Arsenal.com sticking a massive middle finger up at the media

[Özim]

so basically we are moaning now cos the clubs website has tried to stick up for its fans getting a whole load of shit from sky etc for not turning up?

Fans aren't getting stick for not turning up, the attendances have been pretty good all things considered. Besides I think everyone would understand why people wouldn't turn up, prices are sky high, the football is rubbish and the summer was shite.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Fans aren't getting stick for not turning up, the attendances have been pretty good all things considered. Besides I think everyone would understand why people wouldn't turn up, prices are sky high, the football is rubbish and the summer was shite.

they are. the whole fucking media were on it laughing baout how the fans werent turning up etc. the clubs website then tried to defend them. theres stuff we can moan about but the website defending its fans isnt one and is in fact quite good. at least its an attempt to show the fans they care, just like with the refund. they didnt have too but they did

[Özim]

As if any other club website isn't slightly partisan. Also, if you mean on the match report, I don't believe they say what you say they did. Certainly they did not 'spin it round', there was a slightly optimistic feel to it but there was an acceptance of it being a pretty awful day.

Only slightly......really?

I'm not sure how you can be optimistic after being battered 8-2, well unless you're as lacking in observational abilities as a certain Mr Wenger that is.

Anyway it's not just the optimistic stuff, it's just the content is very lame generally.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Only slightly......really?

I'm not sure how you can be optimistic after being battered 8-2, well unless you're as lacking in observational abilities as a certain Mr Wenger that is.

Anyway it's not just the optimistic stuff, it's just the content is very lame generally.

Well it just said the season is still in its formative stage, which is true but probably not what you want to be reading at that time. A lot of the good content is hidden away, or left untouched, for obvious reasons - like the History section for example but you can't keep re-reading it I suppose.

[Özim]

they are. the whole fucking media were on it laughing baout how the fans werent turning up etc. the clubs website then tried to defend them. theres stuff we can moan about but the website defending its fans isnt one and is in fact quite good. at least its an attempt to show the fans they care, just like with the refund. they didnt have too but they did

From what I've seen it's Wenger they're laughing at, not the fans.

[fakeyank]

The Liverpool game was sold out. It started pouring rain so people scarpered from the first 8-9 rows. Well all of them did except for Adzz who turned up at the Pins looking like a drowned rat. I explained this when you raised it the first time a few weeks back.

Things are bad - no doubt about that, but there is no need to bullshit things worse than they are.

I dont remember you quoting me so my bad about not reading every post on GW religiously! I do not understand why fans would scamper away at rain falling on a summer day but thats not part of the discussion. If I got the facts wrong about the Liverpool game based on watching it on TV and not reading all the messages on GW, I do apologise. I still do stick with the part that attendance are on the lower side and it will only get worse if the performance of this season continues!

[fakeyank]

Desperation to praise our supporters? This is strange. The club is supposedly run by people who could not care less about the supporters, an article is put on the website though perhaps not entirely accurate, it's at least nice to see the club thanking those supporters that went to the game. There are a lot of things to be het up about, articles on the website of this nature are not one of them.

The statement posted on the website says this too:

I guess that's another nefarious attempt at brainwashing Arsenal supporters.

Oh the club loves it supporters when they spend the $$. If the board could kill a fan and make money off of it, I am sure they would. They are realizing that things around the club are not all rosy so they trying to goad back the supporters..

As for 'hettin' up about this, I am sure most on here could care a F less about this article until it was brought on as a thread where it seemed like we are against some sort of gross media injustice. The only injustice Arsenal fans are suffering right now is from the manager and the board.. media is doing its job like it normally does.

[Coney]

The Liverpool game was sold out. It started pouring rain so people scarpered from the first 8-9 rows. Well all of them did except for Adzz who turned up at the Pins looking like a drowned rat. I explained this when you raised it the first time a few weeks back.

Things are bad - no doubt about that, but there is no need to bullshit things worse than they are.

Yeah - I met him on the way to the Pins and he was wetter than a Letters joke.

Wet Adzz.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Oh the club loves it supporters when they spend the $$. If the board could kill a fan and make money off of it, I am sure they would. They are realizing that things around the club are not all rosy so they trying to goad back the supporters..

As for 'hettin' up about this, I am sure most on here could care a F less about this article until it was brought on as a thread where it seemed like we are against some sort of gross media injustice. The only injustice Arsenal fans are suffering right now is from the manager and the board.. media is doing its job like it normally does.

Right so your objection to it now is that someone posted about it, yet otherwise you couldn't care? A couple of posts ago you were saying they shouldn't be posting anything on the website!

Anything they do is going to be treated with cynicism, clearly.

[Niall_Quinn]

Who gives a fuck what the media think.

Yep.

Who can blame the club for being positive? We want them to be positive at least, even if they can't translate that into anything tangible. And who can blame the fans if they are negative. Everything is normal, even the media which has to make shit up because their sponsors won't let them reports any real or useful news.