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Arsenal Fans Today
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kiam06 said:Their world cup style celebrations after getting a point said it all to me.
Last time I saw a goal celebration like that was the Napoli fans in last seasons CL game.
jrb said:kiam06 said:Their world cup style celebrations after getting a point said it all to me.
Last time I saw a goal celebration like that was the Napoli fans in last seasons CL game.
Southampton fans went pretty mental like that.
Didsbury Dave
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I'd say the age/sex/income/behaviour profile of all big city club's away followings is largely the same. Not identical, and fanbases have their own culture, but close.jrb said:Didsbury Dave said:We went round the lower divisions singing 'you're only here coz its city', 'small town in blackburn', ' shit ground no fans' . 'who the fucking hell are you' and all that to all and sundry. Yet you're all getting uppity because some fans had the cheek to sing songs about us?
Get some perspective. That's what football fans do, take the piss. We've been doing it for years.
Take it as a compliment and get used to it because it means we've arrived. And to classify an entire fan base based on a few songs is idiotic. Arsenals away support probably isn't dissimilar to ours in its makeup: a bunch of pissed up blokes having a laugh.
How can you get pissed on latte and frappuccino?
Come on Dave your havin a larf mate!
Arsenal's away support in nothing like ours. I wouldn't be surprised if a large precentage of them didn't work for the BBC at Mediacity(moved up from London) and lived in Didsbury. ;-)
Arsenal fc will have the same percentage of arseholes following them as us.
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it says one thing: that we are a good team who other teams fear.kiam06 said:Their world cup style celebrations after getting a point said it all to me.
Didsbury Dave said:We were proud of our support like arsenal are proud of their history. As a football fan you cling to whatever you can. It's no big deal.
I largely agree with what you say, but their history involves winning their first major trophy some 26 years after we did so perhaps they should pipe down on that score.
DannyBoy2890
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Didsbury Dave said:it says one thing: that we are a good team who other teams fear.kiam06 said:Their world cup style celebrations after getting a point said it all to me.
You only had to take a look at how Madrid and mourinho reacted last Tuesday.
If the likes of Real Madrid and arsenal get that excited then we have come a fucking long way!
I remember being a kid and applauding their play against us when they battered us at maine road not so many years ago.
Now I'm gutted that we are only taking a point away from a game versus them.
How times change eh
How far are Colchester & Southend from Manchester ?franksinatra said:Their dislike for City is almost childlike. I have the displeasure of living in an area where the two local clubs are Southend and Colchester yet a vast number support Arsenal rather thasn their local club.
When they rant the usual rubbish about City, money, runining football, I highlight their clubs own role in the formation of the Premier league, threatening to form a super league if they didnt get a dispropertionate amount of TV revenue, and also highlight they are happy to cherry pick clubs such as Southamptons best players.
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jrb said:I'd be interested to see the size of their weekly home and away support if they went 34 years without winning a trophy.
Sadly I'll either be 71 or dead by then. :-)
We did 17 years without between 53 and 70, so the club would probably survive if the drought continues. Newcastle haven't won anything for 50 odd years. Everton have 1 pot to show for the last 30 odd years. Spurs have won 2 League Cups in 25 years. Liverpool won a League Cup, but by most standards have suffered a far worse 7 years than we have.
You're not the only ones to have suffered long stretches of nothing. The only difference is none of the others have had to put up with continually successful local rivals.