@Astrealix @throbbingpens The Tigray crisis has killed WAY more people than the Russia-Ukraine war but gets very little coverage in the West, despite the efforts of the head of WHO to keep it in the public eye

@coygsu @Astrealix A sample of 1 is a very narrow base on which to insist there’s a problem with a process

@Astrealix @kleautviool I see Wrighty has a bust, a nice compromise, perhaps?
Personally, although I have VERY fond memories of Walcott’s Arsenal days, I don’t think he makes the cut for the sort of truly iconic status required to be made into a literal icon

@z2k_ @kilcal lots of bottom dwelling northerners forget the Shaky Isles are not less than 2 hours ahead of the Prisoner Island

@WorldcupCSR @Matt_Sams_314 @Astrealix That’s what I was thinking - a magnitude 25 on the Richter quake as Gooners the world over literally rofl. To borrow from Bill the Bard “tis a consummation devoutly to be wished” 😁

@WorldcupCSR @Matt_Sams_314 @Astrealix What would that mean for them if he said “hell no, I won’t go”?

@Astrealix @throbbingpens I like the 3rd kit, smart move releasing it when many will be desperate to expunge the nightmare vision of the away kit

@Astrealix I wouldn’t hold your breath, seems like the PL will do anything but

@Astrealix I don’t want to end up like 80% of #Arsenal Twitter, who are apparently all the greatest experts in football the world has ever known, and love reminding everyone of it. 😀

My other issue with Balogun though does relate to whether he’s willing to stay and fight - strength in depth is great for both injury cover & competitive drive within the squad, I find Flo an unknown quantity in terms of how well he fits into the team mindset Arteta’s building. If he does, great, no Auba 2, plz

@Astrealix Oh sure. My opinion is just that, and worth about as much as a tour of Spurs trophy cabinet.

@Astrealix @little_niggle I definitely see Elneny becoming a Colney fixture, he only signed a 1 yr deal on reduced wages so I don’t think selling him is a priority. I’d rather see Flo go, probably get more for him than Eddie

@Astrealix I’m not in the UK either, and the image was likely malicious specualtion, but the person in question must be in admin/coaching/ ownership etc to be old enough to have committed similar crimes 30 years ago

@gamblingblues @arsenalfc.social @gunners yeah, the 1990s thing rules out any active player. Twitter did have a photo of someone connected with Rice’s former team leaving a police station recently. That person would be old enough to fit

@I_am_the_grass But all uniformly vomitously awful. I am desperately hoping that sales of this nightmare pukefest are so bad that Adidas never does anything remotely similar ever again

@Astrealix @merc The extra “i” actually encourages saying the name properly though, it could be spelled Nwañeri for the same effect

@MutualityWSDEs @I_am_the_grass @bruv99 My understanding is that it’s
In
The
Know

but since recent events suggest none of them actually are, I’m going with
I
Think
Knot
😁

@poorlydrawnarsenal @Astrealix this is an example of how useful and important hyphens are - there’s a world of difference between “Reiss resigning” and “Reiss re-signing” 😁

@soycapitan451 @sabreW4K3 The rant was clearly clickbait, or rage bait, and of course it worked. Angry fans springing to his defence =engagement = revenue

@Figaro2x A bit too kind, possibly. The way the judicial system dehumanises and minimises sexual violence against women, coupled with the deep institutional misogyny of the Met means that when three different women take all that on to make the same accusations against someone, it’s a near certainty they’re telling the truth. And any man who does that to women deserves to be called MUCH worse than “trash”

@raumdeuter @poorlydrawnarsenal that’s fine. I don’t want to creat an account there for the same reason I didn’t join @arsenalfc.social on mastodon - so much of my posting has nothing to do with the greatest football club in the history of History, so would be irrelevant😀