Don't waste your breath Charlie.Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
The guys a troll plain and simple.
Don't waste your breath Charlie.
The guys a troll plain and simple.
Its cool he/she is on ignore now.
What i mean though is that Abramovich and Co. could also do the same. Abramovich has already made his money --- if he decides to flog chelsea an attach all the money he has pumped into it as debt no one in their right mind would buy it. I am sure he knows that.
Kroenke on the other hand could be said to be ensuring that his share value never diminishes. Who is the moneygrabber here?
Last edited by gooners; 18-08-2012 at 06:07 PM.
Always was.
I think if you accept that we're a feeder club and fourth place is really first for us, then half the frustration goes out the window. The other half (that we're the 4th richest club in the world) grates a bit but if you also accept that the club is run on very pragmatic lines and won't go bust, then that bit goes too.
Simples.
That would be true at any period in the past, but it's not necessarily true now. Depends if such a thing as Arsenal Football Club exists in reality any more. Yeah sure, the bricks and mortar are there, there are players as such, staff or sorts, owners (provided you can afford long distance calls), fans. But the love of what we grew up with, is that still there? Maybe it is for the diehards, although surely it has waned? There were diehards in the trenches of WWI too - fighting for king and country, something worth dying for. Right? And then there was the truth and a pile of bodies and wasted lives. Loyalty, honour, duty, through thick and thin - always thin for us but stiff upper lip.
There's no way I feel as much excitement about the game as I did in years (decades to be honest) past. There's nothing to believe in in this game any more, no heroes, no character villains (just the real ones like the racists and thugs), no fairy tales (the FA cup is one giant bag of shit), no Roy of the Rovers, no When Saturday Comes. It's just one huge commercialised stream of vomit with everyone drenched from head to foot and hyping the noxious fumes while holding their noses and averting their eyes. From crime ridden governing bodies down through the clubs who fly in the face of the modern struggle against economic depression, the miserable, soulless money automatons that have replaced the players, the revolving door managers - when does loyalty run out? Is loyalty an absolute regardless of the abuse? Loyal like a beaten dog? Where did this flawless adherence originate? From a hangover gained while drinking with the #9 from your boyhood team in the local boozer - him telling you how footie was great because he had a few quid more than you for doing what he loved doing? From the memoires of your father?
I remember sticking with the club through thick and thin. Remember it well. But I look now and I don't see a club any more. And I wonder, should I just be loyal out of habit? Loyal when there's nothing to pin that loyalty too? The red and white shirt - oh and now the blue bits too. Fuck that for another game of soldiers and fuck all the ****s who stole something good and turned it rancid. Scum that know the price of everything and delight in destroying as much value as they can. The fucking devil's spawn. Is it the trait of a glory hunter to point a finger at a fat, thieving fuck and demand it give back what has been stolen and debased? Maybe. In which case, after all these years, I'll take the tag of "Glory Hunter" and wear it without a blush. If that's a glory hunter then we need more of them - in sport, politics, economics, education. Enough is enough isn't is?
Für eure Sicherheit
I see what you mean. Well i havent actually read your post but im replying to the thread title.
I dont really care about players coming or going, that will always happen. What i do care about is players giving a fuck and today to go with last season and the season before, its clear they dont.
The players dont give a fuck about the fans and we feel no connection to them.
Football is at its lowest ebb it has ever been on in my 70 years of watching this sport. Oh for the days of Chapman and Mee
70 years
That's about it. Nothing new, been going on for years. But it can't go on forever without consequences.What i do care about is players giving a fuck and today to go with last season and the season before, its clear they dont.
The players dont give a fuck about the fans and we feel no connection to them.
Für eure Sicherheit
Did i spell 70 wrong?70 years
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote