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 
Dont shoot the messenger.
Actually I would have gone much further.
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I have seen that Desperate of N5s blog efforts and commented on several of them. It’s pathetic fuckers like him who perpetuate the so called divisions between gooners. He is more than happy to suggest those that aren’t in the “realist” camp can not countenance any critisising of the club or manager, blah blah…
There’s absolutely no reason to keep churning out this incessant negativity dressed up as investigative journalism, except to cause damage and (most importantly for them) attention seek.
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My sentiments exactly, bradyesque. Roll on Saturday and some actual Arseball.
looking forward to the next podcast. Love the banter between you guys.
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It’s worth reading that Angry of N5 piece for the comments – and in particular from someone who posts under the name Shard.
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Nice one B7 (and Steww’s from yesterday).
Am liking the Discontent Business idea; reminds me slightly of that old film The Crying Game although, for some of us at least, the film was less predictable than the daily semi-commercial gloom and distortion to be found round some parts.
One also wonders how long N5’s Mr Angry will stay, well, angry as Arsenal’s continual development seems set to pose him all manner of naming problems in the near future.
Feeling Better of N5 can surely be but a few months away and who knows, by next Xmas maybe we can look forward to the insights from It’s A Wonderful Life of N5?
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yeah i agree to an extent – Loads of Arsenal blogs just see ‘no trophy in 8 yrs’ and hammer the club for it but forget we built one of the best stadiums in Europe, paid for most of it, played good footy in that time and got close to wining a couple of trophies.
Though to be fair to Lady Arse is one of the better ones.
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At the risk of sounding naive, I have to make an admisssion that causes me a deal of embarrassment.
You see, somewhere in my three years of blogging I have come to realize that I do not know what ‘blogs’ are for.
Don’t misunderstand me – I know what I thought they were for, but on reflection it seems I may have been totally wrong.
Over the last 18 months, in particular, I have come to realize that there are fewer and fewer blogs where I want to go because I am not enjoying the experience as I used to do.
So what do/did I think was the purpose of a blog?
Now this is where the naivety creeps in, and makes me look an idiot.
I thought an Arsenal blog was a type of chat-room where I could go to discuss all matters relating to Arsenal with like minded fans, albeit most are strangers to me. It did not matter that not everyone agreed with me – that was all part of the deal. I was and am open to persuasion and capable of changing my mind, on occasion, when presented with a different but well argued case.
But it seems I was wrong.
Blogs, on the whole, are not chat shops, they are rant shops, where anyone with an ‘unacceptable’ point of view, usually defined as not being critical or damning enough of the team or its manager, becomes an unwitting agent of the club, and its management, and is seen by those disaffected with the club to be fair game and subjected to foulmouthed abuse, as an idiot at best, or, even worse, a mealey-mouthed lackey of the club’s hierarchy.
Fortunately, there are still a, sadly diminishing, number of blogs where this is not the case, and I can continue to blog without my sanity or ‘loyalty’ being forever questioned.
Where did it all go wrong? Or, where did I go wrong?
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Just had a quick 30 second search on google and found 202 different blogs on Arsenal and I am sure with more time I will find more. Arsenal football club have at the last count 3,021,777 followers on twitter the most in the PL and 16,416,107 likes on Facebook.
I would think this makes Arsenal one of the most talked about clubs on the internet (at least from the PL) so competition to grab Arsenal fan attention is fierce.
I read Angry of N5’s opinion yesterday and replied to it, I feel the basic premise of the article started out good the figures although in some cases guesswork were informative and as he said it does need reading more than once. The problem I have with this and many others (some could say the same about the articles I post on here) is that sometimes you are so determined through your writing to prove a point that the point gets lost in the words. His determination to prove that Arsenal have had the same money as if they were still at the old Arsenal Stadium clouds the figures and ignores other outside factors.
Writing interesting, informative and well written blogs on a regular basis is a hard thing to do (especially when we have international breaks that stop the main interest of your blog from playing). I read 3 or 4 different Arsenal blogs each day sometimes more if they only post new things once or twice a week. I now know what to expect from the blogs some are positive towards Arsenal, some are negative, some blog just to promote arguments and change their opinions like the wind to do so and others just want high traffic rates and write what they think will get them that. Over the months I have filtered the ones that are just a pain in the arse to read out of my list of blogs, I like reading Angry of N5 etc. they give me a more positive fan of Arsenal and a more positive writer of the occasional blog perspective of what Arsenal fans think and feel. If I was to just read positive blogs then my viewpoint would become clouded and unbalanced.
So it is not about hating Arsenal blogs its about finding your own balance between what you believe and think is going on in and around the club with those who take a differing position If you take umbrage at what you read on their blogs comment, argue we have put their words up for all to see and are ready and (me anyway) to be shot down at any moment.
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What Dexter said.
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ha ha ha !! pathetic losers who got inspired by wenger’s arsenal turning against him to gain clicks in their pathetic sites to feel important…..useless as football commentators and utterly stupid without perspective or comprehension of our massive transition
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L’EGO WARS
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It is always a good thing to read alternative points of view. Know your enemy and try to remain evidence-based whatever you say, do and write….
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Positive blogs attract positive fans,negative will do the opposite.That’s not a problem,you know what to expect when you get there.If you don’t like it,don’t go.
But what happens when the blog decides to change direction? Easy answer is stop going.Again,not a problem.
The ones that rile me are those that simply make up shit,spread shit and chat shit among themselves.Those that turn rumours and hearsay into facts.
And I also dislike blogs that are simply a vehicle for someone’s ego,where they spout crap about tactics and formations as if they actually know what they are talking about.Some of these bloggers are well educated ,eloquent and sometimes even funny,and this leads the stupid and humourless to think it must mean they understand football.Trouble is most of them don’t.
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they got pissed off cause arsenal wanted to play it safe and they couldnt handle rival supporters taunting them about trophyless years and being a feeder club …instead of telling, say to chavs, to fuck off with their bought trophies they got angry at their club for not doing as chelsea…
desperation for trophies lead the fans to pressure the team to repay the fans faith (lol) against silly mickey mouse cups , and it backfired spectacularly , hehe…. wenger was planning for bayern at home , a very important game for the club and fans were bitching about some cup game that also took place during that week….clever , real clever.
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true george..plus the “lets have a debate” brigade … as if wenger’s credentials as manager are a subject for debate for some arseclowns and their keyboards…..
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Angry of N5 ? A name that adorns a digital tombstone amid so many others cut down in their prime during the great battles in the Window War of August 2013
One moment marching, the sun shining, confident in stride, arms swinging, black scarves flapping in the breeze
And the next……………………..
“What passing bells for these who die as cattle?”
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Anicoll5 @10.45
Hahahaha ,best post I have seen in years.
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in fact as zimpaul was saying the other day about wenger’s ethos/intgrity/humility..and considering how soon avb was complaining about atmosphere…such strength from wenger..all these years with fans booing him…disgraceful.
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Another thing that get on my tits is that bloggers who were wrong ,and have be proven wrong,refer to “previous mistakes” that were made,ignoring the evidence that those mistakes in fact were correct calls.They even now refuse to accept that they were the ones making the mistakes.
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heh my favourite was how they were trying to avoid eating humble pie on ramsey by saying that ” he was crap cause wenger played him in the wrong position”…as if wenger doesnt know what he is doing putting players in various positions….or how they cant accept that a 18-19-20-21-22 year old who is not some freak talent like say cesc messi ronaldo MUST learn multiple roles….they did it with theo too…
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Ah. I think I’ll sit this one out…
LadyArse eh. Never read it. Perhaps I saw the name and thought it was one of those sites you hear about. Y’know the ones. Can’t be too careful on t’internet.
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santi cazorla on lsd:
‘In England no one plays with 10 men behind the ball. That kind of football just doesn’t exist.’
love mighty mouse
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hunter 13 11:15
the other thing about the situations like Ramsey is that those who criticized him who are now backtracking moan at those of us who backed Ramsey. They call us smug know-it-alls and take exception when we bring up the fact that we could see what Wenger was trying to do with Ramsey and they couldnt
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Kudos to George and Bradyesque (Rowan) for boldly going where very few in the blogsphere have the guts to even contemplate; to publicly challenge the negativity and stupidity we read daily on many so-called Arsenal-blogs. I am not for one moment questioning their right to express their opinions but when they go public, for the world to see, they must be prepared to have their views challenged and rebutted. Unfortunately, most have a mountain-sized ego that any criticism of their views or questioning of the validity of their facts and findings is regarded as an excuse to trash the criticizer, to block and to unfollow.
Unfortunately whenever there is a campfire flies are bound to follow. That is the nature of the Arsenal, a campfire that burns brightly. Somebody must be willing to give the flies a healthy swatting before they feast on the healthy and strong among us.
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@Swales1968
November 22, 2013 at 11:45 am
i think they are totally illogical creatures. it is difficult for me to understand why trusting a professional like wenger is a reason to be called deluded. As if we dont know who wenger is or what he can do.
what gets me is how the conclusion to trust wenger is presented as “following blindly” when its got nothing to do with blind following but a conscious decission based on previous experience.
later on, to support their claim that anyone who trusts wenger is deluded they seeked to piss on his achievements and influence at Arsenal with their gg revisionist bullshit.
media? ok they are cunts…ex players? maybe they carry grudge for not being offered a role after playing days were over or also for the money and exposure in media…but the fan? how could the fan not see through that ?
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Apparently,(according to some esteemed bloggers) Santi’s interview is proof positive that Arsene changed due to fans pressure.
WHAT A LOAD OF OLD BOLLOCKS !!!!
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hahaaa …yes of course. esteemed my arse …..oh well as long as it agrees with their narrative that wenger had lost his touch and needed a figure from the club to put him under pressure to perform …aha…and then people call me a fascist when i call all these losers unfit to comment about anything arsenal related
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I think because of several things, depending on their age. Some blame him for being not English. For changing the game. For introducing fancy foreign ideas. For pretty passing. For (seemingly) not being 1000% red-blooded male. For giving them bragging rights, and then taking them away. For seeimg to be of the Establishment. And worst of all, for single-handedly selling Highbury. All of these things (and more, no doubt) irritate them.
But he’ll do for me, and if I outlast him (which is no shoe in) the next one will do too.
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@pedantic george at 12:52 pm
Please tell us who George….
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also bradyesque
arse2mouse + arseblog arsecasts…..gunnerblog…aclf..they all talked shit and they all encouraged direct questioning of wenger …. some even saw in their crystal balls that the era was coming to an end…
very intelligent folks writting about arsenal …. lol….such cretins
an organistaion committed in a 450 investment and infrastructure overhaul getting attacked for wanting to play it safe, while fielding youngsters waiting for them to mature, coming close to winning major titles against teams much richer, bigger and more experienced and the fans turning against their own team …..cretins..absolute cretins…
” we need to take risks…speculate to accumulate..” …lol go do that with your own company mate, not our fucking club….there is no “save/delete” in this game….
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that cunt usmanov and dein and our not so intelligent fans are the only problems at arsenal…not the medical, not the coaching, not the tactics
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Hunter @ 1:36 pm – Interesting list of blogs that you threw in the mix. They have many things in common not the least being they are clever writers but totally unqualified in managing a football club much less the size, complexity and aspirations of an Arsenal.
When the going was good they were the best in their triumphalism, singing the praises of the club and of Arsene but at the darkest period of our rebuild, after losing Cesc then Judas Van Persie and up to the Ozil signing, they were as bad as the worst of the doomers in tearing down Wenger. Anicoll has it right, history won’t be kind to them.
Flies at the campfire.
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@ Dexter November 22, 2013 at 8:23 am
Ha ha
Yes. But you have to admire these people’s persistence and creativity. Not.
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clever writers ? if they were clever they would have comprehended what the club was going through and s-u-p-p-o-r-t instead of creating ‘debates’ on wenger’s and arsenal’s ambitions….
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Some of them are clever writers Hunter,Shotta is right.
But they are stupid when it comes to football.
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George, Santi doesn’t really say much at all in the (translated) interview, only that Arsene appears “more demanding” and “determined”.
There is a line about “pressure in the summer” (no mention of supporters whatsoever though, not even by implication) but it’s in brackets, so I don’t know if that is a direct quote or something the writer has put there.
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The most amazing thing is why are the messengers of doom so popular. If the sun says migrants eat Royal swans their sales go up and then obviously the retraction is microscopic but their readers wouldn’t care as truth is not the point.
These blogs are much the same to assume greater knowledge or to be able to highlight flaws in those whose talents are greater obviously than the writer is the name of the game.
To suggest one of the most highly regarded coaches in the world is tactically inept is illogical especially when it is compared to the strategies of the bloke down the pub but it serves a purpose just as immigrants and people on benefits do.
Most of these blogs are not angry or informative or fighting for a just cause with a black scarf on but can only survive on negatives because seeing the good in something or supporting someone when they are not popular or are underperforming is difficult.
Therin lies the difference between this blog and so many others for although we may see situations and subjects differently we support and enjoy supporting unfortunately it is an increasingly lost art
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and if they were really clever they would have been able to interpret things correctly and explain it to their followers/readers and this division among fans could have been avoided to a large extent…but they are shitheads who think they are capable of writting about Arsenal. mean lean is the boss. the only one who showed strength of character to support under very tough circumstances. hats off.
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Some of them are clever writers Hunter,Shotta is right.But they are stupid when it comes to football.
i accept ..i accept shotta is right but then they shouldnt write about football…its not their forte….
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“but then they shouldnt write about football” or breath?
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What matters is, my view is the correct one… simple. smileywinkyface
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Just kidding.
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no thats actually a good idea… 🙂
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HUnter: “They got pissed off cause arsenal wanted to play it safe and they couldnt handle rival supporters taunting them about trophyless years and being a feeder club …instead of telling, say to chavs, to fuck off with their bought trophies they got angry at their club for not doing as chelsea”
This is it in a nutshell. Spineless fans dreaded going in to work for fear of Manure and Chelski fans picking on them.
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Swales: “the other thing about the situations like Ramsey is that those who criticized him who are now backtracking moan at those of us who backed Ramsey. They call us smug know-it-alls and take exception when we bring up the fact that we could see what Wenger was trying to do with Ramsey and they couldnt.”
I love the line these fuckers throw out when called on their lack of belief regarding Ramsey. “Haven’t you ever been wrong about a player, you smug troll?” Well, no, actually, I haven’t. Even the supposedly worst signing Wenger has made in five years, Gervinho, is tearing the Serie A a new butt hole. Bendtner’s going to Brazil and Zlatan is not. Oops! And how much do you want to bet Theo is going to catch loads of shit for not being one hundred percent after his injury? Because you know it’s coming. These idiots are Rolex-like in their predictability. They’re hungry for a scapegoat and they’re mad as shit because the team is doing exceptionally well.
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Oh how I miss the bastards taunting Wenger for being tactically inept on the one hand and calling for the club to hire awful coaches like Ancelotti on the other. Never mind that Wenger got the best of Pep and then, in the same year, Pep used Taggart like a chew toy in the final. People develop amnesia when it comes to remembering details such as these.
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“Haven’t you ever been wrong about a player, you smug troll?”
haha ! hit them where it hurts!
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taggart won one in circumstances that to this day he cant explain and the other one because a racist donkey fell on his arse…. in the epl every season ( as long as i can remember) he got 10-12 points from dubious calls …. any trasnfer flops during his reign? you bet…epic ones too.
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I know where my duty lies but I am sorry I will miss the Dortmund-Bayern game on Saturday evening. The banner the Dortmund fans put up even before he left was a corker.
“The pursuit of money shows how much heart one has. Fuck you Götze.”
Very lyrical, poetic almost I thought
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club to hire awful coaches like Ancelotti on the other
lol …that eyebrow alone deserves praise
do you remember our fans were thinking at one point to hire o’neil or moyes…??…ha ha! now thats awful…terrible…shocking.
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