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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    To be honest I can't understand why there's so many people who want to watch us, we play boring football and charge extortionate prices, it's not like we're great to watch and real entertainers and have a host of world stars like in the past.
    And yet you 'thoroughly enjoyed' the glorious 92/93 season when we won 15 league games (we've already won 14 so far...) out of 42 scoring a whopping 40 goals (we've already scored 39) and were known throughout the land as "Boring Boring Arsenal".

    You do talk a lot of crap and endlessly shift goalposts to suit your agenda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kano View Post
    Juventus' old stadium was falling to pieces and plagued by hooliganism, as is the case across Italy and still remains the case. It has never been addressed because the Government lack the balls and the owners are terrified of the hardcore fans that drive it. That is a huge reason why fans stay away in their droves across Italy, along with the corruption that still remains. Wimbledon had their highest ever attendances during the mid to late 90's. Even when they won the FA Cup in '88 the attendances didn't shift. By the time they left Plough Lane a decade later the ground was sold out. I'm not sure what your point is there. Chelsea's average attendance is near capacity. Again, I don't get that one.

    And you cannot seriously be using Carling Cup games as an example now. We are talking meat and bread of league games that fans are committed to through season tickets, which make up the large bulk of fans returning for most games and account for the group that then follow their team away.

    Going to Arsenal in particular is seen and sold as a 'luxury' experience, hence the rip-off London prices. The perception is that we play good football but in reality, at the moment, it is as garbage as all the other 19 teams in the league. Still, the season ticket holders go every season, watch nearly every match in the flesh or at the home and know fully well what they are paying so much for. There are no surprises in store for them but they still cough up. Fans aren't as stupid as their clubs believe them to be but they are allowing themselves to be exploited so they can keep watching and enjoying the game they feel is still theirs.

    Your stand point is from someone who bitterly dispises a football manager, doesn't watch many of the games (for whatever reason) and hasn't been to a live football game in God knows how long. So after a while your connection with fandom changes, which is normal, along with your understanding of the mentality of those who spend ridiculous money season after season to follow their club. An armchair fan can't always rationalise or understand just why fans keep going to games because the comfort zone at home wipes away a lot of that zealous commitment.
    Italian fans are football mad on the whole, there's obviously plenty of reason they stay away however if it's that tribal why don't they choose to go anyway, it's clearly not a logical decision according to what you're saying.

    As for Wimbledon, they had largely empty stadiums for years when they were in the PL, I can remember them playing at Selhurst Park with barely anyone there, people didn't like their route 1 football and thus they didn't have the same level of fans in the PL. As for Chelsea, I was simply picking up on a comment someone else made on here, it wasn't from me.

    The CC is less popular, but if a fan has doesn't make a logical decision then it would be odd they would neglect the opportunity to watch their team in this as well.

    I largely agree with the rest of your post, I just feel a lot of the fans now are not the hardcore group you talk about, which is why I don't really understand the waiting list for a club who don't spend on new players, don't win a lot and never change and don't really entertain anymore, perception has gone a long long way for us there's no doubt about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    And yet you 'thoroughly enjoyed' the glorious 92/93 season when we won 15 league games (we've already won 14 so far...) out of 42 scoring a whopping 40 goals (we've already scored 39) and were known throughout the land as "Boring Boring Arsenal".

    You do talk a lot of crap and endlessly shift goalposts to suit your agenda.
    Different times, there was none of this marketing spin or BS around, prices weren't astronomical and players actually gave a sh*t on the pitch and earnt their stripes, it was also unpredictable in those days, which it really isn't with us now.

    It's no shifting goalposts it's called being bored of the same old sh*t with Wenger in charge, he takes all the enjoyment out of watching Arsenal with his stale methods, refusal to spend, constant nonsense and refusal to change a failed formula.

    I know you don't like to hear it because to you Wenger is like a saviour and you can't imagine life without him, but it doesn't mean it's not true.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    LOZ, Wenger saying fans shouldn't miss a moment of happyness by missing the match, has he actually watched our football recently.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35560475
    He's making it increasingly obvious where his allegiances lie. He really is a bullshitter these days.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    He's making it increasingly obvious where his allegiances lie. He really is a bullshitter these days.
    Pretty much, he's not the good guy he likes to portray himself as, he chooses to support something rather than saying he has nothing to say as he doesn't set the prices, it's one big boys club where the all support each other and really don't care what anyone else thinks.

    People will always say what is he suppose to say to questions like this, there's a simple answer to this and yet he pretty much everytime prefers to stick the oar in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Özim View Post
    players actually gave a sh*t on the pitch.
    Yes, I can see how hard they were trying by winning 15 games out of 42.

    If you're bored of it then stop watching. LOL at the irony of you accusing someone else of "constant nonsense" though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Yes, I can see how hard they were trying by winning 15 games out of 42.

    If you're bored of it then stop watching. LOL at the irony of you accusing someone else of "constant nonsense" though.
    Just because we didn't win it doesn't mean we didn't try hard, we had far less resources and far less talent in those days and yet we still upset the odds and won cups and leagues. You associate what we have now, which are scrappy wins with effort, there's no effort in winning games you should be winning narrowly especially when you have far more resources than the club you're playing, effort is giving your all in a match, not scoring a couple and then congratulating yourself and then limping over the line when the opposition run you close.

    It's not ironic at all, I don't talk nonsense it's my opinion whereas it's kinda obvious he does, hence the reason make jokes about his interviews.

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    Two seasons previously we'd been champions, we weren't plucky minnows upsetting the odds, we were always a big club.
    I had a season ticket back then. We were bloody awful, they only bothered during the cups.
    Wenger does spout a load of balls, I'll give you that. But he's not the only one...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letters View Post
    Two seasons previously we'd been champions, we weren't plucky minnows upsetting the odds, we were always a big club.
    I had a season ticket back then. We were bloody awful, they only bothered during the cups.
    Wenger does spout a load of balls, I'll give you that. But he's not the only one...
    We did upset the odds when we won the league, Liverpool were the major force back then and anyone that overcame them did it as the underdog, not saying we weren't a big club but we certainly weren't the favourites and didn't have the same resources.

    We're bloody awful now to be fair so not much has changed other than the prices and nonsense after the match which we never had to put up with before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
    He's making it increasingly obvious where his allegiances lie. He really is a bullshitter these days.
    Exactly. It's blatant. We need to put to bed this idea that his hands are being tied by the Board. He's in bed with them from the sound of it and really taking the piss with fans.

    "Football is a moment of happiness in your life, so don't miss it."
    He can't be serious.

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