Jack Wilshire
Cesc Fabregas
I think it’s become par for the course in this era of football where a lot of players are overhyped. YouTube comps of some lad in Brazil, filmed on a VHS recorder playing in a youth game with some 15 year old Twitter nerds proclaiming he’s the next Messi. Media and pundits putting huge pressure on someone like Rashford who is bench fodder for any top team.
Van Dijk, whilst a worthy PL CB, is waaay overrated.
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He was a Top Tier CM. Gtfo 
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Couldn’t win his team a title though, even when all he had to do was not fall over.
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VVD. I saw Kompany suggest he was the greatest defender in PL history.
Gerrard. Was never the best midfielder in the Prem let alone Europe (like many suggested).
Giggs. At his peak - fearsome and gifted winger. But that peak probably ended at least 10 years before he retired and the accolades he continued to be showered with were largely undeserved.
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This is my main gripe with Giggs. People claim his longevity automatically makes him the greatest ever prem player.
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That FA Cup goal he scored against us is bloody over rated too. I could probably run the whole length of the pitch and get a shot in if no one tackles me too!
Its a brilliant goal in my opinion. Playing for ten men that late in the game against that defence and finishing against that keeper. Nah seriously top draw. Destroyed me at the time but its a classic.
I don’t really remember that game. I don’t want to remember it, lol.
I just remember listening to the first half of extra time on the radio and (in spite of the penalty miss), I must have heard Overmars having a number of chances (not sure if this is true)
I went to sleep at half time in extra time. Good f’ckin job, too
VVD should get credit for being in this era, as being a defender is very hard.
Look at Boateng.
Even good but not great strikers like Kane can rack up hundreds of goals, and have goal tallies in line with Shearer and Henry.
It’s tough for a defender these days. Which is why he deserves some props.
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Bit of a weird one - If tomorrow Arsenal ceased to be, do you think you’d give up on football or pick a new team to follow? If the latter, who?
Planning on giving up on the prem anyway but just watching the game in lower League’s.
Probably take in motd but CBA putting the time and effort into following someone else.
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I wouldn’t pick another PL team. I’d watch football though, and just carry on supporting Colchester – if they still exist post-pandemic!
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Yeah same. Couldn’t support another Prem side ever. I’d probably follow Ajax like I used to as a kid.
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Yeah I think I’m in so deep with Arsenal I’d really struggle to care about football again apart from the odd champions league game or international tournaments.
I’d probably start following AFC Wimbledon, as Wimbledon FC were my childhood club originally.
I’ve always followed la liga and serie a since I was young so wouldn’t stop following that tbh, but obviously, along with 99% of Arsebal fans I’d imagine, I could never support or even follow another top flight team
Did you switch clubs? :laca2:
Not an Internazionale fan/supporter but do follow them quite closely since the Adriano days. That would continue I reckon.
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Yeah! But only because Wimbledon FC were dissolved haha I used to go quite regularly, mostly the seasons where Wimbledon were doing a groundshare with Crystal Palace and playing at Selhurst Park. Our local dentist was the team dentist, so he used to get us tickets. Saw them play Arsenal, Leeds, Man Utd, and a load of other teams and I’m pretty sure I’ve posted my Efan Ekoku 97/98 kit (or 96/97) on here before.
(sorry for the wall of text, but I need to get it off my chest haha)
I moved from England when I was 10 in 2000 right before Wimbledon FC went into administration and ceased to exist.
My interest in football was tenuous at best from 2001 - 2005 (though I played for a local club and won the county championship for our age group twice with me as goalie 
).
It wasn’t until around 2006/7 that I got back into watching football. I definitely wasn’t going to support MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon at that point were still non-league outfit, I think they were Semi-Pro? So there was no way I was going to be able to legitimately follow them, especially not abroad.
It’s so weird, I remember the game that got me back into the Premier League as clear as day. It was the 06/07 season, and I was home alone for a weekend as my parents were away. I remember being fucking buzzing about having just a chill weekend to myself in my pyjamas, and I had just made a big bowl of pasta with bacon and pesto and had a nice cold can of coke. I walked into the living room intending to watch a film or something and the West Ham vs Spurs game was on. I said “what the hell, I haven’t watched 90 minutes of football in about 6 years, let’s see how it is” and it was that cracking game that ended 3-4 to Spurs with 3 goals in the last 5 minutes and Tevez and Mascherano were playing for West Ham (before all the dodginess had been unearthed).
Fucking hell I remember getting fucking INTO it and Tevez was tearing it up. Such a cracking match. That was the game that reawakened the fire in me for the Premier League. Started watching whatever random games were on on the weekends then.
Being a proud Dane, I wanted to support a team that had a compatriot playing for them and at the time the biggest rising star in football had just signed for a north London team… So I started watching Arsenal games, at first only to see Bendtner get 5 minute sub cameos but then more and more because I loved watching RvP, Fabregas, Walcott, Rosicky and all of a sudden I wasn’t watching Arsenal for Bendtner anymore, I was watching them for Arsenal!
I also remember, clear as day, the Arsenal game that truly lit the fire in me and got me hooked. It was the Liverpool vs Arsenal Champions League knockout game at Anfield where Walcott ran the entire length of the pitch and put it on a plate for Adebayor to score. God I celebrated so much and then when we lost in the dying minutes of the game, it was the most pain and emotion I’d felt in years - football and non-football related and that’s when I realised that I had really become an Arsenal fan.
It’s fun reminiscing back on those moments haha
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