The football blog sites make me laugh. Like seriously, grow up!
Oooh, Arsenal are so wonderful, ooh we have been at the top for so long, ooh I love our history, I need a new anorak!
You know what I find funniest? How you can tell by the language on these blogs in the back of their mind they are really thinking how crap Arsenal have been lately and how messed up it is that arguably the richest club in the world behave like a post-modern Scrooge. It cracks me up with all the "well, we played better than last time" and "ooh, X player was playing better, maybe he is improving"... Christ man, grow some BALLS! (or have Arsenal got them so you can ejaculate when they win a trophy in 3094?)
Somebody has to say it and somebody must say it out loud. Instead people tiptoe around the nonsense that he built a club, built a team, made us what we are... what a pile of utter cack that is.
We had money. This business is built upon money and that is what we did - built a business from money, from the fans, from clever marketing. Wenger is just a spokesperson and a very expensive one at that.
Anybody out there, any football fan out there who thinks that what happened over the past few years was part of some secret high IQ plan is utterly stupid. First of all, lets face facts that they are not real Arsenal fans. Just a bunch of numpties masturbating over symbol that has sex attached to it all over the place:
Footballers Legs - Sex Spirit - Sex Positive - Sex Togetherness - Group Sex Beautiful (football) - Sex French - Sex
Sex Sex Sex
Any fan who excuses the club and Wenger is more interested in a projection of Sex than watching football.
The club has made a fool out of fans for far too long. Incapable of spending money that is visibly available for all to see and lying to fans over and over again. This kind of behaviour is escalated by an internet campaign led by people far too proud to admit their idiocy, stupidity and blind devotion to
faiure.
Wenger is rubbish. He has been lucky with the money available but all this club cares about is creating a product that can sell and people can invest in.
Anybody who thinks otherwise is not a football fan but a fan of pornos but too afraid to watch them so they base everything pornographic on football.
...and while I'm at it - why the bloody hell get back Sol but not Vieira? Duh!
I just youtubed sex football and this was at the top
Just like any other fan, I don't want Arsenal to lose or go through a bad streak. It's fairly obvious for anybody that a fan wants wins, success and all that.
But I have to accept now that football is not really cyclical or polar or parallel - it's very much a long term struggle. A fight. A never ending fight that inevitably ends in death. Maybe it's all about finding meaning amidst the chaos of life. As long as somebody can attach themselves to something, it all makes sense.
Football carries with it community. Maybe it is all anthropological because we're all looking for that state of fight and tribalism. Isn't that just crude?
The other day, while sitting down, a couple behind me were engaged in their own thing on a couple of computers and the man said to the woman something about a footballer. The mans language was natural while the girls was clearly from the books of Sky Sports and Match of the Day.
Oh what would somebody do to feel like they belong!
Can we trust Arsenal? How long have we waited? We're different to other clubs. We went through a stage of massive success over and over again but now we've attempted to win something and lost out completely over and over again.
The excuses... well, usually to do with money (but don't we have a never ending profit of 30 million plus year on year?) or the other excuse to live up to some higher belief of football where you believe in kids (oh F*** OFF!) and live with in our means (I think we're just stingy).
I mean, where does this c*** about developing kids come from? Who really gives a s***! Just get the F*** out there and buy some players, win some trophies under Wenger and get another 2 million fans to buy your shirts!
Is that difficult? Come on now, have I got this the wrong way around?
We just got beaten by two teams playing some outstanding football.
I don't trust a club who don't put effort into winning trophies when it is very simple. I think that's not only pathetic but pretty inconsiderate, irresponsible and unfair for the fans.
Greed? LOL... I think a bunch of suits outlining the desires and hopes of millions of "football"1 fans with outstandingly poor romanticised BS is Greed... :D
1. Football is a game where you try to win games and trophies on the basis of the available resources.
This has been on my mind for a while and so here it is presented.
We all love familiarity. Ever have that feeling of nervousness when something changes?
Say for instance you walk into somebody's office or house and somebody new is there. Nervous?
Say for instance you are in a town centre, near a road and a huge explosion from a car blows everything within 10 metres 50 metres into the sky?
Nervous?
Nobody likes difference. Nobody likes change - well not at first.
A few drinks always help don't they? Or the drug of somebody you can trust, believe in - is your own?
So I went out onto the Internet after the United loss last week to see what fans were saying?
And guess what, surprise surprise!
Sack him. Drop him. Sub him. Shoulda him. Leave him.
Same old same old? Gave me a bit of a chuckle. That sense of familiarity, that sense of the usual is so great. What do you expect fans to say? Break out into a Shakespearean narrative to change football with verse?
How dare he! Shoot him. Kill him. (or her)
If there is one thing in the world we can trust it's the usual nature of sport that we have a game, we have the presence of something we can trust that won't change and will not surprise us too much.
Pleasant, obvious and placid. Just a bit of stress relief I guess.
...so what I am really trying to say is, just like I've always said.
Arsenal needs more than one way to play football. (weren't expecting that, were you).
We've all had the tag, or even heard of the tag that football fans are aggressive angry numpties who get worked up about the most superficial thing - and maybe, they couldn't be further from the truth. If you look around you, look how much is written about football. It is clearly the biggest fabrication in the world today. We're supposed to believe it is important, it carries merit, it has some use to the world but in fact it means nothing.
Or is that true?
When two countries, divides by walls and borders come together to play football they merge to compare merits of physical prowess. This merges two countries under the banner of sports, fairplay, character, attitude, personality, virtue. We can extend this to a local level where teams from towns and cities play each other to merge two groups of people together with their differences on the basis of colours and history to share a goal.
Isn't it beautiful!
(?)
No... or maybe it is. Maybe it's all about perspective?
We can look back at the handball from Maradona. The fighting. The spitting and aggression between Holland and Germany and our dislike for Germany too (unfortunately). Mocking race and culture on the terraces. Racism, prejudice, Stereotypically driven rage?
If anything, football just shows us what boundaries we have and the huge walls that divide us because we really dislike our fellow man for the most pointless reasons ever. Superficial nastiness based upon
History Colour Lies
Then we have the players. Shagging their friend's partners. Stealing money. Fighting to earn millions -
Then Credit's Crunch!
It's not surprising our kids are obsessed with material things and naked women.
(what did these footballers see in this French girl?... some easy locker room gossip?...)
Then there is Mido? What is this all about?
1000 pounds a week. For now I'll accept, amidst the fog of cynicism and scepticism that haunts our greedy subjective relativity - this is one of the few great things in the world today.
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Liam Neeson using all those hybrid martial arts in Taken. I think in an interview he said it was Kapour that he used which is a hybrid but they were trained by Oliver Schneider who was trained in Wing Chun and the Indonesian art of Pencak Silat.
I've included a video below to give some idea of it
You know those films where a man has a dream as a child and wishes to become something or do something but his high school sweetheart pops up and they have kids - and then maybe the wife dies (to add some drama or sentiment to the story) and he has to raise the kids himself because one of them is an annoying brat and then he has the chance to live his dream but he says "No Kids, you were my dream!"
For a long time now (since we never won any trophies) some fans have been saying we need to get this player, we need to get that player - we need this manager or we need to do something differently. I have to wonder - what if that is not at all possible no matter what we try? What if, if you're lucky enough to get a player or get a good thing going that...
Is as good as it gets.
You reach a summit, you attain a height and then it stops. Life gets in the way.
Now this heightened for me when John Terry and all that story came out. It could be false. It could be - but how much does such a story affect a team? How much did Ray Parlour's divorce affect the Arsenal team and then the players disappearing? Alongside all the other snowball effects, what does this do to a team?
How important is morale?
I think sometimes, a club has a huge problem finding that missing link. One the surface, fans will talk about players and positioning and maybe, financing - but what about everything else? What if the club is in such a position that it is practically impossible to make a change?
Some clubs are just rubbish, let's face it... they could, as we have seen, get some dynamite player or some extra money but what does that do? Once the spiral begins, it explodes. Look at Newcastle United. Do you blame the fans? Do you blame the chairman? Who?
It's a lot of things.
I guess for Arsenal, money is a factor. We always wonder, with all of our money (and no matter what anybody says, a club that has made a profit for over 10 years, has money!) we still do not spend it. We have everything in our favour but we still don't spend it? In business, this is an organisation that is making itself, and keeping itself, investable.
(overseas readers can find out about the oddities I refer to on wiki)
The problem with The Sun is, it is owned by Rupert Murdoch and all his goals are riddled with manipulating society to buy shoddy goods and glamourise nothing!
Jane Moore - who is on Question Time as I write this - is one of his many pawns. As she called the two boys who almost killed two other boys savages, she attempts to make the grossly exaggerated and dirty gratuity to say the country is broken...
Is it Jane? The same country that your boss makes a massive bulk of his money from and the same country that buys your articles that finance your home and your lifestyle?
Now... is it Jane or is it just that you are paid to write rubbish so that the Tories can come into power and do the bidding of your overlord and master - Rupert Murdoch?
I used to admire Jane a lot but there comes a point where you just give up when you realise that some people live off the glamour their career gives them to hide the insubstantial ambience they emit.
Football slant? Rupert owns Sky Sports and slowly but surely the fabric of football viewing and appreciation is changing in this country. People are realising they have less money (not a bad thing, we survive - we still have money) so they get their joy from sport that modern technology provides but this is cheaper and faster without Sky Sports and this is what Jane and Rupert what to fight against because Sky sell and the public are getting what Rupert and Jane sell far cheaper elsewhere.
Where does Arsenal's benefit lay? It lays in the changing media climate arriving in Europe and also in Sky Sports too. We need that money but we're different. We follow the climate and we watch the climate. One thing people miss about Arsenal is, we are not completely controlled by one facet of the economic climate around us - we change to follow suit.
We do not need cheap and populist puppets like Jane Moore to tell us that our country is rubbish.
If she hates it so much she can go live somewhere else - I am sure Rupert won't care since there are a number of people prepared to replace her!
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Some comments from Twitter:
Jamie Bulger was murdered in 1993 under a Tory government. Does she blame them? Jane Moore? Jan Moir more like. Idiot. #fb #bbcqt rpcompaneros - twitter.com - 4 minutes ago
"Don't accuse me of being cheap and populist" Jane Moore Sun Columinst. In other news: "Pope complains about being labelled a Catholic" Briesias - twitter.com - 6 minutes ago
#YesWeKHAN #bbcqt Jane Moore is such a populist. Nigel Lawson is mad as a hatter. jimmyfrith - twitter.com - 6 minutes ago
@mathewhulbert Jane Moore's support for the Tories is just the way the political climate is going at the moment #bbcqt ThePhilNorth - twitter.com - seconds ago
As I stated a few blogs back, I was thinking that a downfall was probably - just around the corner and now we have it. Now is this a bad thing or was it just, or is it just a part of the process in this thing called Arsenal?
Well... the answer is a yes and a yes - or a no and a no - so it's a bit of everything.
Basically, we're not in a bad state are we. We could get second even after a slump and we could win some other trophy - could we? Hmm... that could be tough then. Not good that one is it.
We are still a great club in the world today - but why do these football clubs look like cans of coke to me? So are we a great club or just some football team with a ton of money... I mean, say your local pub got a billion pounds... wouldn't it just buy some great player, get a stadium built so they don't have to play down the playing fields and then get loads of fans who want to see this glamorous well publicised pub team...
History? History... isn't that just achingly desperate?
We have to win something. Maybe the club doesn't see it as important or significant. Maybe we don't need to win as long as we're making money.
So to end with I'll say... you're running in a marathon and by some coincidence or magic, it's you and some African - now, are you going to say... fine, I've made it this far and I'll come second to a champion or are you going to put together that last bit of strength, that last bit of fight, that last bit of determination to win this and knock the African out to be the winner?
Yeah, I think Arsenal is option one and the clubs around us are option two.
Second place appears to be set in stone for us right now but is anybody else waiting for us to hit a brick wall then struggle like a fatty trying to get over it?
Is it destined to happen for us? Are some people out there really expecting us to do far better than last year - and those previous years? I think now is the right time for somebody to stand up and say - we could really f*** up around about now so seriously don't expect things to go exceptionally well.
The basis of the end of January assault is built around everybody fighting for some form of money in whatever guise it is. The bums on seat phenomenon is no more important as it is now when there is so much football to play for. Cup competitions come into their own, Clubs need to justify their approach in the January transfer window (whether they bought players or not) and the papers want to tell their advertisers "we will have football stories and they will be important".
The press will desperately be looking for all those shenanigans at club level from transfer dealings, to cup competitions to any old Dynasty/Dallas type scandals in the changing rooms or at board room level.
All this will filter down to the Arsenal because whatever happens at another club happens at The Arsenal too and can we counter that? I guess we could, couldn't we? All it is, is 90 minutes of football and the ability to win those games.
We've bought another embryo masquerading itself as a 17 year old so I am sure there is something monetary in our plans and hopefully we can get some silverware this year but in the meantime I am looking forward to a few losses just like the Arsenal we know so well. If we start to win - well that's too scary to fathom.
I noticed the other day Nottingham Forest were on the verge of returning to the Premiership.
We all know the Arsenal history of a never ending run in the top flight but what tragedies does a series of unforeseen unfortunate events and how do you cope with that? It could literally happen to anybody and that is the crux especially as Arsenal has been second fiddle to economic change throughout its history when you disregard the jaunt earlier in this century and the 1930s.
Arsenal only do well because they see what other successful clubs do and follow suit in order to be in the running.
Is this a bad thing? Well I don't think there is any real innovation considering every point of success has hardly been down to entrepreneurial spirit but an influx of lots of money and well - money buys success for everyone.
One false move with this changing climate and Arsenal would be there among the dead waiting for a return to glory days of which there an infinite number in support trying to overshadow the dark.
This is why we come back for more. Maybe we all love the fight or maybe, secretly were all trying to hide the fact that we all share one thing if anything, we have to fight to survive as much as we need to come together.
I know all that sounds "gay" in the completely non-homo-erotic sense but cut me some slack; we all like to be introspective now and again.
fuzzy logic about; Footballers; One Ball; One Club; and everything around them :;
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.......How they keep the Universe; from falling apart.
Liam Brady being interviewed just after the FA cup final (where they won with
a late goal against Man Utd) he said in his best Dublin accent: "OI's dreadin'
extra toime, cos OI's knackered".
