Quote Originally Posted by selassie View Post
If it’s about ALL matters related to Arsenal why not go and support another team that satisfies your morals?
Support another team? Why? I can barely bring myself to follow along with what's happening at a club I've supported to varying degrees for decades. What could I hope to find by starting again elsewhere, given the trajectory of football? Maybe a club down at the very grass roots? It's possible. But then the Covid shit. The game's dead really. For the fans at least. Players are all mostly shit, most of them can't kick a ball. Governing bodies are milking it to the most ludicrous degree. Greedy pigs in the boardrooms. Merchandising, more focus on international fan markets than the local area. Players jumping ship every 5 minutes. Screaming headlines, flashing graphics - when nothing has happened at all. Cheating as a virtue. Loyalty for a price.

You MIGHT get an odd moment once or twice in maybe a month of football where something happens on the pitch and it grabs your attention. Provides entertainment. Different if you are into it to a professional level I suppose, it might be fun then to be watching shape, triangles, pressing, blah. But managers like Pep turned all that shit into a modern art form that doesn't look anything like entertainment for the average fan. Boring. Expensive. Culturally and traditionally adrift. Tribally bereft. Brash, swirling, spinning, empty shell.

It's what becomes of excellence and passion and endeavour and competition when a bunch of leeches descend with their nest and rot a thing inside out. When results are measured on balance sheets. All that's left is inertia and a residue made up of a billion fans' loyalty once it has been squeezed and desiccated.

Then there are days when I really don't like the game at all. It comes from remembering what the game was and comparing it to what it is. Am I wrong?

For a younger fan, I can get why this may not be the case. It's about perception. If you were never aware of what something was then you might be able to accept and even enjoy what it has become. You say it's the world in general and you are probably right, which is sadder on a grand scale. Or, it could me me getting older and cynical. Trouble is, on those rare occasions when a football match somehow escapes its shroud I can still recognise it and enjoy it. Very rare though. Like a ghost.