Arsenal fans celebrations.....

[Dirty Harry]

Repect is a 2 way thing.
There are not many fans who would applaud the opposition team off the pitch,you lot have short memories which appear to only go back to when we got the funds and dare challenge your position in the league.
Go onto glory-glory your argurments will stack up better on there

I think any City fan who has been around for a while would tell you they have always been treated in a friendly and respectful manner bu their Gooner counterparts. There were never the level of condescending comments about City from Arsenal as there seem to be the other way round now. That was despite the fact that we inhabited a different universe to you whereas now you happen to be marginally better than us courtesy of limitless outside funding.

Thats whats wound me up in this thread, and the reason I might have overstepped the mark for which I apologise to the majority.

Seriously ?

Where the fuck have you been hiding mate ?

Everything was fine until we got the money, it was YOUR fans attitude that changed overnight once we became a threat, still a common enemy but no easy 6 points.

 

[gooner6729]

Your spot on. Arsenal deserved to beat us and their fans have evey right to celebrate. Its just the saddo element of their support who seem to think that they are somehow more morally better than us that grates. One of the biggest reason for the inequality of finance in the premier league is this idea that the top 4 get so much more money than the others. Something which Arsenal whilst never winning it have taken full advantage of.

Sorry to correct you here, but we have won the Premier League 3 times.

You have a point about the inequality in finance, but that goes back a lot further than the Premier League. There used to be the self styled big 5 (Liverpool, Everton, United,Spurs and Arsenal). Those clubs were wealthier than the rest for a variety of reasons, but not to the extent that clubs like Forest,West Ham,Derby or Villa couldn't build competitive teams.

Even though I support one of the original big clubs I think the Premiership and Sky have done more bad than good for the English game as a whole.

What I can't understand is when City or Chelski fans use it as a moral justification for what they have done since their respective takeovers. Mansour and Abramovich have made it even more of an impossibility for the majority of clubs to enjoy any degree of success.

The emergence of City and Chelski hasn't really hurt United or Arsenal. United still win stuff and we are still up there. What the Arab and the Russian did kill is any remaining aspirations the rest of the clubs in the league had. They have also caused wage inflation which has been fed down into ticket prices at the expense of all football fans.

now i might be daft, but im sure our ticket prices are well below arsenal and we are spending money on players, just think what a ticket will cost if arsenal bought some players

Your ticket prices are low for two reasons. Firstly you'd struggle to fill your ground if they reached the painful levels we have to put up with. Secondly you don't rely on football income to fund your team. 90 out of 92 professional clubs, from Barnet to Arsenal and Bury to Manure, in this country do.

The reason you are part responsible for price inflation is that you have driven wages up. That has a trickle down effect which affects all clubs.

Its not only City. Its Chelski, its PSG and its the insanity at Real Madrid where tax payers ultimately bail out the club while others go to the wall.

Its not your fault the Sheikh picked you instead of Everton,West Ham or Wolves and I don't blame you for enjoying it, but for a set of fans who have seen as much shit as yours you lot are surprisingly blind to realities.

 

[mcfc1996]

Is anybody bored of him yet?

 

[Skashion]

Some Arsenal fans I met yesterday were absolute cunts and nothing but. Some were thoroughly decent. When we were shit though, I thought they were all decent. The attitude of a hefty section of Arsenal fans towards us has changed for the worse over the past four years and there's one reason and one reason only. Not that I blame Arsenal fans for that. I'd said before, Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, Everton etc. all have reasons to dislike us. Football is tribal and they're looking out for the best interests of their club. Doesn't absolve some people of their cunty behaviour though. What do they expect - that we should stop following our club that we followed in record numbers in the third flight?

 

[squirtyflower]

typical Arse rant
the most condescending pricks around, always looking down on others
have never been respectful to anyone, especially other clubs
bought your way into the league after changing your location, and at the expense of a club who rightfully should have had your place
the stench of your haughtiness can be smelt from here

 

[chemicalboy99]

Small time cnuts.

Let them enjoy their DVD this christmas.

 

[mcfclovin88]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IoxJXqWAG4[/youtube]

This is a disgwace.

 

[squirtyflower]

Some Arsenal fans I met yesterday were absolute cunts and nothing but. Some were thoroughly decent. When we were shit though, I thought they were all decent. The attitude of a hefty section of Arsenal fans towards us has changed for the worse over the past four years and there's one reason and one reason only. Not that I blame Arsenal fans for that. I'd said before, Arsenal, Liverpool, Villa, Everton etc. all have reasons to dislike us. Football is tribal and they're looking out for the best interests of their club. Doesn't absolve some people of their cunty behaviour though. What do they expect - that we should stop following our club that we followed in record numbers in the third flight?

the reason their attitude has changed regarding us is because they no longer pity us as we hand over six points year in year out
now we compete with them, knock them out of cups, take their points off them that they hate us

this gooner idiot here is now treating us to their recent attitude
he probably thinks we've never heard it before from all the jealous wannabes who have had their gravy train stopped
its not your money
we play football the right way
inflated prices
its our money we spend blah fucking blah who gives a flying toss what some young tarquin thinks of us now when they've always been known as a club that strips others

 

[gooner6729]

I think any City fan who has been around for a while would tell you they have always been treated in a friendly and respectful manner bu their Gooner counterparts.

Yes, when we were that hopelessly average club who always guaranteed you an easy match each year. Now your fans are amongst the most bitter towards us. Go on your message boards or look at some of the stuff on Twitter - even United fans post less obscene things as your lot do.

That includes in recent days one of your following wishing a plane crash on Kompany and the team.

Not to mention the relentless attacks on Nasri, including death threats.

And now Clichy is getting it despite his harmonious exit from Arsenal.

It's OK when Arsenal signs a player - they aren't betraying their club - but when a good player leaves Arsenal they're a money hungry mercenary... Hleb and Flamini are two others who got abuse.

The only player who got abuse that overstepped the mark for leaving Arsenal was Ashley Cole. The way he left was disgraceful, but it didn't justify the attacks on his home and family that followed.

Out of the players who have left us for City over the years the majority have been treated well whenever they returned. That went from lesser lights like Dickov to AFC heroes like Seaman.

More recently Kolo has always got a very friendly reception. Clichy hasn't put up with any abuse. Nasri has been booed, but taken nothing like the levels of abuse Cole got at Arsenal, Campbell at Spurs or Lampard at West Ham.

That leaves the Adebayor celebration incident. You have probably worked out yourselves by now that the man is a twat. No set of fans anywhere in the country would have reacted any differently to the way he behaved there.

 

[nwhn3]

The emergence of City and Chelski hasn't really hurt United or Arsenal. United still win stuff and we are still up there. What the Arab and the Russian did kill is any remaining aspirations the rest of the clubs in the league had. They have also caused wage inflation which has been fed down into ticket prices at the expense of all football fans.

Bollocks - The premier league title has pretty much been a closed shop since 95 when the champions league money and sky money kicked-in making sure the top four remained the top four. Even before City got taken over there was no way any other club would win the league by building a team and challenging for the title. Its exactly this reason why billionaires are needed to give any club a chance of winning the title.

Top 4 weren't arsed about other clubs challenging when they were receiving 20 million pound more every year than the others clubs through CL, ensuring they remained the top 4 (but then claim they made there money through football - bollocks made the money through a private members club)