What's this? What are you on about now Letters?

Why do I post here? I could give you an extremely in-depth response to that, but I already have in the body of all the posts I have made here. In short though, because it's better than doing shitty, species sapping work for money. Banter, a laugh, to get information that isn't pre-packaged by money whores in the sports media, to get other opinions, etc, etc, and so on. Loads of reasons, but mainly to avoid shitty, progressively pointless, species sapping work.

Or are you asking why I support Arsenal? Because I have done, do now and will do in the future. I think you are suggesting that if I don't derive pleasure from a bunch of scummy profiteers hijacking the club, and a loser of a bloke managing the team then I ought to give the game up? What's the logic behind that idea? What would happen to the club if we all pissed off the minute it went into a slump? This is what through thick and thin means. I doesn't mean you have to like the thin bits or approve of them or put a smile on your face and feign love for them. Plenty of fans have decided that nothing changes and everything to do with the club is fairly pointless until Wenger leaves. They are right, of course, because the evidence bears that out. That's Wenger leaving, right? Not the fans. I have an interest in seeing this club do well again and start winning again. Playing decent football again. I haven't lowered my standards just because Wenger has lowered his.

You want to see me leaping around celebrating a crappy performance against a woeful Swansea, a game in which the one player I actually enjoy watching was hauled off because the prehistoric manager wants to average him out over the season to secure that coveted top 4 spot? Not a chance. I was 3 points and another shit performance and, as I have said before, a string of flat track bully outings doesn't make any difference to the final outcome. On the other hand, I enjoyed the first half against the chavs - just the first half mind. Probably (no definitely) because the performance was decent, I'd have enjoyed that even if we hadn't got the goals and even if we'd have lost the match. When there's something worth praising I praise it, when there's something worth pissing on I piss on it. Unfortunately we have Wenger here so just about everything is pissworthy, his fault, not mine. That's for sure.

I think the thing you don't get is that we've been doing this over and over again for at least 10 years now. So do I enjoy seeing us do the exact same thing again? Nope. And does that mean I have to stop supporting the club? I don't think so. Show me that rule in the book. Things will turn again, they always do. That's when the enjoyment will come again and I don't mean winning titles, I mean playing the type of football we all grew up on. That has to come back sooner or later, not just at Arsenal but all across the game. Otherwise the game will die. It can't survive for much longer pretending the frauds in the game today (both on and off the pitch) are fit to lace the boots of those who went before them. I include Wenger in that, although he places himself in the strange position of not being fit to lace his own boots. I don't know what's happened to the bloke, some sort of mental condition, but he's not driving me away from the club. Why should I allow him to do that?

As for yourself, if you have withdrawn so much from the club as you seem to be claiming, why do you run a fan forum on the Internet?