Random Arsenal Shit (When it's not worth starting a thread)

[Power n Glory]

I'd rather watch us than Chelsea and their prices aren't that different - their cheapest ticket is more expensive than our cheapest.
There isn't much value in watching top level football these days but if enough people are willing to pay it...

They are Champions. They compete and what are you talking about? Our cheapest season ticket is almost double their cheapest season ticket. Our cheapest ticket is closer to their most expensive.

This is what I mean by justifying bullshit.

[Kano]

Very little value at all and I resent the fact that this club is preaching this self-sustaining model as if it’s beneficial to the fans when it’s beneficial to the higher ups. The Chips’s and the Stan’s. Their attitudes at the AGM epitomises what’s wrong with the sport and I’d rather not see or hear about it because it spoils the illusion and I’m reluctant to part with my money to support such characters.

The billionaire invested clubs are rightly criticised for inflating the transfer market. But then you have to look at clubs like Arsenal who are helping to inflate the ticket and merchandise prices across the board.

Bottom line is, there is no escaping the corporatisation now inherent in football. Gazidis, Kroenke, Glaziers, are all there for one thing only. Beyond the current set of owners these 'companies' will only be passed onto similarly cynically minded people purising their own business interests. There are plenty of stories throughout English football from way before the PL began full of corrupt owners fleecing fans. The main difference now is that we live in a far more corporate world and there are multiple 'legal' ways of doing so without being chanted or abused out of the club by supporters.

[Letters]

They are Champions.

They might well be but I wouldn't pay to watch them play.

Our cheapest season ticket is almost double their cheapest season ticket. Our cheapest ticket is closer to their most expensive.

This is the table I was looking at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34507719

That gives our cheapest season ticket as £1014 and theirs at £750 - I don't know how many cup games theirs includes though.
Their match day tickets range from £52 - £87, ours £27 - £97.

Anyway, I'm not disagreeing that our prices are ridiculous.

[Power n Glory]

They might well be but I wouldn't pay to watch them play.


This is the table I was looking at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34507719

That gives our cheapest season ticket as £1014 and theirs at £750 - I don't know how many cup games theirs includes though.
Their match day tickets range from £52 - £87, ours £27 - £97.

Anyway, I'm not disagreeing that our prices are ridiculous.

So if we went back to a boring boring Arsenal style you wouldn't go to games? Is it the style of football that's being paid for? We haven't always played pretty football.

I can't watch Chelsea play but if I'm honest, I can't just watch any team week in week out if it's not a team I support. It's different when you're rooting for your team to win. A neutral will find the tie boring but when it's your team out there it'd not as boring. Even if watching them defend all game..

[Letters]

So if we went back to a boring boring Arsenal style you wouldn't go to games?

I don't go anyway but I definitely wouldn't pay the sort of prices I used to pay to watch boring boring Arsenal. It was so dire in 92/93 that dad nearly gave up the season tickets - the season was rescued by the two cup wins but I remember the games I did go to that year (it was my first year at Uni so it wasn't that many) being awful.

The thing about football - as Nick Hornby notes in Fever Pitch - is that you have no idea whether you're going to enjoy it when you go along. Go to a show at the theatre or a gig and you're pretty much guaranteed a good time (if you like that sort of thing, and if you don't why would you get tickets?!). With football, you might beat Utd 3-0, you might lose to West Ham 0-2 and it'll ruin your day. Overall I enjoyed going more often than not but the ever increasing prices do make you think twice.

[AFC Leveller]

[AFC Leveller]

early days yet but with the emergence of Bellerin, Chambers looks to be a bit of a pointless signing, assuming he was signed to be RB.

[mastermind84]

early days yet but with the emergence of Bellerin, Chambers looks to be a bit of a pointless signing, assuming he was signed to be RB.

He wasnt


Debauchy looks pointless with hindsight because Jenks isn't that far off from him.

[Marc Overmars]

Funny how things work out, Bellerin would still be waiting in the wings if Debuchy wasn't ravaged with injury last season.

He is absolute quality. The best young player we've had since 10/11 Wilshere. Transformed our right side to the point where we wouldn't function correctly if he was missing, he's that important IMO.

[Bumble]

Funny how things work out, Bellerin would still be waiting in the wings if Debuchy wasn't ravaged with injury last season.

He is absolute quality. The best young player we've had since 10/11 Wilshere. Transformed our right side to the point where we wouldn't function correctly if he was missing, he's that important IMO.

I agree, Bellerin is superb. Apart from I think his first game in the side, cant think of any instance he has played badly. Also as he is a defensive player, Barca and Real might not be looking at him.