This Weekend's Other Games (FA Cup 3rd Rd)

[mcmanus]

Is it right that the tickets for the cockney derby were 80 notes for the cheapest?

 

[DTKOAG]

If Spurs fans(who booed him when injured) can't take a bit back then there is something wrong with them. What he did isn't worse than what Adebayor did, they were both players giving it back to fans who had been giving them stick.

Not a lot in either really

Yep exactly this. If you can't take it don't dish it out.

-- Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:03 am --

Presumably you weren't one of those waving ££££ at City fans last January then?

Arsenal fans really crack me up. They would Know all about money given the fact that arsenal are basically robbing them with their ticket prices.

bit of a myth this thats perpetuated by mass media coverage which makes people like yourself come to the above conclusions.

a lot of clubs (norwich of the top of my head) charge away fans similar to what we charge.

yet our prices gets splashed all over the papers and made to look like we are the only ones.

the cheapest spurs season ticket is £730, ours is around £900. chelsea is over £700, liverpool is over £700.

out of the top clubs, apart from city and utd, the season ticket prices are not exactly miles apart.

the difference is we have a state of the art stadium which is worth almost £500m.

can any other club say that?

and this is the reason why most arsenal fans understand (even though they may not like it) that we pay a bit more in ticket prices.

also, there are only a handful of teams, maybe only 1 (city) that play as good if not better football then us. thats entertainment, and again its something that arsenal fans understand. id rather pay £90 to watch arsenal then £50 to watch qpr or wigan or sunderland.

-- Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:30 am --

i wasn't talking about teams. i said that ade is a ex arsenal player so scoring against us and then taunting us like that is going to incite idiots more.

for example i'm going to be more wound up by rvp scoring against us then rubbing it in our face then i would if rooney did exactly the same thing.

theo is not a ex spurs player so such a minor gesture shouldn't have wound up the spurs fans anywhere near as much.

also theo was not even 10% as animated and wild as ade was, pointing out the score is no different to the old fingers to the mouth shhh celebration, its basically a very mild form of taunting. if you saw theo today he couldn't have looked more laid back and relaxed if he tried, it was obvious that it was meant as just a bit of banter, nothing more.

either way the bottom line is its ridiculous, football fans are pathetic if they can't take that, and i include arsenal fans as well.

im expecting stony to reply to this saying arsenal are being hypocrites so thought i'd mention that as well.

You keep mentioning that Adebayor is an ex Arsenal player but dont mention that what Walcott did was in your biggest game of the season against your biggest & hatred rivals.
So tell me what is the difference ?

wasn't our biggest game of the season for a start.

The way you celebrated at the end tells me otherwise

 

[Gillespie]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

you think the club vets every single banner thats brought in by 60k fans every week?

unless its offensive/racist whatever, the club has no reason to remove banners.

I agree wholeheartedly with you

Why on earth would either you or your club want it removed























It suits you all to a tee

Score update

Squirty 1- Arrogant, irritatating,hypocritical, nasal, vowel-mangling cockerney 0

In the face of such devastating wit, I think I'll retire to my bed. Night all!

 

[dom]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

you think the club vets every single banner thats brought in by 60k fans every week?

unless its offensive/racist whatever, the club has no reason to remove banners.

I agree wholeheartedly with you

Why on earth would either you or your club want it removed

Whoosh


























It suits you all to a tee

no i seriously doubt the clubs got time to vet thousands of banners in case it offends certain clubs who have a inferiority complex and think everythings aimed at them..

<br /><br />-- Sun Jan 05, 2014 1:40 am --<br /><br />

I agree wholeheartedly with you

Why on earth would either you or your club want it removed



























It suits you all to a tee

no i seriously doubt the clubs got time to vet thousands of banners in case it offends certain clubs who have a inferiority complex and think everythings aimed at them..

Whoosh

 

[squirtyflower]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

you think the club vets every single banner thats brought in by 60k fans every week?

unless its offensive/racist whatever, the club has no reason to remove banners.

I agree wholeheartedly with you

Why on earth would either you or your club want it removed


























It suits you all to a tee

no i seriously doubt the clubs got time to vet thousands of banners in case it offends certain clubs who have a inferiority complex and think everythings aimed at them..

QED

 

[Crouchinho]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

Arsenal fans loving the fact that Walcott gave the Spurs fans some back, yet they cried like bitches when Ade gave it them at ours.

If there's a more hypocritical bunch of mard arses outside of the swamp, I've yet to see them.

really don't get why you and other fans can't see some very obvious differences between what ade did and what theo did?

for a start, theo isn't a ex spurs player rubbing it in their face like ade did.

secondly, ade running the length of the pitch to celebrate and taunt arsenal fans is slightly different to walcott just signalling the score whilst on a stretcher, and whilst happening to be at the away end anyway.

2 totally different actions.

Why does it matter if it's an ex player? It doesn't change the fact that both are supposedly 'inciting the crowd'

I am not that fussed about it personally. VDV has done it to Arsenal fans, Henry has done it to us, Bent done it against us at Sunderland, Walcott today.

I find it a bit hypocritical however Arsenal fans are complaining about Wilshere but defending Theo. Both are knobs either way. Wenger's excuse made me laugh about Spurs fans throwing coins at him so he done that, when the fact it happened after the case.

Arsenal didn't give a full allocation to the Spurs fans because of `health and safety`, and then were showered with coins from above from the Arsenal fans. You couldn't make it up (unless people making it up a copper got knocked out)

As for the game no complaints, Arsenal were better side and looked up for it. We didn't look that interested at all. Apart from Eriksen having a chance in the first half we didn't really do much else

 

[jared]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

It's not a question of yes or no. It's stating the bleeding obvious which is that making wholesale generalisations about Arsenal fans or any other group of fans for that matter is wrong. You might be able to refer to a specific incidence of hypocrisy as you call it of an individual or individuals but to attribute it to a whole class of fans is nonsense. You argue from a self proclaimed position of moral superiority not warranted and based upon a logical fallacy I.e. the actions of a few can be ascribed to the many.

If you cannot understand that, that's your problem, not mine.

i wouldnt bother mate, this stony guy is going to respond with 1 of 2 things containing either

- that arsenal fans are hypocrites
- or about buying class banner

he's banged on about 1 of them 2 things in almost every post.

The fucking cheek of Arsenal fans on a City forum. If you don't like it then fuck off to goonerswank or whatever it's called.

I really hope they take this advice. Sick of these arses coming here to whine. At least the rags don't do that.

 

[citytill1die84]

Is it right that the tickets for the cockney derby were 80 notes for the cheapest?

Yep they mentioned it on the tv :( crazy prices.

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

Theo Walcott gesture to fans not aggressive, says Arsene Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists Theo Walcott should not face FA punishment after gesturing at Tottenham fans in their FA Cup third round tie.

Walcott signalled the Gunners' 2-0 scoreline to Spurs' supporters as he was being taken off on a stretcher after suffering a knee injury.

Wenger said Walcott, 24, was reacting to having coins thrown at him.

"I don't think he will be in trouble, he was not aggressive and he was smiling," said Wenger after the win.

"The doctor said to me coins had been raining on his head and they had to protect him and that is maybe why he did that," continued Wenger, whose side progressed with goals from Santi Cazorla and Tomas Rosicky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25609127

Wenger really is a myopic little shit. Certainly not nice to have coins thrown at you but if that wasn't a taunt by Walcott I don't know what is. That he was smiling makes it even more so.

 

[AwayDay]

Re: Arsenal Thread 2013/14

Theo Walcott gesture to fans not aggressive, says Arsene Wenger

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists Theo Walcott should not face FA punishment after gesturing at Tottenham fans in their FA Cup third round tie.

Walcott signalled the Gunners' 2-0 scoreline to Spurs' supporters as he was being taken off on a stretcher after suffering a knee injury.

Wenger said Walcott, 24, was reacting to having coins thrown at him.

"I don't think he will be in trouble, he was not aggressive and he was smiling," said Wenger after the win.

"The doctor said to me coins had been raining on his head and they had to protect him and that is maybe why he did that," continued Wenger, whose side progressed with goals from Santi Cazorla and Tomas Rosicky.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25609127

Wenger really is a myopic little shit. Certainly not nice to have coins thrown at you but if that wasn't a taunt by Walcott I don't know what is. That he was smiling makes it even more so.

I guess it depends what came first , the money or the sign.

Smiling makes it worse, he is clearly taunting the spurs fans and that's uncalled for, they were already taking one hell of a beating on the field.

Anyway, if we put all these coins together, I wouldnt be surprised if we bid 40m and £5 next time.