Hi folks, just been thinking about the latest whiff of speculation that our shirt sponsors are planning to have the Arse playing in an all-white strip next season, the w*nkers, and I think it's about time we voted with our feet (well, wallets anyway!) and tell them what we think!

So to set the scene, I've been a Gooner since I was six years old, and amazingly my first season of supporting the Mighty Arsenal coincided with a certain Charlie George's memorable season for us in the good old days of 1970/71, so I'm hardly a 'Johnny come lately' fan if that makes any difference.

Anyway, back then the Arse were a North London side with a pretty large Irish contingent who played at the most fabulous stadium in the country while wearing red and white shirts with a proper cannon on. While playing away we wore yellow and blue, which ironically was my school team's kit too - bravo Elm Tree Primary School!

So what's changed?

Well, we still play in the most fabulous stadium in the country (and I'd like to pass on my personal thanks to the board for maintaining that tradition) and thanks to Pat we still have that Irish connection with the side from my early days as a fan, but what about the rest?

Personally I love the international mix of talent that M. Wenger has accumulated but the 'Pugwash Cannon' doesn't do anything for me and I've refused to have anything to do with that whatsoever - apart from it being on my credit card. I won't even mention our stadium sponsors, but I'm surprised it isn't known at the Taliban Stadium by now - still, I digress. Anyway, I hated the Ribena flavoured shirt and kept my hand in my pocket rather than buy one, and have to say that I was at both the Wigan game, the last one at Highbury, and Mr Bergkamp's testimonial and at both games I was in a section provided with white tee-shirts to wear for the game. OK, so I wore them on the day, but with them being white I've never worn them again and don't intend to.

So to summarise, we support a club with a heritage and sense of tradition second to none, yet Mr Nike wants us in all white? I think not. Would Chelsea give up their traditional blue to play in red and white? Would Leeds United give up a white strip to play in red and white? How about Liverpool, or Newcastle? Damned right - they would go f’in mental, but somehow I don't foresee the same allegiance to the colours in our own support?

Who the f***in' hell are Nike anyway? I looked back at the pictures of King Charlie at Wembley and there wasn't a tick to be seen, so is the beloved Arse going to let some bloody Yank company making their gear in Asian sweatshops dictate what we wear?

And besides, whatever will happen to 'we're the boys in red and white' and 'she wore a yellow ribbon'? While we're searching for a new identity at 'New Highbury' without the North Bank (and where's our bloody clock gone BTW?) the last thing we need is more change. So, my proposal, should this heresy actually prove to be correct, would be to do the total opposite and send both the club and the sponsors a financial message that they will understand - and that means a total embargo on any future white strip that the club and sponsors choose to introduce.

For those that feel that they have to purchase the latest kit each season, no problem - buy the goalkeeper’s black top instead - that should do it without Nike making any more $$$ from their white shirt proposal. Actually, the more I think of it, the better it sounds. I may even buy one myself (with 'Mental Jens' written across the back!) and while I'm in the Orange Quadrant Red Action standing / singing / jumping up and down section, if we all did this then 'New Highbury' would have it's own singing Ninja's section!