The ’10-2′ jokes have been coming thick and fast since Arsenal imploded live on TV last night.
ArsenalTV gave us some incoherent toilet cleaner blasting Wenger, which was funny enough in it’s own right but positively peaked when this uber fan declared he’d been following Arsenal since back in the day – 1992!
Old skooll blud fam.
Lack of investment coupled with an enslavement to the notion that at top four finish has taken the joy out of it for a sizeable chunk of Arse fans.
Football has been a money-centric business since ’92. There is no escaping the fact. BT Sport have today snatched the Champions League and Europa League TV rights – because they spent £1.2billion on them.
Until there is a seismic change, if you don’t spend, you cannot compete.
You can get the odd anomaly like Leicester City, but the reality is if you financially snooze, you will ultimately lose.
There’s a major difference between us entering this new stadium process, from the way Arsenal did. We have a trophy cabinet full of largely worthless junk.
Another is that our project appears to be somewhere in the region of 125% over budget. Whatever apartments we may have to sell the bottom line is, they are in Haringey. Repeat, they are in Haringey.
THFC pulled backflips to get out of providing what they should have provided in terms of affordable housing, yet those ‘savings’ haven’t scratched the surface which clearly suggests that the overarching strategy was wrong.
Since Arsenal moved from Highbury, they have become a water-treading device. They are simply not geared up to winning stuff.
Financial prudence has turned what was an ambitious and very successful trophy winning machine into a rather bland club that is now an organisation that does an annual box ticking exercise.
Champions League ✔️
Finish above Spurs ✔️
We’ve not even managed to duplicate these limited ‘achievements’.
Instead pf playing our way to Wembley – we hire it.
Instead of singing fresh players – we extend existing contracts.
Anyone who can’t see the parallels is REFUSING to the see them.
We’re already hurtling towards how Arsenal are today in slo-motion. I would say at 100 mile per hour, but we have Wing Commander Levy as our designated driver.
Manchester United have lifted the League cup and nobody who watched that final can deny it meant the world to all concerned.
Chelsea will win the league. The celebrations will go on for days.
Meanwhile, Wenger has his zip jammed on his weird coat and Spurs are have released another soppy video showing what larks the lads get up to in training.
So let’s all laugh at Arsenal, at least that way we can try and kid people the tears are tears of laughter opposed to what they really are. Tears of frustration.
