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When United started to make money from far eastern markets, everybody cried out in horror at their attempts of commercialising football in order to get a foot into the elite levels of the game. It worked, as it did for Arsenal and Liverpool as well and later Chelsea but with the help of the new input of money from a billionaire.

Commercialism appears to be a huge area of football. Wear it loud, sing it proud - what kind of a fan you are? Say it with a bobble hat, Coat, baby clothes or his and her perfumes. It appears now that commercialism plays a bigger part in the game.

The huge row over the Wenger song made me feel uneasy. Not for the obvious reason. I don't think thousands of people calling somebody a paedophile is funny or even clever. Then again, will our fans stop singing about Yids and the misfortunes of Scousers? Or even "Dirty Northern B**tards"? I know some of these are not in the same league but we are attacking a whole group of people on completely baseless grounds aren't we - just as baseless as the Paedophile comment as well.

Then again - isn't this just engrained in football throughout time? The mockery of players and managers. Or are we saying that calling a football manager, a public figure a paedophile is far worse than a man who earns about 15k a year in some town in England, who because of some misplaced rumour, loses his job and his livelihood as was the case after the Daily Mail and papers like it ran headline after headline for scaremongering and nothing more.

The Daily Mail... papers like it rejoice in scaremongering the masses. Now is this the newspaper of choice for Arsenal fans and Manchester United fans? Are we saying that we follow this papers view on life and not the almost level headed views we could find in the broadsheets about such issues.

Yet the crux of the argument for me - is Amazon.

Reading around the forums and such I saw comments like hit them where it hurts. Order a massive TV and then cancel the order and say it's because of a CD with a chant about Arsene Wenger on it.

Funnily enough, I know a number of Arsenal fans who knew about this CD for a long time. We knew it existed. It was always around - it was as obvious as "Ashley Cole is a Chelsea batty boy" - when he isn't but we've actually gone into recording studios to spend a whole day recording a song (or more) and then sold it in and around Highbury, the ground and elsewhere on the internet. Now isn't this homophobic? Are we insulting the player that brought us arguably 5 years of Arsenal's greatest piece of history? By being homophobic?

So hypocrisy...

Anyway, back to Amazon and shirt sales.

You see I feel this is now coming full circle at how commercialised football is and how the TV, the DVD Recorder, the Computer bits and bobs that are symbient of this glamourous, fruity, almost effeminate form of modern day football support reaches Amazon and we show our true cause by protesting and getting upset against the country's biggest online goods provider in terms of Football commercialism. Amazon makes a lot of money from it by selling HD LCD TVs and such so we can see a blade of grass, and stuff and we want to show them...

after the weekend we lose against Manchester United 2-1 and all the drama that surrounded it - by taking our angst out on Amazon... not Manchester United.

Kudos to Manchester United for saying they will try to rid the stands of such chanting but lets face it, after angry football fans, who are depressed over a loss (we've lost a lot of times if I recall correctly...? Have we? I am sure we have...) take it out on the internet.

Will Amazon care?

It all boils down to that famous U2 lyric, "will it make it easier on you now, you've got someone to blame" but if we were going to blame anybody for this, it would be Tottenham and some of their fans but United fans sing it more and why is that?

Let's not beat around the bush. Let's not delude ourselves. This is because we had a go at them in the media and they came back with this chant. As a club, Wenger loves his witty remarks, he rejoices in Press Conference gymnastics and it hits the papers.

Every manager has his achilles heel. If you want to aggravate those fans, they'll hit you where it hurts. It is wrong for there to be a chant about Wenger being a paedophile, it is but this is football and it is not pretty in every sphere. They may sell Baby goods in the Arsenal superstore but sooner or later your little baby will be screaming and shouting at opposing fans and damning them to hell while people are starving in Afghanistan because the Taliban are cloak and dagger about their massive Drugs agenda that makes them close to millionaires. They're loaded...

...but we have such a skewed perspective on football that it is the priority over everything. God what a world we live in today, a recession, a global crisis, Suicides rising hour by hour and a whole load of Arsenal fans prioritised one man who is mixed up in the obviousness of football culture and our chosen charities are those of ex-football players while collectively as a group, as a unit we could be doing so much more. Could we be so mad?

Now this is the bit I love. This is a blog from an Arsenal fan and people will disagree with something I say - now don't you love the irony there. Arsenal fans angry at each other because we all have such an obsessive grip on our own subjective view of the game? Isn't it utterly laughable; delicious in it's awfully mundane but delusional nightmare that is football support.

So we may delude ourselves that football is all wrapped up in cotton wool and that there is no commercial view but beneath our own cerebral cortex, the cognitive reality is - socially, collectively we are merged in this huge glamour industry of million pound advertising campaigns to make Theo Walcott the modern day messiah all the while the true problems in the world are laughably not an issue because the true evils are the billionaires - they cause problems to the world...

...how much are the tickets we buy again?