This disappoints me.
I'm almost hoping that we start the season with a 0-1 defeat at home to Huddersfield. Just for the sport of it, you know. :hehe:
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This disappoints me.
I'm almost hoping that we start the season with a 0-1 defeat at home to Huddersfield. Just for the sport of it, you know. :hehe:
wait until Sanchez leavesQuote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
How was your awards lunch? Did you get smoked salmon parcels followed by chicken breast?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
:hehe: Smoked duck starter, obligatory Chicken for mains and a strawberry something for dessert.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
we actually won the category we were entered for. nice afternoon but bad timing.
I think these Arsenal TV muppets have led to a misconception about the Wenger Out supporters. Most people seem to think they are a rabid, frothing at the mouth, collection of obsessive degenerates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
In fact, I think the overwhelming majority have simply lost interest, in both the debate and the club. If Wenger is being judged on his ability to generate apathy, he should be making a lot more than 8mil a year.
Why would you lose interest in a club you profess to love, just because it is not being managed to your liking?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Surely anyone who genuinely loves the club *should* be rabidly frothing at the mouth?
Indeed. Well done, Wenger. That "apathy" makes us over a hundert million quid a year at the Emirates' gate.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Didn't you say you refused to pay to watch His team play nowadays? That says it all, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Anyone who genuinely *loves* the club needs a life. I love my wife. I love my children. I love a vintage bottle of NSG with a wedge of aged Morbier.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
I enjoy supporting Arsenal Football Club and watching Arsenal play a game of Association Football. But I don't enjoy those things when I know what the outcome will be and I know this outcome because recent history and an understanding of probability theory means I know what is overwhelmingly likely to happen.
A bit of uncertainty would go down real well right now, Monty.
Wait until Wenger leaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
:shrug: I pay for my season tickets, I pay for my Sky and BT subscriptions. Why, I even pay for MotD via my TV licence.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I'm not sure what more you would like me to pay. Replica shirts aren't my thing, really. Sorry.
So presumably you think fans of middling clubs almost certain to finish no higher than midtable every year but still enjoy supporting their club are...what? Weird? Pathetic?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
With respect, and in all seriousness, this may well reflect the difference between the 'local' supporter and the foreign latecomer or, indeed, long distance fan. Those chaps one sees in Mumbai or Lagos are undoubtedly enthusiastic on cup final day when we win, but would, of course, desert us in droves if we were relegated, lacking as they do a real emotional and cultural connection to the club.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
NTTAWWI, of course. It's just a different view.
Not at all, the context is entirely different. In fact, the way I would support Arsenal would be different depending on the time I supported them. I had precisely no expectations from 69-72 other than the odd Cup run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
However we are now one of the 10 richest clubs in the world so I think it is reasonable to expect us to challenge for our domestic league title most years. To fail to do so 7 or 8 years in a row for the same reason is just really dull and doesn't leave me frothing even slightly.
No, that's fair enough, I reckon. Appearances *are* important though, as you know; in a war, it's crucial that the wrong sort don't get to control the airwaves, the images, the media generally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Just sayin'.
:thumbup: I'll buy you a drink at our first home game.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Yes, I think there is some truth to that. Although I would point out that I've lived in the UK for over 20 years, had a season ticket for 6 years (during which time we won precisely nothing) and was slightly obsessive about Arsenal during those years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
But ultimately, getting old dulled my enthusiasm slightly and watching the same thing year after year became dull.
I know, you think we've been mis-managed and should be doing better. But the fact is, we *are* now one of those middling clubs to which I alluded, guaranteed to finish no higher than second every season. So are you honestly claiming that if we didn't have as much money, your current interest levels would be greater?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
I'm sure ageing dulls the enthusiasm of most balanced adults, really, but the emotional response that comes from falling in love with the sight of that pitch when you were ten years old, growing up fighting (verbally or even physically) for your team at school every day, never really leaves you, I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
Excuse me, I am frothing at the mouth. Right now. This minute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
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Originally Posted by Sir C
So you want us to lose football matches. Makes you no better than the Wenger Out mob that took delight in Arsenal losing ;-)
'almost', a. I said 'almost'. :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Alberto Balsam Rodriguez
Well done on spotting the deliberate get out I gave you there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It'll be on the telly, no need to bother going.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'll see how the weather's looking :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo