Well I know I'm getting on a bit at 32 but not been included in the dinosaur category before!!
I followed Arsenal since '88 when I first started to understand the game really - and it's been a real journey - nayim from the half way line - still hurts like it was yesterday as does our CL league final loss- but it's the last few seasons have really not been enjoyable at all - and it's sad to feel deflated and even indifferent towards something that used to offer such a rollercoaster of emotions- am hoping there's a way out of the rut and Arsenal can become the club I once saw it as, not perfect, but all heart. maybe it's with dinosaur age, you just become a little more cynical, realistic, and accepting that what we had, we will never experience again.
Am calling it a night - far too depressing to think about.![]()
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.” Dennis Bergkamp
"I started clapping myself until I realized that i was sunderland's manager". Peter Reid
"Happy those, who can remain at Highbury." Jane Austen, Emma
Society is now one polished horde
Formed by two mighty tribes, the bores and the bored.
"After all, it was the Gunners’ goalkeeper who started the move that culminated in Thomas’ crowning glory. It was Lukic who, in injury time, decided to throw the ball out to Lee Dixon rather than lump it long..."
yeah that CC defeat was where it all began. we never recovered from that defeat. if we won the carling cup i genuinely believe it would have kickstarted a serious run and belief in our squad. players would have gained some sort of winning mentality and it may have opened the floodgates. instead what happened was that we lost and the team went awol. we hit rock bottom. players stopped believing in wenger and his policies and that was the point we should have departed. what we are seeing now is the dragging out of the inevitable to help the status quo milk their millions for every pound they can. we are nothing but a bunch of peasants aimlessly roaming the streets, compounded by the social elite above us who look down with disgust, sipping their fine wine and feasting on their banquet.
1991 i started following the boys. 8 years old with all my mates at school and ever since then i have been in love with this club. I was never your season ticket type, just could not afford one. Like you say we have seen bad times and amazing times.
Even at the Emirates the 1st 4 years were ok, i don't think i was expecting us to win anything big in that time as we were paying of the staduim. But for most of that time we played the best footie in the country. Now we don't even do that.
The days when Gooners use to shout "who cares about the league cup, its a mickey mouse cup". How times change eh. I suppose knowing we will won day win something again soon gets me going.
Pretty much all as bad at the other. Only good thing Dein did was keep AW on the straight and narrow. Though he did stilly things too, like trying to get us to play at wembely.
Giroud for not taking the pen for me...sorry I am a fan of his...love his movement, think he's a great addition and now he's scoring ... but...he came here saying 'he didn't expect to play, he thought he'd be a sub' just not the mentality this team needs to have let alone broadcast in public - and today, if he's to become a world beater, a risk-taker - he should have grabbed that ball from Arteta without a moments thought....sadly he is not going to be a world-beater - just a good player with another - 'accepting' personality.
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.” Dennis Bergkamp
"I started clapping myself until I realized that i was sunderland's manager". Peter Reid
"Happy those, who can remain at Highbury." Jane Austen, Emma
the old school dont put up with this rubbish. they question every decision and demand answers. they understand wenger built much of the standards we now expect but they also expect those standards to be kept, not used as an excuse to blindly defend wenger. we wouldnt be here without wenger but its no excuse to accept defeat and feel sorry for ourselves. for how many years do you pray an old dog learns new tricks? the same dog who had success almost a decade ago? we're sitting here complaining about a poor squad when there's resources to be spent. there are no excuses.
I know this may sound arrogant, but i really do think had we won that CC we'd have won the league that year too. Like you said players lost faith even if they are C***S. It showed we to Old Trafford got knocked out the fa cup. Not to mention that Cl game, where Cesc thought he was already on Messi's team and that Bendtner miss and RVP getting sent off.
Personally, i hope we win the CC and Wenger resigns, with some diginty at least, then we can rebuild.
I'll never give up hope.