National League side Southend United beat Forest Green Rovers in the semi-final to play Oldham at Wembley for a place in League Two . Why do you ask? Did anything else happen?
Yep. Your rivals conquered Europe. You did have another season of threatening to challenge for trophies, though. That’s all you’ll ever do under Arteta.
Conquered Europe is a bit of a stretch. They won a competition we were too good to qualify for. PSG/Inter will have been the ones to have conquered Europe depending on who wins that final. Fair play, Spurs won and we will see the 4th worst team in the league this season play in the Champions League next season. And I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me to see them end that 17-year trophy drought, while we go 5 years with no trophies. But I was feeling far worse when they played Liverpool in 2019 - so, as long as that situation never happens again, I can withhold anything football throws at me. We won 5 trophies in the time Spurs were on that 17-year drought by the way .
For amusement purposes, and because spurs winning something drove me to find some way to tarnish their trophy in my head… I got AI to work out the relative strength of the Europa leagues over the last few years by averaging out the uefa club coefficients of (a) the teams that made the last 16, and (b) the teams that the winners had to play to get through and win it. Both of those averages are significantly lower this year than in any previous Europa league, by quite some way. I only did it as a joke and to get out of doing some marking. But it’s actually objectively true that UEFA have made this trophy significantly worse with their changes to the CL, yet kept the prize the same. Wonder how long they’ll keep it like this. I bet the CL playoff losers will be back in it before too long. The top dogs at UEFA can’t have watched the Europa league this year, and that final in particular, and think it’s working in the current state. They must have done those sums too surely.
Was the worst final I can remember. The quality of the Europa was always mediocre at best but now with the expanded UCL - Its a nothing trophy. .. and the conference League is just laughable at this point.
Spurs winning a major European trophy has gone down as expected. Get rid of Arteta and you could win it one day, perhaps.
Dunno. You’ve got more posts on here from rivals trying to bait Arsenal fans into caring enough to respond than you’ve actually got Arsenal fans responding.
Oh brother, honestly, I think it does go under the radar just how embarrassing this result and performance was. We fielded a full strength XI against a mediocre Man Utd side, who then went down to 10-men for 60 minutes, and we struggled to break them down, only to then get KO'd on penalties. We even got gifted a penalty in normal time from a Havertz dive and still didn't take advantage . We could have had a good chance of winning the FA Cup this year if we'd gotten through that tie like we were expected to.
