04 Mar 2026 21:51:14
Well done boys! That's what champions have in their locker. Really happy.
Would love to see done decent football but at the business end of the season, it's about getting business done.
{Ed025's Note - i remember when football was in the entertainment business SY, this is just drudge mate..
04 Mar 2026 23:03:19
I posted another post that did moan about the performance, but praised the stubbornness. I still love great football and miss it.
05 Mar 2026 07:59:00
Personally, I was too nervous to notice or care what the game was like! It was all about the 3 points. If Hurzeler wants to talk about 'only one team played football', his fan base are after him for, yep, boring football! You can't make it up.
Maybe, over the season, they should play a bit more and not score the same number of goals as Spuds ?. A new pantomime villain, who will be gone soon. Poor game, but three points, apparently. Coyg.
05 Mar 2026 08:33:14
It wasn't pretty, Sussex mate, but at this stage of the season, who cares. As for Hurzeler, if we are so bad but points ahead of his team, then what does that say about Brighton?
I know it's great to entertain football fans, but what with the last 3 seasons playing great football and finishing runners up, and all the pundits saying we need steel and have to learn to win ugly, and all the latter Wenger years of playing great football and being 20 Pts behind at Christmas, if we win but it's ugly, well, so be it.
Hope you and the family are all safe and well, Sussex mate.
Take care.
05 Mar 2026 09:18:06
All good here, Bill, and trust the same with you and yours! Moanio, let them have the ball, we'll take the points. Fergie, we'll take the ugly 1-0 and 3 points. Arteta, the anti Christ, boring, dark arts, etc, etc. Teams rolled us over in the past, not now. They would give their right arm to be where we are. Are we the new Millwall, 'No one likes us but we don't care'? Remember, we played great football under Wenger in his later years and didn't win the league, and were admired for the football but didn't win the league.
Don't believe everything you read - most of it is lazy thinking. Check out Opta ball-in-play stats and also 7 minutes extra time. Appeasing Hurzeler, and taking into account any time wasting, so nothing to see here. Coyg.
04 Mar 2026 23:01:17
I 100% agree with you Ed.
I couldn't watch too many games like that & I bet everyone here would agree
However when things gets serious & we need to fight / dig in; we've melted. Tonight we stood and fought. Champions have always needed to do that in every sport. Every winner needs a dark side
Agree - we need to be entertained
{Ed025's Note - i have to say SY i was hoping for better, i have said from the start that i would love Arsenal to win the league...but you know what mate i dont really care if they do or they dont anymore, this is not entertainment or football as i know it mate, it resembles all in wrestling with a mix of cheating and play acting rolled into one...sorry but thats just how i feel..
05 Mar 2026 20:18:56
Hi Ed - I've not been happy with the poor performances all year. Zero creativity & entertainment. I'm with you. I would not pay to watch that week in / out. I don't think Arteta knows how to attack & defend at the same time & couldn't pick a striker if his life depended on it.
However - I was tired of us being bullied and getting rolled over. Being naive in games and being out "street smarted".
So it was nice to see when we are playing shat that we can be more street smarted and have some fight. There will be the ODD game that's required. I don't want it every week but to show we can't be bullied is a good statement. Now we need to show we can play also. Always thought United of old could out play, our fight whoever and whenever when they were at their best.
Do you really think we cheat?
Do we really have lots of people diving?
Yes corners are boring, playing to win corners is terrible etc
{Ed025's Note - all of the above actually SY...and i think its getting worse, this is not Wimbledon of the 80,s mate this is Arsenal ffs and you have a style and a history to live up to, when you do win it you will become the worst team the history of the premiership to lift the crown and always be tagged as that imo and deservedly so, the thing is that with the players you have you could be so much better than this and should be the toast of the footballing world, that might not bother you one jot of course my old friend...but it does me..