My love of Arsenal, like the love of anything in this life, comes from a mutual and unspoken respect. The reason why fans suffer with a club, is because the club used to suffer with them.

Win, lose of draw, the manager, the players and the fans were in it together.

That has long since been lost from football, especially in the top flight. You can identify with something that doesn't give a fuck about you in return. In the same way you don't admire a theif or a bully.

My connection with Arsenal has been more about friends and family who have a shared affiliation with the club, these last few years. My connection with Arsenal is only there because of the past.

Much like any money orientated, plastic product designed to placate mindless couched potatoes, Arsenal has become everything I hate about modern society. The one thing that kept me watching was that hope that the team would somehow cut above that sewer of corporate slime and do it for me / us.

Sadly, those days are gone too. How can you love something that doesn't give a fuck back? That's what really hurts. Results are just results.