From Brendan : obscenely paid Wenger etc..
Hi Myles,
The chap whose rant you posted today who mentioned that Spurs are doing such a great job with transfers should take a look at our league position in relation to theirs over the past few decades.
And if anyone thinks it’s only Arsenal fans being “sold” an illusion, Spurs fan friends of mine are hardly less frustrated. We’re not even mentioning Liverpool.
Remember when football wasn’t only about money?
It’s strange how insidious the creep of its influence is. Arsenal and Wenger are part of this if course but as fans, we support our club irrespective of owner / manager.
Chelsea fans were delighted with winning the CL but not all of them love the Abramovich reign and I wouldn’t want someone who buys British residency and spends millions on yachts while peasants in Kamchatka go without the basics..the same for City whose net spend is obscene, while Man Utd has a leveraged debt takeover to occupy itself when they’ve had enough of gloating.
It’s obscene everywhere. Not just Arsenal, not just football.
Capitalism is being undermined a combination of lack of market regulation and lack of serious attitude to global warming.
The world’s old superpowers look close to starting a new cold war with Syria and Snowden in the middle. Not to mention the prospect of actual war, with the threat of an Iran invasion.
In some way, the decrepit morality of our government relates to football.
The sport has been allowed to become an obscene race of wealth, and Gary Neville is right when he talks about the “tipping point”.
Sorry for rant, I just don’t have the energy to be disgusted by Wenger.
So many other things disgust me much more..
Myles says:
I know, Brendan.
But the people who own the world never appear on TV and Obama is just a stooge for them, like
Blair, like Cameron, like all the other stooges whose job it is to keep the super-rich safe to hand their billions on to their sons and daughters.
Eisenhower was only allowed to warn once about the Military-Industrial Complex.
They shut Ike up after that because they don\’t want voters to figure out why the USA has been at war for 100 years.
Since Dwight D. Eisenhower said that in 1961 the USA has added (2) the Space-Industrial Complex and (3) the huge Prison-Industrial Complex and now, already operating in the Utah desert, where electricity is cheap, they\’ve built (4) the Surveillance-Industrial Complex, where all our phone calls and emails can be stored and accessed 24/7.
While Ike talked about the need for “an alert and knowledgeable citizenry”, most of us know that 100 million brainwashed Americans actually want that vastly expensive apparatus to “keep the world safe for democracy.†They think lawyer Obama is a good guy because he used to teach the US Constitution, not realising that the Constitution is trashed by the US Government every week, year in, year out.
Here is 2 minutes and 30 seconds of wisdom from Eisenhower on YouTube