Arsenal is preparing for their final game of the Premier League season, and while many may assume there is little left to play for, there is actually a significant milestone within reach. When they face Southampton this weekend, the Gunners will have the opportunity to break a record that has stood for more than a century.
Record in Sight for Arsenal
Southampton have already been relegated and are now focused on preparing for life back in the second division. On the surface, it may appear that neither team has much at stake. Liverpool has already secured the league title, and Arsenal have guaranteed Champions League football for next season. However, a historic achievement is on the line for the Gunners.
According to Arsenal Media, Mikel Arteta’s men can become the team with the most consecutive final-day victories in English top-flight history. They are currently level with Liverpool, having won their last game of the season in each of the past thirteen campaigns, a streak that began in the 2011/12 season. Liverpool set their record between the 1907/08 and 1923/24 campaigns. Should Arsenal defeat Southampton, they will move ahead of Liverpool and become the outright holders of this remarkable record.
More than Just Pride
In addition to chasing a new place in the history books, Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya also has something personal to play for. He is in contention to win back-to-back Golden Glove awards, an individual accolade that would underline his contribution this season. This adds an extra layer of motivation to a match that might otherwise seem inconsequential.
For the players and supporters alike, ending the campaign with a strong performance remains important. Achieving a club record that has stood for 101 years would be a fitting way to close out what has been a largely positive season for the Gunners. Every player who takes to the pitch in Arsenal colours must recognise the significance of the occasion and perform accordingly.
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Wooohooo!!!! Lets keep braking these meaningless records. It makes up for not achieving actual proper achievements. NOT. What really does it matter?
Good luck Raya though I don’t trust the make shift CBs of Calafiori and Kiwior to give proper shield for Raya. Anyhow the Forest goalie also surely will concede v Chelsea thereby making Raya earn collateral benefit from that game of the week ties. End of the season always Arsenal are good because at that point they already know that they will not be winning the title and hence play without any pressure. What Arsenal don’t like is top dog status and pressure from the chasing pack.
Do we get a trophy for that? I would personally send Arteta an engraved clown 🤡 nose for his troubles. Hilarious how Arsenal wins the last match of the season. It’s not rocket science to know why. Mainly because all the pressure is off. Ghosting Odegaard will come out of hiding for this match
No pj, we don’t get a trophy, just like we didn’t get one in the 2011/12 season.
Keep the 🤡 nose, your mantle piece will be empty without it.
It would be a fitting way to close out what has been a largely positive campaign except the Spuds won a trophy ahead of us.
That just felt like rubbing salt in the wound.
Arsenal Media are really scraping the barrel if that’s the best they can come up with.
“How can we spin our underwhelming campaign Charlie?”….. “I don’t know Jim, but did you know we’ve been unbeaten on the final match for the past thirteen seasons”…”That’s it, put that up and show those spuds who the real kings of north London are, and maybe Just Arsenal will do an article on it.
I pointed this stat out yesterday in a post. The amount of personal records that have appeared on here over this season, all this to massage the manager’s ego. The fact that we’ve gone trophy less yet again, is trying to be covered up by yet more meaningless stats.
This season has been a terrible season for Spurs overall, but the one important stat they can produce is a TROPHY🏆.
Now there the kind of stats that I like. 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
Another amazing “BAIT” article for the usual grumpy Arteta Grudge Masters to chew on and soothe themselves..
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Goonster it’s not another “BAIT” article, it’s just another article the gloss over what has been an ultimately failed season yet again. But lets hide behind the injury’s shall we.
That lot down the other end of Seven Sister’s Road had their fare share of injury’s, but they found a way to win a trophy.
But don’t worry, lets just wait for the next suitable stat that we’ve achieved under this great trophy winning manger of ours. 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
When was the first and last time that you have never loved any “Arteta BAIT” article or comment? You and many other love for that. Isn’t it? 😊
And lets now get our over surface level, myopic sensationalistic groove on and try to point to Ange and Spurs as entities to aspire to. Right?
After 17 years of absolute nothingness, in a season that they amassed a gigantic (38 points), will finish in 17th place and have lost more than 20 games in the league. But a lucky one off Europe league cup win should get you all wishing we got Ange Postecoglu as our manager.
We have won about 4 FA cups in the 17 years that it has taken Spurs to won a single trophy. And have had at least 3 open bus processions / parades. But let’s now just become myopic sensationalists because spurs have won their first trophy in 17 years. 🤦♂️
Spurs and Ange have set the standards for all of us this season. Every single EPL club should be trying to emulate the MIGHTY Spurs and Ange from now.
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Goonster,
That’s your opinion and your more than entitled to it. But for me, this constant stat finding to big up the clubs so called achievements, is absolutely laughable any way you look at it.
And your right regards to the amount of trophy’s we’ve won in the last 17 years as opposed to Spurs.
And yes you can call Spurs win a fluke if you like, your words not mine by the way. But there manager took two seasons to win a trophy, 5 years on and we’re still waiting.
And before you mention the FA Cup in Arteta’s first season, for me that was with the two previous manager’s players.
In 5 complete seasons, we’re still waiting.
And all I’m saying is that the stats are always brought out to make it look more impressive than it actually is. But if that’s what floats certain fans boat, then so be it.
Rightly or wrongly, I hold this club to a higher standard.
It appears that others don’t. Which is their right also.
Derek, it took Wenger 18 years to win a trophy with just his players…
It did but he didn’t break up a trophy winning team, to not win another trophy. None of the team Arteta took over remains and his team fail year on year.
But didn’t Wenger also break up his own Invincibles team and we went 8 years without a single trophy?
And you believe that the squad and team that Arteta inherited and then dismantled shouldn’t have been broken up?
But those players were getting.oldet mate and had peaked
Also with the pressure to pay off the Emirates debt it was the last chance to get money for some
But weren’t the players that Arteta got rid off just poor jokers in general? They weren’t taking us anywhere but down. I don’t miss those 5-2, 4-0, 6-1, 6-3 hammerings that they got us accustomed to.
We had nearly no hope and purpose with that team. We were the weeping boys that everyone mocked daily. No one took us seriously as a team back then. Just making fun of us was the norm.
Arteta had to come in an play the same hopeless overly defensive football in order to win that FA cup. Exactly the same way Ange played in the Europa Final against Man United. But luck was on our side on that day like how it was for Spurs on Wednesday against Man United.
But that Team and this Current Spurs team all have one thing in common (very very poor). But cut games are one offs, anything can happen where the poorest / or small club can win a given cup.
Right?
My issue was he didn’t replace them
Most of the players that we sold were sold for a pittence.
@Dan
So you wanted Arteta to replace them with similar in quality mid table players that were mid table but could fluke a FA cup here and there while completely embarassing us in the league on a daily basis?
But he didn’t mate
It’s an old argument but he made us worse
He paid Ozil to sit at home and finished 8th ……
He gave Auba away and thought Eddie Nketiah could fire us into the top 4′
Like I said I don’t discredit his cup win at all but equally don’t think he’d remade the wheel lol
That’s why I said some were getting older and then peaked
But it was the last chance to get money on an Henry , Viera , etc
Certainly the wage bill was slashed
The Emirates debt was certainly an issue after the Invincibles though which played a part in our trophy drought
@Dan
Haven’t we destroyed the “He paid Ozil to sit at Home and finished 8th” talking point?
The “He gave players away for Free” talk?
So is that the same Ozil that got chucked out by Germany?
The same Ozil that we (Arsenal) paid to leave? Terminated his contract.
The same Ozil that Fenerbache were so deperate to get rid off? They terminated his contract.
The same Ozil that Istanbul Basaksehir couldn’t wait to leave? They also terminated his contract.
And even when we terminated his contract not a single EPL, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese etc Clubs were willing to take advantage. Shows you how rubbish Ozil was.
According to you that Ozil would surely have made a difference to us? 🤦♂️
And you can believe that that team was a serious team all you like. But the FACTS don’t care about ones own feelings.
And you can’t force other teams to buy nonsense dead weight players. It shows how poor the majority of that squad was. Mate no other teams were even attracted when we are even willing to sell at a 98% discount. And what did these players do after leaving Arsenal?
Aubameyang came back to the EPL after his Barcelona stint. How did he get on at Chelsea? And how much did they make from his sale?
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No mate I never agreed with that decision
@Dan
And thr Emirates debt had nothing to do with what the teams showed on the pitch.
Relegated Birmingham beat us in one Carling Cup final.
Little Swansea won the same Carling Cup.
Relegation Portsmouth won an FA cup.
Relegation Wigan won a domestic cup in the same period.
Recently Leicester won the flipping EPL title. They also won an FA cup in that period.
Crystal Palace just won their first trophy (FA CUP) this season. Etc..
Spuds have a brand new £1 billion stadium debt but have just won their first trophy in 17 years.
These cup wins are sometimes like a lottery. A poor or small team can win it while the odds favourite can lose.
I don’t know how that Cesc Fabregas era team failed to win any cup. They were good enough a team but luck was never on our side with them.
The Invincibles never won a single European cup.
But that’s how crazy Cup competitions can be..
Didn’t say that mate
Said the Emirates debt was one he needed to break up invincible team earlier then needed maybe
So Dan, our 2 biggest fees we received for invincible players was £5m for Cole and £14m for Kolo. Now only 30% out of any fees we received for players we sold was allowed to be used towards the stadium debt, so just under £5m went towards the debt.
All this players had to be sold because of the stadium debt is 🐂💩 really.
Sorry Dan, I forgot about Vieira and Henry, but even the 30% of their fees didn’t go far into the then £25m we had to pay at that time.
Oh mate I’m not saying it’s right
That’s why I don’t defend the Koronke Family
I’m just telling you what we were told
12 million for Reyes as well
Exactly Goonster. People seem to have short memories.
Btw, it was nine years without a trophy. FA Cup in ’05 and then the next one was in ’14.
@Goonster, I will inform you in my opinion Derek is some frustrated individual that jex wana have a go at arteta and the club in general if a trophy is not lifted. I get the pain but really bro, save yourself the stress and go support eg PSG, Munich, this clubs are guaranteed to win the league or cups every season. Kindly save your self the energy not to see anything good in the gaffer or the club in whole.
@Derek.
But that’s what football is all about. Not just trophies define a club. There is more to football than just depressing about trophies all the time. All Clubs go through tough periods but fans still remain. For example what’s the point of the small clubs that have no hope of ever winning any trophies? Should they all just despair and close down shop?
And these little silly club achievements / records are part of the general make up, history of any club. Since the EPL was formed back from the early 1990’s and technology became the norm, we have consistently been inundated with all kinds of silly / minuscule Stats about every club. Nearly each game you watch today the commentators will be reading off all sorts / kinds of stats / records are on would be broken if this or that team wins, loses, draws.
It’s been done and will continue to be done. It was done throughout the whole wenger era too. It does not only happen to Arsenal. Every club does it due to all these Tech / Data collecting companies that the EPL has given access to all the Historical information about every club.
But as I told you in different article yesterday. It seem like your brain is so far gone on the Arteta issue. You don’t like him and psychologically are bound to always find anything to be negative about because it Arteta.
As I said, we all are susceptible to this. Once we focus on into something, our brains will then be on the lookout for that particular thing no matter what. For example you are always looking for negative or try to turn everything into a negative because you convinced yourself long time ago that Arteta is a negative force at Arsenal. Even a benign Stat like this one you turn it into some sort of conspiracy that the club ia trying to pull on us in order to cover for Arteta etc..
You even tried to use Ange / Spurs winning their first trophy in 17 years as some sort of great achievement that should make Arteta / Arsenal embarrassed of themselves. The guy that has Spurs in the relegation zone (17th), on a massive 38 points and having lost more than 20 games this season.
And one more of these silly stats, Ange has broken Spurs own “Most defeats in a season” this season (21 defeats). But to some Arsenal fans that shows how competent / ambitious Ange Postecolglu and Spurs are.
And so can we now take away from Wengers own Titles / trophies because the likes of David Seaman, Tony Adam, Bergkamp, Ian Wright, Keown, Ray Parlour, Merson, Winterburn, Lee Dixon, were not his won players?
And were all the players that helped Spurs win the Europa Cup all Ange Postecoglu buys? If no so then are we allowed to take the win away from him? 👍😊
So Slot won the league with Klopp’s players but he’s been lauded like a god
It’s bloody hilarious to repeat this kind of thing as if it matters who’s players they are.
@SueP
It’s just unbelievable that we have to constantly listen to such ridiculous takes.
Imagine the depths some people are willing to go down to just to keep their deeply rooted dislike for Arteta going.
They have lost their sense of objectivity and rationality when it comes to Arteta.
It seems like many people have lost their reasoning capabilities.😊
I read other football club’s fans forums and the dislike for Arteta by our rival fans is also something else.
You can’t tell the difference between the vicious negative comments made by our rival fans about Arteta (Spuds, Villa, Newcastle, Man United fans etc) vs Our own Anti Arteta Arsenal fans comments.
Some of our own fans seem to detest Arteta more than our rival fans do.
It’s ridiculous and unbelievable. 🤦♂️🤦♂️
I love the stats coming in, on track and ahead, we keep the positives and work around the negative.
Another way to look at it though is none of Arteta signings have won a trophy
Wenger did
Now I don’t agree with this theory that Arteta FA Cup should be discredited in any way but equally lets not pretend it was 18 years of Mr Wenger using another team ( which I think you know deep down mate ).
In that 18 year period the majority were Wenger’s signings
But also those players that won him the FA CUP never gave us the optimism that this current team has installed in us. They have given us that feeling of competitiveness. We have challenged for the title with them. Reached that CL Semi Finals etc.
We now go into every season thinking that we have a real chance of winning the Title or any Cup competition. With the old team we were always worrying about 4th place, not being humiliated by the other big clubs (5-1, 5-3, 6-1, 6-3, 4-0 etc) embarrassing scorelines against us.
That’s the optimism.
The team that Arteta inherited got two managers sacked (Wenger, Emery and interim Ljumberg couldn’t get much out of them).
They would have also gotten Arteta sacked if the owners did not come to their sense and realising that may be the players were the problem and not the managers.
Isn’t it? 🤞🙏
Oh dear!!
It takes the spuds winning a trophy, for all the old wounds to be reopened, along with the same JA names arguing the same old rhetoric.
I’m living in the here and now, while respecting our history and every person who helped make it.
It’s Arteta’s time now and what Chapman, Mee, Graham, Wenger and Emery did or didn’t do, is completely irrelevant.
This and next season will be all about Mikel Arteta and nobody else – the spuds winning a trophy won’t affect The Arsenal in any way whatsoever.
I will always defend Mr Wenger when people try to discredit what he has done
If we can’t acknowledge the most successful manager in our history then we can’t celebrate anything
I applaud you for doing so Dan. He was our greatest manager and the Arsenal of today owes his tenure and successes within it as the catalyst to push forward at a time when oligarchs and oil nations were spending billions and buying success
Neither is it a treasonable offence at times (occasionally)to mention things that didn’t go so well either.
Everyone just gets so touchy