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

[Letters]

We did upset the odds when we won the league, Liverpool were the major force back then and anyone that overcame them did it as the underdog, not saying we weren't a big club but we certainly weren't the favourites and didn't have the same resources.

Vaguely true but the gaps weren't as big as they have been in more recent times.

We're bloody awful now to be fair so not much has changed

Again, we have pretty much the same points and goals scored now, after 25 games, as we did at the end after 42 games in 92/93.
Last year we finished 3rd and won the Cup, this year we're still in all the major competitions and right in the middle of a title race, we've got a chance on Sunday to go within touching distance of the team leading.
So stop talking balls.

We're a shadow of the best sides under Wenger but we're much, MUCH better than the team in a season you apparently 'thoroughly enjoyed'.
That is where you're shifting the goalposts.

[Niall_Quinn]

Was reading today that the average age of the fans attending PL matches has shot up to 41 years. That sounds pretty incredible if true. I wonder what Wenger intends to do for the younger demographic that can't afford even a minute of happiness because they have been priced out? Or maybe only the highest bidder deserves to be happy?

[Özim]

Vaguely true but the gaps weren't as big as they have been in more recent times.


Again, we have pretty much the same points and goals scored now, after 25 games, as we did at the end after 42 games in 92/93.
Last year we finished 3rd and won the Cup, this year we're still in all the major competitions and right in the middle of a title race, we've got a chance on Sunday to go within touching distance of the team leading.
So stop talking balls.

We're a shadow of the best sides under Wenger but we're much, MUCH better than the team in a season you apparently 'thoroughly enjoyed'.
That is where you're shifting the goalposts.

It's not a fair comparison either, because that season we focussed on the cup and played weakened teams in the league a number of times. as for this season, the standard has been shocking, good thing otherwise we'd be miles behind as usual.

I don't think we're much of a side to be honest, we've got a handful of excellent players, but lack hunger, desire, application and any kind of unpredictability, how many games have we actually impressed in? We're well positioned but a lot of that is due to circumstances, this side is a million miles from our great sides.

[Özim]

He can't be serious.

He clearly thinks everyone has such sad little lives with nothing but football to make them happy, in his eyes he's the ultimate entertainer.

[Niall_Quinn]

He clearly thinks everyone has such sad little lives with nothing but football to make them happy, in his eyes he's the ultimate entertainer.

I don't think he's saying that. But he might as well be saying, fuck you sure paid a lot for this, you must love it, it must make you happy so why waste a minute of it? For a man of principles, supposedly, he's missing the principle here. Big time. But that's what happens when a minority is so far removed from the majority. They no longer have a mechanism to comprehend that majority.

I hope this protest gets bigger and wider. I hope it starts asking questions beyond the ticket prices, such as why we have greedy corporate cunts making profits from our national game. Or why we have greedy corporate cunts making profits from our national transport infrastructure that fans use to get to games. The corruption goes so much wider than football and ticket prices.

Whenever the majority can agree and organise against the abusive minority the possibility of change is real. I hope the clubs don't win this by freezing already exorbitant prices for a season so the organisation and energy goes away. That's probably what will happen though.

[Power n Glory]

I'm not sure what he's supposed to say.
"It's disgraceful how we're ripping off all our fans"?
That would go down well at the next board meeting.

Ultimately all the club's income is coming from us in one way or another, if it's not tickets it's replica shirts or Sky subscriptions or whatever. Football has become a business and in business if you're selling out you don't drop the prices. It's happened throughout the game. It would be interesting to know how our prices have changed in %age terms compared with other clubs.

I'm not defending how high our prices are but while wages and transfer fees continue to spiral to nauseating heights the money's got to come from somewhere. The prices are part of why I dropped out but while people are queueing up to take my place they're not going to slash prices.

The BBC quote is another example of not what to say. He doesn't have to comment.

Contrast that with Klopp's response.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...tion-liverpool

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport...ol-fc-10879659

It's a difficult situation but you don't have to stick your neck out for the owners at the expense of the fans.

[Gooner23]

Further confirmation of a manager well and truly in bed with the greedy fucks running the club / football in general.

It's quite sad really, for someone so intelligent I really thought he was better than that.

The walk outs are a very good thing in my opinion.

[fakeyank]

I think they're mostly doing so FY can see us lose without having to cross the Atlantic.

I think my luck is only limited towards PL games. I think I need to try my luck during a CL game in which we have a small chance of advancing..

[Marc Overmars]

https://youtu.be/HGQXZsnYeRM

Finally something #decent from AFTV.

Bobby.

[I am invisible]

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/so...tal-facebook/?