Simon Jordan: Going away to a very difficult European team and getting a 1-0 win is the archetypal, Grade A European performance, that most teams would be given plaudits for. Yet, somehow, it’s being seeded as “it’s a hard watch, they’re edging over the line”.
by ID1453719
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I think I like this Simon Jordan guy
Fucking hell, hells frozen over if we somehow got this gobshite onside
Seems like it’s his turn to play the nice guy, usually a prick
It’s always our responsibility to play wide open football according to other fans and pundits. God forbid sporting or anyone else show up and try to play
That game was disgusting to watch. That is undeniable. We don’t look fluid or even competent in attack. Defense kept Sporting at bay for the most part, which is good but in no way was that a good performance. 30 seconds of good and 90+ minutes of ugly. The RESULT is fantastic, of course.
Most of the time in don’t agree with him….
If it were Bayern, Real, Atletico, Barca, PSG, or Liverpool against Sporting, headlines would read “[insert club name] get it over the line against a very strong Sporting side!”
If it’s Arsenal, headlines read “Arsenal barely manage to win against the weakest team in the Champions League”.
The media has an agenda because they know it will get clicks. Our fans will read the articles out of outrage, other fans will read it because they don’t like Arsenal. Simple as.
Simon is bipolar, but his only constant this season has been Arsenal are the best team in the league and deserve / should win. Granted it’s also very back handed.
That aside, talksport and online media pushed the narrative he is ‘shrugging off,’ so he’s basically arguing with himself.
100% the truth. And there are lots of folks in this sub who need to hear this too.
This isn’t a video game where you thrash everyone 4-0 and 5-1. Winning big things is extremely difficult. Sure, we didn’t look our best with rotated sides in cup competitions. But it’s time to get behind our club.
If you can’t enjoy a late winner away in the quarterfinals of the CL, I’m not sure why you follow football.
It was hard to watch, ngl
no one’s forcing neutrals to watch us lol they’re so obsessed that they force themselves to watch our “boring” games just to bitch about it
It genuinely was a hard watch though, I like to glaze us when we do well but we can’t ignore the past month or so.
Tbf it is kind of accurate when taking our performance in the last 2-3 months into account. We are making every single game a tight match regardless of the level of opposition
It was a hard watch and they did edge over the line just barely.
The performance was in no way “Grade A” but the end result was.
Simon is very much a contrarian, I don’t think he believes his own opinion but he recognizes there is a negative narrative and it’s easy engagement to boost Arsenal right now
will say it again. you know the general football discourse is fucked when simon jordan of all people starts speaking sense.
I wish I cared about anything in my life as much as you guys seem to care about what pundits and rival fans and whatever think about Arsenal. We won, who cares about anything other than that?
It’s embarrassing how thin skinned some of you are, why do you crave outside approval so much??
I mean we are edging over the line for sure. We don’t look to control the game at all for the last couple of months.
Somethings wrong.
Exactly what I said
Can’t we just be honest and say the two are not mutually exclusive. We are getting results with consistent non-convincing overall performances. If we get over the line in the EPL none of us will care one bit till next season when we will need higher standards.
It is too painful and boring to watch regardless of the results. If we win 10 epl trophies in a row playing this way it would still be painful and boring to watch.
It doesn’t mean if we are happy with the last minute winner, we can’t have fair criticism.
It can be both a good result, and a hard watch, because that’s exactly what it was. We can both be happy with the result and also acknowledge that our level of play needs to be much better to actually win our upcoming games
Whether people like it or not doesn’t change the fact we won the game.
Not an Arsenal fan, not sure why this popped up, but;
This is what comes with success. Or perceived success (nothings been won yet). Some fans can be so hard to please. Some have this idea that because you’re the best, you should be slaughtering all lesser competition.
City subs can be a cesspool if god forbid you only win 1-0 against a lower ranked team. Instead of celebrating the win, it’s oh we shoulda won 4-0.. I hate it.
Football can come down to the smallest of margins, it isn’t a videogame. And these people are human, not lines of code.
Crazy times when Simon Jordan is the voice of reason
The narrative is boring. Arsenal’s style of play is dictated by teams parking the bus. If you don’t park the bus then arsenal look alot more free flowing, but nobody wants to say that.
He’s right here but fuck him in general
Idk how a 10-4 result over two legs got normalized as a professional performance from both sides