At least the club is spending some money.Originally Posted by Herbert_Chapman's_Zombie
At least the club is spending some money.
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The reaction last night at the stadium suggest folks are on the edge. It's also something that can't be glossed over. Boos ringing out load with empty seats is a massive statement.
All of it is part and parcel of any system that has money as the core focus. Who could have known that letting con-artists, crooks and human rights abusers into the game would have had a detrimental effect? Shocking and unpredictable turn of events.
Chuck in the corruption at the top levels, the piss-poor quality of the players and the football these days, the way Sky and the Media are turning everything into a soap opera, the irritating pundits... at some point you've really got to stop and have a serious look at what we're actually getting out of it as fans?
Someone jokingly described it as a drug the other day, but I'm wondering if that isn't actually too far from the truth? It's certainly starting to feel more like an addiction than something enjoyable. I'd be interested to know many people of here keep going back for more because they genuinely still love it, and how many are doing it because they literally can't walk away, and don't know what they'd do with themselves if they did?
I don't relate to any of those players now, they are from a different planet as far as I'm concerned. I'm decrepit enough to remember players wandering into the pub and having a chat (poor old Gus Caesar, he used to get some stick). Now they run you down with their Range Rover Cunt Edition Special, although they are never short a tweet expressing their undying love for whatever badge they happen to be wearing at the time. It's unpleasant to know you are being taken for a cunt but going along with it anyway. In any other walk of life I'd stay a million miles away from these twats. It's the past I'm hooked to, hoping the present somehow goes back to that. Impossible, this is what football is now and it'll only get worse.
Even if we did win the title, what does it actually mean these days? When you could afford to get into the ground and actually live the season with all its ups and downs that eventually culminated in communal/ tribal achievement then that was something. But this degraded football hidden behind spinning logos and pay walls and the chattering of utter morons like Robbie Savage, you endure it in the hope some actual football breaks out. A moment that can get you out of your seat. It's so bloody rare now. Winning the title would be like, yeah, that was good TV, well done the lads, whoever you are. It lasts a day, maybe a week if you had a good night out after. Then back to the transfer circus with "loyal" players demanding your shirt to carry on wearing the badge. Or hoping some obscene amount of cash can be thrown at some mercenary who always loved the club, if the cash is right.
Sounds like addiction to me. That's what it is.
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What you say about putting into manageable perspective is kind of the problem for me - I did exactly that, and I've found myself escaping into it less and less, and cutting off from it more and more.
Honestly mate, once you take even the slightest step away, you very quickly get a taste for having your evenings and weekends back, and it isn't long before you start thinking about all the better things you could be doing with your time. It doesn't mean you stop supporting your club, but you do slowly to come to the realisation that being an armchair fan isn't actually that bad...
Last edited by I am invisible; 03-03-2016 at 11:47 AM.
Yeah even if we win the cup I honestly wouldn't give a fuck. Some may spin it as progress but everyone (including the team judging from their comments last year) knew that this year was the year we went for the league. And with City, United and Chelsea fucking up it was there for the taking as long as we had a semi competent team that knew what they were doing ................................... ARGH it gets me so pissed off thinking about how we've blown this glorious chance. IT WAS FUCKING THERE!
The worst thing is that with everyone else improving we may have to go another decade at least without winning a title and also have to suffer the ignominy of seeing Spurs being more recent champions than us and suffer their rightful taunts. Fuck my life.
I think there's a Hollywood aspect to the outrage too. Crowds go crazy in one direction just as easily as the other, but it's temporary. All that's required for a reversal is a couple of wins. Somehow stumble on to this title and suddenly we are back to Arsene Knows Best. But the problems go a lot deeper and are longer term. When the title, or a cup or even a win starts meaning the same thing again to the club as it does for the fans then great, but for now these things are used to keep people on-board while the next stage of the piss take is developed. By all means boo and put some pressure on if you can afford to get into the place, but the real effect will come when the fans start hitting in areas that actually mean something to the club. Something that they have to address in order to proceed with their plans. Take away their earnings potential, or reduce it, by the simplest possible means and they'll hear that a lot louder than the boos. We already know what they make of the booing. The arrogant pricks are essentially calling the fans disloyal, "emotional".
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To be honest, even I have got to the point where the title isn't enough. With this squad we should be clear at the top, not desperately scrabbling around for a win and hoping teams like Spurs and Leicester drop points.
We won't win the title so we don't have to
Worry about whether it will be enough.
I just don't see any scenario in which Wenger would be sacked, and don't see any scenario in which he will go before the end of his contract.
That said I don't think he will get offered a new one and there will be an agreement between him and the board that Wenger has decided to call it quits.
I think he'll be offered a new contract. He'll take it, too.
NOTE: The location of this post has been moved and the thread title (which was previously Wenger is Leaving) has been manipulated by a notorious pro-Wenger moderator. What was previously a message that contained no profanity and made a comment on a real life event has now been manipulated by a deliberately provocative title. An old and crude propaganda and censorship technique.
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