From Anthony Benson : driving the wrong way down a one-way street
Football is a results business.
Arsenal is a football club.
Arsenal’s football results reek of a business that is at best in decline and at worst is in danger of going kaput: high fixed costs + unstable revenue streams + dwindling asset (player) values / qualities + falling demand.
That\’s a red flag to a bull if ever there was a proverbial one!
I don’t believe that Arsenal fans have forgotten the thrilling and entertaining brand of football, that was combined with excellent results, which made Arsene\’s Arsenal “model” the envy of football fans when everywhere up until the mid-noughties.
In fact, I believe most AKB fans are living of the relatively recent but nonetheless past glories – and are thus oblivious to the cracks, crevices and grand canyons that exist in the present and short term future of Arsenal FC and Arsenal Plc.
Worse still, it would appear that Arsene and Stan and Peter HW and Ivan and the other dithering “dingbats” (to borrow an expression made fashionable by Keith Lemon) who run Arsenal Plc are looking in the rear-view mirror at those past glories whilst driving the wrong way down a one-way street, (“stuck in second gear†– an expression borrowed from Arsene himself), oblivious to the grand canyon ahead.
Teams don\’t fear Arsenal, the media mocks Arsenal, opposing fans dismiss Arsenal as a threat and worst still, most gooners don’t support the direction in which Arsenal is being driven.
Arsenal was fine before it left Highbury.
Arsenal was broken when it moved to the Emirates. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that one shouldn’t fix what isn’t broken.
It would be an untruth to say I wasn’t upset when we were humiliated at Old Trafford and at Ewood Park, or disappointed at the impotence shown at White Hart Lane, but it would be an untruth to say the results were a shock, given the now dire state of Arsenal Plc.
My expectations have now bottomed out, in line with how the quality of our players has bottomed out.
Arsene’s Arsenal’s days in the sunshine are over.
Arsene and Stan and Peter HW and Ivan the other dithering “dingbats” need to stop looking in the rear-view mirror at past glories, try to steer Arsenal away from the grand canyon ahead and focus on the now, such as:
On teaching our defenders to defend as a team. To put infrastructure in place for this to be done (i.e. employ competent defensive coaches).
Play 2 strikers.
Have players that can play in their best position.
Stop rewarding potential. Stop rewarding failure. Reward ability and success and determination and teamwork and a never-say-die winning attitude.
Respect the fans. Appease the fans. Entice the fans. Stop lying to the fans.
Do you know how one goes about writing an open letter to Arsenal?
I would dearly love to send this and discuss this with our dingbats.