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  For years, Arsenal’s identity seemed uncertain. The club oscillated between philosophies, managers, and half-measures — a familiar story in modern football where instant success is demanded but rarely achieved. Today, however, Arsenal stands as one of the most coherent and forward-thinking clubs in Europe. And contrary to popular belief, it didn’t happen by magic. It happened by method. The transformation begins with a simple truth Mikel Arteta learned under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City: **a coach can have the most brilliant ideas in the world, but without the right personnel to execute them, the ideas remain only that—ideas.** We see the flip side of this every weekend in Manchester United: a revolving door of managers, each with their philosophy, trying to impose a system on players who were not recruited for it. Talent exists, yes, but fit rarely does. Arteta returned to Arsenal with that insight etched deeply into his coaching DNA. And instead of rushing to prove himself,...

  A recent report about a judge in Canada asking someone to remove their poppy because it made others uncomfortable has sparked a question that cuts to the heart of who we are as a society. Have we lost sight of the meaning behind the poppy — and the reason we pause every November 11th? The poppy isn’t just a seasonal accessory. It’s a symbol of remembrance — a solemn tribute to the men and women who laid down their lives so we could live in freedom, pursue our dreams, and express our beliefs without fear. To ask someone to remove it because it makes others uncomfortable is to misunderstand what it stands for. The poppy represents sacrifice, courage, and unity — the very values that allow us to disagree respectfully in the first place. We may not be sending our young people to the battlefields of Europe today, but we are fighting a different kind of war — one against forgetfulness. In our rush toward modernity and sensitivity, we risk erasing the memory of those who made it possibl...

For the first time in years, Arsenal looks like a team not just chasing success, but engineering it — one clean sheet, one phase of play, one system at a time. This season, Arsenal stands alone in the UEFA Champions League as the only team yet to concede a goal after 4 matches— and that’s not by accident. Mikel Arteta is reshaping what it means to play modern football. For decades, the popular mantra has been that "the best form of defence is attack.” Managers from Cruyff to Klopp to Guardiola have built teams that pressed relentlessly, overwhelmed opponents, and accepted that conceding was simply part of the game — as long as they scored more. Arteta is quietly redefining that logic. His philosophy seems to be: “The best form of defence is defence — and the best form of attack is attack.” It sounds simple, almost redundant, but under the hood it’s a masterclass in balance, structure, and specialization. Arteta is building a team that is aggressively mobile yet tactically discipli...

  When Pep Guardiola once described Mikel Arteta as a “football scientist,” it might have sounded like a compliment wrapped in admiration — but now, it reads more like prophecy. The analytical precision, tactical experimentation, and data-driven decision-making that have come to define Arteta’s Arsenal prove that football science is not just about numbers; it’s about designing perfection. This season, Arsenal’s evolution under Arteta has reached a new dimension. The team’s structure and control in every phase of play — from buildup to press, from defense to attack — illustrate a side that has gone beyond intuition into calculation. Every pass, press, and positional shift seems part of an elaborate formula, refined and rehearsed until it becomes second nature. Arsenal are no longer just a possession team; they are a *control* team. Playing out from the back, once a risk-laden adventure, now feels like a clinical exercise in precision. Their high press suffocates opponents, forcing m...

In the endless scroll of social media, a recent Instagram video caught my eye—and ignited a firestorm of debate. The question, posed to men: "How do you feel about your wife or partner earning more than you?” Responses poured in—a mix of bravado (“It’s hot!”), defensiveness (“As long as she’s happy”), and quiet vulnerability (“It stings a bit”). It’s a timely question in an era of shifting gender roles, where women are outpacing men in both education and earnings. But here’s the problem: this is the wrong question—or at least, it’s only half the story. Nobody has ever asked women how they feel when their male partner earns more than them. If we ask men that question the women should be asked same. Right? We focus on men's behaviour when they earn more and have certain expectations of provision from them.  The real inquiry shouldn’t be about men’s feelings, but about women’s behavior. When a woman out-earns her male partner, does she respond with the same grace and support that...