Quote Originally Posted by Marc Overmars View Post
This whole pro-wenger or pessimist thing is just +1 fodder for the faceless WUMs that we really are.

In real life if I'm talking to someone about Arsenal and they hold a different view to me, I don't bait them or try and mock their opinion. On here we're all guilty of poking fun at each other in an effort to, err, I dunno, win the internet?

When we do well Letters people feel the need to open their match reaction posts laughing at those who doubted the team. When we fuck up Zim people come out of the woodwork and try to say I told you so.
Another top post mate and if you don't mind I'll extrapolate it to the "Good" v "Evil" theme, which i think is what has really always played out on here and how some posters justify their "acceptable" animosity to certain posters views.

For one second lets imagine both parties now get what they now claim they all want- AW moves upstairs and a manager touted by the anti brigade gets appointed. Let's say he starts off well, the Zimmites become the "I told you so" good guys and the Letterites try not to react to the provacation and generally be happy. But then after a great start things start going wrong for the new manager and the club in general, which camp would you think would be likely to soliloquise about the good old days under AW and how we may have been to hasty to push him upstairs (effectively undermining the new manager and the club)? Role reversal I hear

It's funny and as you pointed out totally ridiculous as even though we all claim to be saying the same thing ATM this msg board is still totally fractured- I just hope it stays on the internet and doesn't pour out to the stands one day. Again MO, a great sensiblle post.