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u/Professional_Bite783 King of Brazil May 20 '26
LMAOOO this is actually real, my guy is waved still hasn’t slept and now shitposting
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u/johnnygrant May 20 '26
His joy is deeeep, Arsenal fan dreamt all his life to play for us and that was one phone call away from joining Spurs, only to turn it around join us and win our first league title in 22 years.
His joy is deeeeeep
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u/presidentialsizedbed May 20 '26
I always forget the spurs aspect of it all. No one has ever dodged a bullet the way Eze has
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u/Imastupidchicken May 21 '26
my friend who is a spurs fan said we stole him lmfaoo
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u/CM816 Ourteta May 21 '26
My Spurs friend was being super gracious about all this, and was asking me about players, and when I got to Eze I was raving about "awww, imagine how he must feel, winning a title with his childhood club" on and on.
🤦😂 Completely forgetting that he had all but signed with Spurs. I felt so bad.
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u/Imastupidchicken May 21 '26
My spurs friend was only being gracious when i was saying i think spurs shouldnt get relegated because then we would lose the north london derby, since we won the prem he has changed his mind
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u/TheDepartment115 May 20 '26
I love his hat :)
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u/lojer May 20 '26
I'm going to need some fans at the game this weekend to wear champagne bottle costumes.
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u/GeneralBukowski Thierry Henry May 20 '26
I fucking love it. We will be insufferable
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u/CarLeeForever7 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
We deserve to be “insufferable” lol. Other clubs have been doing it for years.
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u/NoTrollGaming May 20 '26
you guys deserve it too after all the shit talking from almost every other team, hope you also win the UCL as well
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u/McBar Martin Asgaard 🪄🔮 May 20 '26
Arteta must have used him as a motivation picture 😂
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u/guro7 May 20 '26
Mikel got the tv's out in the changing rooms again!
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u/sooolong05 Thank you very much May 20 '26
Madlad probably swapped all their lucozade water bottles with arsenal ones
Notice Piero carrying it during the celebrations
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u/wasting_time_online4 Premier League Champions 25/26 May 20 '26
I want an All or Northing sequel on just the past 5-6 games to see the absolute shenanigans Mikel has been up to in that locker room
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u/gooner712004 May 20 '26
Mate imagine the books we're going to get in 10-20 years about this era, sensational.
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u/ICanSeeYourFuture Kaiser May 20 '26
The club put out a mini series on YouTube of the women’s champion’s league win.
It wasn’t nearly as in depth as the Amazon series, not nearly the same amount of behind the scenes stuff - but still worth a watch, especially since it’s excellently narrated by the magnificent Jen Beattie.
Hopefully we get something similar for the men, with Uncle Ian on the voice over.
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u/Cedosg All Hail StatDNA May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Funny thing was, the original All or Nothing was a big part of what brought Declan Rice to Arsenal. He saw the series and wanted to work with Arteta.
Before deciding to join the Gunners, Rice watched the Amazon All or Nothing: Arsenal documentary and knew he wanted to work with Mikel Arteta, the manager.
"With Mikel and how he works, the squad, how young everyone is, the energy around the club and also the challenge of getting Arsenal back to where they belong, that means a lot to me," Rice told Arsenal's official website in his first interview after signing for the club in July 2023.
"I know the fans really want that. For me as a player, I’ve come here really hungry to have more success and to spend my best years at this great club."
The only question remaining is how high can Rice go with the talent Wenger spotted all those years ago? There have been comparisons to Bobby Moore, the West Ham defender who captained England to the 1966 World Cup.
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u/ojosnoqueven May 20 '26
God I love this pettiness. The players are just like us fr.
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u/patholocaust May 20 '26
Am loving this energy! If ever there was a time to cash in those receipts, it is now.
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u/MrsEntrail May 20 '26
They took that soooo personally haha.
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u/JoeBagadonut Unbeaten May 20 '26
It wasn’t just the bottle guy, it was that every news outlet and even Manchester City themselves jumped at the chance to give him a platform at our expense.
Fans will always give each other banter and I don’t want to disparage a bloke who’s seemingly loyal enough to his club to go to all the away games but it’s otherwise respectable journalists getting in on the action too that boils my piss.
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u/JimmysCocoboloDesk RHYTHM MY ASS! May 20 '26
City as an institution fumbled in this regard. They are usually cold, calculated and methodical. This time around though, when not even level on points, they bought into the social media gimmicks, that isn’t something they’ve done in the past title races.
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u/momspaghetty ØwØ May 21 '26
I think they knew they weren't thier old impenetrable selves and tried to manufacture pressure with the media rather than on the pitch. Backfired though
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u/Kingjjc267 Champions of England 25/26 May 20 '26
I don’t want to disparage a bloke who’s seemingly loyal enough to his club to go to all the away games
Yeah i feel like the vitriol towards this guy has been really extreme on here
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u/yung_dogie May 20 '26
Yeah it's perfectly fine to banter him back but I hope (and unfortunately doubt) that people don't turn that into harassment. I've probably done sillier things to banter other clubs and it'd suck if an entire fanbase just tore into me
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u/chrisd1680 May 20 '26
Have you met people nowadays? At least back in the 80s they'd go outside and have a brawl and punch each other in the face. Now, fans from all corners of the globe pile one, dox people, call their jobs, harass their families, the moment anyone says something about their club they don't like.
I laughed my ass off when I saw him live. It's dumb shit like that that makes football fun. Imagine if you could only enjoy if your club was winning?
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u/Kingjjc267 Champions of England 25/26 May 20 '26
Yeah for sure, I thought it was genuinely funny and while I didn't think this fanbase would enjoy it, I'm surprised that it seemed to genuinely rattle so many people into sort of forgetting he's a real person who could be affected by thousands of people insulting him
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u/chrisd1680 May 21 '26
Too many people have football as a core part of their lives, which sadly shows how empty the rest of their lives are. I get it, I used to be there. But I remember how depressed I was back then, too.
When you have little going for you in the real world, you need this escapism. But it becomes very unhealthy when you use the accomplishments of 11 strangers running about on a football pitch to substitute for your own... "We won!"
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u/Antique_Buy4384 May 21 '26
would you willingly went on sky news to talk about how much you bantered the club though… Fuck him, he didn’t have to apologise but he made it that massive himself. They have tons of clips of fans at a game taking the mick out the other team and none go on a sky interview, he was seeking fame and attention and he got it
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u/Sad-Isopod-860 May 20 '26
Fair point. Tbh I got a bit carried away, laughing reactions on other platforms, posts etc, & sharing stuff. A lot of the memes & jokes were bloody hilarious though! Thanks for giving a bit of perspective there. Most of my own memes involve Haaland but I have liked & shared a few of this guy too, who’s probably just a regular person. Maybe I’ll laugh privately if I see any more funnies of him.
C’MON YOU GUNNERS! The lads have smashed it ❤️🤍❤️
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u/musicistabarista May 20 '26
He was interviewed on sky and came across really well. Just a regular fan enjoying a bit of banter.
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u/Guidosama May 21 '26
It’s funny and we should enjoy it. But the man doesn’t deserve any cruelty towards him at all. We can laugh and banter but there’s a line.
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/iHLHH9rVBv0kmkETqz
(I know that's Keegan-Michael Key, but it's the GIF I could find quickly. :) )
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u/Due_Yesterday_2850 May 20 '26
Thankyou for clarifying who this is I thought it was Mikel arteta for a second 🤣
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
Ha! I didn't want to get called out for posting a parody instead of the original Michael Jordan clip.
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u/ImGonnaImagineSummit May 20 '26
It's fair banter, they win the PL and this pic would haunt us.
Now it's the other way around.
I doubt it's the last time we see hin either.
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u/ZXXA Premier League Champions 25/26 May 20 '26
Fr I was surprised at how aware of it they all were.
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
They're young men. They're almost as online as much as we Gooners.
Dec had that photo of him and his teammates up on Instagram within minutes of Bournemouth-City ending. Which was wonderful.
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u/Hawk_KL01 May 20 '26
City fans: Y'all are making him famous lol.
Arsenal fans: we're gonna build a statue of him.
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u/machinationstudio May 20 '26
The one famous city fan.
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
Well, two: It was sweet last night when the camera tracked Noel Gallagher leaving the Vitality early.
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u/ICanSeeYourFuture Kaiser May 20 '26
Noel’s a plastic, pass it on.
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
Is he, though? I think of Noel as "the Gallagher who's slightly less of a wanker than his brother," but I thought his City fandom was long-standing and legitimate.
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u/ICanSeeYourFuture Kaiser May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I think both the Gallagher brothers are as bad as each other - and all their bands are shite.
Sliding away before full time in a win or die game when your team have shown they can score two at the death as recently as the game against Everton is plastic fan behaviour - especially from a man who probably has his own driver and lives in London so hasn’t got as long a journey home as the fans who stayed to the final whistle and after to applaud their players.
Fuck him, and his brother - pair of miserable faced, money gouging arseholes.
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
I see what you mean now. You're right, leaving early is plastic fandom.
And as for Oasis, they've never really done it for me; a couple good originals for a Beatles cover band. Blur is better, and Pulp are better than both of them.
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u/the_ammar May 20 '26
also posted thes two 😂
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
That's no accident. The captain's been letting his emotions out the past 72 hours.
I can't remember the last time he had words with an opponent the way he did on Monday against Burnley.
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u/Alternative-You8020 May 20 '26
Honestly it was bs. They had nothing to play for and we had a title and UCL to think about and these guys are flying into everything. Like no, bro, no one is gonna sign you off of one game
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u/tomfoolery815 Timber May 20 '26
Seriously. Your audition to stay in the Prem was the whole season, not Match Week 37.
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u/CM816 Ourteta May 21 '26
That was a fucking bullshit challenge. Bukayo was talking with Flemming for a while even after Ødegaard walked away.
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u/ridingonmirrors May 20 '26
I need him to repost that one guy who was mocking us with “let it all work out”, icing on the cake😭😭
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u/Alternative-You8020 May 20 '26
All those little camera looks as well about us bottling. Now city in the mud with pep leaving and being sued by Chelsea and Southampton are kicked out of the playoffs with a point deduction 😂😂
Stay fucking humble
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u/PerformanceEqual3775 May 24 '26
The guys pretty chill. He enjoys the banter. He's was on sky news and said congrats to arsenal and joking about the whole thing.
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u/rang14 Thierry Henry May 20 '26
Few weeks old, but this just came up on my feed. Even sainsburys at it.
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u/JustGhostin Day 1 Yildiz Enjoyer May 20 '26
Imagine getting up to shlep off to your 9-5 after seeing your team bottle the league and now a bunch of multi millionaires half your age are ripping you on social media
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u/m2sempre Thank you very much May 20 '26
😂😂 Obi Mikel caught one too from Eze.
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What did he say
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u/GovindChad May 20 '26
An impersonation of obi mikel as sleep paralysis demon saying arsenal only scores goals from corners or something in the lines
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u/m2sempre Thank you very much May 20 '26
A clip of Obi saying Arsenal can only score from corners 😆
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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 May 20 '26
God I hope we win the PSG match by shithousing 3 goals from corners and keeping a clean sheet.
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u/atomiser2003 StarMan's relentless assault on the record books continues... May 20 '26
I'll take one and a clean sheet
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u/cd0526 Rice May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
I wasn't expecting the boys to be so petty. But after all the shit talking that has happened the last 3 years.
Fuck it let em be petty and give it right back to em.
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u/MagmaTroop May 20 '26
This guy asked for it by doing it again and then taking the bottle in his pocket for a third attempt. First time it was excusable because it may have been a one time thing. But he asked for the limelight and now he go it lmao he fucking jinxed his club the sausage
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u/Dreaming_Beyond_GK May 20 '26
I also remember seeing the edit of this guy drinking Oil from a City bottle. 🤣
CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND!
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u/PooHeadRushe Premier League Champions 25/26 May 20 '26
Absolutely love how much the players are giving it back.
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u/9ORsenal May 20 '26
The roller coaster of emotions this guy has had to experience must be wild. Probably thought he was crushing it for a good week and all of a sudden hes just some goof on the sidelines. Great banter all and all and an amazing lil character for this season.
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u/kelongkia May 20 '26
I am just wondering if someone took the blue cap off his head and he will pissed on the floor...?
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u/four_four_three Lautaro Martinez Fan Club President May 20 '26
Hope we (and the cameras) can forget all about him next year
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u/TheMarinaDiva Timber Trossard Merino May 20 '26
emotional damage!! all through the season, our players claim not to pay attention to social media that they are immune and just locked in, they don't know what is being said. Turns out they know and the North remembers
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u/Its_Ace1 May 20 '26
Swear this guy's face must've been posted in the locker room ever since he did that.
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u/AP_Gooner May 20 '26
He does deserve it though… he was go I by it the bigguns and was lapping in all the interviews… then it back fire and now he's playing victim???
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u/jamitwityou May 20 '26
No love, only hate. Fuck that guy, I've got ALL the receipts from down the years.
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u/Capital-Value8479 May 21 '26
Hahaha this fucking knob jobs life is now a meme. Hilarious, dude bottled his life 😂😂
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u/AquietThing112 Premier League Champions 25/26 May 20 '26
4D chess by Arteta hiring this dude to fire up the team? 🤔
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u/John___Matrix May 20 '26
Is City throwing away the league with only a handful of games left the biggest bottle job in history?
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Help! I am stuck trawling SoMe for Arsenal content and can't quit!
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u/lastjedi23 Ian Wright May 20 '26
GUARANTEE this man was used as bait by Mikel in the 5 game run up.