Arsenal not thrilling because opposition are ‘dog turd’, actually…

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Arsenal fans are riled again after some other football fans said their team was not great to watch. Not sure why they care.

Arsenal fan wants F365 shut down for not being kind to Arsenal

Do you reckon there’s a chance that Ofcom may be receptive to shutting down Football 365? Or wiping the absolute dross you and your writers pour out of your mouths 50-100 times day off the internet?

Coverage of the premier league at this level should be material, add some acceptable dialogue to the discussion; and generally speaking, not prop up the team that has dismantled and made redundant the league we all love and cherish. In my opinion.

I took a quick scroll through the X feed for the day and it’s filled with click bait reports with zero credibility. Very very few likes on any of them.

I’m not surprised you have to take the low road, like so many of your peers in the space, and attack Arsenal for clicks. (Still, not many clicks at that.)

Be better. The media world would be a better place without you.

Best Regards.

Every Arsenal fan around

(You seem to have confused the Mailbox with the F365 writers and X with real life, fella. Oh and clicks aren’t measured in X likes. Apart from all that, great mail – Ed)

> Arsenal are rotten – led by a cross-country runner in Declan Rice – and almost as offensive as Manchester Cheaty… 📬 https://t.co/Vhr0EzKExm > > — Football365 (@F365) October 19, 2026

Arsenal fan says sorry for your teams being sht

Oh, as an Arsenal fan, can I be the first to apologise to rivals that their own teams are dog turd. I understand that it must be frustrating to watch Arsenal do the bare fundamentals and win, but that isn’t Arsenal’s fault. If you are incapable of beating us, that’s on you. If your team can’t keep a clean sheet, or worse, keep our awful attack out, that’s on you. Especially with our awful attack. If you don’t prioritise a clean sheet, you’re gonna concede.

And for the entertainment purists, we have close to a decade of playing ‘open and expansive’ football under Wenger, and we got humiliated, regularly. We would go to our rivals’ grounds and get spanked. We were the banter club. We aren’t anymore. In fact, I think that is what upsets United, Spurs or Liverpool fans, they know they have spent a king’s ransom, they know that they should be doing so much better, but they aren’t. Again, this isn’t Arsenal’s fault. You may call Rice a cross country runner, but he’s joint top with assists from open play this season. Sorry if you find that fact boring, but it refutes this idea that he is scamming a living.

As for goals, I’m a child of George Graham’s Arsenal, 1-0 to the Arsenal is my blood type. Would I like to be some free flowing rock and roll football, sure, who wouldn’t, but the next best thing, actually the best thing, is winning. And we win more than we lose now under Arteta.

You should all take a long hard look at your clubs, how they are run, what they prioritise, and your performance. Arsenal isn’t the problem, its you. Your clubs who don’t come to play football. In fact, the one team that matched us, beat us comfortably (credit to Brighton, they were excellent).

So yes, dig in lads, it’s gonna be a long season for you.

John Matrix AFC

…Quelle surprise, more brainless abuse for Arsenal’s style of play, especially from usual suspect RHT/TS x. I agree that the first half was dreadful but this was not Arsenal’s fault.

Forest are a decent side (as they showed in the second half) and were at home for a late afternoon kick off – perfect conditions to create a tough atmosphere you would think. Instead, even their striker was 20 yards inside his own half at all times. We had 80% possession away from home. They had clearly been coached to do absolutely nothing in the first half so they could then change things at half time in the hope of nicking it late on.

The second half was better a) because Forest tried to play counterattacking football and b) because it’s hard for teams to successfully park the bus against us for a full 90 (see Lille also). You might say ‘well Arsenal are the much better side, it’s their problem if teams park the bus – they need to find a way to win regardless’. Fair enough. We did. But watching Arsenal try to play football while the opposition doesn’t is rarely going to be entertaining.

If you want to be angry, be angry at Glasner and just about every opposition manager (even cheaty Pep parked the bus against us last season for the first time in his career), not Arteta.

Much love.

Simon Cochrane

…After reading the submission by Andy H, Swansea, I was wondering what he thought Arsenal should actually do? I will assume he has noticed that nearly every team Arsenal plays uses a low-block against them. It can sometimes look like a game of attack v defence.

I’d be keen to know how Arsenal are supposed to play? Do they simply lob balls into the box and hope that within the 15 people already in it, that it lands on Kai’s foot and like the parting of Bonnie Blue’s legs, a massive space opens up for him?

Maybe Arsenal could simply yell ‘charge’ and run head first into the penalty area?

Maybe they could ask the opposition very nicely if they wouldn’t mind not sitting back so much, and if it wasn’t too much trouble, perhaps letting them score?

It takes both teams to make a game. I accept that Arsenal can look a little laboured against a deep defence and that there are a lot of sideways passes. But this is needed to try to draw the opposition out of position.

Teams are happy to ‘park the bus’ against Arsenal because in most cases, if they don’t they’ll get comfortably beaten. I can completely understand this tactic. Many teams know that they’ll need to frustrate Arsenal and then hopefully catch them on the break or maybe nick something from a set-piece. This is completely fair and has always been thus. Do what you need to do.

Declan Rice doesn’t look as dynamic as he used to at West Ham, because West Ham were/are sht and nobody needed to defend deep against them. Therefore he had space to run into.

I’m sure Arsenal would love to have space behind every defence they play against. We could get back to the flowing football of some time ago. But then they’d just keep winning and people like Andy would say ‘why do teams give Arsenal so much space?’.

Like Andy, I wasn’t enthralled by Sunday’s game. However (and I’m guessing he isn’t an Arsenal fan – can’t be arsed to check back), I don’t really give a sht. We won. I’ll take a boring 0-1 away win for my team, any day of the week.

If you’re that bored Andy, I’m sure Swansea has loads of sheep to go and bother.

I’ll grant you that City sometimes do a little better against a low-block, but then if you cheat the system, you can afford to attract someone like Haaland.

Stu – Gooner in France (Bordeaux town centre was quite lively on Saturday!!!)

Forest nearly scored a blinder, mind

Having watched Murillo turn Arsenal’s defence inside out with seconds on the clock, and then have the absolute sticks to leather the finish for spectacle, XgSOT be damned – I wondered aloud to my half/not-interested spouse, “was that the best “goal never scored” for a few years?”

Utterly useless point that it probably is to think about – I remember Cheick Tiote having a thunderbastard ruled out because of an inconsequential offside, and a famous one that used to do the rounds on VHS compilations of Best absolutely owning Banks in the 70s only for the goal to be disallowed softly but that burst of skill, and choice to totally beef it at the top corner is up there with the nearlys, Id say

Is it even fair to chalk disallowed goals alongside near misses? Obviously another classic unfairly disallowed is the Mendes blinder hit on the volley at Old Trafford

Curious with the ATL/BTL lot have in their memory files – wondering if the world needs a Puskas opposite contender for best “goal never scored” – and slowly trying to recover from an absolute cank of a cold as I let the night nurse take hold.

All the best,

Harold Emerson Hooler

Carrick not the solution or the problem at Man Utd

Man United were poor against Leeds but they weren’t as poor as they have typically been so far this season. You could characterise that as an improvement, I don’t, but you could if you were really trying to be kind.

The problem with this improvement is firstly that Leeds were still the superior team but more importantly that it was achieved by the same three at the back system that got the last guy sacked less than 12 months ago. When you’re whole reason for having the Man United job is improving results by immediately ditching the previous maligned formation and system it then looks terrible to reach for the security of that system to rescue your job.

I couldn’t make up my mind on Carrick last season. The warning signs were definitely apparent as the teams underlying stats steadily diminished and luck went his way too many times but there was a steal to the team during that run, a simplicity of instruction which played to our strengths. Both of those positives have disappeared and he’s grasping for a solution.

Though we can’t really blame Carrick in all this. He’s just another name on a long list of causalities, another victim of poor management. What makes a great team is a clear vision, adopted totally and driven forward ruthlessly by those at the top, uncaring and unyielding in the face of setback or scrutiny. They build on marginal gains which compound over time into sustained success.

I thought we might have had that for a time, when INEOS appointed Amorim then backed him with signing despite the general objection of fans, but ultimately United’s men in power are weak and more interested in protecting their own positions than achieving success. We are once again a team without direction or conviction. Performances on the pitch perfectly reflecting the shambles throughout the club.

Carrick isn’t up to the task of managing this United team but I’m not sure anyone is. The only way a manager could counteract the crushing incompetence of United’s hierarchy is by achieving immediate success, sustaining it with a run of luck so prevailing that people start to question whether they’re still in possession of their soul, then having the force of character to wrest control away from the limp functionaries above them.

I don’t think a person capable of this actually exists and let’s be honest, if they did United certainly wouldn’t hire them.

Dave, Manchester

On Man Utd, Liverpool and more…

On Man U/sarcasm:

I don’t know why Carrick’s in the line of fire…

Man U have lost just 2 games all season, one to Man Cheaty FC (where it was a close game), and one to a Brighton team that’s high flying and pulling a Leicester 2016…

And to the miserly part owner, I have a brilliant and cheap proposal to engineer an uptick in results. Just pay me $100k consultation fees. Sack Carrick, appoint Ole as a temp manager. There you go. (I’m probably not the first, and won’t be the last to suggest this).

Check the record books: Man U’s record under temp managers is incredible. Ole, then Carrick. Ole taking over from Jose Moany: P19, W14 D2 L3. Win Rate 73.7%. First Utd manager to win his first 8 games. Engineered a 2-0 first leg deficit to win 3-1 away vs the future UCL repeat champs (er, 6 years in the future).

And next season, sack Ole first game of the season, appoint Carrick as temporary manager. Rinse and repeat. Better yet, to avoid compensation costs, just appoint them as temporary until the end of the season. What better way to save on hiring and firing costs?!?

And on to LFC:

Turns out Carra wasn’t really right. Barcola and Wirtz aren’t useless, especially Wirtz. Wirtz has recently upgraded himself… he’s now a 9-figure priced … flat track bully! That’s still more useful than Viktor … who’s an 8 figure… bench fixture (or not even). Wirtz created 9 chances recently against Brentford, who’re a tidy competitive team. So maybe, just maybe, this 23-24 year old still-developing player is indeed getting more acclimated to the EPL, albeit glacially. Still reminding myself that Pires was useless in year 1, Henry scoreless for 12-14 games etc… And thank you Klopp… as long as Wirtz produces internationally, we’ll be able to get some money back should we finally decide to sell him.

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