Arsenal Thread - 2022/23

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's just a bunch of players signing a shirt and she looks happy as larry

whole thing as always in todays social media world is blown out of proportion, everyone trying to be the most outraged to get more clicks and shares.

Would you you describe the players’ interactions with the mascot in that clip as considerate and courteous?

 

[KS55]

Disgusting

Even taking the girl out of the scenario, what kind of rude cunts don't even look at someone when they're having an interaction with them? That part already tells you the kind of arrogance on hand.

Then add in the the fact its a little girl who is a fan and that was supposed to be a memory she would cherish. All they had to do is acknowledge her for a couple of seconds.

They should be ashamed if they watch it back. I'd say exactly the same if it was our players too.

All it takes...

And Bolt really is a superstar.

 

[the blue panther]

An absolute **** - Morgan - suggesting that the Arsenal players look, and act,like cunts.
He'll be supporting City next!

 

[BlueHammer85]

So you’re conceding it wasn’t taken out of context and now you are arguing it wasn’t that bad, correct?

By the way, I think the criticism is of the players, not of the kid trying to make the best of the experience. There were plenty of times I was disappointed with things when I was young and never let on because I knew I was meant to be having fun. That’s what you do when you are polite and considerate.

I actually don’t think it was quite as bad as others are making out, personally. The players weren’t particularly interested in doing much for her until the public eye was on, that’s not the end of the world.

But I do find it interesting how you always seem to contrive ways to be nonsensically contrarian on here regardless of the subject matter.

it’s just more humiliating probably for her and her family to have this clip shared thousands of times with the angle being ‘look how they treat this kid - it’s so disrespectful!!’

When by all accounts she had an amazing day, got a signed shirt, met all the players, footage of the captain talking to her in the tunnel and got to walk out. Dream come true for her. Her dad admitted the same.

Yet thousands of football accounts all outraged on her behalf , then you have the usual suspects like Piers Morgan jumping in. As they know outrage generates more clicks. it’s an easy sell.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

it’s just more humiliating probably for her and her family to have this clip shared thousands of times with the angle being ‘look how they treat this kid - it’s so disrespectful!!’

When by all accounts she had an amazing day, got a signed shirt, met all the players, footage of the captain talking to her in the tunnel and got to walk out. Dream come true for her. Her dad admitted the same.

Yet thousands of football accounts all outraged on her behalf , then you have the usual suspects like Piers Morgan jumping in. As they know outrage generates more clicks. it’s an easy sell.

Would you you describe the players’ interactions with the mascot in that clip as considerate and courteous?

 

[BlueHammer85]

Would you you describe the players’ interactions with the mascot in that clip as considerate and courteous?

Wouldn’t say it was either - just a bunch of players taking their time out to sign a shirt before they prep for the match ,in which she meets them all in tunnel and has a chat with the club captain and walks out to the pitch. She had a dream came true day. Which sadly has now probably been ruined with so many angry on her behalf. Hot air over nothing.

 

[SebastianBlue]

it’s just more humiliating probably for her and her family to have this clip shared thousands of times with the angle being ‘look how they treat this kid - it’s so disrespectful!!’

When by all accounts she had an amazing day, got a signed shirt, met all the players, footage of the captain talking to her in the tunnel and got to walk out. Dream come true for her. Her dad admitted the same.

Yet thousands of football accounts all outraged on her behalf , then you have the usual suspects like Piers Morgan jumping in. As they know outrage generates more clicks. it’s an easy sell.

Do you reckon her dad—presumably an Arsenal fan that just had his daughter as a mascot—would say anything other than it was a dream come true for her?

Otherwise, I agree the criticism has gotten out of hand, including people criticising those criticising the players.

 

[the blue panther]

it’s just more humiliating probably for her and her family to have this clip shared thousands of times with the angle being ‘look how they treat this kid - it’s so disrespectful!!’

When by all accounts she had an amazing day, got a signed shirt, met all the players, footage of the captain talking to her in the tunnel and got to walk out. Dream come true for her. Her dad admitted the same.

Yet thousands of football accounts all outraged on her behalf , then you have the usual suspects like Piers Morgan jumping in. As they know outrage generates more clicks. it’s an easy sell.

Her Dad's proud of his daughter; bigging up her day; and obviously a big Arsenal fan, living the experience via his little girl. His comments are fully understandable. Outsiders can see something a little different - and if Piers Morgan - an Arsenal fan - is taking them to task on it, it's definitely fair game for the rest of us.
Don't forget, Arsenal put it on their official website.

 

[Mayor West]

 

[Vienna_70]

Yup, those days are long gone (and believe me, from being a kid in the late 50s up until maybe 10 years ago, 'Arsenal away on Saturday' was always a weekend spoilt and as miserable as anything!)

But long gone they are. Our chum(s) with the shirts sponsored by the likes of Emirates and (oh my days!) Rwanda perhaps might ponder on one of my favourite quotations picked up when I did a bit of Philosophy as a student, from the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard:

'Life can only be understood by looking backwards; but it must be lived forwards..'

In other words, learn from your previous mistakes and history; enjoy your past successes; but remember there are constant, new challenges to face as time moves forwards.

Trouble is for these herberts, especially the Red ones in North London and at either end of the East Lancs, that they don't want anything to change from their glory days.

They want to maintain the power they collectively and steadily accreted since having their way over the rest of English football, changing the rules on sharing cash (eg with keeping home attendance gate monies), then creating the Premiership power grab and so on and so on ever since.

And they want the rest of us to 'know our place' and bow down to them and be grateful for the odd bone they may throw our way as they march on to ever more glory.

Well, f**k 'em. Start living life looking forwards, you self-entitled twunts, wake up and smell the coffee. You might even enjoy it.

That Kierkegaard couldn’t have been much cop: he wasn’t mentioned in Monty Python's Philosophers' Song!

;-)