Arsene to "rise above" fan nonsense

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

Did you ever think to ask yourself why people keep turning up regardless? Is it because they feel the team requires their presence or is it because they desperately desire to continually be plugged in to a hyperreality centred around a sports club in order to find some manner of fulfillment/entertainment? Why do Stoke and other pub teams have fans? They obviously lack ambition and have been mired in a near century of dismal failure. Why do those silly feckers who support them keep showing up? Is it for the quality of their football or is it to be a part of something, however shitty and pathetic, which offers an interlude from normal reality. You should consider yourself lucky to at least get to watch half-decent football on occassion in these interludes from your own personal reality.

Utter rubbish, akin to saying why would a rational person stick with a relationship when the other person fails to meet standards. I mean with this sort of reasoning we all should ditch our girlfriends who have now become fat and friends who've always been alcoholics.

I hate it when the totality o"f fandom are demeaned as mere zombies and that's the simplistic picture your unnecessarily condescending verbose post paints.

[Kano]

Utter rubbish, akin to saying why would a rational person stick with a relationship when the other person fails to meet standards. I mean with this sort of reasoning we all should ditch our girlfriends who have now become fat and friends who've always been alcoholics.

I hate it when the totality o"f fandom are demeaned as mere zombies and that's the simplistic picture your unnecessarily condescending verbose post paints.

no it doesn't

[21_GOONER_SALUTE]

no it doesn't

Oh then Tom please tell me what Dick actually meant?

[Unai Tea]

Oh then Tom please tell me what Dick actually meant?

What I meant was that fans support clubs, good and bad, because it fills a need they have to participate in something outside their normal reality. That's why they tend to stick around, even when things aren't necessarily so great, aka fat girlfriend and alcoholic friend in your analogy.

And my name's not Richard btw.

[fakeyank]

Wenger doesnt need to rise above fan nonsense. He needs to rise above his own nonsense first.

[Letters]

Do you think that's a clever post?
It isn't.

[fakeyank]

Do you think that's a clever post?
It isn't.

I think its very clever..

[Letters]

You live in America. The bar is very low.

[fakeyank]

You live in America. The bar is very low.

Its still higher than the UK..

[Letters]

QED.

The correct answer was "So is your face"

Thanks for playing though.