This season saw Arsene deviate from his usual policy of playing the second string in the Cup games in an attempt to garner any kind of silverware to placate the heaving masses, we fielded stronger sides than usual but ended up with the same result. Fuck all! If you throw a bone to a dog he will catch it, but if you throw more than one bone he will try to catch them all, and end up catching none. I hope next season we just concentrate on the Premiership, after all thats the one trophy we want. Fuck the Champions league, there I've said it, time to just catch that one juicy bone.
Highlights of the season, the emergence of Wilshere, Sczcezny and a fit Van Persie. Beating Utd, City and Chelsea, that incredible night against Barcelona, when the Landlord of my local rushed his dinner to get behind the bar thinking the Pub was packed when there was only 7 of us Gooners, making enough noise for 50!!
The low points, everything else.
Everybody remembers when they started supporting a particular team, in Ireland its usually based on success, after all nobody wants to support losers, thats why I feel these last trophyless seasons have had a severe effect on potential future fans. Picture the scene in the playground,
> My team has won the League again and are in the Chamions league final..
> My team won the double last year, ok this year we finished second but we are going to buy loads of brilliant new players and we will be back with a vengeance next season.
> My team are trophy-less again but thanks to prudential financial management are once again in a healthy position going forward!
> ........?
> Lets beat him up.
We are losing these fans of the future and we are losing them at an alarming rate, and when you lose fans you will inevitably lose players as well.
This morning I received my Red Membership renewal form in the post. Enclosed was a form letter from Le Boss which began with "Dear John" to make it seem personal. One paragraph stood out for me,
" During next season, you will experience some very special moments, for example, we will be playing in a kit with an anniversary crest that honours our founding fathers at the time when they came together in the Royal Oak pub in Woolwich to form what we know today as Arsenal Football Club."
On reading that paragraph I was immediately reminded of the scene in The Outlaw Josey Wales in which Chief Dan George tells of his encounter with the government in Washington..
> They brought us up to Washington and the Senator told us we should Endeavour to Persevere..the papers had our picture on the front with the line "Indians Promise to Endeavour to Persevere". We went back home and we thought about it for a long time..Endeavour to Persevere...and when we had thought about it long enough...we declared war on the Union.
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