From Ken :Tickets for tomorrow
Arsenal fans are voting with their wallets.
Tickets are still available for tomorrow’s game against Liverpool.
When was the last time that tickets for a premium game were available so close to kick-off?
From Alex Marc : No interest for one very big game!
Myles,
Watching Wenger gamble £25m of Champions League money with a Carling Cup team was very very painful! And we are not done yet.
It seems the pain was shared by so many Arsenal fans that you can still grab tickets for the Liverpool game tomorrow on ticket exchange.
I posted my two tickets early this week, and they have not found buyers!!!!
Myles, in reality the stadium will not be full for what is one of the biggest games of the season, as the first home game of a new season.
This is simply incredible. In early days my tickets were gobbled up within minutes on ticket exchange even for game such as Bolton, WB, etc…
This is the time of summer weather, the time of illusion, the time when every fan believes his team could reach new heights…realistically or not!
THIS IS A MAJOR PART OF THE LIFE OF A FOOTBALL FAN.
And it means the tickets will not be taken either for less attractive games which therefore will make me (and quite a few foreign based fans) decline next year when I will be presented with the full bill and no deduction for the maximum 10 games that I will be able to watch.
It simply becomes dysfunctional…and in the end why bother if you can buy tickets for Liverpool on the club website shortly before kick-off!
You know I have stopped believing some time ago…but I did not believe it would go pear-shaped so quickly.
It looked early summer that we were decisely going towards a big wall, but we all hoped somebody would be brave enough to pull the handbrakes on. In the last few days we have gathered incredible momentum and the CRASH is imminent.
From David Hole : Here and now
It\’s interesting at the moment how things are going to “pan out†at the Arsenal.
On the way to the Udinese\’ game the other night I was feeling happier than I have been for a long time (probably 3-4 years).
No. I\’m not crazy but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it\’s not a train!!
Arsene is finished and he knows it. His pre-match interview and general demeanor confirmed that to great effect.
The side that played on Tuesday showed something very uncharacteristically Wenger: fight.
They knew they were not good enough and they knew they had to dig in against an average side to get a result and they did.
Walcott coming out and saying that he should lead the line was another small but fascinating pointer to the fact that the players are posturing for the next manager in. They know Arsene is a dead man walking and that some players are good enough to stick around for whoever comes in next and some know they will be out of the door faster than they can say “au revoirâ€.
I\’m happy because everything I detest about my club is coming to an end, a sad end, but an end all the same.
Let’s see some more fight, more backbone, more players who want to be there, rather than have to be there.
When your best friend starts issuing statements to the press like David Dein has this week on behalf of Wenger that “he should be respected†because if he\’s not “it could come to a stage when he will say, ‘Well, I have had enough.’ then you know that things are on an upward slope and change for the good is on it\’s way.
A friend of mine who is a Millwall fan said to me a couple of evenings back that we Arsenal fans should “be careful what we wish for†as “Wenger is Arsenalâ€.
To which I replied somewhat philosophically, “He was Arsenal but now we are a corporation not a football club and he has no idea how to run a corporationâ€.
Great blog, Myles, always worth a rant or discussion.