Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
You do need to be qualified to give a worthwhile opinion. Of course you do. I don't pretend we can actually make a difference to what goes on at the club. But there's a balance here that we're not even close to hitting. You'd roll your eyes at an idiot trying to blag his way through rocket science and that's exactly what I'm doing here. Nothing less, nothing more.

Opinions and discussions can exist about the state of your favourite sports team, but while knowing there are unknowns. This is Wenger's biggest gripe - that everyone's an expert. Maybe we don't need to have made 30,000 substitutions to know when he made one that didn't pay off. But when judging what's right and what's disgraceful, a bit of tact wouldn't go a miss. Here everyone's an expert about things they don't have a clue about and there's no grey area. Well, Letters is in that grey area and he's constantly attacked for it.
I know what you are saying, but it's entirely unrealistic to expect 99.9% of people to suddenly shut up and hit the books. That's not how it works. Only a tiny minority can be part of the game. The rest have to watch. Of course they are going to talk every aspect of it to death, that's the only participation that's open to them. Same goes for any fan based culture. Besides, it would be fucking dull if all footie banter was prefaced with, "referring to Carlos Kickaball's recent thesis on..."