Today its a post by our old mate Bradyesque7.
*There was a line in this post that could easily be misconstrued as hate-speak. If I read this post, and knew what I now know, I would think that it was a disgusting comment. Rather than further highlight it, I have removed the line. I apologise to anyone who knows what I mean and took offence. *
Hard times have befallen Europe. We borrowed too much and now the majority of nations in our continent are in a period of austerity. While we all built mansions with swimming pools filled with copagne (two parts Champagne, one part cocaine), Arsenal were exercising some (possibly) self-imposed prudence.
The time has now come to reap the benefits of our cautious approach as we now have the cash at the ready to sign players who can genuinely improve our team. We are now in a position whereby we can sign players that our peers would love to sign. So you would have to consider the plan to be a successful one, yes?
Well, not if you’re in the discontent business. This week, I read a blog from the guy who calls himself ‘Angry of N5’. This is, apparently, not just clever name. In his blog, ‘Angry’ went into great detail on how things could and should have been done differently. Now, of course there is room for debate, and I’m sure that within the club there was such discourse.
The difference between somebody within Arsenal having an alternative view, and the hacky bloggers who seem desperate to criticise, is that the people within the club are furnished with accurate and up-to-date information. ‘Angry of N5’ admitted in his own blog that he can’t be sure of the numbers with which he is working. He is guessing. Why is it not a surprise that his guesses come in the form of criticism? Why is it not a surprise that he thinks it all should have been done differently? Because he is in the discontent business. ‘Happy of N5’ just isn’t as cool.
Speaking of hacky blogs, I read a post from the prestigious and ever-popular ‘Ladyarse’ recently. There are some sports writers who write the articles for their employers (red-top rags) and have their work headed with some outlandish rubbish which may or may not even relate to what’s in the piece. The beauty of blogs is that we write what we want to write. It’s up to us which approach we take. So, when Nicklas Bendtner gave the answer that millions would give, Ladyarse decided to remove all context in order to gain the maximum hits their site. Reading the article, they did use accurate quotes and, as you know, Bendtner did not say anything that suggested that he deserves to play for Barcelona or Real Madrid.
Why did they go with the headline ‘Bendtner – I’d like to go to Real Madrid or Barcelona’? Well I can only speculate on that but I suppose that it’s the same reason that the tabloids do it. Bendtner bashing is good numbers. Truth and integrity are found in the dusty corners of the library.
I would have included links but I just didn’t feel like it.
Thanks for reading. Up the Arsenal!
Positively Arsenal 
Worse than that Hunter , Owen Coyle
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ahaha the one with the shorts in -3 degrees ??
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It’s only ever really been a (vocal) minority calling for Arsene to actually be replaced, let alone by any of the aforementioned candidates. Worth remembering that.
Heh. Owen Coyle. S’true as well. We can smile about it now, but at the time…..
I seem to recall having a, erm, discussion with a fellow who was adamant that Redknapp had done a much better job in his time at Sp*rs. I shit you not. I mean you have to laugh, or you’d cry your leg off. Both legs.
That is poetry ‘Coll. Beautiful. God bless ’em.
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Harry
November 22, 2013 at 4:05 pm
or that moyes is better than arsene in building teams on a budget…..
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Yeah it has been said. Moyes is a decent enough manager, and he did a good job at Everton, but incomparable to AW. And he is naturally conservative (read: DULL) from a football perspective. Man Utd are more than welcome to him.
Thing is most folks with at least half of a functioning brain cell and one good eye know what we have in Arsene (a demographic that possibly excludes most of LeGrove’s regular readership. I jest of course, I jest!). Arse.
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Thing is most folks with at least half of a functioning brain cell and one good eye know what we have in Arsene
does that count for the ‘enlightened’ moaners at the cultureless blog 😛
(ok..ok..ok….ill stop)
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I tweeted this
“Positively Arsenal @Blackburngeorge 2h
Henry wanted to leave for trophies at the same age as Judas was when he jumped ship.- Just saying”
People don’t seem to like it.
Dear me.
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Why would Iker Casillas swap Real’s bench for Arsenal’s?
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No Hunter, I think you’d struggle to find anyone who does not acknowledge AW’s achievements. Most, even those who believed he was approaching the end of his tenure, have always held him in the very highest esteem, revered him even.
I won’t get drawn into all that malarky again, ‘cos we’ll be here until Christmas (cue: smiley wink thang).
Anyway. We’ve got our Arsenal back tomorrow, to echo a much misused phrase.
Laters.
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Well, I should perhaps clarify that… you would struggle to find anyone SANE who does not acknowledge AW’s achievements.
Toodlepip.
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Do you guys remember the debate over Cahill and Samba? The jelly-kneed idiots wanted someone, anyone, in there to help us with our set piece problem. Little did they know the old fox was setting up a swoop for one of the world’s best and tallest defenders. Oh, and they wanted Hummels, who is considered a liability for Dortmund, as well. Those crazy guys.
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well its a bit difficult to claim you acknowledge AW when right after you question if he still has it or not….. (not you personally…..) …if by achievements they only mean trophies then they are shallow and couldnt get what an outstanding achievement it is to get into champions league while repaying stadiums and playing with kids. …and a manager who can do that in the modern game in a league infested of petrodollars certainly has ‘it’.
the other thing is that they present the period waiting for the youngsters to grow as a project that went wrong because of Arsene’s stubborness, instead of accepting the bias from refs (which killed us at key momments in seasons past) and the idiotic fans getting on our players back and forcing some of them to think “why the fuck should i stay here and deal with all this shit? ive got every opponent targeting my legs, refs dont see anything and on top of that ive got our own fans booing me? ”
they chose a period where the club had to lay low, spend nothing and grind it our for the 30m jackpot of the cl to moan about ‘ambition’. a complete and epic failure on seeing the bigger picture.
then when cesc left and wenger was a wreck the fans became even more aggressive and critical towards him….
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Henry may have left at the same age as Van Judas, but he had won titles with us, had taken us to a CL final and hadn’t spent years cashing checks while injured. Huge difference between those two.
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you would struggle to find anyone SANE who does not acknowledge AW’s achievements.
surely when youre contemplating for this manager to get sacked, obviously you have no respect or real understanding of his achievements
changing stadiums is something that can go very very wrong…..catastrophic even…this is the mother of all transitions for a football club and you could say the worst years a club can expect in terms of having good seasons…yet in our apparent @worst@ period we only lost titles to super rich teams and we always got to europe in the most prestigeous club competition ….not easy. certainly not something to be taken as granted.
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I know there is Gains.But there are similarities also.And he was a pain for the last year he was here.
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I disagree, Henry was one of the greatest to ever don the shirt. Has oodles of respect for the club, manager and players. Never said a word against us. You can have issues with the Wrights and Adamses in that regard, but not him.
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He did leave, as my favourite player it hurt me more than most, but in hindsight he left in his twilight years. An age at which many stars leave. He didn’t join us in his prime he hit his prime here, and left thereafter. He gave as much as he received with us. There was give and take. Unlike with the Judas c**ts Ca$ri, Fabregas and Pursestrings.
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Very harsh on Robin and Thierry for that matter – and Ashley even
Now I know we all imagine that it is all about loving the club for players, the badge, the chance of a silver pot and a medal
But let’s face it in Robin’s we know he
Had 200k a week reasons to leave
Medals ? – perrrrrleeez
Had on my old heart I think it may even have turned my head
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PG @ 4:55pm
I’m with you on that one.
The ‘King’ left us for the shinier new team down in crassalona and he still had a few good years left, but at least I understand Wenger cashing in.
That’s one of the two things i’ll never forgive titi for, the other one was not Arsenal related.
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Interview with Aaron by Jeremy Wilson in the online Telegraph – just spotted it
V good
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I can’t see Theo starting tomorrow,
Giroud came on as sub for the last 10 minutes, so I think Wenger will play him for the first hour anyway, then Theo’s might get a run out.
We can expect a bit of rotation for Cardiff and Hull, shame Poldi won’t be back for those 2 games.
Flamster is out because of a 5 yellow card ban.
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With Southampton playing a pressing game then possession and passing around them will be key,and that suits Rosicky rather than Theo.
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TR7, Arteta, Özil.
PG, It doesn’t really matter who plays around them.
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@ Hunter and anybody else really I wrote this about Wenger back April thought you might like to read it
http://www.youaremygooners.com/2/post/2013/04/arsene-wengerone-of-arsenals-greatest-managers-or-the-man-who-has-led-this-great-football-club-into-a-cul-de-sac-that-it-will-never-get-out-of.html
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Definitely TR7 starting for me today with theo and jack on the bench. Today I said today its finally here oh and broad just got an early wicket how’s that
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morning all not long now, latest headline “Wenger wont buy another striker in January” now that’s something for the doomers to get their teeth into
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following Nico Yennaris return from injury and the strength of the U21 side, Nico is now playing at right back meaning Hector Bellerin is now forth choice and so there was a timely announcement yesterday. Hector has now gone to Watford on loan until Jan 2nd just before the F.A. cup although I believe if he is doing well he will stay all season.
this also allows Tafari moore a step up even at his young age, he has already played for the U21s and this will give him other opportunities.
All in all this seems a progressive loan and I think over the coming months several other players will be dipping their toe in the water at other clubs
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