Arsenal Fans Today

[gooner6729]

How come Man U are the third best supported club in that London?

Do you know of many places where they aren't well supported?They have club shops in places like Singapore.

They have a lot of southern fans. If you did a poll amongst foreigners in London I wouldn't be surprised if they came top in the ''what is your favourite English football club'' category. Thats just an opinion based on personal observations rather than fact.

I just don't understand why they would support a Manchester club over local clubs of which London has many.

I don't get it either, but then I can't understand foreigners who follow Arsenal either.I noticed reading this forum that you lot treat bandwagon jumpers in a friendly way. Give it 5-10 years. Once the novelty wears off you will hate them.

Can't stand United or their fans, but I always feel sorry for their proper fans when they get stick about the global fanbase.

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Gooner here, and slightly confused with a lot of the stuff I've read on this thread. Every City fan I've met has been a proper football supporter who knows their stuff. I grew up in the same street in North London as two City fans when I was a kid, watched the play-off with them in '99, and always had a bit of affection for the club because I saw them as likeable mavericks and hated United with a passion. I don't begrudge you any success at all because you've been through enough of the bad - and neither do most Gooners tbh. It's annoying that you've nicked a couple of our best players but there's no real animosty towards City fans whatsoever amongst us lot.

It's pretty standard to goad opposition fans with the things that you perceive them to be most sensitive about. Hence you getting the 'no history' stuff and us getting labelled posh plastics. As long as it doesn't get into dodgy territory it's all just a bit of banter. If you call us your feeder club what do you expect us to do? You're trying to wind us up and we're just doing the same back. Do you honestly think that we shouldn't mention your new found wealth because one of our directors put some money into our club fifteen years ago?

Secondly, we hate Nasri because of the way he behaved as he left, same for Adebayor. Toure and Clichy don't get the same treatment. How do you think you'd react if one of your players said the same things about City fans as Nasri did about us lot? You'd slaughter him, and rightly so. How was Tevez perceived this time last year?

We were loud today and I hope that's gone a bit of the way towards banishing the myth that we're all quiet. We just have shit home support, there's a difference. And of course we celebrated at the final whistle. A point away to the champions is a good result. Doesn't make us 'small time' or anything else. What are we supposed to do? Just sit there in silence? As I've said, as long as you don't overstep the line it's all just good fun and your lot gave us some good stuff in the other direction.

And one other minor thing, to the bloke who mentioned Alan Davies, Davies incidentally does an Arsenal podcast in which he has frequently said that he thinks City fans are the best in the country.

For what it's worth, and I'm anticipating a slating here anyway, I like City and I hope you do well. Good luck for the season.

End of thread - excellent post.
Can I just criticise the skinny jeans with brown broques - and the Jean Paul Gaultier advert haircuts though!

They had to rush back to film the next episode of TOWIE.

There was some severe cases of false tan going on there.

 

[notts blue]

if city had played a bit better they would have shut the fuck up, teams are attacking us this season unlike last year when they were playing safe!

our support was shit yesterday been poor all season i think but thats because the team have been not at the races,

arsenal were loud yesterday fair play to em, and deserved a point!

we'll be loud at fulham next week, swings and roundbouts!

 

[Bilboblue]

Gooner here, and slightly confused with a lot of the stuff I've read on this thread. Every City fan I've met has been a proper football supporter who knows their stuff. I grew up in the same street in North London as two City fans when I was a kid, watched the play-off with them in '99, and always had a bit of affection for the club because I saw them as likeable mavericks and hated United with a passion. I don't begrudge you any success at all because you've been through enough of the bad - and neither do most Gooners tbh. It's annoying that you've nicked a couple of our best players 1....but there's no real animosty towards City fans whatsoever amongst us lot.

It's pretty standard to goad opposition fans with the things that you perceive them to be most sensitive about. Hence you getting the 'no history' stuff and us getting labelled posh plastics. As long as it doesn't get into dodgy territory it's all just a bit of banter. If you call us your feeder club what do you expect us to do? You're trying to wind us up and we're just doing the same back. Do you honestly think that we shouldn't mention your new found wealth because one of our directors put some money into our club fifteen years ago?

Secondly, we hate Nasri because of the way he behaved as he left, same for Adebayor. Toure and 2.....Clichy don't get the same treatment. How do you think you'd react if one of your players said the same things about City fans as Nasri did about us lot? You'd slaughter him, and rightly so. How was Tevez perceived this time last year?

We were loud today and I hope that's gone a bit of the way towards banishing the myth that we're all quiet. We just have shit home support, there's a difference. And of course we celebrated at the final whistle. A point away to the champions is a good result. Doesn't make us 'small time' or anything else. What are we supposed to do? Just sit there in silence? As I've said, as long as you don't overstep the line it's all just good fun and your lot gave us some good stuff in the other direction.

And one other minor thing, to the bloke who mentioned Alan Davies, Davies incidentally does an Arsenal podcast in which he has frequently said that he thinks City fans are the best in the country.

For what it's worth, and I'm anticipating a slating here anyway, I like City and I hope you do well. Good luck for the season.

I used to like Arsenal a lot, but you are a bitter self-righteous bunch these days.

1. That's clearly untrue, so many of your fans hate City now because of the takeover and subsequent funding.

2. You there yesterday? Clichy was booed every time he touched the ball, why? He never caused any problems when he left did he?

As other posters have mentioned, you used to like us when were shit and you walked all over us, you don't like it now we have usurped your once mighty Gunners.

 

[gazinho]

Gooner here, and slightly confused with a lot of the stuff I've read on this thread. Every City fan I've met has been a proper football supporter who knows their stuff. I grew up in the same street in North London as two City fans when I was a kid, watched the play-off with them in '99, and always had a bit of affection for the club because I saw them as likeable mavericks and hated United with a passion. I don't begrudge you any success at all because you've been through enough of the bad - and neither do most Gooners tbh. It's annoying that you've nicked a couple of our best players but there's no real animosty towards City fans whatsoever amongst us lot.

It's pretty standard to goad opposition fans with the things that you perceive them to be most sensitive about. Hence you getting the 'no history' stuff and us getting labelled posh plastics. As long as it doesn't get into dodgy territory it's all just a bit of banter. If you call us your feeder club what do you expect us to do? You're trying to wind us up and we're just doing the same back. Do you honestly think that we shouldn't mention your new found wealth because one of our directors put some money into our club fifteen years ago?

Secondly, we hate Nasri because of the way he behaved as he left, same for Adebayor. Toure and Clichy don't get the same treatment. How do you think you'd react if one of your players said the same things about City fans as Nasri did about us lot? You'd slaughter him, and rightly so. How was Tevez perceived this time last year?

We were loud today and I hope that's gone a bit of the way towards banishing the myth that we're all quiet. We just have shit home support, there's a difference. And of course we celebrated at the final whistle. A point away to the champions is a good result. Doesn't make us 'small time' or anything else. What are we supposed to do? Just sit there in silence? As I've said, as long as you don't overstep the line it's all just good fun and your lot gave us some good stuff in the other direction.

And one other minor thing, to the bloke who mentioned Alan Davies, Davies incidentally does an Arsenal podcast in which he has frequently said that he thinks City fans are the best in the country.

For what it's worth, and I'm anticipating a slating here anyway, I like City and I hope you do well. Good luck for the season.

Good post that fella welcome to the board, I for 1 love the banter flying backwards and forwards and of course teams are going to sing about our money, most (all) teams sing 'where were you when you were shit' which used to bother me but I realised that any real football fan will know we kept our attendances high during our time in the lower echelons of the football league.

I was impressed with both the fans and your side yesterday although I thought we created the more clear cut opportunities and IMO you've got an alarmingly big space up top which needs filling to be genuine contenders.

Good luck for the rest of the season apart from the 12th January.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

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maybe you should learn how to read instead of giving it the large. Everyone else understood what I meant, but I'll explain it to you in simple terms.

We were not talking about the pros and cons of immigration for a society. We were talking about the advantages and disadvantages of running football clubs in the north and the south.

If you go somewhere like Sunderland 98% of the population are born and bred Mackems.Thats an advantage for the local club, because they are all Sunderland fans from the day they are born.

Now compare that with any part of London.There will be huge chunks of the population who came from other parts of the country or abroad. Those people will have an allegiance to whatever club they grew up supporting wherever they came from.

If they settle in the area their kids might support the local team, but the City fan from Manchester, the Grimsby fan from Cleethorpes, the Fenerbahce fan running the kebab shop, the Hurling supporting pub landlord from Ireland or the Manchester United fan from Nigeria are of no benefit to Arsenal, Spurs,West Ham,Chelsea,QPR etc, because they don't support those clubs. In other words its a disadvantage compared to a northern club from a town with a more homogenous population.

How the fuck you turned that into racism says more about you than me.

Never mind telling me how to read you obnoxious little oik.

You put the words immigration and disadvantage as close together like that and it reads xenophobic. Read what you write before you post.

We have fans like you. They probably read the Guardian and have no qualms about grassing up their own fans to stewards and police, because they don't like the way other people express themselves.

People like that piss me off a lot more than opposition fans taking the piss.

Decent bunch of lads here, but what kind of complete knobjockey gets offended because the words immigration and disadvantage are close to one another in a sentence? Have you considered a career as a speech writer for Diane Abbot? You and the fat cow sound like peas in a pod.
Its a City forum, and I've been treated very well, so I'll pipe up and let everyone else draw their own conclusions.

Good grief. Another generalisation (oh, the irony). Not doing very well in proving you'e not a xenophobe are you? Sounds like you've swallowed the Daily Mail (now I'd be offended if you accused me of buying that).

And who are you to judge City fans as a "decent bunch of lads"? That's just your arrogance. If that is the way you speak to a decent bunch of lads lord help anyone else...

And if you think you've been well received on here you're more deluded than you'll ever realise!

If I've pissed you off, good. I have no time for arrogant little oiks like you, with your Arsenal sense of entitlement. And yes I'd report xenophobes and racists to the Police, without a doubt, but I don't need to at City.

If I find you making xenophobic or racist comments on here, yes, I'll report you, so behave.

 

[gooner6729]

if city had played a bit better they would have shut the fuck up, teams are attacking us this season unlike last year when they were playing safe!

our support was shit yesterday been poor all season i think but thats because the team have been not at the races,

arsenal were loud yesterday fair play to em, and deserved a point!

we'll be loud at fulham next week, swings and roundbouts!

Really? When have Arsenal ever tried not to play football at your place? Compare that to the way you lot park the bus at Emirates.

As far as home support goes you lot are too harsh on yourselves. Most Premiership sides have shit home support. That includes the supposed atmosphere kings at Anfield,Newcastle and West Ham.

City are far from the worst. Its better than ours for starters.

English football has become an entertainment industry for the middle classes and tv audiences in countries with no football culture of their own. We killed ours in return for handouts from broadcasters.

Away fans are the football equivalent of Indian reservations.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

Gooner here, and slightly confused with a lot of the stuff I've read on this thread. Every City fan I've met has been a proper football supporter who knows their stuff. I grew up in the same street in North London as two City fans when I was a kid, watched the play-off with them in '99, and always had a bit of affection for the club because I saw them as likeable mavericks and hated United with a passion. I don't begrudge you any success at all because you've been through enough of the bad - and neither do most Gooners tbh. It's annoying that you've nicked a couple of our best players but there's no real animosty towards City fans whatsoever amongst us lot.

It's pretty standard to goad opposition fans with the things that you perceive them to be most sensitive about. Hence you getting the 'no history' stuff and us getting labelled posh plastics. As long as it doesn't get into dodgy territory it's all just a bit of banter. If you call us your feeder club what do you expect us to do? You're trying to wind us up and we're just doing the same back. Do you honestly think that we shouldn't mention your new found wealth because one of our directors put some money into our club fifteen years ago?

Secondly, we hate Nasri because of the way he behaved as he left, same for Adebayor. Toure and Clichy don't get the same treatment. How do you think you'd react if one of your players said the same things about City fans as Nasri did about us lot? You'd slaughter him, and rightly so. How was Tevez perceived this time last year?

We were loud today and I hope that's gone a bit of the way towards banishing the myth that we're all quiet. We just have shit home support, there's a difference. And of course we celebrated at the final whistle. A point away to the champions is a good result. Doesn't make us 'small time' or anything else. What are we supposed to do? Just sit there in silence? As I've said, as long as you don't overstep the line it's all just good fun and your lot gave us some good stuff in the other direction.

And one other minor thing, to the bloke who mentioned Alan Davies, Davies incidentally does an Arsenal podcast in which he has frequently said that he thinks City fans are the best in the country.

For what it's worth, and I'm anticipating a slating here anyway, I like City and I hope you do well. Good luck for the season.

Good post. Nothing wrong with banter. Unfortunately it went a bit beyond that on the walk back to the Station. Shame, because we've enjoyed good relations over the years.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Gooner here, and slightly confused with a lot of the stuff I've read on this thread. Every City fan I've met has been a proper football supporter who knows their stuff. I grew up in the same street in North London as two City fans when I was a kid, watched the play-off with them in '99, and always had a bit of affection for the club because I saw them as likeable mavericks and hated United with a passion. I don't begrudge you any success at all because you've been through enough of the bad - and neither do most Gooners tbh. It's annoying that you've nicked a couple of our best players but there's no real animosty towards City fans whatsoever amongst us lot.

It's pretty standard to goad opposition fans with the things that you perceive them to be most sensitive about. Hence you getting the 'no history' stuff and us getting labelled posh plastics. As long as it doesn't get into dodgy territory it's all just a bit of banter. If you call us your feeder club what do you expect us to do? You're trying to wind us up and we're just doing the same back. Do you honestly think that we shouldn't mention your new found wealth because one of our directors put some money into our club fifteen years ago?

Secondly, we hate Nasri because of the way he behaved as he left, same for Adebayor. Toure and Clichy don't get the same treatment. How do you think you'd react if one of your players said the same things about City fans as Nasri did about us lot? You'd slaughter him, and rightly so. How was Tevez perceived this time last year?

We were loud today and I hope that's gone a bit of the way towards banishing the myth that we're all quiet. We just have shit home support, there's a difference. And of course we celebrated at the final whistle. A point away to the champions is a good result. Doesn't make us 'small time' or anything else. What are we supposed to do? Just sit there in silence? As I've said, as long as you don't overstep the line it's all just good fun and your lot gave us some good stuff in the other direction.

And one other minor thing, to the bloke who mentioned Alan Davies, Davies incidentally does an Arsenal podcast in which he has frequently said that he thinks City fans are the best in the country.

For what it's worth, and I'm anticipating a slating here anyway, I like City and I hope you do well. Good luck for the season.

Welcome to Bluemoon.

I am a little surprised that you seem to be unaware of the naked antipathy shown towards our club by large sections of your support. This manifests itself on here whenever we play you, on phone-ins where Arsenal fans display more bile towards us than any others (apart from possibly united), on Arsenal forums (which I very occasionally visit), whenever I encounter Arsenal fans on my travels and most tellingly, whenever we play you, most noticeably last April.

With fans of other clubs, Liverpool being the best example, there was a certain degree of 'my enemy's enemy is my friend' in terms of us and united last season, and whilst they are uneasy about our ascent, they are at least ambivalent about it. Arsenal fans are so affronted by our (as they see it) audacity to try and get a place at the top table that it wouldn't be natural for City fans not to feel a degree of hostility towards them. Add this to the deluded notion that most of your supporters have about 'doing it the right way' apparently being completely oblivious to various highly questionable aspects to your club's history and you have a stench of hypocrisy which makes them seem like utter pricks tbh.

I realise that not all Arsenal fans are like this: my brother -in-law is one such example, but there is no doubt that, in my experience they are the most graceless bunch of the lot, especially given the respect that our supporters showed to your teams a decade or so ago.

That said, you deserved a point at least yesterday and I reckon you'll do well this season. Good luck for the rest of the campaign. Hopefully you will concede less than ten goals to united this time round ;-)

 

[jrb]

if city had played a bit better they would have shut the fuck up, teams are attacking us this season unlike last year when they were playing safe!

our support was shit yesterday been poor all season i think but thats because the team have been not at the races,

arsenal were loud yesterday fair play to em, and deserved a point!

we'll be loud at fulham next week, swings and roundbouts!

Really? When have Arsenal ever tried not to play football at your place? Compare that to the way you lot park the bus at Emirates.

As far as home support goes you lot are too harsh on yourselves. Most Premiership sides have shit home support. That includes the supposed atmosphere kings at Anfield,Newcastle and West Ham.

City are far from the worst. Its better than ours for starters.

English football has become an entertainment industry for the middle classes and tv audiences in countries with no football culture of their own. We killed ours in return for handouts from broadcasters.

Away fans are the football equivalent of Indian reservations.

Isn't parking the bus still a legitimate tactic? It served a purpose on the night. The fact that Arsenal couldn't score should have been more of a concern to you. United tried it at our place, didn't have a single shot on goal, lost the game, and then the title. Yet it was never mentioned on TV or in the press. Contrast and compare to the abuse we got for doing it at Asrsenal and succeeding.

I always remember Arsenal parking the bus for a 1-0 win every week.

How did it go?

"1-0 to the Arsenal!"