From Goonergerry: Why support a silver spoon club?
Most clubs used to be run and owned and run by capitalists who were also fans of a sort.
Arsenal FC?
Arsenal was started by workers, then taken over and run like a privately- owned business by capitalists and hereditary elites.
A club run by a Board comprising a property speculator and closed hereditary elite who epitomise self interest-whose chairman is frequently contemptuous of the mass of supporters.
This lot are completely impervious to the wishes of the majority of fans -hence Arsenal’s chairman stating “thank you for taking an interest in our affairs”- when closing the last AGM.
The blind obedience of the AKB is evidence not only of the irrationality of supporting a team in the first place whose owners are only interested in taking your money, but of perversity.
The more a manager fails to produce a competitive team, the more he should not be questioned.
They think they are the only true fans.
Football is tribal, it gives people a sense of identity.
Thats why people still support a club blatantly ripping its fans off every year, as Arsenal FC do.