“What will be will be”.
When I read that before the game it bought everything into clarity to me.
We were not reliant on a favour from Spurs, nor were Spurs going to help us win the league. This was just another game in a marathon of games to determine who the best team in the Premier League were. And in the end the result was what most of us were expecting.
Uninspiring Spurs
Spurs did not really turn up for the game, but this has nothing to do with them downing tools due to the title race situation
Since Ange won London Manager of the Year, Tottenham have played 12, and won just 5. They went into 2024 in the title race, with many online experts claiming they would run Manchester City all the way. They have collapsed in 2024 and the league table since 1 January has them 8th.
It was not their choice to put in an uninspiring performance against City. They are just an uninspiring team who embarrassingly celebrated beating Sheffield United at home back in September like they had won the league.
Whilst their fans celebrated like the winners they are not, yesterday’s defeat was their 5th in their last 6 games. They have dropped out of the title race, failed to finish top 4, and might drop out of the European places all together.
Ange is quickly learning why Tottenham are such a failure of a team. Their fans have a loser mentality.
Over the last 30-odd years, the biggest success for Tottenham fans is Arsenal not winning a trophy.
Whether that was 95, 99, 00, 06, 2011, 2019 or 2023. Tottenham have had so little success in the last 3 decades that they resort to celebrating our failure like it is their victory. And it was no different last night.
Whilst their fans celebrated losing a game at the final whistle, Ange Postecoglou was seething. There is a clear separation here between their manager who wants to win things, and their fans who are more interested in Arsenal not winning.
Tottenham fans may well have been celebrating into the night. But once again they were celebrating their another teams failure rather than their own success.
Tottenham are an uninspiring team with a loser mentality fanbase.
Magnificent City
Last season the narrative was that Arsenal had bottled it. That we had fallen off. What City had done in the 2nd half of the season went unnoticed – To clinch the title they went on a 12 game winning run, and won 14 from 15. It is form that would win the title in any year. Except this.
With Arsenal chasing them all the way, City have had to up their game to yet another level. They are on an unbeaten 22 game run, winning 18 and drawing 4. Zero losses. You need to praise that sort of form (regardless of the charges).
City are not top of the double because Arsenal bottled it, nor are they top because Spurs rolled over and let their bellies get tickled. City are top because they deserve it.
Brilliant Arsenal
The 18 games City played before they lifted the title in 2022/23, City’s form read: P 18 W 16 D 1 L 1. It is that form that won them the title.
12 months on and our form is eerily similar – P 17 W 15 D 1 L 1. Beat Everton on Saturday and we would have showed the exact same title winning from that City showed last season.
Arsenal’s form in the second half of the season has been exceptional. The only difference being our run started with 18 games to go, City’s with 23 games.
In the last 17 games, we have shown the form that would get us the equivalent of 102 points. Over the last 22 games our average drops to an equivalent of 86 points, whilst City’s maintained at 100.
What we now need to do is put together a full season – the first half of last season and the second half of this. But ev en that will not guarantee a title as Liverpool showed when they got 97 points and still finished second.
I am still very very proud of what they boys, and Mikel Arteta, have done this season. We have pushed City closer than last year, stayed in the title race longer, and all whilst playing Champions League football.
But proud does not win you trophies, and that is the next step for this Arsenal side. We do not want to become Spurs under Mauricio Pochetinno who celebrated just competing and never won anything. We are The Arsenal and we need to win trophies.
And it is not over…
A lot of people will be writing our obituaries today. But the title race is not yet over. It still goes down to that last game of the season.
I do not expect West Ham to get anything from Sunday’s game. They are nearly as bad as Tottenham with just 2 wins from their last 6. They have collapsed in the last dozen games and their European hopes have diminished and manager set to leave in the summer.
But where there is hope there is the potential of glory, and I will still be going Sunday with a little bit of belief. Not much, but a little.
The odds are against us. Not since 1989 has a team starting the last day top failed to win the league. But then we all know what happened that year.
UTA
Keenos
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 
Nice to hear from at least one other Arsenal fan that’s not packing their things away for the summer just yet. I never thought that last night was the be all and end all, in fact, in a weird way, I felt that we might potentially be a little more jittery on Sunday if Citeh had dropped points last night! As it is, there’s still 90+ minutes left on the clock and you just never know!
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West Ham have got no chance of stopping this City side of winning on Sunday. No chance.
As for Spurs, they`ve always had a yellow streak running through the club. Even under Pooch, it constantly reared its ugly/beautiful head in the big moments. I was actually surprised at the effort their players put in last night, thought they gave City a game but when the really big chance came along the little tiddly shit himself in a typical Tottenham manner.
I don`t blame their fans for the atmosphere, if the boot was on the other foot we`d do the same.
Oh well, onto Sunday now. Hopefully we can get the 3 points and finish the right way. Really proud of the players efforts again this season. We`ll be up there competing next season, still think there`s a tiny bit more improvement to come from this group. Hopefully we have another Summer transfer window like the last one and we take that crucial last step and get over the line.
Up The Arse.
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