"You can't buy Class"??

[Joker]

PnG's comment in another thread (http://www.goonersweb.co.uk/forum/sh...l=1#post123012) is spot on, the "you can't buy class" taunts are ridiculous and brings to mind a club that's stuck in the past, revelling in past glories and deriding clubs trying to climb the ladder of success because they "lack class" (wtf does that even mean?) It's like public school snobbery, criticising working class people when they become successful, because their choice of clothes, jewellery etc is not considered "classy". It's ridiculous, at least City are trying to win the league, while we seem content with the balance sheet trophy. I'm a football fan, so what happens on the pitch matters more than these financial matters. Moreover, it's not as if our financial situation is so dire that we need to operate on this thrifty level just to stay afloat. We could have spent more money without jeopardising the club's sound business position, but that would require the people at the club to care more about football than financial stability, which none of them do (including Wenger).

So what if City's owners are foreigners (unlike our white, upper middle class former Etonians who seem to hold the supporters in contempt)? It at least seems they have ambitions that stretch beyond running a steady ship.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

PnG's comment in another thread (http://www.goonersweb.co.uk/forum/sh...l=1#post123012) is spot on, the "you can't buy class" taunts are ridiculous and brings to mind a club that's stuck in the past, revelling in past glories and deriding clubs trying to climb the ladder of success because they "lack class" (wtf does that even mean?) It's like public school snobbery, criticising working class people when they become successful, because their choice of clothes, jewellery etc is not considered "classy". It's ridiculous, at least City are trying to win the league, while we seem content with the balance sheet trophy. I'm a football fan, so what happens on the pitch matters more than these financial matters. Moreover, it's not as if our financial situation is so dire that we need to operate on this thrifty level just to stay afloat. We could have spent more money without jeopardising the club's sound business position, but that would require the people at the club to care more about football than financial stability, which none of them do (including Wenger).

So what if City's owners are foreigners (unlike our white, upper middle class former Etonians who seem to hold the supporters in contempt)? It at least seems they have ambitions that stretch beyond running a steady ship.

Mario Balotelli is an example of not buying class, he maybe a decent player but has not class whats soever and players like him will always cause frustation for his team.


Yes as a fan you want your team to win things but i rather they did it with a balanced team not because they spenft 500 mill on a team over however many years, that is hollow success.

Not saying AW should not spend money, but he does not have to go stpuid like the chavs and city have done.

another diffrence between us and city is that if they don't like a player they buy for 30 mill they can afford to sell him for cheaper us and other clubs can't do that.

Money has runied the game. Football is a business now and im mean in general thats why they game is going down imo.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Honestly joker, who gives a fuck!?

And why you've tried to turn it into a racist argument with your last paragraph is anyones guess.

Bottom line, if your so impressed by what city do then go and fucking support them. Arsenal are the best run club in the country, if not the world judging by the current financial state of affairs.

Arsenal FC: the best in the world at what it does

[BOBN]

well we all know arsenal fans are the most self-righteous about.

its at its ugliest when you see tippy-tappy nothing players like nasri, ramsey and arshavin getting sucked off at the expense of more productive players like walcott due to sheer football snobbery. but maybe thats changing for the better.

[LDG]

Fuck 'em all! Fuck 'em all!
Utd, West Ham, Liverpool (and City, the absolute ****s)
We are The Arsenal
We are the best
We are The Arsenal
Fuck all the rest!

[KSE Comedy Club]

well we all know arsenal fans are the most self-righteous about.

its at its ugliest when you see tippy-tappy nothing players like nasri, ramsey and arshavin getting sucked off at the expense of more productive players like walcott due to sheer football snobbery. but maybe thats changing for the better.

WTF?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Honestly joker, who gives a fuck!?

And why you've tried to turn it into a racist argument with your last paragraph is anyones guess.
Bottom line, if your so impressed by what city do then go and fucking support them. Arsenal are the best run club in the country, if not the world judging by the current financial state of affairs.

Arsenal FC: the best in the world at what it does

This, Guess Joker is still upset our boys beat his boys last week and cost them the keague more or less.

Its funny when he talks about bing spending billionaires its the City one he always seems to defend.

[milla]

Joker

[LDG]

The point is not really to do with money, and this is what Joker completely misses. Basically because he's a bit stupid.

The point, is about the way fans behave, and the way a club operates.

For instance, clapping the opposing goal keeper as he approaches the north bank, regardless of what team he plays for. That's Arsenal class. And just one of the countless, traditional things we do as a club.

The ever increasing number of City and Chelsea fans who march with their club, looking down on those like they previously wouldn't have dared, is not classy. They have no right. And therefore, they can fuck, the fuck. Off.

[Letters]

The point is not really to do with money, and this is what Joker completely misses. Basically because he's a bit stupid.

The point, is about the way fans behave, and the way a club operates.

For instance, clapping the opposing goal keeper as he approaches the north bank, regardless of what team he plays for. That's Arsenal class. And just one of the countless, traditional things we do as a club.

The ever increasing number of City and Chelsea fans who march with their club, looking down on those like they previously wouldn't have dared, is not classy. They have no right. And therefore, they can fuck, the fuck. Off.

And throwing obscene amounts of money around to try and win the league. That isn't ambition. What Wenger's tried to do - achieve success without going nuts in the transfer market in an era when increasingly it seems you need to in order to do so - that is ambition. And yes, to an extent he's failed (although in other ways he's done well to keep us 'up there' without breaking the bank) but I'd rather support a club who do things the right way than support a load of overpaid, here today, gone tomorrow mercenaries.