What on earth is going on? I have asked myself this question a few times this season. However it is rarely to do with the football on the pitch, but the fans in the stands. I do not know where you come from, but I would love for you all to go back. I have never known fans quite like it. The club I love, is becoming alien to me because of you lot, moaning at everything in front of you in our fabulous new home. Your backsides would be watching a painfully boring Arsenal side, challenging with the likes of the Spuds and Pompy, half a mile across the road if it wasn’t for the one man you want out!
I recently read an article on this website that exclaimed somebody was planning on packing in their season ticket until Wenger was either sacked or resigned. I hope this fan cannot return for the next 20 years! This year has been disappointing for the team, because they have not won anything for a fourth successive year. However let me take you back to 1996 when, before a certain Frenchman arrived, this season would have been a marvellous achievement.
When George Graham was the gaffer, we started to win things again, after a bare decade. Yes the football was like watching paint dry, but who cared, our trophy cabinet was busy. Then he left and we started to turn back into the team we were before. Rubbish. But hey, we had Dennis Bergkamp and Wrighty, so maybe we could get to the semis of the UEFA Cup or something. Then he was replaced by Le Boss. This guy not only revolutionised everything about the game on and off the pitch, but in his first full season we won the double. We started playing football with flair and class. Players were brought in with skill, pace and an eye for goal instead of the cumbersome players of the past. We progressed in 10 years to a new 60,000 seater marvel of a home, played football others can only dream of, became a European and domestic force; winning trophies and breaking records along the way.
Now we have had four seasons without a trophy. What a disgrace! No, it isn’t at all. Whilst I would love as much as anyone to see some silverware for the first time at our new home, in these four trophyless seasons, we have been fag paper’s away from doing it. We have been in two finals, one of which was the Champions League final for the first time not just for Arsenal, but for any London club. We have also been involved in the most unlucky semi-finals and quarter-finals, where we have been robbed. On top of all this, we have led the League for massive parts of the season, only for our key players to break legs and cry on the sidelines. We still however play a beautiful game, and challenge along the way. Even this season, we have still been challenging to win trophies until three and a half weeks ago, when United knocked our threadbare, injury-ridden team out of the Champions League.
What right do you so-called fans have to question Arsene? The guy is the only thing stopping us from disappearing again, and challenging with the likes of Everton and Villa instead of with United and Barcelona. Do Arsenal have a divine right to win everything? Hell, before Wenger came, we rarely challenged at all. Then there’s the booing. I cannot honestly see too much fault in Adebayor. Seriously, the guy has been crucified because he hasn’t scored 30 goals this term, and because he said last summer I don’t want to be paid less than someone like Stephen Ireland. Is that such a terrible thing? Any job in the world, if you were better than your colleagues and they were going to other companies who offered more money for less work would you stay? Oh, of course you would, because you ‘love’ the club. Rubbish. Yes he has appeared a little lazy at times, but had it not crossed your mind that playing as a lone striker can make you look lazy. You even booed Eboue, because he gave the ball away too much. I honestly do not know what is wrong with our fans.
Now, have a quick look at Manchester United. Their talisman has flirted with every club since he grew into one of the world elite, and has exclaimed that he is a ‘prisoner’ at United. He had his own team-mate sent off in the World Cup finals, argues with the manager often, and spends almost as much time in the tabloids as he does diving on the floor. He is the closest human representation of everything wrong with the modern game to Cashley. But do United fans boo him? Are you joking? He’s their player. They leave that to every other fan.
I urge you, if you have booed our players and want Arsene out the club, please DON’T RENEW. We have enough problems without you lot making them a whole lot worse. I just hope you haven’t sent us to ruins already, and lost us the greatest manager we’ve ever had!