Conrad Drykoningen
Having read and absorbed the Editor’s article as well as the other two submitted on Sunday, and read the long list of comments under these posts, it would appear a tipping point has been reached. I realize that pro-Wenger supporters probably did not comment for fear of being shot down by any number of angry contributors, but don’t doubt the few who remain will resurface once the dust has settled, and especially so if (that’s a big if at the moment) Arsenal beat Bolton and Olympiakos in the next two meaningful home games.
Should Arsenal happen to do well in those two games, the sting will once again have been taken out of the tail and will temporarily mask the reality of our true situation. Just like when we lost 8-2 at OT, when the panic buys appeased quite a few Gooners who then said “give these new players time”, or - in the extreme - I even read one contributor saying we would now win the league!! The point here is that we have to strike whilst the iron is hot, because, if we don’t, this malaise could drag on for months and months, and I personally don’t want to end up celebrating our 125thanniversary with a relegation battle, with the worst possible outcome not being unrealistic taking into account our current run of 16 points from 16 games.
So if the majority of us now all agree that change is needed, the question must be how do we get it? Clearly letting off steam via this website and many other sites won’t change anything, but direct action will. I think we all know our board have zero intention of changing anything as things stand, and hence we have to be the catalyst to force change.
Were we all to start singing songs like “Wenger out” and “sack the board”, this could be the initial salvo in our armoury. However I personally would be more keen on songs like “we want Dein” and, just as importantly, “we want Usmanov”. There is no question but that this would make Gazidis squirm and force him to report back to Kroenke that this time the natives really are restless and mean business. Who knows? It might even make Kroenke decide to cut and run, selling to Usmanov for a vast profit in such a short space of time, especially if the share price Usmanov had on the table for minor shareholders was offered to Kroenke. We would need to keep these protests up, however, even at the end of games we had won! The reason I say that is because, otherwise, the situation will simply drift on from a good result to a bad one, as we all deep down now know it will forever, until a new regime is installed.
Back in March I wrote an article entitled “Time to end this ourselves” and nothing has changed since I wrote that, other than that we are in a much worse situation now than even I could have envisaged when I wrote it then. Please, everybody, this time act decisively and start protesting in an organised way, because the alternative - if we don’t - does not bear thinking about, which in the very worst case scenario could mean us going to places like Vicarage Road next season.
