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21_GOONER_SALUTE
Which is why WE all know that even if we signed Zeus this January (with thunderbolts being allowed) this AW's Arsenal (and last years one and the year before that.... blah blah) has no chance of finishing above even a schizophrenic Chelsea. Its the same way we all knew if not for Harry being Harry (i.e. being easier to flatter than a fillipino 14 year old), the Spuds would have deservedly finished above us last season.
No it doesn't, the truth remains the truth. Seriously, you lot really do my head in- I remember you Maccy going on for years about how we seem never to be able to finish above the Chavs with all their different managers and the rest of you crying daily how we can't compete with that kind of money. Then last season we finish above them (despite Chelsea still outspending us) and instead of you lot to be consistent and say it was probably a fluke, we were helped by the fact that we crashed out of all competitons early or that the league table doesn't tell the whole story- or honourably admit that you have always been wrong about money being the main reason we can't compete-you eat your cake and have it, do a song and dance and celebrate 2 irrelevant months where we are supposedly the third best team in the country. WTF!!! Do you guys really want me to bring back the old posts?? Where last season most of you accepeted we wouldn't finish above spuds, where everybody thought we'd be in shitcreek when RVP would get his annual injury in January or when in the summer we all suspected that AW making those early signings meant we were going to have serious outgoings??
I just don't get it- you all know the truth, you say it most of the time but then you get pissed off when the only guy who's doesn't flip-flop and says it in his usual dour way utters a word. Most of the time you dimiss his views with flippant arrogance when he's been the one that has been right the majority of the time since the inception of this forum (old and new). I mean most of you tow the company line, playing it safe like fans tend to do, while he's always been known for unbelievably unpopular but true declarations like "we will never win a thing again under this manager" "this player won't make it(even before he's kicked a ball for us!)" and so on. I don't think there is anyone of us who'd like to be the uncool kid in class for so long, but he does it over and over again providing something you lot can never seem to value-BALANCE- something we old 606ers cherished so much before those idiots hijacked that board. AFAIC you lot should be sucking him off, or at least if you can't stand his sourness (like I accept most gooners who didn't know him would find it hard to), I'd expect that after six years you would have learnt how to live with it by ignoring but still respecting it. There is no need to undermine him with pettiness (GB especially nowadays); debate him or ignore him with the respect a gooner deserves.