Yesterday I tweeted this:
“Same philosophy, same tactics, same vision, but increased spending power. So, NO, ARSENE HASN’T CHANGED, his credit limit has.”
A few days ago I had this to say:
“Wenger isn’t back, because he’s never been away. He hasn’t changed and he certainly hasn’t listened to fans, or the media.”
It doesn’t take a lot to irk me [No shit – Ed] but the insistence from certain sections of the fan base and the media that Arsène has changed infuriates me to the point where I could punch a puppy.
They are adamant that Arsène has changed. Well, he has. He is older and wiser.
He has not, however, changed in the way they are insinuating.
These idiot halfwits (trust me that is the nicest description I could muster) want us to believe that they were right. He had “lost it”. He did want to feed his enormous ego by trying to win with a bunch of kids and cut price players. He was choosing not to spend the money that was available. He was happy with 4th and a last 16 place in Europe.
They have to think these things otherwise they would have to accept that they have been wrong.
Very wrong.
Completely wrong – and they won’t do that!
They have been wrong about Arsène.
They have been wrong about Ivan being incompetent.
They have been wrong about Stan being an asset stripper.
In short, they were wrong about everything.
However, having spent years talking absolute bollocks, they have to find some way of justifying their stupidity.
They want us to believe that they were right. Their lack of support for the great man – our greatest ever manager – is to be excused because “Arsène has changed“.
You hear things like, “we wanted him to buy world class players and now he is“. Completely ignoring what has been clear to anyone with even half a brain for 10 years.
He didn’t have the money to spend!
Or this little gem “We wanted to win trophies and now he has!” Again ignoring that he didn’t have the players to do it given that there were three clubs spending north of a billion pounds to buy up the said trophies.
I repeatedly hear “mistakes were made” and yet the vast majority of these perceived mistakes can be put down to the simple lack of funds.
They will do anything, and say anything, rather than admit they were the ones that were making mistakes.
Arsène is the same as he was last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 18 years ago when he first tipped up.
These people were unable to understand the simple economic realities that hamstrung the club. They spent years writing blogs, doing podcasts and tweeting about how they could do a better job than Arsène and the board. Make no mistake, if you are telling someone how to do their job, it’s because you think you know better.
Well they didn’t, not a single one of them.
The divide in the fan base was caused by them. It was not caused by those people who held their position of simply supporting the club. Both sides of the divide were not to blame. It was the uninformed pea-brains that thought they had the answers. Not those who just wanted to support the club.
It’s alright to be wrong. We are all wrong from time to time. But it’s not alright not toaccept being wrong, look for an excuse for your wrongness and hide behind it.
The most popular excuse seem to be Arsène has changed.
Well he hasn’t, so admit that and stop digging.
By pedantic george @Blackburngeorge
Positively Arsenal 
Chris. I’ve always liked you, you know that. You of all people should know that its dangerous to mingle with the wrong crowd.Bob? pfft. The chief turncoat of a pack of ship jumpers
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Ffs. What on earth is the point of arguing about who said what and who supports the most when we are all meant to be following the same team. In times of yore when there was division between opposing factions (red rose, white rose etc) sensible kings proposed a crusade against a common foe to unite the kingdom. While you lot fiddle away (I can mix historical metaphors all day) there is a whole host of referees and linesmen waiting to do us down. They are the ones we need to take on. Atkinson yesterday was merely the tip of the 2014/15 iceberg.
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The myopia, the mob mentality of the groaning idiots and the lies they told themselves can be shown in graphical form:
Check out the Big 6 net spend graph (in 2014 figures).
http://tomkinstimes.com/2014/08/how-chelsea-ruined-football/
If the Groaners don’t like 21st century football and Arsenal biting the bullet in order to compete then they can always move on, as opposed to blaming AFC for the changes to modern sport. The latter is seriously fucking stupid. Yet it is at the misplaced root of much of the groaning. Middle aged angst?
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And yet again you refuse to admit anything wrong. Instead you attack my character and (lack of) humor and portray yourself as someone who has been done wrong. Anyway, fuck it.
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George, the question is, who are the wrong people? An Arsenal fan for me is an Arsenal Fan. Simple as that! What I don’t understand is this, you said this or you said that. For fuck sake, it was 4 months ago. I don’t mind being pulled up for something I’ve said, I’m always prepared to defend my position. But that just smacked of what…. someone trying to put me down! That I won’t suffer, never.
FH has the right idea.
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Yup. It’s the excessive hacking that is the problem. The type we all saw in the Brazil Columbia or Brazil Croatia game. One rule for one team, another for the other. Game after game.
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Chris, I’d say snide shithouses are the wrong type.I don’t hold with this “fellow Gooners” shit. A twat is a twat is a twat. I never tolerate them is real life , why should I do so in cyber world ?
But you are free to judge me and anyone else as you wish. My judgment on certain people is made.And wont be changed.
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I had terrible fights with Jon Jon on A Cultured Put The Boot In, called each other all names. But that was because we were both angry and up front. I was back to being his pal the next day. Its the snide twats I cant forgive. The backstabbing bastards that hide behind “what a terrible thing to say to a fellow Arsenal fan” shit types.
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Apropos
Nothing was wrong…. and didn’t you try to attack my charactor as a Arsenal fan in the first place? I get the feeling that you haven’t supported the club for very long, that’s not to say that us ‘old pricks’ know better, but perhaps our experience has tempered our viewpoint. Why should I give in to your demands and say I was in the wrong? When you think you are in the right and clearly trying to portray me as an unfaithful supporter of the club, the players and Wenger! My support for this club has on occasion had to shed blood and do some things that I’m not particularly proud of, but my pride in the Arsenal is unquestionable…. solid and always will be.
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The ‘sly’ ones are the worst
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I go out for an hour and I come back to the sort of scrap you only see among a coach load of trainee rabbis.
Tsunami
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George, I have no problem with that, as you say there are twats and there are twats. This wasn’t about other people, it was about me. Now you may think that I’m a twat (but I know you don’t) but some things just have to be defended and fought for. Which is why I understand you viewpoint, but gloating isn’t a particularly good trait smiley in there somewhere.
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Not often I look toward Villa Park for inspiration but insisting supporters sign up to a 20 point ‘code of conduct’
It may be a start
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Who the fuck is claiming who is less Arsenal fan, only you are, and sure, you win because I only been fan for some odd 25 years. Jesus this whos been fan longest nonsense. Im not claiming you or anybody else here is less fans. Im up front and say you been wrong about Wenger and served it up to you when you asked for the proof. Yet its still all denial and rebuttal like from a kid who cant face up to the truth even when its slapping his face.
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apropos… why did you start it then.. by asking or saying that I had wronged Wenger in a previous statement on another blog? Was it against me or against the other blog?
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read todays fucking blog again. Pay attention to third paragraph from bottom. Fuck is going on.
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oh right, you were taking Georges comment word for word… and then you aimed it at me……
“It’s alright to be wrong. We are all wrong from time to time. But it’s not alright not toaccept being wrong, look for an excuse for your wrongness and hide behind it.”
When did I look for an excuse for my ‘wrongness’. and hide behind it?
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NB, you said what you said, Apropos reminded you what you had said.
I understand why you said it and I understand why Apropos reminded you.
There will only be harm done if there is ill feeling.
Lets move on.Anyway , I’m the biggest and best fan, so that argument is redundant.
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Drunk, tongue in cheek? How many times we heard it from you here. You asked for proof I gave it to you. And so I went from liar to humorless person (fair enough) to being a less fans accusing you of being less fan and what not. All while you are the victim. Screw this.
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Northbank is only a twat with a small t….
Unlike me, who is a T W A T in 50ft high Neon letters…
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George, I know you are the biggest and best fan.
apropos, drunk and tongue in cheek has got me into many a scrap…. I didn’t call you a liar… I may have said you had no humour….. fair enough! and I didn’t accuse you of being less of a fan than me. Lets take Georges advice and leave it here, I have enjoyed it though…. no harm done thankfully!
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I wish Arsene would fucking change…. That bleedin anorak for one thing…
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I agree with Dex, although he is showing off
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Gains and Hunter will be gutted to miss here
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and still not addressing the issue. Fucking unbelievable. Yea, I give up.
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Thank you Dex, I take that as a compliment.
When there is nothing on the tele, you’ve had a few too many glasses of wine and your favorite bar is closed for the August holidays…. what else is left?
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ani at 9.28pm
Spot the fuck on….
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apropos, if you are waiting for me to agree that I was wrong……. you’ve got a long fucking wait mate
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Yo Dexter , remember when you were the peacemaker in my fights with all and sundry?
I was a fearsome scrapper on blogs. If I say so myself.
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NB; Massive compliment mate!
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NB; Quick, let’s sneak off to ACLF to slag off the boss again! Oh and we can use smiley faces till our digits are worn down to mere numbs too…
Mwoohaahaahaa
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Yea and dont I fucking know that now.
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PG; Hey mukka, yes I was at my best when donning that blue beret… Keepin t’peace…
How times have changed!
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ha ha Dex… good idea!
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apropos
He aint worth the aggro mate… and you can be sure as the fact that george is sat wearing his favourite string vest that Northbanker won’t even remember any of this come the morning…
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Ay george;
I’ve still got it! Never left me…
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ha ha apropos, you do have a sense of humour
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“that Northbanker won’t even remember any of this come the morning…”
That is so close to the mark Dex…. the amount of times I’ve woken up in a police cell with no idea as to why I was there. Problem is, judges don’t accept that as a reasonable excuse. LOL
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Bam, like being smacked by baby jesus. True words dex.
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Chris, don’t think I am pointing at you,but I feel snide twats often hide behind humour . It gives them an out when pulled up on their snideness.
*I hope Dexter has fucked off to Jellystone and doesn’t see this post, or I’ll be in the shit*
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Shame Gains and Hunter weren’t here… we could have had a foursome
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George, when we finally meet up at the George next year you will know that I do not use humour to hide behind any form of snideness.
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Chris. I always used to say ” he had a knife” They would say who? I’d say”whoever I was fighting with, I had ti batter him”. Trouble was it made me look a twat if I had been arrested for something else.
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Chris, That’s why I purposely pointed out that I wasn’t meaning you.
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Whaaaat….. Was that a sly dig at me then…? Too subtle, not obvs enough…. No fair george…
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He’s like Ghandi is Dex – only wiser
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Non violent resistance… Yep, That was my idea….
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Actually, it was at arseblog in his past carnations.
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oh, gotcha mate…. Have to say, I really liked arseblog up till about 2/3 years ago… Lost his sense of humour and found his posts just way too whiney and a tad sanctimonious….
So, nothing like yours George then… Ahem…
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Fuck off.
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