wins of my life. Alright they had injuries and a red but no mistake we deserved to win today. Apart from the first ten minutes we were much the better team. Incidentally I wish Pépé’s strike would’ve counted...beautiful finish.We should keep Holding and just play him in Cup Finals!!
Fourteenth FA Cup, we get in Europe and bump Spurs to the qualifiers....a highly agreeable Saturday here in Philadelphia.
Sorry for the fans who couldn’t witness this tremendous victory live.
Well done Arsenal. Love you to bits.
By the way Bernard is this the first AFC final you’ve missed? Sorry if it is but still a great day for all Gooners
Bit early here but I think its beer o clock!!

Brilliant news Rich.

Lets hope they get Sporting Mongolia

Just read their first game is in 19 days...that right? If so Jose will be pleased!

Eddie Howe has left Bournemouth by mutual consent.

In other news, Gunners win FAC 14 times. Wonderful win for ex Arsenal player and now Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta right out of the gate. Congrats and may there be more trophies. So stuff it Stan.

Agreed, he's also our best goal celebrator, every time we score he looks like he's just won the World Cup. That, and the effort he puts into every game under Arteta, shows he really loves playing for Arsenal. We need those kind of players going forward.

@charles_watts on Twitter:

“Mikel Arteta has been in charge of Arsenal for eight months and has won the same amount of major trophies Spurs have in 21 years.”

Where to start

Great performance well done lads. Woke up this morning and felt we were going to win. Don’t know why but just did

Tierneys assist for the Aubameyang penalty. That long ball down the left channel over the top is such a valuable weapon. My thoughts go out to Gaz can somebody please set up a go fund me page or something

Martinez interview after the game, touched me . He’d been through it all and the moment recognition arriving was too much. Bless him he’s been terrific.

Ian Wright is a bonafide legend. The players interviews saying he was screaming at them stuff like “man on” and “tackle tackle” . He’s so funny I love anything he appears on.

Likewise if you watched the BBC coverage did you see how gutted Ashley Cole was when we scored ? What a *%^@. No mixed allegiances there.

The hope we had after the Burnley game, a lifetime ago, was sky high. Then he seemed lost really and not the best attitude. Arteta is starting to hone that talent in a really useful way for the team and, Aubameyang’s world class shoulder drop and dink for number 2 notwithstanding, he was man of the match.

If Real, who are fundraising, want less than 25M, you’re biting their hand off. I can’t think they‘d want him back, there’s interest from other Spanish clubs though - Sociedad I think.

Special mention to Pépé as well, this is what we paid for. Unlucky to not get a goal today, but he was a nightmare for Chelsea all game. Top performance.

Lots of excellent performances today from the players, but for me the biggest credit has to go to the boss. What Arteta has managed to achieve in half a season, split by the Covid break, is nothing short of astonishing.
We now have a team that has tactical awareness, patience, resilience and togetherness. To repeat what Arteta and the team achieved against City in the semi is testament to the manager, who is looking like the real deal. The board have to back him - if they don't it will be a disgrace of epic proportions.

Yes Arteta deserves credit

We just don't need the ball anymore. It took us years to learn that

Might be strange to say but I think Aubameyang is actually under rated. His goals in the semi and the final will make people realise how important and special he is.
There are only 5 players who have scored 20 or more goals in the last 5 seasons. Messi, Ronaldo, Lewandowski and Aubameyang.

Obviously he isn’t going to be mentioned in the same breath as messi and Ronaldo - no one can be, but in terms of goal scoring he’s ahead of all the rest and I don’t think that is where people see him in football but he should be.

We have to do everything to keep him

What does the board backing him look like I wonder? Does it boil down to money ‘made’ available?

We can certainly do better than 8th but Chelsea have added Werner Ziyech and shortly Kai Haverts. We can improve but the other clubs we’re competing with will improve more arguably squad wise. Top four is still a big ask, and is the Pépé purchase the exception or the rule? Would be interesting to read Swiss Ramble or someone on finances ok what we have to spend because even though FFP seems dead in the water I don’t think Arsenal will exceed it.

Anyway, apologies because *%^@ it we just won the Cup!!!

To be fair to Cole he is a current Chelsea employee, I think he coaches the youth teams.

So Spurs now have 3 extra games to play just to get into an EL group stage. A second qualifier on Sept 17, if that works out, a third round on Sept 24, then a play-off Oct 1. All first leg played behind closed doors.

The qualifiers will all be single leg games. Obviously less fixture congestion but much more likely to have upsets in single leg games. Oh and Spurs need to play 3 of these qualifiers to even make it to the group stages! Ha ha

Hi Ash
For me the club need to do everything possible to secure Aubameyang, offload as many players Arteta deems surplus as they possibly can, and sign a minimum of 3 players of the quality we need. I know that barring a miracle we'll be saddled with Özil for another year, and that money isn't limitless, but this is a manager worth pulling out all the stops for.

Still buzzing from that victory

We were lucky with Pulisic going off (by far their best player and looked odds on for a brace), red card and such but I'll take it. I like seeing our FA cup wins increase. Now for the titles.

Arteta has transformed so many players into better ones. He has plucked them from mediocrity and possibly disinterest, into much better purposeful players. AMN, Xhaka, Mustafi, Pépé are the 4 main ones. That's the mark of a good manager.

So happy for Martinez, well deserving of his spot in the team. Very assured handling of the crosses.

And Ceballos, fantastic game from him. I'm not his biggest fan, but credit where credit is due. Hope he keeps this energy going.

Rich, I accept your point that Cole is a Chelsea employee. But I agree with Top Gun on this one. I found the level of his disappointment that Arsenal won really distasteful.