Pondering's on a Media hyped week at Arsenal FC

It's been a mixed bag this week. 


The aftermath of the Blackburn debacle, media speculation and sensationalism surrounding Wenger position as manager, a win over Division 2 minnows with a bunch of kids fighting back from 1-0 down and the following day, instead of focussing on the positives, the media make some issue about our attendance even though it was, on reflection, the best attendance in the country for League Cup week, especially if you look at the level of opposition we were facing. Yes, we are the media darlings again, their favourite punchbag after a 10 day rest bite. 


Inevitably, this feeds the doomers and they crawl out from their hovels and rat holes to infest the Gooner world with their bile. 


So I've spent the week perusing many various blogs and am pleased to see that the majority of Gooner's are still very much like me, positive. 


There are a few however, such as the protesting doomers who still linger. To me, they are simply filthy little specks of puree'd mosquito splattered across the windscreen of our pimped out Gooner Van but you can feel assured that I left a few choice points of view upon the blogs and articles that they just about had the intelligence to write. 

Rob's 'Gooner Van' ..it's my 'Shagg'un Waggun'!

These thoughts included the following; (censored for the kids of course)


'On fans damaging the club by staying away, not buying tickets etc':


‘The idea that fans can damage the club with protests will only ring true if the ‘Majority’ of fans are behind such actions. Thankfully they are not. 


Staying away from the club to damage it by not buying tickets at this moment in time will only affect the person(s) staying away as there are so many fans who wait and wait for tickets to become available, or simply cannot afford them. We often see empty seats at the Grove, this is not because the tickets were not sold, hence the consistent full house announcements despite huge chunks of red seatage on display. It is merely because season ticket holders have decided not to take up their seats at the time. 


If the ticket exchange process was easier and unused tickets were reasonably priced then I’m certain we would never see an empty seat at the ground as the seats would be filled with people normally unable to get season tickets. I’d be happy as a season ticket holder to sell my ticket at a reduced price to someone else should I not be able to attend or choose not to attend the game on the day. 


This would more than likely see less seats being left unfilled by ST holders themselves. 


While these ‘Protestors’ remain a minority I just look at them as a group of pathetic glory hunters who really have no clue about how Football Clubs/businesses are run nowadays. I still feel the board have the club’s best interests at heart and so what if they make profit, If any of these idiots were shareholders they’d want a profit too. It’s not a f@cking charity after all. 


These people live in a dream world and either need to get educated and concentrate on getting behind the team instead of creating negative, detrimental vibes that WILL affect the team on the pitch. Or they need to p1$$ off to another club like Citeh where apparently everything is rosy and will be forever and ever.’

I, like most fans have questions and worry about the way things are at the moment but there are better ways of venting frustrations and proactively getting my points of view across, be it writing to the board, attending AGM’s if possible, or any other professional means of communication. We’re not a bunch of miners and this is the 21st century, there is no need for neanderthalic behaviour such as marching up to the ground waving placards and/or booing the team itself during match days.

The other thing of note regarding the moans and groans due to price hikes is simply, if you don't like the prices, don’t f@cking pay them. 

Let someone else who can afford it but is stuck on a waiting list, have your seat, so they can enjoy what you should be enjoying. Who heard of a protest outside Tesco’s cos the price of beer went up 6%? No one forces you to buy it, it’s a personal choice.

Now protests against the TV license I’d be 100% behind, as we’re forced to pay that even though I for one hardly use/watch the BBC’s products. In fact the only decent programme the BBC has to offer us is MOTD and even that is only just about bearable. F@ck you BBC!

The 'Ox' - kiss the badge and make them cry! 

In regards to the game on Tuesday, it seems we fully deserved the win and the kids were tremendous in not letting the fact we fell behind, get to them. 

'The Ox' by all accounts was one of many youngsters who shone brightly and maybe their fearlessness is what helped. 

Maybe the first teamer's can shake off the fear they have that they will make another mistake or that we'll fall behind and get caught out whilst attacking to get back in the game. I hope these mental frailties are being worked upon since last week and we see an improvement at home vs Bolton. Roll on Saturday!

Forward 

P.S. A special F@CK YOU to Sky Sports News, The Sun and all the doom mongers this week for your usual Arsenal battering and an even bigger F@CK YOU to the so called Arsenal fans who boo'd at the Grove on Tuesday when we went 1-0 down. See how the majority of the fans get behind the team, cheer them and it helps them. Save your protests and boo's for the AGM's if you insist the vitriol is aimed at the board, don't vent it out on the team or AW who are trying to get us back on track you plebeianic apes.