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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10h

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A month without an out-and-out LW is gonna be really tough. The football gods will always expose you if you leave yourself short in a position. Shame we couldn't just get to January... Obviously means more minutes for Eze, but also Noni and Max I think. Mikel is good at finding solutions at least

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very interesting, but debatable take. In global terms, despite the glut of titles*, Man City are now tainted to such an extent that their commercial value will have nosedived anyway; and it's not as if the PL would suddenly lose its main/only locomotive, like Serie A did when Juve were demoted.

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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This entire City story - and especially the last stories of Etihad, Burnham and Khaldoon’s diplomatic immunity - crystallises why states and state actors should not be allowed own clubs The longer it goes, the more chaotic it gets www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Why Andy Burnham has got it wrong on Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners

Andy Burnham confessed he would be ‘really concerned’ if Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners sold but, as Miguel Delaney writes, the prime minister’s view clashes with those inside football and a pressing nee...

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The Tuesday Club @tuesdayclub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We can see the year on year increase in M.City’s illicit funding up to £135m in 2018 but no info after that. Is there no authority with the power to compel them to be audited for all the years since? As if the dodgy deals didn’t continue. We hear about 9 yrs of cheating but is the reality far worse?

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I assume all the stop the boats thugs will be bravely donning their masks to protest against the early prison release scheme due to their heartfelt concern for women and children. Funny how they're more motivated to stop 'economic migrants' than people actually convicted of violent crimes...

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some interesting stuff on Sky this morning. Premier League clubs have to vote to expel City. Three quarters of them have to vote for it. 15/19. And already, off the record conversations with club execs suggest that they won't get to that number because of the negative economic impact of doing so.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The more I read about City and the incredible scale and severity of their infractions, the idea of them being allowed to compete in the Premier League at all feels ridiculous and untenable. They show no remorse or any indication of changing their behaviour - the PL can't risk them staying.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watch this in its entirety. A team went through their final 18 games winning 16, scoring 54, conceding 9. And it wasn't enough to win the league ahead of the biggest cheats in the history of world football. The following season, the squad was ridden with injuries due to this exertion. Farce. Get rid

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Mikel Arteta & Martin Odegaard address the Arsenal crowd after Premier League title heartbreak 💔🔴

YouTube video by TNT Sports Football

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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 30/09/2026

I just keep coming back to this. This was six months ago.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"The league said the commission had found City used schemes “to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900m during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules”. £900 million.

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Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why the ban on drinking in sight of the pitch at football should not be scrapped. #booze #football #wilsonsworld jonawils.substack.com/p/in-defence...

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stripping City of past titles would be the wrong approach imo. They were the best team those years. It happened. You can't rewrite history and pretend it didn't. The point now is to redress the unfair advantage they enjoyed while cheating for 9 years. Deduct points every year for the next 9.

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Ben Ray @benray78.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The thing I find slightly off about this whole episode is the way that journos are now rolling out the ‘the league’s reputation is in tatters, can it ever recover’ lined. As if any sentient adult hadn’t already applied an asterisk to everything City (and indeed Chelsea) won over that period.

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Andy Kelly @goonerak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let's not forget that before FFP, both Chelsea and Man City were given over £1bn of unearned cash by their owners to spend on players BUT that wasn't enough for them. They then had to cheat as well.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel sorry for City fans honestly. Imagine the greatest era your club has ever had having a great big asterisk over it... Everybody loses when something like this happens in sport. Don't particularly care what happens to them. The important question is how to stop it happening again.

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thinking even of this summer, and the Elliot Anderson fee's impact on every single deal to follow. It's hard to fathom how much this has altered everything.

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Paul Brooker @countryman100.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After these findings today, guilty on 114/115 charges, I’m so glad we thumped them by a seven point margin to win the league fair and square last season. With Pep. With their structure and roster after all the financial shenanigans. No one can say we only won because they were docked points.

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Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Manchester City greatest crime is warping reality and history for all football supporters. The dreadful irony: the only thing worse than the uncertainty of not having a verdict is having a verdict and realising that uncertainty is now all we have. ⬇️ inews.co.uk/sport/footba...

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The Man City verdict poisons an entire Premier League era

This is the butterfly effect, except the butterfly is a herd of elephants trampling over our previous concept of who won what and why

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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a huge stain on the integrity of what this competition is. This club has, according to the panel, corrupted the top league in the nation’s most-popular sport for nearly a decade and it took nearly a decade to deal with and it is still not over with appeal almost certain. A real mess

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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 Kai Havertz to leave Germany national team camp after suffering hamstring injury in 1st half of Nations League draw v Netherlands. Optimism issue sustained by 27yo Arsenal forward not serious but returning to #AFC for assessment/recovery 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...

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Arsenal’s Kai Havertz to leave Germany camp after injury, set for scan

The 27-year-old will return to his club's facilities, with optimism that the suspected hamstring injury is not serious.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Let's just wait and see about Kai. Not every injury has to be a 6-monther. Whatever the recovery time, 2.5 weeks of it will be during an international break, so that's something.

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David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨 Mikel Arteta agrees new Arsenal contract. #AFC manager into last year of deal but both sides aimed to extend since discussions started in spring; improved terms now in place for 44yo Spaniard & coaching staff also in process of renewing 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

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Mikel Arteta agrees new Arsenal contract

Arteta's existing deal was set to expire in the summer of 2027.

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YankeeGunner @arsenalvisionpodcast.com · 20/09/2026

Enjoy your international break

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What a game at the Etihad! Brobbey on a mad one!!

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sunderland outplayed Man City at the Etihad in that first half after Brighton outplayed us for 90 minutes yesterday The PL is just really different to how it used to be...

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Think today shows you should never have sacred cows or super villains in your squad. If Mikel had chosen to start Gyok, Merino and Zubi over Kai, Odegaard and Bruno we'd have said he was mad. But that was honestly the team I wanted after 15 mins when we had no exits and were losing duels.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Will be interesting to see if teams going forward look at what Brighton did today and see it as a blueprint to beat us. In theory, pressing the hell out of us in the knowledge we lack pace and counter attacking ruthlessness is a good way to go. But Brighton's press is also much better than most.

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Nick Wright @nickpwright.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Brighton won possession in the final third nine times in that game. It's the most by any side against Arsenal either this season or last season. Arsenal never got to grips with their intensity. #afc

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Really could've been 4 or 5. Really shocked by a) just how good Brighton are and b) just how little we've been able to respond. Will be very interesting to see what changes we make as a result of this. I'd bet good money that the next PL away game sees the return of the Rice/Zubi pivot.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

He won us the match last week and still bedding in so I don't wanna be too reactionary, but the way Bruno runs (or slowly waddles) around the football pitch is a bit concerning to me. I can't help but think about age curves... Was the £60m spend on him the best use of resources?

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wondered if a team would try and so this to us at some point. Brighton have gone super aggressive and given us space in behind because they don't think we have the pace and outlets to exploit it. They're largely right so far. But game state might change their approach. How do we use the bench?

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For what Aston Villa paid for Jackson, I wonder if we should've been in for him... Significantly better than Gyokores without having to pay a lot to upgrade.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just been thinking about Eze. While he does need to bring better performances, I think he's a bit unfortunate and has been messed about slightly. We spent all of last season developing him into an 8/10 and I think he was really grasping the role by the end of last season. Only to be pushed to LW.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Soft. Centre.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents voted over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby

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Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Carrick is going to get sacked but will leave United with one game per week from January onwards. An ex-player will take over and oversee a marked improvement with one game per week. They'll get the job permanently off the back of it. Wonder how next season goes.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Think it'll be something like this tonight? Kepa/Meslier Mosquera Salmon Konsa Hincapie Zubi Merino Dowman Noni Gyokores Eze

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Completely agree with Carragher's interpretation of Arteta's comments. I thought the exact same at the time. Winning a title earns you the right to say and do certain things. Mikel isn't a 'moaner' anymore - he's a proven winner with influence. People suddenly listening to what he has to say.

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Don't know a single person who wouldn't be able to determine what Ballard did for the pen yesterday with a single view. And don't know a single person who wouldn't say Enzo was "clearly attempting to play a ball" from an offside position with a single view.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know Utd are just midtable mediocrity these days, but that's a big win for City playing with 10 at Old Trafford. Only annoying thing about this otherwise hugely enjoyable start to the season has been their ability to match us stride for stride so far.

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It honestly feels cruel that Man Utd are forcing players like Zirkzee and Dorgu to play at this level...

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Big Red Arsenal @bigredarsenal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If the ref hadn't been so quick to reach for the red straight away there I think VAR could've reviewed, recommended a yellow for each and kept the game 11 v 11. Was handbags really.

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ashley Williams and Thomas Frank calling out Ballard playing the ref there. Nice to see some validation of what we all saw.

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Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 12/09/2026

Sunderland took an average of 22.5 seconds per throw in. They had 12 that took longer than 20 seconds, 5 that took longer than 30 seconds, and 3 that took longer than 40 seconds.

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 12/09/2026

How many Arsenal teams in the past have we seen who would eventually crumble in a game like that, with a crowd like that, with opposition like that, with a ref like that? We should not underestimate what a fucking tough nut to crack we are these days.

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