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Hazbro
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Londoner. POC. ADHD. Not a YouTuber. Not that board games company either.
Since we now won’t be able to beat the goals conceded record…I’m curious what the most set piece goals scored in a season record is…

We’ve got 12 so far.

I’ve tried googling for the record, but can’t find it. Paging @orbinho.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I also think there’s a huge difference between “use the squad we have” and “blow off the cup and play the kids”.

It’s dismissive and entitled imho. City don’t do it (they got to the FA Cup final last year). Liverpool don’t (League Cup final the same year they won the title).

Why should we?
Been thinking about our lineup for Palace and think this is what I’d do. Not saying it’s what Mikel will do (he’ll likely go stronger) but I think this lineup is decent and doesn’t risk any “pillars” of the squad:

Kepa
Nichols
Salmon
Hincapie
MLS
Norgaard
Nwaneri
Eze
Madueke
Martinelli
Jesus
December 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Been thinking about our lineup for Palace and think this is what I’d do. Not saying it’s what Mikel will do (he’ll likely go stronger) but I think this lineup is decent and doesn’t risk any “pillars” of the squad:

Kepa
Nichols
Salmon
Hincapie
MLS
Norgaard
Nwaneri
Eze
Madueke
Martinelli
Jesus
December 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Remember how I said City were over-performing metrics? Here’s proof. Only two sides doing it more. Sunderland give me “Forest last season” energy, and their home form is incredible. Villa are doing typical Emery things. We’ve been there ourselves when he was our manager.
Premier League Points vs xPts - 2025-2026 Through Round 16
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This was shared with me by @harvestime.bsky.social and it’s genuinely heartbreaking and harrowing.

I’m glad to see family of the victims call out the far right rhetoric, the framing of the perpetrator to make him seem like a victim.

I’m also disgusted that he wasn’t banned for life from driving.
Discharged from the Marines for violence to his superior officer; biting off the ear of a sailor.. the perfect family man? He drove his car deliberately into the crowd, injuring over 100 people.
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The Liverpool Victory Parade – Paul Doyle sentenced
The day 'family man' and 'ex Royal Marine' Paul Doyle lost it during the Liverpool Victory Parade will stay with us forever
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December 17, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Look, I’m all for different opinions, but anyone trying to tell you we can’t play poorly in games and still win the league, but City can “bc Haaland”? Or “you can’t win the title if you lose to Villa”. There’s just no reasoning with that logic. Bc it’s not rational or logical.
For Christmas I’ve decided not to waste my time debating with people whose arguments lack internal logic.

Anyone who says “we can’t win the league if we keep doing <insert thing City, the team they think will win the league, also did>”? I’m out.
December 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
White guy does it and the media all talk about him being a good family guy who served in the marines and just lost his temper. They write think pieces trying to dissect what made him do what he did.

Brown guy does it and all they do is talk about immigration and blame his friends and family.
I don’t lose my temper that often, but I’ve never been inclined to drive a car into thousands of people when I have.
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
This reminded me that Aaron Ramsey (stop autocorrecting that!) was briefly their caretaker manager.

Anyone know what’s going on with his coaching career? He doing his badges? Is he currently actively coaching?
best of luck this evening to Arsenal great Calum Chambers and his teammates
December 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It should also be a bit of a heads up not to waste my time when they list lineups for this season with Neto on the bench.

You know, the backup keeper that left in the summer?
For Christmas I’ve decided not to waste my time debating with people whose arguments lack internal logic.

Anyone who says “we can’t win the league if we keep doing <insert thing City, the team they think will win the league, also did>”? I’m out.
December 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It’s hilarious how much retconning goes on among our fans.

We dropped points against Sunderland but at the time nobody thought we were particularly poor. We brushed Brentford aside with ease (with key players rested).

We play poorly against Wolves and now suddenly we were poor in both those games.
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Someone debated with me whether he was a talisman for this team in the same way as VVD was for peak Liverpool.

Think this answers the question.

I’d also love to know our percentage conversion rate on set pieces before and after his injury. The eye test suggests it’s way down.
Arsenal have conceded the same amount of goals in the last seven games since Gabriel got injured, than they did in the first 17 games in which he started.

Luckily for Mikel Arteta, the Brazilian is set to return before the end of the year.
December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
It’s amazing he’s catching flak for this.

Mick leaving the WWE, given how much it has meant to him, is like a child cutting ties with their parents. Read his damn book to see how big a deal this is for him to do.

You can tell the comments and replies from the people who don’t know him.
Pro-wrestling legend Mick Foley announced this morning that he's parting ways with WWE over the organization's "close relationship with Donald Trump," saying the president's "incredibly cruel comments in the wake of Rob Reiner’s death is the final straw for me."
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
After time to think about it, I think I’ve finally settled on why the decision to start White and the subsequent injury bothered me. It wasn’t just his own fitness, and his own fitness record, it wasn’t that Timber had had midweek off, in fact it wasn’t about a right back at all, but a left back.
December 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Do the people who post these “challenges” on the bad place not know anything about football or are they just lying about how hard these are to farm engagement?

Bc this took me like, 2 minutes.
December 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Whenever I see people say the current state of Britain isn’t what their ancestors fought in WWII for…

They fought against a man who was ethnically cleansing his country to make it more “racially pure”.

They fought against a man with the same ideology as those who now use their name in vain.
December 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So Chido left us just before we had an injury crisis up front and Heaven just before we had one at the back, both citing a lack of opportunity. Ironically if both had stayed, they would have had their opportunities.
December 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
But the left were evil and cheering for Kirk to be killed, right?

Here’s the president cheering the death of his critics. Will we hear the same moral outrage aimed his way?

Of course not.
This has to be up there with one of the most batshit insane things Trump has ever come out with.
December 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Inject this. We should remember when we were like this kid. When we just had joy and love for the game. We fucking won! Who cares if we were shit…let’s enjoy the win.

I hope the players and the manager are looking at our dip since Bayern but just knowing the characters they are, I bet they are.
December 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The last time we saw a front 4 of Saka, Havertz, Trossard and Odegaard play a consistent run of games together was the 18 game run two seasons ago, 16 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss. Yes, we finished second, but that’s only bc it took us a half season to figure out our best XI. Once we did, we were excellent.
The truth is, this is our best front 4. That’s not a slam on Eze or Martinelli who both have roles to play, but these guys are it.

At least until Kai is back.

Ironically our best attack is still the best 4 attackers we had last season. All of the new signings add powerful depth to the bench.
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This is a perfect encapsulation. Were we shit yesterday? Yes. Did we deserve to win? Probably not.

But we deserved to win at Sunderland and draw at Villa. And we deserved to win the title 2 years ago.

“Deserve” means fuck all in the PL. As Shia LaBeouf says, “Just do it”. The “it” being win.
The blood left my face at 1-1. They were shit today and didn’t deserve all three points. I guess it makes up for the Aston Villa and Sunderland games.
December 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
They really *are* gunning to be the worst PL team in history…
Lmao Wolves scored all the goals and lost.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
I stand by this. We didn’t deserve a win there. But we got it. And champions do just that.

Let’s look at what went wrong, figure out how to avoid that in future, but I’d much rather do that with 3 points than with 1.
We’ve been shocking. We absolutely don’t deserve anything here.
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This.

We were FUCKING AWFUL.

But we won. And there will be times in a title winning season you have to win ugly, have to win despite playing like absolute dog shit.

We should analyse why we were so bad and obviously try to be better. But if we do, that game will just be a blip.
“Champions find a way to win” - English media, were that Liverpool or City

Time to move on
December 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
It’s the season of Jesus!!!
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Wolves have had more shots on target than we have.
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM