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Hi ho ho

Hee hee hee

A very good day.

God bless Forest. Brilliant!

Happy, happy day. Who would have seen this all coming after the first half of our game?

Definitely a cause for celebration.

City drew late on. Complete bottlers, what a complete lack of mental strength, shown they are a soft touch away from home at a boisterous ground. Pressure has got to them….

Chelsea freefall continues despite signing Mudryk. Perhaps they need Jorginho.

Almost as unexpected and brilliant at Martinez's own goal!

Also add in Pep getting booked for his touchline antics. Perhaps if he was more calm that would have transmitted to his team and they’ve have been more calm to see out the win

Wrighty's reaction to our last goal was pretty priceless too and summed the day up perfectly.

Great victory…tons of character. Well done Mikel and all the lads

I said after Wednesday’s game this wasn’t over and that City would drop points …there’s a long way to go

Some takeaways

I’ve said on here before that Martinez is a dog. He was time wasting from early on. It was winding me up….just on half time he caught the ball and took his time ….after the ref blew his whistle I rewound the TV and measured the clock from the moment he caught the ball to when he booted it upfield…..

29 seconds….29 f..ing seconds that’s a joke

Then all through the second half he was at it …the ref finally books him near the end……

He should’ve booked him early and then given him a red if he persists…I doubt you’ll ever see a red for this…but it would send a clear message

Schadenfreude !….in added time the ball hits him on the head and goes in…..Super schadenfreude!!

Saka needs protection…..two more years of this brutality will not do him or us any good

Thought White played well

Jorginho was terrific….tough to drop against Leicester if TP is fit

Thanks Forest

Great reaction from the lads. Brilliant

Looks like Newcastle will lose their second league game of the season. I’m always looking over our shoulder so to speak. I think that I’ve finally counted Chelsea out.

I’m watching Pool Newcastle
Straight red for Pope
He misses League Cup final next week
Back up Dubravka played in LC while on loan at Utd earlier in season so he’s out
Third string gk is in whomever he may be

I think it's Karius. It would be hilarious if he was the hero.

Very frustrating for him and his club. They would definitely want to rewind time there.

What a day.

I love the Arsenal.

That's it.

(I just wish I was a 'local').

UTA

Ben White played well today, seemed to be a bit of extra zip and fire in him after being dropped.

Ramsdale with a couple of crucial saves as well

https://www.football365.com/news/opinio ... i-martinez

Feel like this is a strange write up of the game. Of course there was luck in the winner but on the chances created and the total domination of the second half you be hard pushed to say we didn’t deserve it. I think I read the xG was 0.3 to 3.3.

And I don’t recall many people talking about the crucial lucky deflection on Grealish’s decisive strike in midweek.

The other strange part is the write up talking about having players as an ‘out’ as though having talented players who can score great goals is some kind of cheat code. It also says that Arsenal were partly ‘fortunate’ to have Saka come through our academy. First time I’ve ever heard any club being called fortunate for producing a top class academy player. If anything it’s the least fortunate player a club can have considering the work out in and the chance of failure for an academy product. A tried and tested signing is far easier.

The goalkeeper time wasting thing is bizarre isn’t it

City keeper booked in the first half, Martinez today now

You may as well just book both keepers before kick off and have a Proper game

Ben White was very poor on the ball. He arrived being good with the ball at his feet. He lost a lot of balls very easily.

If we could even convert half our gilded edged chances we'd have another 5 or 6 points. Eddie has to put away those chances. Yeah, he's young and learning as he goes but any halfway decent striker would have scored on the chances he missed.

Gaby Agbonlahor moaning on talksport about Martinelli celebrating before he scored, it showed a lack of respect he said. Haha

There is nothing like supporters of the deservedly beaten team moaning on about the ‘behaviour’ of the opposition to make a win even more sweet

Shay Given said the Jorginho goal should not have counted. Off side as well as blocking enough of the view of the keeper.

0.5xG on that miss apparently

How does ward-prowess so consistently score free kicks as he does? The answer is obviously a tonne of practice and skill. But are there not easily 50 odd players in the prem with at least the same level of skill and ability as ward-prowse- so why aren’t they all practicing as much or if they are why isn’t any of it showing on the pitch?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1626950034313838592

this was so funny

https://twitter.com/i/status/1627027672411906052

Wonderful celebrations

On a sadder note, I worry KT will be leaving us. Look at his body language.

I thought there was a lot of positives to be taken from the Villa game but have a go at these clowns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYNBaGv ... =LeeGunner

Gosh what are they like when we lose?

Eddie wasn't great at all, but you do need to be fair--singling out that headed 'miss' (offside, and possibly he didn't even get the final touch) and then just breezing past the one he set up for Ødegaard. What is the point of slating a player who we know is a backup player and we have no choice by to rely on until Jesus come back?

Also, our left side is clearly not working smoothly at present. So no surprises that Trossard had little impact. Similarly, Xhaka's poor form is as much effect as cause.

Not only curious as to why Tom Hanks is a football fan since growing up in an era where the sport had very low popularity except a brief stint early 70s but also how he became a Villa fan?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/ ... ldbpwwdBHU

Wow. I wonder if he will make it or burn out? Edu, where are you? haha

Jez seems a massive bellend

These you tubers get paid off being miserable about Arsenal. Positivity doesn’t get views

I see that Lee Mason got the boot from VAR

Yesterday was *%^@*** orgasmic!!!
I was not confident before the game.
The Emery factor.
The Martinez factor.
Tricky game. Good villa team and partisan crowd.
Allied to the fact we hadn't been ourselves and poor results.
Wasn't confident at all and this was only strengthened going down after 5 minutes.
Was fuming with Zinny for losing the ball but boy did he redeem himself for 2 2.
At 1 0 I feared the absolute worst but was jumping around going mental at 1 1. Saka!! What a beauty.
Back to hurting when the *%^@ that had scored 1 goal in 32 and was starting first game in months decided that he was going to end his sodding bad run against us.
Infuriating. How often does a player or frigging team end their bad run against us ffs.
Anyway back to Zinny and what a strike for 2 2!!
For first time in the match I started to believe, we were playing well then that miss by Ødegaard.
How does he not score???
At 2 2 my TV stream went at about the 87 minute mark.
Frantically trying to get it back and once I did I could see Rob Holding was being brought on
For some reason the scoreline at the top was obscured and I'm wondering why holding is coming on and telling myself Arteta usually only brings him on to hold onto a lead.
Have we scored!!??????
Full TV screen was now clear and I literally started jumping around like a demented *%^@ when I saw the magical 2 3 in the top left hand corner.
YESSSSSSSSS WE HAD SCORED.
OH MY DAYS.
I WAS SO SO.HAPPY.
To see us get the 4th was wonderful and loved Gabby with His celebration before rolling it into the net.
Grown man of 52 but Arsenal can reduce me to this jibbling moody depressed then absolute buzzing crazy demented shouty screamy nutcase.
Martinez.
Karma for this arrogant prick who I actually didn't want to see us let go. Was fuming when we sold him but what a classless total wanker he has since become.
Loved his tears for us when we beat Chelsea in 2020 but horrible horrible man he is now.
The way he couldn't stop putting the boot in after we sold him.
Talking himself up and us down made me go right of him then His classless behavior at the world cup.
Beautiful karma yesterday with the ball bouncing off that massive egotistical head of this into the net and the beauyy of him being caught in no man's land for our 4th.
Poetic justice you absolute turd.
Thank you Arsenal
Yesterday was just brilliant.
Getting a result when I wasn't confident made it all sweeter.
And city dropped points too!!!

Whatever the specifics of Hanks' case, the underlying reason is that the EPL (and before it the first division) is absolutely brilliant. It's competitive, is well-marketed and run, and most of all, has managed to keep up with the times while not allowing the marketing men to completely destroy the community roots, traditions and identities of the clubs.

Which is why the creation of a European super league would be an absolute travesty.

I was expecting City to go on a several game run of wins at some point but they seem to pull a bad results randomly to sides you'd never expect them to recently.

If we win the title, it may be that City drop points unexpectedly as we've seen recently. They had the opportunity to put their foot on our necks and squandered it in a game they should have easily won.

Here you go:

https://en.as.com/soccer/why-does-tom-h ... 20Stoke%3F


James Alexander Gordon reading the football results on the radio.

Aston Villa 2 ... Arsenal six

Marvellous and enough to get anyone intrigued!

Anyone notes Xhaka getting booked? When our third went in, he couldn’t contain himself. Though he’d been subbed 15 mins earlier, he sprinted across the pitch in a frenzy of joyous excitement to join his mates celebrating in the corner below us.

Silly booking but great to see.

Spot on!

That game, and this season, doing this to grown men :
https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/3070417

I think when City are on it they are more capable than we are of blowing teams away 4 or 5-0, but I also think they might just be more susceptible to a poor performance that drops points. A higher ceiling and a lower floor.

Leicester next is another tough one but they are a team that tends to score and concede a few. More of a rollercoaster game than us pounding away at a 10 man defence and getting done by a set piece. I feel more confident in those types of games.
After that we have 4 winnable home games in the next 5, also Fulham away. We need to be aiming for 5 wins and a draw minimum in that run

Interesting to see how things are going for Mudryk at Chelsea. He was on the bench for the defeat to Southampton. There is a talented player there but he’s been thrown in to a shambles of a team with far too many new faces and has no set up to perform. I think he’s been massively badly advised, the kid wanted us no doubt, he was desperate for us and now he’s having to ride it out at Chelsea. With us he could have been eased in and played in a solid functioning team with a clear and set style of play. Look how easy Trossard and Jorginho have settled

I’d read something recently about Arteta pushing for wins if we’re drawing games. The chance to get the extra two points is worth the risk of losing one. I have no idea if it is a true thing Arteta does because I’ve also heard him say ‘if you can’t win it make sure you don’t lose it’

But if you are the dominant team then it does make sense to really go for it. If you took 4 drawn games and won two and lost two because of this cavalier attitude you’d have more points.

The attitude is e seemed to be there for the team when Zinchenko scored, a back to kick off lads this isn’t enough approach. And we certainly left ourselves 2v2 at the back when Villa could have undeservedly nicked it