Win English Super Cup | Arsenal 1 - 1 Manchester City | Sunday, August 6 | KO: 16:00 BST | ITV1

Just like that, the new season is here...and what a way to get it properly started, the cup of cups!

Can we add to our glowing collection of Shields and start the season with a trophy...

...going for our 16th title in this comp (and it is number 16, don't listen to wiki...as the one we "won" in 1991 (( my birth year too ffs )) was actually shared with Sp**s of all teams, so that one can get right in the ****ing bin) and I reckon we will win it 2-1.


Win it for Gabby Jesus, lads!

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Yup. Real @UpTheGunnerz vibes from that one.

Cuckolding is a respected kink.

 

[Batman]

Cuckolding is a respected kink.

 

[Riou]

@albakos you should let OnlyOne do the match thread for the Forest game if he wants to, since his Community Shield one kinda got merged into mine.

 

[Farzad Stoned]

How did we go from Charity Shield to group sex kinks in less than a page. You can’t claim Farzad is the thread derailing Dbag this time.

 

[sdotzdot]

Great performance.

That was absolutely not a friendly. We’re going to be very serious this season.

 

[rockofcashel]

The funniest thing about the Redcafe lot, is their insistence that "despite spending 200 million", Arsenal have "pretty much the same starting 11 as last season"..

They don't seem to get.. that the "same starting 11 last season", would have won the league, if they'd managed two draws instead of losing twice to City..

That "same starting 11", we're and are, a long way ahead of everyone, except Man City.. who are, the top club team in Europe, and possibly the world

What 200 million has bought.. is depth.

That starting 11 today, are a year older, and a year wiser.. plus, they are now better equipped than last year, to deal with injuries, and loss of form

That "starting 11 today", could potentially have Jesus, Nketiah, and Trossard to come in if they need a goal

Have Smith Rowe, Viera, Reiss Nelson to come in, if they need to shore up the middle

Have Jorghino, El Neny to come in, if they need a holding midfielder

Have Tomiyasu, Zinchenko, Tierney, Kiwior to come in, if they need to shore up the defence

By next week, it looks like they may have Raya to come in, should Ramsdale need to be replaced

Right through every line of the pitch, Arsenal now have really good options

Maybe a back up for Saka is the only thing missing

That's what 200 million has bought

 

[rockofcashel]

Last season.. Arsenal had to play Man City.. with Rob Holding at centre half... he's now about 5th choice right centre behind Saliba, White, Tomi, Timber..

If Gabriel goes down, there's Kiwior, Tierney, Tomi that can fill in..

That's the difference this season

 

[lomekian]

1971

League Cup 1987 too - first team ever to win after falling behind to an Ian Rush goal.

 

[lomekian]

Good thing the stream died and saved me from abusing Atwell. Wtf is this?

Elite level cheat meets terrible Manc ref. Standard issue

 

[BIoodBrother]

How on earth is Cole Palmer getting MOTM... If anybody should have got it for City, its Akanji who I thought was solid.

They thought, he'd won it when they had to give motm.

 

[BIoodBrother]

Havertz played the position well. on another day he finishes one of those 2 big chances and it would have been a very good performance. i liked that 4 CBs, Rice+Partey in front of them and Havertz ahead makes us such a big and defensively solid team. i think we are set up well for the season and for away games.
on the other hand it needed a deflection in the 100th minute for us and the way Partey was tricked by Foden was sad to see. Partey would be such a good player but he makes silly and costly mistakes in every other game, unlike Rice against whom he lost the ball last year at West Ham away, resulting in the penalty that started our downfall, when we were winning 0-2.. hopefully this game will break the city fear. i liked that we were able to create a couple of half chances in the end before the goal too. City sometimes are too good in these situations but we didnt stop going for it. Had the slightly better chances in total, but we didnt play against DeB+Haaland together yet.
Super happy for today and respect to the three new players that start to integrate well.
Lots of pointing going on. Sometimes Rice was showing Martinelli where to stand/go. I believe captains Rice and Ødegaard can lead us to glory.

 

[lomekian]

...honesty, Mitoma needs to write a dissertation on why this man never gets carded.

He could hit someone with a HHH-esque sledgehammer shot, and the ref would still just give him a talking to ffs!

One of a very small number of players I've seen over the past 40 years that I actually hope gets a major injury. Key for city, a massive cheat and diplomatic immunity afforded by all refs. Plus he's a nasty snide too.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

And he made 2 outstanding saves. Could easily have been 3-0.

We could also easily have been 2-0 up.

 

[CaseUteinberger]

he way Partey was tricked by Foden was sad to see.

This is what a yellow card in what the 12th minute does. If he would have been allowed to foul like Rodri he would simply have pulled Foden back and could have taken a likely yellow.

 

[Riou]

"iT's NoT a ReAl TrOpHy" ...rival, incel and virgin fans on twitter...

Comeback to me when your manager has won 3 cups by the time he is 41...

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Nice to see Gilberto up there

And Josh basking in the glory like a proper owner! Like that he likes it! Keep them babies flowing!

 

[Xln]

So our squad with 0 world class players brushed aside a treble winning team?

Arteta is more than a genius

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Tim Lewis with some big **** energy with that haircut. No wonder the City fans left.

Have a guy at work with the same haircut. You don't ****ing mess with that guy!

 

[avenellroad]

"iT's NoT a ReAl TrOpHy" ...rival, incel and virgin fans on twitter...

Comeback to me when your manager has won 3 cups by the time he is 41...

The hypocrisy is staggering. Everyone hates Arsenal. Perfect for us

 

[avenellroad]

Hope we put a reducer early doors on the c**t Rodri when we play them next time.