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I don't want to talk about - Surrogate families and Life

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool? – Dance The Way I Feel
Matt & Kim - Lessons Learned - make sure you watch the video to this
Total Babe - Bearbones - Vewy noice
Metric - Help I'm Alive (The Twelves Remix) - ?
Drake - Little Bit ft. Lykke Li

Over time you will meet a lot of Arsenal fans and as I have stated in the past, a lot of people will define themselves as Arsenal fans not by the way the team they support but how they conduct themselves as fans. While some will completely posture themselves in front of other fans (be this on the internet or via some other form of communication (pubs, fanzines etc) like some mating ritual, others just go to games and that's it.

This fascinated me because as the internet came about a lot of fans appeared to be afraid and at times I guess, emasculated by all the opinions about football around them. What did these opinions (away from mainstream media's perspectives) say about them when it was grossly apparent that people did not agree with them.

Some fans can't really be bothered to talk about football. They don't have time. Does it really matter that Kreonke is buying into the club? Just like numerous older or learned Arsenal fans tell me, whilst working in the city, this was coming as the club fobbed off Arsenal fans with the sort of youth development, beautiful football, new stadium nonsense as they were really creating a lucrative investment for the billionaires of the world. Not something you will read in the papers because if they said this... they'd lose Arsenal as a story.

Or would it? I guess there is a difference between the media (be they blogs and arsenal sites like my own or the press) and the groups that fans exist within. I am saying that an Arsenal fan is just a fan without Arsenal. You need the Arsenal, the surrogate family to be an Arsenal fan. What do you need with that? Hope.

If you haven't got the hope that the youth will develop, that beautiful football will strive and conquer or a new home, a new beginning will bring prosperity - what do you have?

Small victories?

No, that's something for the lower leagues but I guess if anything, we can learn that there are more people in the world striving for success that has been raped from them by large institutions funded by the government while others learn young, learn quick that small victories matter so much more than the big ones.



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USA! USA!

DeadMau5 - Faxing Berlin
YYY - Maps (guitar and strings)

posted by Arsenal Muse @ 12/22/2009 03:12:00 AM