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Good morning from London.
Obviously everyone’s focus is on tomorrow and the game against Everton, but I don’t want to write too much about that today. The final day thing is something Mikel Arteta has experienced before. Here he is discussing a game in which he himself was decisive, helping Rangers to pip Celtic to the SPL in 2003:
“They were telling us we need one more goal. Now we are okay. We need another goal and in the 94th to 96th minutes, it’s a penalty and we had to score that goal to win the title.
“So I looked around, nobody was picking the ball. I went and picked it up. The crowd turned around, they didn’t want to watch it. I scored and thank God I scored, and we won the league and it was great.”
I think if we have a penalty to win the league in injury time tomorrow, my brain would literally melt. It’s a circumstance you’d probably pay good money for, but holy-moly it would be terrifying. My Garmin watch would call an ambulance for me because of my heart rate.
The manager talked a lot about belief in his press conference yesterday, but I think all we can truly believe in is the inherent, chaotic randomness that makes football great. Most of the time you more or less know, but sometimes you never know, and that’s the thing. 60% of the time, it works every time. You know yourself.
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Meanwhile, Mohamed Elneny has announced he’ll be leaving the club in the summer, saying:
I’m here today to send you a message, to say goodbye and thank you for everything you’ve done for me, your love, the support and the kindness. I’m really going to miss you so much, you will be in my heart forever. I wanted to say how much I love you and how much you mean to me and I will never forget the way you supported me.
It’s no surprise, his playing time this season has been minimal to say the least, and as someone who is turning 32 this summer, he’s in the September of his career. But he is, as it stands, our longest-serving player who played 161…
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Publish date : 2024-05-18 07:17:54
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