;: Trophies, Passion, Support? Please stop boring me.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Trophies, Passion, Support? Please stop boring me.

Atmosphere - Sunshine
The National - England
Blur - Coffee And TV
Lady Gaga - Alejandro (Skrillex Club Mix)
Imogen Heap - The Song That Never Was (The Zodiac Social Version)

A lot has changed in football in the last 100 years. Football hasn't remained football. Nope. We have changed, the world has changed and therefore, football has also changed. Football looks at us and evolves in light of our demands.

I am getting the feeling we are a reflection of football. The football in our immediate area, in our immediate environment is a mirror image of who we are. So what does this mean?

It means, we're narcisisstic, vain, image obsessed, materialistic, angry, stressed out druggies finding it difficult to get satisfaction from life. Unfortunately the win is anything at whatever cost. We're in debt, we live beyond our means and we work hard, we push ourselves to extremes and far what? To fall further into a world of commercialism and materialism.

And the "good old arsenal" say it's ok. They say it's fine. They say they are harmony and balance and control. The "good old arsenal" say we're living within our means as long as we stay in the black and don't go into the red. But where is the fun in that? We are the materialistic, all flash and no substance, scrooge of football. Unfortunately, the world is collapsing and we have to spend big to gain big.

Dare I say it. We're probably one of the only clubs who are fighting against a world knee deep in money problems. If anything, we need to make big changes soon.

Football is officially dull and insubstantial. It has lost it's humanity. It's in coma and it's all because we lost sight of ourselves.

Let's blame Thatcher. Let's blame Reagan. Let's blame our own commercialism.

Unfortunately, it's all dead. The future does not look bright.

You see, I'm confused, sitting here writing about something that really matters little in reflection to the real problems in life. Let's talk about, for a moment, Peter Hill Wood's comments about Fabregas.

Cesc who is young enough to be his grandson is treated as a commodity by this idiot. Is this Arsenal? Where is the respect? Where is the dignity? Where is our character and our "special way of doing things"?

This is what is important. We should exude respect. We should be dignified. In a world that is collapsing around us due to extravagance and materialism, we should at least behave with some morality - not treat our bread and butter (and in Peter Hill Wood's case, his Father's money, not his) like they are objects.

This is why Arsenal are no different from any other club. We're basically knee dip in the rubbish and we will stay there.

I can't end on a lighter note because I think realistically, it's all very nasty and as much as I enjoy a win like the next man, I think we should remove the board and start again and this is where we will begin to behave like a club again.

Godfrey Reggio - Evidence