Enough is enough now! This week has been disgusting and embarrassing to be an Arsenal fan! In the game against AC Milan we just looked like we never wanted it and yesterday we crashed out of the FA Cup, meaning it is now SEVEN years since our last trophy. The Arsenal board has once again let the fans down. They pushed up ticket prices 6.5% this season and we are having our worse one ever on our 125th anniversary! Yesterday we suffered three more injuries and we cannot afford to lose anyone else – at this rate we are going to struggle to field a side!
So who is to blame for this? Does the buck stop with Arsene Wenger? In my opinion, no. Getting rid of Wenger will not resolve the problems because he is powerless under the current Arsenal Board of directors, who seem more interested in putting money into their OWN pockets rather than investing in the club’s future.
At the heart of the board we have ‘Silent Stan’ a.ka. Stan Kroenke. The fact he is known as ‘Silent Stan’ says it all really. We don’t want a SILENT board of directors, we want a board of directors who are passionate about the club they invest in. We don’t want 6.5% ticket price increases unless it means 100% more investment going into the squad.
There is no point in having this kind of price increase if the quality of the team continues to slide. You have seen it this season, seats are continuing to get lighter and lighter, less people are going to games and the Arsenal board have only got themselves to blame.
Wenger stated before yesterday’s game:
‘We had a team [in 2002] that could go and win everywhere and when you can do that you get into the finals. Sometimes you lose the finals but most of the time we won finals. We had the potential to do it.
‘Disappointments are a part of the game but we had previously always found the resources to get up again when it was down. That is what’s at stake tomorrow.’
Well Mr. Wenger this time I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel, we are going to be lower than you have ever seen us before and with a tough run of games coming up my assumption could prove accurate. Arsenal put on a wicked package to go to the game yesterday which was a £5 return trip for the game, under any other circumstances is amazing. However, after seeing the performance yesterday, I’d be asking for my money back!
Those of you who follow Gunnersphere will perhaps understand just how frustrated I am right now, and I have snapped because I’ve seen a team play twice this week with no passion or desire to win. That is not the Arsenal I love and have supported for nearly 32 years! The board have lost touch with what it means to be an Arsenal fan and that is inexcusable. They have become more concerned with lining their OWN pockets than anything else.
A group of workers at Dial Square armaments factory in Woolwich decided to form a football team, each giving a sixpence – two and a half pence in today’s money – for the purchase of a football.
That’s what formed Arsenal passion! From a fans perspective we’ve lost that! This season was supposed to be about going ‘Forward’, that was our biggest mistake. In looking so far forward we lost who we are as a club. The 6.5% ticket price increase during a recession meant Arsenal fans are finding it harder to attend, money is not being put into the squad, and we are in real danger of losing fantastic legends.
Everything that Arsenal players have put on that shirt for the past 125 years is in real danger of meaning nothing if we don’t realise WHO we are and WHERE we came from.
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“Actually PHW holds 0.1% of equity”
I’d be interested if you have a link to this… I always thought he sold all of his shares to Kroenke.