CHEATINGCUNTS Away Sunday 22nd Sept KO 16:30pm

[gooner265]

Great post Rodders , other fans don't get it and think we're whinging but there is clearly something going on.

[DB10GOONER]

Unconfirmed reports on Talkshite that Rodri the cheating filthy c unt has done his ACL

Edit I'm late to the party

Yeeeeeessssss!

I am thrilled beyond belief to hear this diving little rat's shitpipe has fucked himself whilst.... diving!

Hopefully he gets loads of leetle beet neegle and his fucking career is over the repulsive little cùnt.

[DB10GOONER]

Fuck em - they way preferred us when we’d rock up, hole open, ready to have our tummies tickled and be 4 nil down at HT. Oh how they used to laugh and pat us on the head on the way home like the good little boys we were. Well they’re not fucking laughing now. And because we’re no longer prepared to concede an inch to the c.unts, not one fucking blade of grass, they’re all up in arms about our style of play and supposed “dark arts” .

I meant to post this on Sunday but didn’t get around to it as all my focus was on trying to avoid getting a heart attack, but I was completely overjoyed to hear the away fans singing - “cheating again ole ole” throughout the match.

I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard any opposition fan base make reference to what’s going on which when you consider the scale of the charges is incredible. Same old Arsenal always cheating I hear ever other week when we’re awarded a contentious throw in. A state sponsored conglomerate that’s hoovered up every trophy in the game built on lies, cover ups and a scale of corruption never before seen in the sport - met with total silence.

If the same thing happened in Spain, Italy or especially Germany there would be fucking uproar, giant Tifo displays at away grounds and pure hatred from other fan bases towards a team that’s lied and cheated their way to success. Every team would be going all out to nobble them, the atmosphere would be fucking poisonous at away grounds and for the “lesser” teams it would be their cup final, all out war for 90 minutes - but here……limp surrender on the field and the sound of crickets coming from the stands.

There’s just a huge amount of apathy about it all over here sadly. Nobody gives a flying fuck about city, they could win it 100 times in a row and nobody would care. Everyone knows it’s tainted and built on a foundation of shit.

But the general feeling among supporters is that if city are winning it every year then it means Arsenal/Liverpool/United aren’t and opposition fans can live with that. City win again? Meh.

I’ve spoken before about how most opposition teams barely try a leg against them. If teams have city this week and West Ham the week after it’s the West Ham game that’s targeted, any prospect of a result against city is written off by both players and supporters alike before a ball is even kicked.

I’ve seen countless references in the last few days about how Timber and Havertz didn’t complete a successful pass on Sunday. I haven’t seen or heard one single fucking reference to the 115 charges or the trial that is CURRENTLY ONGOING to prove it. Imagine that? Fucking bizarre.

And it’s Arsenal that are being painted as the villains of the piece here. If that doesn’t sum up the pathetic state of the narrative in this league then nothing does.

Hopefully the spotlight that’s now being shone on Oliver, the cash he trousered out in the UAE,
his record of awarding huge decisions to city while penalising other teams in games against them will finally awaken people from their deep slumber and change the narrative against those cheating corrupt bastards - but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

The bit in red is exactly why there is no real outrage. No one gives much of a fuck about cheateh. They are not a "big club" and never have been. Like the chav they have no real history and are a pimped up billionaire's plaything. Fans of the big clubs like Arsenal, manure and the *victims don't have the history with cheateh they have with each other.

As much as I hate cheateh I'd rather they buy the league 20 years running than any one of manure, *victims or the scum win it even once.

[EssexGooner1981]

Dirty c.unt. Would take no greater joy than someone snapping him this season. I pray it happens.

https://x.com/skysportspl/status/183816 ... cNVBoGD_Fw

He’s an incredible footballer, he’s got the fucking lot, height, power, speed, technical ability and an absolutely natural killer instinct for goals, but he is increasingly coming across as a nasty fucker.

He’s aggressive and complete wind up merchant who, when there’s a fracas, intimidates opponents with his sheer size. Other players seem genuinely scared of him. It needs some genuine old school types to face off with him, those that didn’t feel the fear. I’d like to transport Steve Bould from his heyday to face this freak. We’ve had some tough characters, but I’ve always thought Bouldy would have been the hardest. Cold and emotionless, rangey and just fucking hard.

He's 6,3 and 88Kg, hardly Gregor Clegane now is he, the height might put some off but if a proper baller hardman went at him he'd fold like a hot mars bar. Theres a reason he does very little against decent defenders, decent defenders tend to be the hard nuts of a team. Unless it was that crap football show on sky years ago where it was the keeper.......cant remember the name of it.

ahh it was dream team, good ol Harchester Utd......glad i came back to edit now!

this rings bells too, height me bollix!

I've no idea who Gregor Clegane is, but I'm assuming he's either a Gaelic footballer, or a rugby player? Haven't googled him. To be fair about Haaland, he's 6' 4 1/2" and that 88kg is almost 14 stone and it's all bone and muscle. He seems to tower over our CBs who are hardly lightweights. We might not like him, but you can't doubt that he's a big fucker.

Anyway, I'm longing for the day that somebody really stands up to him to see what he'll do. I think he's a total wind up who is after a reaction, so that an opponent rises to the bait and gets sent off. He also seems to know that he can get away with with murder because he plays for City, just as Ferguson's hatchet boys did at Utd.

Haaland needs a cool headed, tough nut to look him straight in the eye and to push his buttons...something along the lines of "Yeah, you're a cracking centre forward Erling, but you're one ugly c.unt and nothing can change that, no matter how many goals you score...fucking freak." I suspect he'd react first. Better still, give it to him all game long, "Ugly c.unt, fucking Mongo." Credit to DB, that Mongo jibe is fucking spot on.

Reckon he looks like Ludo from the Labyrinth

[Retro Gunner]

Good post from Rodders.

I've already mentioned it on here, but I knew almost as soon as the game was over that this "dark arts" bullshit was being confected as our new label. The accusations and condemnations were being aired immediately after the end of the game and the whole thing seemed orchestrated. I like to think that I'm pretty honest about our club and if I think a player, the manager, or the team have been out of order, then I'll say so and I don't just fall into line tribally, with the red and white spectacles on.

However, I genuinely couldn't see what the fuss was about on Sunday. We see teams stalling and time wasting to a much greater degree every week and we've been on the end of it plenty of times, but what we did on sunday was insignificant by comparison. The ball in play figures clearly show that. Also, all three of our players that went down with cramp, went off very soon afterwards, so clearly weren't acting. Arteta is saying that one is properly injured and I wouldn't be surprised if it is Timber, because he looked to be struggling as he went off.

Exactly why City and the media seem to want to target us and our supposed dark arts isn't clear, but could some of it be a means of deflecting attention away from piss poor officiating again? I suppose it suits City to paint us as the villains to give other teams and the officials reasons to dislike us, which was Fergie's tried and tested ploy.

Fuck 'em.

[scotgooner]

So funny / ironic that Rodri just last week was moaning about too many games (I agree) and players one day going on strike (ridiculous) and now he’s out for the season.

Plenty rest now you fucking *word censored*.

[Perryashburtongroves]

So funny / ironic that Rodri just last week was moaning about too many games (I agree) and players one day going on strike (ridiculous) and now he’s out for the season.

Plenty rest now you fucking *word censored*.

Reminds me of when that spud cúnt Terry Fenwick whinged about being bored when he was on an England trip in the 80s then broke his leg. Bobby Robson was asked about it and said "I bet he's fucking bored now with a broken leg."

[OneBardGooner]

Great Post Rodders! ^^^



I've been trying to find out when was the last time a Cheaty player was sent off at Home.


Can't find it.....


All the stats places are just saying Trossard this... Trossard that etc etc


Strange even on the prem league site there's nothing about that particular stat... Hmmmmmm Wonder Why?

[OneBardGooner]

Oh! The Irony... cough cough


Rodri tries to get Havertz sent off by rolling around like he's been shot in the face and ends up doing his Own ACL!

[mcdowell42]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... 1727130365

[Retro Gunner]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... 1727130365

That's a pretty sensible and balanced article. He plays down the idea of outright corruption, because he'd be finished without evidence, but at least it hangs in the air somewhat and he highlights incompetence.

Puts the dark arts bollocks in its place too.

Don't know the journo, is he a regular football writer for the Guardian?

[mcdowell42]

Retro, I couldn't tell you ,I was perusing twitter earlier,saw the article, read it and thought it was very good and just thought id share it

[OneBardGooner]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... 1727130365

Bloody Excellent Find McD !! ... A Brilliant Read with some VERY adroit and pertinent little lines covertly inserted in the Banter-like writing:


Hope you don't mind McD I'm going to 'Cut n Paste' it (for those whose work place systems won't allow them to open the link) or those from outside the Uk who often are unable to open said links.

Wall of conspiratorial rage must not hide the beauty of Arsenal’s defending by Barney Ronay

So let’s just get this out there. First up Michael Oliver, who has ties to the United Arab Emirates, is appointed to referee Manchester City’s biggest game of the season just days after a human who looks like Keir Starmer (there is no proof of this either way) is seen in an Arsenal box, while the UK government is furiously back-channelling UAE trade relations. We’re through the looking-glass here people, where even the looking-glass is made of other looking-glasses, possibly in Nyon and probably by satanists.

Meanwhile we’re meant to be surprised that VAR didn’t see anything wrong with Erling Haaland throwing the ball at Gabriel Magalhães’s head (subplot: Brazil recently banned the use of X) as the UK government seeks a Norway-style deal to covertly sneak back into the EU. You do the algebra, sheeple.

Rodri in clear agony after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury in Manchester City’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday
Rodri could miss rest of season after serious knee injury against Arsenal


Frankly some of us saw all this coming when Jarred Gillett, an Australian, was appointed to referee the north London derby against Spurs who are managed by an Australian, whose government literally this weekend signed an economic partnership with: Abu Dhabi. While we’re on it, you know who else was Australian? Adolf Hitler.

OK, OK, OK. The madness is out there if you want it. The madness is really quite tempting because it’s kind of a community vibe and a good way to meet people online and it also makes it feel as though life, which makes absolutely no sense at all, actually has a narrative and shape.

Admittedly this does require the holding of contradictory beliefs and the glossing of certain inconvenient facts. For example, if Oliver is basically a Sky Blue agent, and if we can please accept that chucking the ball away on a yellow is dopey, then the only unarguably key terrible decision during Manchester City versus Arsenal was Oliver calling Kyle Walker over to speak to him and then watching on as Arsenal scored an excellent quick-thinking goal via that exact same channel of vacated space. Which is actually quite funny in its sheer howling clumsiness, like being ordered to stop your car by the police who then give you a parking ticket.

Zoom out a little and there are two real-life problems with this stuff, the big ongoing conspiracy game beyond the game that is now a Premier League staple. First, feeling cheated is also often rooted in fact, if not always the most appealing ones. Going down this line often lets people get away with actual, solvable incompetence and stupidity.

In the case of Sunday’s game, the PGMOL and Premier League opened the door to this stuff with two terrible decisions. First, there is no way on this earth or any other that English referees should be off taking paid employment from a state that owns one of the clubs they routinely officiate. This is not to suggest referees are actually corrupt (they’re really not), but appearance is everything and this is mind-bogglingly careless.

You could make a case that Howard Webb and anyone else involved at that level should walk now purely on the basis of allowing this to happen.

Then, of course, the Premier League invited exactly this kind of fraying at the edges when it allowed governments to own its member clubs, but that’s a much longer story. Either way, a pretty good rule here is always, always, when it comes to football governance, go with incompetence first. You think these people could actually organise an international conspiracy without ballsing that up too?

But the real issue here, the thing that has got a little lost in the wall of rage, is that this was a very good, engrossing game of football. Most of all it was a good game for Arsenal, who showed great fortitude and skill to recover from going a goal down after nine minutes away to the best team on the planet, and from there to come within moments of victory despite having lost a player in the first half.

City’s salvaging of a point was also real (they have a genuine champion spirit) and so were their heartfelt celebrations, the moaning about “dark arts” after drawing with 10 men. This is a compliment. Players know.

Just as interesting is the way Arsenal’s skill at defending has become an issue. There is confusion here. Somehow being good at defending is being cast as controversial or nihilistic, even some kind of fatal hubristic flaw. True, Arsenal celebrate defending more than any other team, to the extent that we can perhaps now look forward to a time when defenders start refusing to celebrate certain tackles and blocks out of respect for former clubs, and are hailed as “classy” as a result.

But it also seems odd to assume defending is not the absolute sandwich bread of elite football, or that being the best defensive team in the league is not a significant shift of power. The fact so many people consume football remotely or in clips is probably part of this. In the flesh, in the stadium, watching the full 90 minutes on a screen undistracted, high-class defending is one of most thrilling and engaging parts of sport.

Arsenal’s defending on Sunday afternoon wasn’t just beautiful to watch, every part functioning in concert, the right City players given space, the dangerous ones closed down, right up to the moment City cracked this code and managed to get Jack Grealish into the right spot. It is also the part that gives the rest of the game substance, that ennobles attacking moments and makes them robust, that made Erling Haaland’s goal and the work in creating it from Savinho so special, because it came against that defence. Take away this skill, wail over “the dark arts” too much and the spectacle will ultimately lose meaning.

Pep Guardiola knows this, of course. His approach has always been about control, possession as first and foremost a defensive tool. He will admire the job his protege did at the Etihad. Arsenal came to Manchester still missing Martin Ødegaard, their most important “flow” player, footballing swarfega, the lubricant that makes their entire attacking game function.

Is it a flaw to be so reliant on one player? No! Sport is meant to be like this. It’s supposed to involve managing weak spots. Most clubs have internal budget limits, pockets that end somewhere. This is the best part of the financial rules. They make management more of a feat. Defending is also one part of the game where Arsenal are now better than City. They came to Manchester with 11 clean sheets in their last 14 Premier League games. Why would anyone not play to that strength? This was a logical approach from Mikel Arteta.

Other things were good, too. Oliver may have pre-assisted Arsenal’s equalising goal, but Gabriel Martinelli was already pulling very wide as a pre-set tactic to disconcert Walker before he went inside as a midfield “underlap”. It was smart play. Jurriën Timber was exceptional. Kai Havertz worked like a maniac.

And looking forward, Arsenal also flagged some of City’s own unresolved issues at what is still an early stage in the season. Walker spent most of the game running around like a man who has lost his keys (***) Two Arsenal goals made it seven games since City’s last league clean sheet at home. The attack is also an oddity so far. Jérémy Doku still looks like a man playing his own game of dribble ball while an actual football match happens all around him. Only Haaland, Kevin De Bruyne and Mateo Kovacic have scored for City this season and it’s nearly October.


Guardiola is very good at solving these issues on the hoof. This will, as ever, be a different City team in January. But whatever happens now will also require adjustments to make up for the lengthy absence of Rodri after his serious knee injury. In many ways, this was the key element of Sunday’s game. City have a history of dropping points without their stellar central presence. They were winning on Sunday until Rodri went off.

Handily, the run of games coming up isn’t the most obviously testing. It still seems likely City’s title run will be decided by a spell of nine league games from 25 January that includes visits from Chelsea, Newcastle, Liverpool, and trips to Arsenal, Tottenham, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United. But Sunday was evidence that Arsenal have the will to chase them to the line again.

The wider narrative isn’t all fiction. The Premier League really is hostage to interests, lobbying, idiocy and incompetence. The day-to-day bit, the refs bit, the hands-inside-the-cake-mix stuff; perhaps not so much. For now we can at least take pleasure in an angry, accusatory, defensively venal afternoon of parity.



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[OneBardGooner]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... 1727130365

That's a pretty sensible and balanced article. He plays down the idea of outright corruption, because he'd be finished without evidence, but at least it hangs in the air somewhat and he highlights incompetence.

Puts the dark arts bollocks in its place too.

Don't know the journo, is he a regular football writer for the Guardian?

Yes mate he is...

[OneBardGooner]

EssexGooner1981






I always tend to think of theCunt as a cross between Chucky and an over-sized Cabbage Patch Doll.







But the Latter looks far more intelligent.