It is founded
by football fans around the world to be a voice to the timid fans.
Chelsea and City has time and again overpaid for players and won many thropies, yet are ridiculed
by football fans around the globe.
from one ARSENAL fan to another we all appreciate you putting this blog together, since I joined have not looked elsewhere, but we need to understand and tolerate each other including those who tend to radicalize their views, something that most of us feel but not express by watching our great team being ridiculed and minimize
by football fans around the world.
Not exact matches
In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look
around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern
football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out
by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most
fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and
around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival
fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners
I would like to remind you that Arsenal has 24 scouts
around the world (source: L'Equipe and France
Football) paid # 500 / week each... That is where the
fans hard earned money is going and for useless purposes since we don't
by anybody.
there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out
by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates...
by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong
fans of a
football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been
around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations
by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in
by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark
coquelin is a decent player but overrated
by many
fans because he did fill a gap a couple of seasons ago when he came back from charlton and did it well... but like ramsey running
around non-stop is not in itself the defining feature of a quality
footballer for a DM tackling, positioning, link up play and passing are equally important coquelin is excellent on two of these good on one and poor on last two... xhaka overall is a better DM and should be starting all the time to make him an integral part of a cohesive set up
players like Ozil always present the
fans with a bit of a conundrum, especially when times are tough... if you look
around the sporting world every once in awhile there emerges a player with incredible skill, like Ozil, Matt Sundin or even Jay Cutler, who have a different way about themselves... their movement seemed almost too lackadaisical, so much so that it seemed to suggest indifference or even disinterest on the part of the player... their posture always appears somewhat mopey and they generally have an unflattering «sour puss» expression on their face... for some their above average skills are enough to keep them squarely in the mix, as their respective teams try desperately to find a way to get the best out of them visa vie player acquisitions or the reworking of tactics... when things go according to planned the
fans usually find a way to accept their unique disposition, whereas when things go awry they become easy targets for
fans and pundits alike... in the case of Ozil and Sundin, their successes on the international stage and / or with their former teams led many to conclude that if we surrounded such talented individuals with players that have those skills that would most likely bring the best of these players success would surely follow... unfortunately both the Maple Leafs and our club chose to adopt half - measures, as each were being run
by corporations who valued profitability over providing the best possible product on the field... for them, they cared more about shirt sales and season tickets than doing whatever was necessary... this isn't,
by any stretch, an attempt to absolve Ozil of any responsibility for his failures on the pitch... there is no doubt oftentimes his efforts were underwhelming, to say the least, but this club has been inept when it comes to providing this prolific passer with the kind of players necessary for him to flourish... with our poor man's version of Benzema up front, the headless chickens in Walcott, the younger Ox and Welbeck occupying wide positions far too often and the fact that Carzola, who provided Ozil with great service and more freedom to roam, was never truly replaced, the only real skilled outlet on the pitch was Sanchez... remember to be considered a world - class set - up man goals need to be scored and for much of his time here he has been surrounded
by some incredibly inept finishers... in the end, I'm not sure how long he will be in North London, recent sentiments and his present contract situation seem to suggest that he will depart at season's end, but how tragic would it be if once again we didn't put our best foot forward and failed to make those moves that could have brought championship
football back to our once beloved club... so when you think about this uniquely skilled player don't be so quick to shift all the blame on his shoulders because he will not be the first or the last highly skilled player to find disappointment at the Emirates if we don't rid the club of those individuals that are truly to blame for our current woes
The problems at Kettering are of a type with those that humbled Leeds, that bedevil Portsmouth, that are grumbling
around Birmingham: distant, selfish owners, divorced from the
fans, and overseen — if you can call it that —
by a supine
Football Association so lacking in teeth that it's been off solids longer than I've been on them.
It's a bit incoherent — a fair few of the Welsh are likely still busy falling over, shouting at one another, and generally losing the run of themselves — but it sounds like «Don't Take Me Home,» a chant which has been knocking
around English
football for a few years and which has been adopted
by the travelling Welsh
fans in France as the unofficial anthem of the pre -, mid - and post-match celebrations.
Tired of the unappreciative arsenal
fans being negative about wenger here we have a club legend one that your luckily alive to witness in your lifetime and man who actually loves the club with heart on sleeve remember the growth the consistency the beauty in our
football style and being awed at
by clubs
around the about the joy of watching an arsenal wenger side play yea soon enough he will be gone hes 68 and uh oh there gos the guy who constantly over the years beat spurs made champions league the invincibles put your belief in the team and him relish what we have and in his tenure we get to be one of the few who get to worry oh maybe we wont finish this year but wait will be top five and probably win a cup or make to or near the final for 21 22 years straight phew wow that could be of been worse had me there for a moment thats all i had to worry about as a
fan glad im witnessing a club legend real cub passion not a paid fake smile who will go to another club maybe a rival jose mourinho so stop being a silly nanny negative easy to be worse and it will be after he leaves will go up and down for a bit
Football fans around the world sometimes live in a dreamland with sports simulation games at you fingertips and knee jerk reactions week
by week.
When Arsenal stunned the
football fans and followers in England and
around Europe last year,
by smashing the club transfer record to sign Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid, the Germany internetional revealed that Arsene Wenger was a big reason for his decision to become a Gunner.
Of course we want to win; we want trophies back in the cabinet, but United didn't gain 650 million
fans around the world
by just winning and playing predicable boring
football.
«Personally, as a
football fan I'd like to see him given a good go in his best position, he was messed
around a little
by van Gaal, but then a lot of the players were and had to fight for recognition — Ashley Young the prime example.»
Who's being chased
by who, who's staying, who's definitely going, transfer fees resembling telephone numbers thrown
around like confetti even though most
football fans will have difficulty comprehending their enormity.