Whoops - Problems aint fixed!
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Different things are important to different people.
This is dependent on a multitude of factors from, I don't know, culture, friends, family, occupation - absolutely anything could conjure up the importance. I think, for instance, a lot of our importance, in the west, is an excuse to have a party and a good jolly.
So... you support Arsenal or you support United... because our society equates success with happiness.
Then you get the lower league teams who have support and it's a good time, it's a laugh but there is that need to win and succeed. Amidst that you'll be left thinking, how long do you wait for success and what price does patience carry. Patience can be a heavy heavy burden you have to carry alongside hope and your thoughts.
A lot of my blogs have been around our financial situation and how we can use that to gain success but maybe football is more than that. Maybe football is about the game and wondering what player to play etc. But I laugh because we don't really do that do we. We've had certain problems for a number of years and I think I speak for a lot of fans when I say, we grow tired speaking of the same problems over and over again.
How dull and depressing must that be? Here we are with a multitude of solutions available and we don't try them.
Goalkeeper is rubbish? Change him. Spend the money.
Strikers don't score goals? Buy a better striker.
We're getting good money for a player? Sell him and buy some mature work horses!
For instance... Fabregas is a big big problem for us because he is miles, head and shoulders better than a lot of the players at the club but if we can't build a team around him then we're stuck. We had a good thing with Flamini but we let that slip by.
And now... whooops... there's another problem. Our transfers. Our player management.
Too many problems and you know what... just like our problems in life, even if we took small steps to solve them. Little steps in the right direction then it would give us hope. It would give meaning to patience but we're not. We repeat the same mistakes over and over again.
Are we going to win anything this year? No. We are not.
Does it matter? In the greater scheme of things it should but I think our fans have got used to waiting and hoping that it's nothing special. Which is worrying and saddening and upsetting because a club like Arsenal has had and does have a great deal of potential with world class assets and resources and we don't use them. We just don't use them. They are merely there for the balance sheet - to make Arsenal Football Club, the company look great.
Or maybe it's something else. Maybe, we have grown tired of football. Maybe so many deluded perspectives on a sport have been given to us, we've forgotten what it is. Maybe the commercialisation and hollywoodisation of football has tainted our perspective of the competitive nature of the game stopping us from seeing how we are in a clear position to win great things and how that opportunity has passed us.
A shame because wasted opportunities are a pain.
posted by Arsenal Muse @ 8/16/2010 10:57:00 PM
