I tried unsuccessfully for Polish citizenship.

My great grandmother came just a little too early for them to have records.

“So-and-so would have scored that” underestimates just how hard it is to score a goal at this level and how many big chances even the best strikers miss.

Auba was a tough situation. At his age, he was near the end of useful PL life. But he had also just single-handedly won us a trophy.

And eventually we had to eat quite a bit of money to send him away.

Been saying this for years. In fact, as he was out of contract, I said at the time I’d have tried to keep him.

Chelsea spending what they spent and getting this result has to be some of the most incredible incompetence we’ve ever seen.

Yep, we play intense handbrake-on football.

Also, I think playing such intense two-way football may contribute to our annual injury issues. We may just be asking too much of our guys, physically.

I don’t think the recruitment was the problem.

We are loaded with players who used to be productive, here and elsewhere, and aren’t now.

Why is that?

Yes, as influenza has long been considered a performance-enhancer for war-fighting capability.

It was on either @arsenalvpodcast.bsky.social or @arsecast.bsky.social.

Fit and on 10 undefeated while we are, as usual, knackered and staggering to the finish

They're about to be top of the table, not us.

We bottled a 9-point lead and are not in control of our own destiny now.

It's on the manager and his staff to come up with a counter to that, and to this point Arteta has not been able to.

We have enough talent not to lose to Bournemouth at home, or draw Wolves, or ship 3 at home to United.

We have been found out.

We're still cruising in CL because the continent isn't as prepared for us as the PL is.

The PL knows how we play and knows how to cope with it now.

2026 PL form: WDDLWWDDWWWWLL

25/42 points. 68-pt pace. Only won half our matches.

Literally 0 GD in 2026 against the top 15.

When the set pieces dried up, so did our ability to score goals.

We weren't scoring open play goals even when we had Saka/Ødegaard/Calafiori.

This season, we have just too often dropped points to teams with less talent on the pitch than we had, and that's why we're about to no longer be atop the table.

I'm past buying this. We spent £175M on attackers last summer to bolster the starters so that when we are inevitably missing guys, we're playing high-priced, senior players - not the Reiss Nelsons and Eddie Nketiahs of the world.

Not to let the stats get in the way of a good story, but Gyökeres has had a higher percentage of his runs targeted with a pass than any striker in the PL.

Think you're projecting YOUR lack of trust in Gyökeres onto them.

I’ll still be the at pub bright and early on Saturday.

I expect the team to keep fighting.

But my optimism has faded sharply.

City’s last two matches are against Palace and Villa.

Palace will likely be rotating ahead of a cup final.

And if Villa win Europa, that will be a dead rubber for them.

We need them to drop points in one of:

BUR A
EVE A
BRE H
BOU A

Imagine there will be options with the £250M+ that brings in…

Yeah, City ain’t dropping more points. They’re fit and they smell blood.

We spent £300M last summer with the express objective of being able to ride that out.

Madueke was a bad buy.

Zubimendi was a bad buy.

Gyökeres is tough because we had to buy a striker and there weren’t obvious options.

If you told me before the match that the difference would be one team converted its big chances and the other team didn’t, I would know the result.

But it’s also how they’re trained.

We started a very expensive 11 today.

Why are they not at the level?

At least Spurs are going down. So THEY won’t be able to say shit about us bottling the league.

Any evidence we have 5 straight wins in us?

We’re going to have to live with the term “bottlers” for a year at least.

Being an Arsenal fan is about to be a very dark experience.

We lost possession 60-40 and shots 15-9.

We were still second best today.

League is done. It’s in City’s hands and Pep knows what to do with that. Arteta does not.