A group of disgruntled Arsenal fans plan a rather bizarre bin-bag protest at the Emirates tomorrow afternoon.
The Daily Mirror reports that one supporters’ group will urge fellow Gooners at tomorrow’s game against struggling Blackburn to pull black bin-bags over any red empty seats around the Emirates Stadium to highlight to the club’s board and management of falling attendances.
The fans have seen their side slip down to seventh in the Premier League after managing to take just one point from 12 in their last four games. It’s believed that there have been a number of calls – via Twitter and Facebook – for the bin-bag protest to go ahead, plus chants of ‘we want our money back’ to be sung during the game.
Following their poor run of results, especially their 0-0 draw against lowly Bolton on Wednesday night, Arsene Wenger has since faced a bombardment of abuse from a lot of Arsenal fans via Twitter, while the Arsenal Supporters’ Trust demanded that the board and majority shareholder Stan Kroenke to connect more with the fans after another poor showing in the January transfer window.
Although many Gooners want to protest and vent their frustrations at the club and its management, Keith Meadows, a member of the Where Has Our Arsenal Gone and Black Scarf Movement, says his group will firmly stand by and support Wenger and the team. However, he too questions the direction of the club:
‘What was the point in six per cent price rises last summer if the club do not want to spend? We will always support the team and Wenger deserves respect and to be treated with dignity after everything he’s done for the club.
‘If Robin van Persie signs [a new contract], then great. But I don’t know many people who would blame him if he did go in the summer because is the club going to buy players to rebuild the team again?
‘It’s not the players’ fault. It’s not even their fault if some of them are not necessarily good enough. But we would like answers from the board.’
I would love to know if any Gooners reading this will be taking part in this proposed protest tomorrow afternoon.
What a waste bin-bags!
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blackburn will be helped by arsenl watchers
Finally some action!
Sonebody please tell me how we get David Dein back at this club pronto!? Arsenal has managed its budgets perfectly fine in the past without this new board. Sure the financial structure may have improved even more since but at the expense of the team and it has lost its balance entirely. Profits might be at record levels now but I for one believe it has peaked and the scales are going to tip the other direction unless that balance is restored!
6 years and if you think it’s going to get better your kidding yourself. Just think about all the bad players arsen been playing and keeps playing, the team that we got now ( joke) but all sad and done I would give wanger one more season to get it right the man a arsenal legend, if there are no big summer singing then the board need to hear the anger !!!!
Timing of the protest is wrong, it won`t help Arsenal win games and Wenger (in his funny way) will enjoy it. Better left until the last couple of games of the season to give the management something to think about during the summer break.