{"id":1434,"date":"2026-05-20T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:33:23","slug":"arteta-statue-demanded-after-arsenal-bottle-their-way-to-premier-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esport.com.ng\/?p=1434","title":{"rendered":"Arteta statue demanded after Arsenal bottle their way to Premier League title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Arsenal are Premier League champions and are now one game away from going down as the greatest side in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Also, could Stewie Griffin actually be Mikel Arteta?<\/p>\n<p>Send your views to <em>theeditor@football365.com<\/em>. To reiterate: <strong>Arsenal are Premier League champions<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal bottle it again<\/h2>\n<p>Even after City shat the bed at home to Bournemouth and then got edged out by Arsenal away, putting the league back into Arsenal\u2019s hands, Arsenal couldn\u2019t see it through.<\/p>\n<p>The draw against Everton and that 11 minute capitulation in the second half were a disgrace. Liquid arsenal. And tonight again, they give up the title with a whimper at Bournemouth, even after the league being in their hands with 5 games to go.<\/p>\n<p>City have an elite mentality that Arsenal can just never hope to match. As evidenced by Rodri telling a gutted Bernardo Silva \u201cit\u2019s not done\u201d after what you\u2019d expect to be a devastating defeat at <strong>Arsenal<\/strong>. That\u2019s the difference. Better luck next year.<\/p>\n<p>Second again ol\u00e9 ol\u00e9<br \/><strong>finbar, <\/strong><br \/><strong>Navan<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, did City bottle it?<\/p>\n<p>Yes. Yes they did.<br \/><strong>Eoin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I f***ing told you guys this whole time we were gonna win. I cannot wait to see the mails from all the rival fans. I am going to slowly sip your tears like a bottle (yes, the entire bottle \u2013 no pun intended) of Macallan 18.<\/p>\n<p>Last but certainly not least\u2026<\/p>\n<p>STEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! Come out and play, friend!<br \/><strong>MAW, LA Gooner (Have you guys ever seen the movie Reign of Fire with Christian Bale \/ Matthew McConaughey. This summer, we are going to be the dragons in that movie. And I guess in this analogy Stewie is probably Matthew McConaughey\u2019s character?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Build a statue for Arteta<\/h2>\n<p>First thing first, Build a Statue for the Man, to still have energy and belief to fight one more time after being a runner up for 3 seasons in a row is huge and it show how strong he is mentally.<\/p>\n<p>I hope we do kick on from this and maintain\u00a0 the same standard next season.<\/p>\n<p>To naysayers, continue to call us names, while we enjoy being Champion.<\/p>\n<p>Also, someone please check on STEWIE AND ALL THEM PUNDITS, ESPECIALLY\u00a0 THOSE FORMER MAN UNITED ONES AND The one Jon Obi Mikel.<br \/><strong>Lwazi, Cape Town<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Champions!<\/h2>\n<p>Well, we did it.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the City players simultaneously smelling our blood while breathing down our necks (is that even physically possible?), <strong>despite us playing the worst football ever seen from any team in history<\/strong>despite Arteta sabotaging his own players every match by refusing to sit completely still in silence, making them so nervous they couldn\u2019t perform \u2013 we did it.<\/p>\n<p><smartframe-embed customer-id=\"84d65181a95c24c4fea73e44b4e27a17\" image-id=\"ltKDUtNwXpJj\" style=\"width: 100%; display: inline-flex; max-width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back in the real world, we did it with arguably the worst injury record in the league, we did it while also reaching two finals, we did it playing better football than every team except City (e.g. I\u2019ve seen Liverpool and United multiple times this season and their football has been absolutely turgid), we did it in maybe the most competitive PL ever and Arteta has to take a huge amount of credit. We are no Leicester City \u2013 we\u2019ve spent a lot of money to get here \u2013 but\u00a0 since Arteta came in Arsenal have largely been a well-managed club from top to bottom with great recruitment. I remember when Liverpool won the league in 19\/20 a big part of me wanted City to win instead. As everyone knows, City cheated relentlessly and therefore to me everything they\u2019ve won is tainted by that. Meanwhile Liverpool showed us what Arsenal could and should be achieving simply by being a well-run club that buys the right players. I was jealous of Liverpool. And now everyone is jealous of us, hence a lot of the nonsense in the F365 mailbox\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The odds are against us beating PSG as their key players have played so much less football than ours (and they\u2019re a better side). But this team can go down in history as the best Arsenal side ever. One more game\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Much love<br \/><strong>Simon Cochrane<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>A conspiracy theory<\/h2>\n<p>Further to my earlier concern about Stewie, I am going to propose a theory: Stewie is Arteta! Bear with me, now. Arteta is known for stupid motivational tactics, e.g. playing You\u2019ll never walk alone at the training ground. You\u2019ve never seen them.both in the same room together. What better mind game to play than belittling yourself for 5 years on a popular, and formerly competent, website\u2026 we\u2019re through the looking glass here, people.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards again,<br \/><strong>Kieran Malone (Competence is overrated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations\u00a0Kryten, Blok, Adsaw, Robbins, and Rico! Enjoy your celebrations chaps, pleased for you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RHT\/TS x<\/strong><br \/><strong>(And good luck in the CL final, think you might need a wee bit\u2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Arsenal Groundhog Day loop broken<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s February 3!<br \/><strong>Mamoon Sharaf (not to worry Stewie, there is still a chance to bottle the Champions League final to give you sustenance for the summer).<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>F*** the police<\/h2>\n<p>Its a good thing we \u2018celebrated like we won the League\u2019 multiple times already, as Bournemouth have cruelly denied us that option now.<br \/><strong>Hats<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Welp, PGMOL can claim their well won title, and you cannot say they have not deserved it, they stoutly defended for Arsenal all season. (If I see one more 23\/24 Odegaard>Iniesta or Saka>Messi take online I am going to explode)<br \/><strong>Eli C. Toon Army D.C.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>We will be insufferable, and you will love it!<\/p>\n<p>Up the Arse!<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards<br \/><strong>Ronson, AFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Congratulations Arsenal!<\/h2>\n<p>The best team won. No matter what you say, no one else deserved it over the season.<\/p>\n<p>So will see a Stewie letter eating his hat or will it continue to be toxic?<br \/><strong>Paul McDevitt<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the however many years I\u2019ve been writing into the Mailbox, let alone reading it, I\u2019ve never quite looked forward to a Stewie email as much as I am tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations\u00a0to Arsenal. No matter what people say, if you finish top, you deserve to be champions.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m also an Evertonian priest, ministering in a massive Arsenal area. If we do enough on Sunday, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll ever have to buy a drink again!<br \/><strong>Aidan, EFC, Hoxton<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to VARsenal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris<\/strong><br \/><strong>NUFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Another letter to Stewie<\/h2>\n<p>Dear Stewie,<\/p>\n<p>Find the deepest darkest hole.<\/p>\n<p>And stay there.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, you did it. We love you.<\/p>\n<p>I believe. The rest of you, please, I implore you, complain.<\/p>\n<p>Delicious.<br \/><strong>Adam (I cannot believe this is real) Gooner in France. F365 reader since 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>And some more\u2026<\/h2>\n<p>Go on then, Stewie. I\u2019ll bite. Explain why this league title doesn\u2019t count. You\u2019re going to need 115 reasons.<br \/><strong>John, Chicago LFC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dear Stewie,<\/p>\n<p>Find the deepest darkest hole.<\/p>\n<p>And stay there.<\/p>\n<p>Mikel, you did it. We love you.<\/p>\n<p>I believe. The rest of you, please, I implore you, complain.<\/p>\n<p>Delicious.<br \/><strong>Adam (I cannot believe this is real) Gooner in France. F365 reader since 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Will someone please check on Stewie\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<br \/><strong>Kieran Malone<\/strong><br \/><strong>(Fair play to Arsenal, Martinelli is still a tw*t)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n        {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n        if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n        n.queue=();t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)(0);\n        s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n        'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '1399787394855675');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    <\/script><script>\n        !function(e,n,t){var o=e.getElementsByTagName(n)(0);e.getElementById\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are Premier League champions and are now one game away from going down as the greatest side in the club\u2019s history. 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