Wednesday, February 18, 2009

There is no price for the years we have lost.... Arsenal aren't really a football club are they - we're lost our ability to be that good.

Emiliana Torrini - Heartstopper ('stop Hearting' Mix By Mm)
Tiga vs. Jack Frost - Mind Shout (Tronik Youth Mix
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning (Alex Metric Remix) Some other good tunes here too
Jay-Z, M.I.A., T.I., Lil' Wayne and Ka… - Swagger Like Us (Grammy Awards 02-08-2009)
music go music - warm in the shadows Blondie type electronica
N.A.S.A. - Gifted Feat. Kanye West, Santogold, Lykke Li
Yeti Lane - This Day - Lonesome George Beck meets Cocteau Twins


Because if Arsenal we're a football club then, I guess we'd buy players or we'd make an effort to get back up there at the top.

I think we're just not as good as we once were. Ultimately we have lost our ability to be that good. We just have. We are a lesser team than before. It's quite an unfortunate outcome to be (after a year where we were dominating) languishing outside the top four and maybe looking at finishing sixth as well.

How can this be acceptable? We were idiots to be running behind Usmanov taking over the club. Now that was hardly a problem was it. We were talking about our legacy and we're better than others and here we are behind teams getting charities as sponsorship and being considerate and compassionate enough to lower ticket prices. Who are we? Quite pathetic to be accurate.

Now we've got supporters groups who are quite frankly more interested in generating atmosphere from a small corner of a 60k stadium (???????) and another group that thinks 1 share makes a big difference (????) and another that appears to be more interested in name rather than nature. We're hardly the club and fans we once were and our pandering to Wenger as supporters like some leader of a cult instead of being openly and objectively critical of him cost us deeply.

There is no price for the years we have lost.

We've lost it through greed of our board members. The arrogance of our manager. The arrogance of our fans. The rose tinted glasses of power hungry football fans.

The real football fans, the real Arsenal fans can stand up and be proud now. They stood up to the club and the board and questioned the arrogant xenophobia against Usmanov and Kroenke. The questioned Wenger when needed and used his words against the critics. It's laughable that we used the cheap credit that has caused a national and global catastrophe to build a stadium and fall down the premiership. What a complete and utter joke.

Yet we class ourselves as a football club. We think we're better than other clubs. We're not. I say this because I want to be great and I want to be the best and I want the greatest team in football to actually mean something because - where as clubs would bend over backwards and be beaten black and blue to have our money, we've merely glorified in accounts and finance and looked stupid as we disappeared into obscurity with only our vanity and arrogance to hold as trophies.

The good thing about having a good solid self sustained income (Thanks Danny Fiszman) at a Football club is you can take risks. You can be bold and aggressive and go out there and fight and this is intention. Intention to achieve and win. This is what we lack. How stupid. We can't even be a football club. We're blinded by business and suits.

We fail one year - (as we have done) then we spend again next year and make something of the money we have and you know what? We'll make money, we'll have left over as we sell players. It's so simple but our number crunching is nauseatingly sickening. I feel like I'm a fan of some Blue Chip company - not a football club.

Fat load of good our income is doing is. Sad and Pathetic.

There is no price for the years we have lost.