Today’s post is by Muppet
It’s not too hard to find anti-Arsenal sentiment in any given week of the season.
The narrative in the press after the Bayern defeat was indicative. It told us that Arsenal were simply not good enough, whilst plucky City deserved better.
In the backdrop of the Stoke defeat, we have also been condemned to 4th place, veritable also-rans in the title race. The bookies followed suit, condemning us to long odds of 16/1 despite being on the same number of points currently as Liverpool.
The Daily Mail’s infamous Neil Ashton, presenter on Sky Sports’ Sunday Supplement, on Twitter @neilashton_
Incredibly, Neil Ashton of the Daily Mail has written a piece, steeped in unbelievable hypocrisy, where he comes out with the risible claim that Spuds have overachieved in the Redknapp years and this over-expectation is now causing unrest amongst fans. Even if we were to entertain these falsehoods – which they are, given their £280m+ transfer net spend – they reek of huge hypocrisy, a bare-faced attempt by a journalist to stick up for one club whilst happily sticking the knife into another; in this instance it’s us, despite the reality of the comparison being much more in our favour. Indeed, our zero net spend in the transfer market is never mentioned in the press. It is not convenient. And how the piece actually has truer parallels amongst Arsenal fans is an irony lost on Ashton.
Neil Ashton’s recent form in the last 2 weeks is to say that Ozil was “Nicking a living”. In tandem, the Mirror produced a back page headline, at half time, castigating Ozil’s 1st half performance against Bayern, not knowing he had a hamstring problem:
Daily Mail’s disgraceful headline from 11th March 2014 – http://dailym.ai/Ojlqq9
The Daily Mirror’s John Cross, too, got into the act, redacting statements on Twitter hurriedly, in the face of a huge backlash from Arsenal fans.
Adrian Durham, another staple of the gutter press. regularly espouses arrant nonsense on TalkSport. Durham claims to like Arsenal, which is quite bonkers, given his notorious “Daily Arsenal” show, which gleefully rejoices at whatever misfortune comes our way, and sneers at any Arsenal fans who go on the radio station to defend the club.
Sneering TalkSPORT radio presenter, Daily Mail columnist and published author, Adrian Durham, on Twitter @talkSPORTDrive
The only saving grace of Durham, is that he has correctly targeted Spuds incompetence in recent times, making him a hate figure across North London. Durham loves to champion moral causes, but fails to mention financial fair play or excesses by huge clubs. When you confront him about the pathetic lack of progress of Manchester City in the champions league, you get the reply, as I did:
“That’s strange, one supporter talking about another club.”
“Amateurish” Andy Dunn – Sunday Mirror sports columnist and Chairman of the Football Writers’ Association, on Twitter @AndyDunn_SM
Another anti-Arsenal sceptic is Andy Dunn.
Despite us being competive pretty much all season, our title challenge was dismissed back in November, even following our recent 2-0 win over Liverpool at home. Forced to backtrack on his claim that we couldn’t win the title, he said we wouldn’t win it. Dunn doesn’t seem to miss an opportunity to put the knife into the Arsenal management, be it Wenger or the board. In August he claimed that the way we were going about our business was “amateurish”.
On September 29th, he pens an article attacking the “lack of ambition” of Stan Kroenke, saying:
“You sense trophies would be a nice bonus on top of the real business – the smooth running of a financially-successful franchise.”
This is all very interesting, but Amateurish Andy offers no context about the competition and environment that we find ourselves in. Sneering at Kroenke is all well and good, but this is just another example of a journalist who doesn’t understand economics.
It’s very simple.
Arsenal refuse to inject money into players wages or transfers that is not earned by the club. Other clubs continue to do this.
A Mirror hack to watch out for is Darren Lewis.
Darren Lewis, another Daily Mirror journalist – this one describes himself as ‘a football fan’, on Twitter @MirrorDarren
Almost certainly a Spud.
With statements like “Why Spurs now have bigger fish to fry than Arsenal”, he suggested that the gap was narrowing in 2012. Other articles include asking Arsenal fans to admit why Spurs were no longer the poor relations. Darren Lewis made a fictitious claim that Joachim Low told Ozil that he would miss the World Cup, which is complete nonsense. After reviewing a selection of Lewis’s articles, it is pretty clear, that like Andy Dunn, he does not have a good word to say about Arsenal.
Pundits and Commentators
Understandably there is a lot of anti-Arsenal sentiment amongst pundits, a lot of them ex-Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool players. Michael Owen, Tony Gale, Tony Cascarino are the worst perpetrators. Gale in particular just hates Arsenal and makes no attempt to hide it. How he gets away with commentating for Chelsea is beyond belief.
Cascarino is so stupid he said that “Chamakh was having a holocaust”, which almost finished his ‘career’.
Owen? He is too stupid even to comment on.
Apart from the individuals, more worryingly is the on-going stupidity of the narrative about Arsenal. Every competition we enter there is always a reminder that it’s 9 years without a trophy. Never mind that our Champions League progression in each and every year has eclipsed Manchester City since 2005.
Other annoying examples are that we don’t have a striker, when we have Podolski, Walcott and Giroud.
The questioning of a weak bench when we have eight to ten 1st team players injured.
The lack of acknowledgement of the significance of the absence of Ramsey and Walcott.
The continuing pressure to spend money, particularly in the January transfer window.
My question to the press and pundits is this – City have spent £1 billion, and their return is 1 FA Cup, 1 League title and 1 Carling Cup – is that a good return on their investment ? I would argue no. The narrative of spending money is very rarely directed at Real Madrid, a club and a team that I don’t particularly rate, who have spent similar money over the last 10 years, but have only won 1 Champions league trophy. Real Madrid are the most egregious example of media hype, considering their lack of relative achievement to their net spend.
This is not an attack on Real Madrid, but on the media.
Alan Brazil this morning was trumpeting Ronaldo and Bale this morning. But so what ? A fully fit Arsenal team would match them in my view.
The media narrative and anti-Arsenal bias continues to be self-serving and is part of the entertainment game that is being played out.
Nobody wants to question the vast sums of money being circulated, because they want to be part of it. The media talks up the need for Arsenal to spend and get in on the act. How they still do this following the embarassement of Spuds £100 million pound spend, as former owner Lord Sugar put it: “Like kids in a sweet shop”, is baffling.
If anything, the Spuds debacle shows that patient value acquisitions, achieved over time by Wenger, is the only sustainable model.
But we won’t hear of this.
The “industry” will continue to produce sensationalist headlines for the reactionary wing of the Arsenal fan base to gorge on. The same press that calls for Arsenal to spend money, and when we do, try to label them a flop.
Right now the tide is turning in our favour, and the media know this. They cannot cope with the narrative as it stands, so expect a lot of revisionism and a change of emphasis. Now that we have more money the attacks will come now about what success we should expect, and what “big” players are underperforming.
It will probably get worst.
You can discuss the headlines and more with Muppet on Twitter @MuppetGooner
Positively Arsenal 
Great stuff from Muppet.
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Best article on any Arsenal blog i have read in a very long time.Its about time we expose these useless hacks for what they are.
And my question is why don’t we get the likes of parlour and bob wilson commentating on our games??? I tell you why because that goes against the media’s agenda.That’s why you get bitter fools like merson still on the tv.
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Don’t look to Talk Sport for balanced opinions. The whole point of the presenter is to rile people to the point of ringing up to argue their point, or to “talk” about “sport”. This is a microcosm of what journalism has become. Articles are written not for quality of opinion, not because they are well researched, not because they are insightful, but because they’ll get clicks and that is what they are paid to achieve. Dead and gone are the days of good sports journalism. I wouldn’t say these people are anti-Arsenal, just anti-everything.
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All very true! But console yourself with the fact that it clearly matters to them! If Arsenal were not significant, both in the way we play and the way we conduct our business, there would be relatively few snipers. They are there because we matter – and we matter for too much to just ignore.
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Damn right muppet. But you forgot to mention the most bent of them all, martin samuel. The time he spends attacking financial fair play, Arsenal and Arsene is absurd. Don’t remember him like this a few years ago. Somebody needs to check his acount history. It seems only London evening standard and telegraph provide some tolerable reads nowadays.
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Nice one Muppet.
Especially like that u posted pics to match the twat with “its” comment(s).
DJ Cacofonix:
(ahem)..’allo positivistas….sorry I’ve missed many a thursday.
hope you’ve been protecting the roost by any means necessary?
…….and on that note.
Debs says hello.
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Let’s win the FA cup and fill it with these clowns tears.
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Ahh my teenage crush. Another one would be the girl from spiritualized, what’s her name again?
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DJ Cacofonix:
(can’t see m’link…need to repost..)
Who’s in the engine room PG..get a move on,willya?
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DJ Cacofonix (aka AW): …oops….someone made me do a double!
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A good read Muppet. I gave up on these clowns long ago so what they say or don’t say is of no relevance. I think perhaps you credit them with a little more subtlety and intelligence than, in respect of having a driven agenda, is further than I would go.
They are just nasty pieces of work who, if they see a victim, or a potential victim that will get then digital hits and social media mentions, do not hesitate to sneer and disparage the target. The more hate, the more anger, the more hurt they can stoke up the better.
I think Carragher is a dreadful pundit. Years back though I did enjoy him phoning Durham and telling the jumped up little cunt to shut the fuck up on air about accusing him of cowardice about ending his international career. Well done Jamie.
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how much to buy the daily mirror? best signing we could make lol
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Spot on and good on you to name, picture and shame those inept critics. Let’s hope and count on our players to do the job on the pitch; an EPL title and FA cup double this season will silent these haters and put them where they rightly belong.
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Great article…. i hate those presenters on talksport..Even after Mancity lost, it was still Arsenal they kept castigating
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Thanks Muppet: enjoyed this very much and it’s more than comforting to realise that every time I am incensed beyond belief by yet another sneering attack there are others out there equally appalled and irritated. This PA site has been a real lifeline.
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With Arsenal remaining in contention despite disadvantage of injuries, it’s hilarious and many a plundit/hack now has no idea what to say, and so instantly revert to default.
What they are afraid of is the truth: it is that close, the closest fought EPL for a long time, that any of the four is seriously in contention, anything can happen and some shock results are bound to occur as the tail fights for survival, and it may only be decided in the last matches. Instead of telling that story, which is unique and interesting, they pretend to have inside knowledge.
So the story goes: Liverpool have the momentum and dynamic duo (unstoppable), Chelsea have the right stuff and the manager who “knows” how to finish (invincible at this stage), City have that depth, skill and home dominance (and therefore the right to finish top); Arsenal bought a lazy dud and didn’t solve their striker “problem” (and have forfeited all rights). The evidence on display is that Arsenal and Spurs just played “the worst match of the season”, showing just how far off the pace “both” now are.
Right yeah?
A few facts of stats, league tables, actual results, history, form and management are being forgotten, I won’t jinx by saying more; its going to be a thriller. The only person worth listening to is little Mozart.
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“It will probably get worst.”
Back in the day I remember hearing the following from the esteemed plunditocracy:
Lauren is not a RB
Toure is not CB. Arsenal are playing without a traditional pair of CBs (two lumps for these lumps, conveniently forgetting players like Des Walker and many many others)
Arsenal are not playing with a proper striker.
Etc.
And I was not the only one not surprised when the hacky slappers whipped their purile pens out for Ozil at the slightest opportunity. See Walcott.
Etc.
Arsenal FC offend their very concept of football. On and off the pitch. Or the kind of football they admire (see Moyes). It goes without saying that the club has pursued a solvent economic logic that is not admired by the owners and editors of these lame hacks. For some reason.
In conclusion, after a quick glance at the record, it is more then fair to state that these petty plundits do not know very much about football. And are best avoided.
Also, ex-players who have associations with agencies cannot be taken seriously
– M.Vaughan’s recent comments on J.Trott. I use the cricket reference to remind everyone that there are waaaaaaaaaaaaay more agencies active in football…Ooops. I forget. Silly me. Like 5Live etc. we must never, ever, mention the ludicrous sums beeing leeched here and there. Rangers? Leeds? It’s just noise. Must. Spend. Some. Wonga?
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Sky/ mu have for many years used spin and bullshit to put m u up and put aarsenall down why so much of these guys who make a living off other people’s backs are down on arsenal ? pockets come to mind
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So right, Zim – so right. Should the unthinkable happen and Arsenal win the League then it will be fascinating to see the response. I don’t think we quite will, because I don’t think any team in the world could navigate the next set of matches with arguably their four best midfielders injured at the same time, along with their most potent attacking force.That we are so close and coping with that reality is utterly extraordinary.
If we don’t win the double then there will be a huge and concerted onslaught on the club and manger because the only hope for everyone else next season would be to destabilise us completely. We really are that close to being the best side that has ever been assembled, and the rest of the world who know are terrified.
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Tremendous work Muppet – will have touched a chord with almost all football fans that read it, not just the Arsenal flavoured ones.
I really feel the sporting media – at least the footballing section of it – have badly lost their way in this country. There is a huge confusion in the tabloids that what sells the paper on the front page – sensational headlines – will also do a job on the back pages. Yet football is what it is – there is more than enough to keep our interest without recourse to cheap headlines followed by inaccurate and often irrelevant prose.
Common sense should be enough to tell this generation of journalists – and their owners – that after a while – you know what? People aren’t going to continue to pay to read a paper that defames their chosen club and, by extension, can hardly be trusted in the news reporting of other clubs.
I presonally don’t need articles to be glowingly in favour of Arsenal but I do require balance and fairness if I’m to part with hard earned cash.
I think it was Lord Alan Sugar who commented in his autobiography that football journalists, like many footballers, aren’t all that bright in comparison with writers working for the financial pages. And Sugar was (and remains) in a uniquely qualified position to make that judgement. Certainly these days I see precious little evidence around to contradict his direct personal experience.
On Monday evening, TalkSport hosted a two-hour tribute to Arsene Wenger to mark his 1,000 games in charge, with Ray Parlour and Nigel Winterburn as the main guests.
It was funny, affectionate and riveting radio.
TalkSport!
As the programme was on the air word went out on Twitter and other social media (including this blog) that there was something good taking place and I’d be willing to bet that they got more positive feedback from that one bit of broadcasting than they’ve had for anything else this year. And possibly last year.
Social Media can be a pain but it can also be a force for immense good. The sooner the old media wakes up to this and starts working with the fans rather than trying to upset them, the sooner they will enjoy far greater success – both online and in print.
I’ve always been fascinated by Arsenal. I’m also genuinely curious as to what is truly happening at Old Trafford and White Hart Lane. The journalists identified by Muppet above would likely be the last people I’d turn to for a view.
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When the hacks spend their time copy and pasting from Twitter in order to produce “work” it’s also fair to say it is an industry on the wane. Which may explain why so many of the same old lemmings seem desperate to get onto so many podcasts. Which is a shame as there are far more interesting guests out there then redundant journalists to have on a show.
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Well reminded Fins. I was thinking that yesterday when everyone was putting together their best ever AW side, and they stuck so rigidly to positions. Of course Overmars was selected (and I remember a sneaky tenner on him to score the first goal in the 98 cup final with joy) but I suspect that if everyone was available AW would have RVP and Henry swapping about up front. Plus – and this is my bias I know, Walcott (if he gets over this current setback) will still prove to be as dynamic a match winner we have had.
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Bravo PA!…….the quality of posts and comments on here are second to none.
There is a conspiracy at work here people, and wonga is at the heart of it! Just follow the money trail! This is the reason Arsenal and Arsene get so much negative press because we a deviation from the norm and if that is shown to be more viable than throwing millions away in in the name of ambition, then the norm becomes obsolete!…………this, the organization cannot have!
I decided a long time ago that the press/pundits/match commentators won’t phase me with anything they say or type! I know the truth, and it is this that makes me free! I’m only sorry for the fan who has in Arsene’s words, been brain-washed into believing the lies!
On another note, try this for contrast.
“He’s got a way of making you feel that you deserve to be there and he has a certain way of giving you confidence to play.” – Kieran Gibbs
“He’s not fit to wear the shirt” – Some Arsanal fans
……….Go figure!
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Overmars!
*drools*
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The story of Modern Football:
From 1992 –
Chelsea net spend: £646,024,000
Man City: £571,427,000
Man Utd: £295,110,000
Liverpool: £287,835,000
Aston Villa: £166,065,000
Tottenham: £163,732,500
Sunderland: £130,065,000
Newcastle: £91,720,000
Fulham: £91,966,000
Arsenal: £62,791,000
I’d be tempted to place a bet with the betting company that owns Stoke that none of the hacky slappers referred to above in today’s post have ever commented upon the incredible contrast in the figures above. They’d only have about, oh, five hundred and fifty million reasons to consider such things in the build up to the weekend game between Gazprom-upon-Fulham and The Arsenal.
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fucking well said muppet! how does it feel that your club is getting shat upon by your countrymen and their pathetic lowlife football culture ????…hehehe ….i know my role and comments can offend but they have offended our club first…..them cunts…may suarez score a hattrick of handballs in brasil and watch the english media cry and moan
do they do it cause they are arrogant bastards who feel no foreigner has anything to teach them in football? is it a plan /paid campaign by usmanov? is it the establishment not wanting to allow a foreigner with foreign principles and ideas on the game to rule and change a part of brittish identity…how the fuck the brittish have chosen football to form part of their national identity beats me but there you go……low education? what is it?
where is the local english/brittish arsenal fan to expose the ashtons and the rest of cunts? if i do it i get singled out as plastic ..gloryseeking…newcomer …wenger knows best foreign piece of shit..
ARSENAL ! WENGER! CIVILISATION! TITLE 2013-2014. EVERYONE ELSE CRYING. THATS RIGHT!
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Don’t want to distract people from their NLD celebrations but here’s a quick reminder in the build for the next game:
Arsenal 0 Chelsea 0
Arsene out parked Jose’s team with l’Autobus. And still should’ve won the game.
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and even if this is the case…even if they are biased towards us…….who is in our club to face these shitheads and tell em to shut up? or does arsenal not feel big enough to defend itself? Surely silence is gold and the best thing you can do to people who want a piece of you is to ignore them, it drives them mental. But when they come out attacking your manager and everything looks like collapsing or hanging from a thread, with fans marching and booing the team inside their own stadium…someone needs to come out and put his balls on the table and see if the detractors and media are as tough as they pretend to be via their newspapers/outlets……….
i understand that you cant give value to scum just cause they talk shit all day but then you have the situation where when you are thrown enough mud/shit some of it will stick…..
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Hunter
The sycophancy for the anointed one this season by the likes of those mentioned above, this holy protector of sacred Gr*ttish values upon the field of battle with his non-diving troupe of Real Men is a little bit funny. I can think of five hundred and fifty million reasons why a hack who works for an oligarch owned paper can be seen sniffing Jose’s seat after a press conference.
Ignoring the Wonga, if that is possible, they worship the football of the manager who thought the best way to beat Barcelona, with his Real Madrid squad, was by playing Pepe in midifield. And Adebayor too. When they eventually did win some games, I don’t think he had Ade hacking and kicking like a clown, hough I do expect some of that on Saturday. Strangley enough Jose managed to win a game of football by having players who could play in midfield. Bit like that first squad he inherited at Chelsea, before he dumped or lost Robben and Duff (don’t think they liked him! Or his fitness programmes that treated them as fodder), and bored the owner witless before eventually getting the sack after being stabbed in the back by some of the players who are in the squad now! Gazprom: what a club.
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Fins – saw your reply yesterday re: The Auld Triangle – sorry for taking you too literally!
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AA. I can be vague at times.
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e.g. Above I meant to say that Jose has taken good teams/squads and make them poorer. When he had some success with Real Madrid I think the players had a fair amount of input, as they always do in any team. Not sure if in this instance if they always agreed with their manager. Given what happened at Madrid last season, it’s fair to say the senoir players at Madrid had enough of Maureen.
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oh yeah fins, i get all that….when you invest 200 million into the carousel obviously they will protect you and like you a lot more than the one who invests 1.5m into the carousel…but still our club , if it wants to consider itself big , should not allow durhams and ashtons or paytons or whatevers to mess with them. when fans are booing the manager inside their own stadium because of these media stories then you have to act. eye for an eye? of course not…10 eyes and 3 legs plus your children for one eye. they dare fuck with Arsenal? but then again when you got fans who want to ask “legitimate questions” lmfao…..
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There has always been a slight sense of The Arsenal being unpopular. We have variously been too Irish, too posh, too boring, too french, too innovative, too multi-cultural, too diverse, too prudent, too morally superior. And I for one would keep it that way as it means that by and large most of those who do support the club are probably pretty decent people who I feel a sense of kinship with.
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Foreverheady-thats twittered.
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foreverheady
March 20, 2014 at 3:28 pm
if you love the game of football and believe in honest set-ups then you can not dislike arsenal.
football is dirty and it appeals to the uneducated, wenger changed all that forever. the clever and decent have found their ithaca. without him …my god we would have to settle for cunts like fergie and mou…..at least wenger has infleunced a new breed of managers who think and act with class humility and utter professionalism rafa jurgen pep.
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the man could run the deutche bank or any embassy in the world and here he has to tolerate ashtons and crosses telling him how to do his job..puahahahahahaaaaaaaa
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haha , look what I just found
“Frank says:
June 10, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Of course supporting Arsenal is not a pre-requisite for players . It is certainly isn’t for ‘supporters’.”
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MUPPET
SUPERB.. can’t argue with any of it except maybe to give lord suger credit for praising AW & THE ARSENAL last year after the spudniks wasted another small fortune buy saying exactly what you just said. Value buys over an extended period of time is the way to go.
You can’t bring in 7 0r eighth new players in and expect results that first year. Buying players for the sake of buying is wrong on oh so many fronts.
And thanks for including their ugly mugs in the article. Hopefully some GOONER some day will recognize them in the street and have a short conversation with them. Or a short jab to the jaw to put their mouth out of commission for a bit.
I still say what I have been saying and pleading for the past six or so years. These bozos would not have felt this emboldened to talk s••t if the THE ARSENAL FANS , bloggers and pr department had closed rank and shown no room in the door for these sob s to put their foot in. No doubts. No complacency and full force defense of the club , manager and the players during the tumultuous times we went through. The reactionaries opened up the door for these vultures and when told by the diehards not to wash any dirty laundry ( as if there is any ) in public the pri••$ called us delusional and banned us for no reason at all. Except to open up room for fr•••king air heads and Ali.uos agents to take over the chat and drive their intent fully home. The take over of the club ownership and the board by the Mafioso. I blame the reactionary fans and bloggers even more so than the mediots and punkdits. The latter by definition are scavenging a living by circling and then descending on the victims. They have no mercy.
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Thank you for reminding me about Mourinho’s British Gentleman bullshit, Finsbury. I wish someone would bring that up this week-end as his team plays without two of their best midfielders.
By the way, is Mou going to have the balls to play Oscar or is he going to start with Lampard, Obi Mikel, Matic and David Luiz in the middle?
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They should do a football reality show where these pundits and a few premier league managers each take charge of a youth team for a week-end tournament. I would pay a thousand dollars to watch Adrian “I can do a better job than Wenger” Durham get his arse blown off by Arsene.
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That is a great idea Gains. We should have PA members do the commentary and post match analysis of those games. Should be fun.
Spot on about Chelsea’s midfield for Saturday.
Nice on Muppet. You da man!
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Fantastic piece Muppet, as other people have suggested this should resonate with all fans as the media will attack their club at one point or another. It is never long between CRISIS CLUB or FIREING ON ALL CYLINDERS and unfortunately its not lazy journalism its pure incompetence. It has long been the case that proper journalist have disappeared and it has left a void to be filled by the soap opera hacks like Adrian durham who really could be commentating on growing potatoes for all the knowledge he shows and total ignorance of the actual football going on the pitch. His little sidekick gouffy who ridiculously supports 17 clubs is Yorkshires answer to joey Essex only not quite as clever.
If you really dig deep you can find the odd Patrick Barclay around who will actually write intelligently about the game we love. Talking of talkshite even they have the odd good programme you just have to learn how to avoid the shit. Danny Kelly presents my sporting life in the evenings which can be very interesting. Just avoid the drunk in the morning and the ignoramuses on drive.
As we all know its not really these low lifes that are the problem, if every fan dismissed them, but the amount of fans that believe them and run with the shit they produce.
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Excellent debate on talksport right now about money in the game. Ex-Barca commercial manager on there, really interesting.
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“Just follow the money trail! This is the reason Arsenal and Arsene get so much negative press because we a deviation from the norm and if that is shown to be more viable than throwing millions away in in the name of ambition, then the norm becomes obsolete!…………this, the organization cannot have!
I decided a long time ago that the press/pundits/match commentators won’t phase me with anything they say or type! I know the truth, and it is this that makes me free! I’m only sorry for the fan who has in Arsene’s words, been brain-washed into believing the lies!”
Nail on head.
“These bozos would not have felt this emboldened to talk s••t if the THE ARSENAL FANS , bloggers and pr department had closed rank and shown no room in the door for these sob s to put their foot in. No doubts. No complacency and full force defense of the club , manager and the players during the tumultuous times we went through. The reactionaries opened up the door for these vultures and when told by the diehards not to wash any dirty laundry ( as if there is any ) in public the pri••$ called us delusional and banned us for no reason at all. Except to open up room for fr•••king air heads and Ali.uos agents to take over the chat and drive their intent fully home.”
Excellent point Kam
“As we all know its not really these low lifes that are the problem, if every fan dismissed them, but the amount of fans that believe them and run with the shit they produce.”
Exactly a_or_b they are trying to nick a living in a world in which their bs is less and less relevant. As long as this crap sells, they will keep dishing it up. When supporters wise up and stop enabling them, the sooner they’ll be asking ‘do you want fries with that?’ which at least would be an honest living.
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Only just read the main post. Thanks for taking the time and energy to give us such a balanced, well researched and informative article on the media in England. Your efforts are in particular appreciated by us overseas who do not, thankfully, get much exposure to these vermin. But it is always best to know the enemies of football.
Its revealing that for the last 100 years or more the style media leading the public has not changed. Also, whether its lying about the real reasons for certain bloody and terrible conflicts in the world or reporting about Arsenal, the same formula is used. Funny it would be, if it were so macabre.
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@ Forever 12.25
Agree 100% with that bit. Thanks to you enlightened souls on PA and a few from the other balanced Arsenal bloggers I have cone to realize what we might see, what Arsenal and Arsene. The best team, the classiest club, the most sublime football, the spirit of fair play and sportmanship and the integrity to stand by good values.
The real battle for ascendancy is only beginning. I think there is a Chinese saying ‘we live in interesting times’.
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What Arsenal and Arsene are building I meant to type.
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Cheers for all the kind comments all.
@Apropros 10.35 am. Yes, I was aware of Martin Samuel’s views on FFP. I don’t remember him being anti-arsenal though, he’s just an advocate of more clubs breaking the monopoly that has been largely held by Man U over the last 25 years. Certainly, there are other names that spring to mind – in August, Paul Hayward, Sam Wallace, Henry Winter were all writing Wenger’s obituary. The one’s above that I’ve mentioned have been the worst offenders since them though.
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Thanks a lot muppet for that rogues gallery.
A few others:
Phil NcNulty and virtually everyone working for the BBC,
All those wannabe amateur posters with fake news sites on newsnow,
Too many former Gunners with chips on their shoulders because Wenger moved them on – Wrighty, Merse, Smith, Dixon and the all time shitehawke Robson.
Alas it was always thus, but the real shame is so many weak minded Gooners swallow the anti-arsenal party line so easily.
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