Well personally I don’t think the whole banners during matches and flying of planes with messages attached is of any help other than focusing the media on the circus.
Before and after games is fair enough.
I would suggest we are actually a laughing stock at the moment. Just imagine the mileage we would be getting from these events in N17.
Of course if the Wenger Out enthusiasts were a large majority, and if they really believed that they were acting in the club's best interests in having the manager removed, we would fail to sell half our season tickets this spring and then you'd see a reaction from the owner.
Of course these people will continue to pay as if they have no agency in the matter, and then moan about what they receive for their money
Yes, yes, but this idea that football fans 'deserve' something, or are in some way different to consumers of any other product, service or entertainment, is just a bit silly. If they don't want Wenger at the club and if they don't renew in sufficient numbers, he'll be gone. But turning up every week and moaning about what they're watching is a bit silly.
And yet these fans demand the service they feel they have paid for in the form of results and trophies and whatnot, don't they? They feel they are entitled to value for money based on what they pay. The fact that they're too stupid to realise that the club can only charge what the market will bear and - as long as they keep coming back - that's whatever the club likes does not alter the fact that the market is still operating around them.
They are the anomaly and - as long as they keep behaving anomalously - they'll get what they deserve.
Last edited by Burney; 03-20-2017 at 03:19 PM.
On one hand you are insisting that market rules apply, and fans are just stupid versions of customers for coming back, but if those customers demand value for money, as customers do in every other business you lampoon this as absurd. Can't have it both ways, imo.
Perhaps a way to understand it is to recognise that the football club holds a monopoly over supporters of that football club.