I was just so disappointed by our form through Aug-Oct.
Don’t get me wrong, I watched the occasional game here and there, but I wasn’t planning my weekends etc around games like I’ll usually do.
Such a deflating season even if we finish second - AGAIN.
This. I think I was done re: the title before Odegaard even got injured. Even with a fully fit squad, we’ve been playing shit football.
Credit to the team for being 2nd so far, cause I genuinely thought we’d finish 3rd (still could tbf).
I didn’t expect to be 15+ points behind though, especially after Man City’s decline.
3 games into the season after 2 wins and a draw? 
Was just about to say he got injured in September lmao
hehe yeah too soon, likely a little while after.
We probably would have made some sort of run, but ultimately it died the day our only top tier forward tore his hamstring off the bone at Crystal palace just before Christmas.
I’m surprised to here how many people simply just turn their backs on watching us when a title is unlikely, up to each individual how they value their time though, but yeah find it somewhat surprising.
Surprised at myself to be fair. When we were finishing 5th to 8th I was there watching every game, even if we were playing dogshit football and had nothing to really aim for.
Aren’t you a dad now compared to then? Probably makes a difference on how you want to spend whatever free time you have.
I’ve been watching but I haven’t been paying the greatest attention, the biggest issue for me is the football this season. Outside of fantastic results vs City majority of the games have been one big blurry blob of repetitive, boring, complete snoozefest. Admittedly it’s a bit of of a privileged position but that’s how I feel about it. It’s worse the stakes are gone and it’s still boring.
Yeah I’m not a nutter that has only missed 10 mins of premier league action all season, which was the final 10 mins at Bournemouth after they scored the penalty.
I watched every game religiously of the previous 2-3 seasons and I think the bitter taste of being pipped to it by Man City right at the end became too much so when we started getting injuries in September and playing like shit I just couldn’t be fucked.
At least the other seasons where I was watching every game we were in it to the very end.
Think I’ve only missed two games this season because I wasn’t able to watch them.
Having Viaplay makes it very easy to watch. They show every domestic Arsenal game live. And for CL I have a different provider which is free.
But it’s been hard, not gonna lie lol. At some point I expected us to get a red card or a VAR fuckup in every match.
It feels pretty unjust that our 36 month body of work last 2 years in the league and this season in the CL will likely result in nothing in regards to trophies.
The thing is - there is very little that you can do about that Man City monster hunting you down. Losing two nil at home to Newcastle, losing to ten man United in the FA Cup and our embarrassing Europa League exits to Olympiakos and Villarreal are unforgivable. You cannot be a top two team in the Premier League ( and by default top ten team in Europe) and have no trophies to show in three seasons. Unforgivable
Yeah I think that’s why I’ve felt so deflated and demoralised this season.
Same old Arsenal, just with a slightly better veneer.
This is what’s frustrating to me too.
I can understand not winning a league title because of the juggernaut, but there is no way it can be used as an excuse for whimpering out of every trophy.
We’ve had like 18+ trophy exists since Mikel took over. We should have at least 2-3 domestics.
But we have zilch. Nada. It doesn’t make sense given what we’ve spent.
Tbh I don’t really care about the domestics much or a 2nd rate European comp.
The last 3 years have made me dream big, I want a PL or CL, average teams can win domestics or Europa League titles, average teams don’t win the league or CL.
Winning a domestic cup or two won’t make me feel much better if I’m being honest.
Yeah I agree. Saturday > Wednesday is not that brutal, we should play (at least) 60 min with the XI we want to start against PSG.
But doesn’t winning those smaller domestics build that winner’s mentality? I feel like we don’t have that yet.
Didn’t Man City/Liverpool etc start by winning the smaller domestics before the EPL? It helps to build confidence that they can do something bigger.
Still watched almost every game, always tell myself I cba with the PL games then end up watching anyway…just can’t not.
I get the thing others are feeling though and had it a couple of times this season (post Everton 0-0 and West Ham 0-1). League cup is usually only the comp I have no real energy for til it looks like we might win it, even then I wanted us to prioritise the United game this year.
Funnily enough will miss the bmouth game as we’ve not managed to have a ‘couple date’ with my best mate and his wife for almost 12 months now, so finally prioritised something else