I don't go to matches in the 1st place. The protests tend to be people who do go to matches.Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
I don't go to matches in the 1st place. The protests tend to be people who do go to matches.
So?.....the protests are outside the ground, if you feel so strongly why don't you just go to the protests
Well I'm not there anyway filling up the seats and putting money into their bank accounts, if everyone did that they would soon change. Protests are IMO mostly for those who want to turn up for matches but aren't happy, the alternative (the better one IMO) is to stay away.
So how often were you going to Arsenal games before you became disillusioned?
Were you ever a season ticket holder for instance?
Would be nice to be able to afford to go to the games. Not saying I'd go, but it'd be nice to be able to afford that kind of lavish expenditure.
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Precisely, i could afford just about a season ticket but it would impact on other more important things i need to spend on.
But my point is when most of us hardly go anyway, pretending that we are enacting a meaningful boycott and criticising season ticket holders for not being as noble and principled as us seems daft.
Cocaine and hookers?
The money still pours into the club. Myself, family, friends, every time my son gets any sort of gift it has an Arsenal badge stamped on it and that "official merchandising" holographic tag. Which means it also comes with an Arsenal price tag - ouch! How many kids are on their mailing list I wonder?
I notice they do an excellent (and I mean excellent) job of marketing to the kids. The stuff the club sends is genuinely decent and excited hands tear open the boxes and envelopes. The membership pack is pretty impressive if you are 9 years old and understand nothing of the cynical underpinnings of life. And that's how it should be, of course.
But anyway, if you don't go to games there are still ways to boycott. But would you want to do that to a 9 year old?
These marketing bastards know the score and they pick their targets with precision.
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Listen this isn't about me or you, it's a general point about precipitation change, if someone wants change then turning up week in week out on time saying nothing isn't going to make that happen, it will have the opposite effect. The only thing that can make things change is if it's clear to the owner that the gravy train isn't going to carry on if things don't change.
And what i'm saying is whilst you can hope that fans will make more of a fuss, very few of us here are in a position to chide them for not doing so.
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