Where do I start?
Well first of all, I've discovered that there is a media conspiracy against Arsenal.
Not only have the BBC pundits, well known for their badly disguised dislike of Arsenal (minus Mr Dixon), been writing off Arsenal all season, but they are now joined by almost the entire Rupert Murdoch media empire.
Lets get this straight
These days football is about making money.
Sky have made an absolute fortune out of football. I can't imaging that the majority of its customers subscribe so that they can watch crappy programs that they can download for free or constant re-runs of 6 month old films for weeks on end.
Sky is the USA of television and Setanta, Virgin Media and ITV are the 'axis of evil'.
You can forget about any favourable reporting of Arsenal from any Rupert Murdoch owned media source for the foreseeable future.
Why?
Because Arsenal have joined Setanta in Making Arsenal TV.
Which means that every good word about Arsenal on Sky is free advertising for a Setanta Channel. ( If you want to see this brilliant club, the best place is on Setanta, right? )
Which also helps Virgin Media
Which means that Rupert Murdoch loses money...
...I don't think he likes the idea of losing money.
Am I being Paranoid?
I don't think so. Even Cesc has come out and said that he'd noticed that the media seemed to be happy every time Arsenal lost.
You're not wrong Cesc, you're not wrong at all.
The majority of the media are now desperate for Arsenal to fail spectacularly for two reasons.
1. Because of the above mentioned move with Setanta
2. Because most, if not all of the pundits that they pay salaries to wrote Arsenal off from day 1.
At the beginning of the season, if you believed the hype, Arsenal would be struggling to get into 5th place right about now and Man Utd and Chelsea would be about 10 points ahead of 3rd and 4th placed Liverpool and Tottenham!
Most so-called Arsenal fans seem to be totally oblivious to this.
I keep seeing stupid comments and posts on blogs talking about how badly Arsenal are doing and that it's all Arsene's fault for being too stubborn to spend tens of millions of pounds on 'galactico's'.
These people have lost the plot.
Not only have they fallen for the media conspiracy, but they've forgotten exactly where the club is and where it should be.
People seem to have forgotten that it was Arsene who pushed for the Emirates move.
Without that, Arsenal would almost certainly still be at Highbury with the mid range gate receipts that it provided.
There was a reason that Arsenal struggled to pay a wage of more that £60,000 a week while others were offering £100,000, and it's largely due to the stadium.
So basically, even if Arsenal got a combined bid of £200m for the worlds best players accepted, most of them probably wouldn't join because of the wages on offer.
So you could say... No Arsene = No Emirates = No big wages = No world class signings anyway!!
So all of the people who think that Arsene doesn't know what he's doing clearly don't know what they're talking about.
These are probably the same people who said that Henry was a waste of money who couldn't finish and that we needed a proven striker like Dion Dublin.
If they want big money signings every summer, they should go and support Liverpool.
Liverpool have Torres and Mascherano (two players Arsenal 'fans' moan about missing out on), and where are they?
Battling it out for 4th place with Everton, thats where.
Where are Arsenal?
Still on the heels of Man Utd and in with a chance of being champions, that's where.
Don't believe the media conspiracy.
This time next week, Arsenal could be 3 points behind Man Utd in second place and awaiting a Champions League Semi Final against Fenerbahce.
Not bad for a team on such a 'terrible' run.
If Arsenal win the a trophy this season, it will probably be the best trophy that the club has won since 1989, because almost everyone is against the team.
Well first of all, I've discovered that there is a media conspiracy against Arsenal.
Not only have the BBC pundits, well known for their badly disguised dislike of Arsenal (minus Mr Dixon), been writing off Arsenal all season, but they are now joined by almost the entire Rupert Murdoch media empire.
Lets get this straight
These days football is about making money.
Sky have made an absolute fortune out of football. I can't imaging that the majority of its customers subscribe so that they can watch crappy programs that they can download for free or constant re-runs of 6 month old films for weeks on end.
Sky is the USA of television and Setanta, Virgin Media and ITV are the 'axis of evil'.
You can forget about any favourable reporting of Arsenal from any Rupert Murdoch owned media source for the foreseeable future.
Why?
Because Arsenal have joined Setanta in Making Arsenal TV.
Which means that every good word about Arsenal on Sky is free advertising for a Setanta Channel. ( If you want to see this brilliant club, the best place is on Setanta, right? )
Which also helps Virgin Media
Which means that Rupert Murdoch loses money...
...I don't think he likes the idea of losing money.
Am I being Paranoid?
I don't think so. Even Cesc has come out and said that he'd noticed that the media seemed to be happy every time Arsenal lost.
You're not wrong Cesc, you're not wrong at all.
The majority of the media are now desperate for Arsenal to fail spectacularly for two reasons.
1. Because of the above mentioned move with Setanta
2. Because most, if not all of the pundits that they pay salaries to wrote Arsenal off from day 1.
At the beginning of the season, if you believed the hype, Arsenal would be struggling to get into 5th place right about now and Man Utd and Chelsea would be about 10 points ahead of 3rd and 4th placed Liverpool and Tottenham!
Most so-called Arsenal fans seem to be totally oblivious to this.
I keep seeing stupid comments and posts on blogs talking about how badly Arsenal are doing and that it's all Arsene's fault for being too stubborn to spend tens of millions of pounds on 'galactico's'.
These people have lost the plot.
Not only have they fallen for the media conspiracy, but they've forgotten exactly where the club is and where it should be.
People seem to have forgotten that it was Arsene who pushed for the Emirates move.
Without that, Arsenal would almost certainly still be at Highbury with the mid range gate receipts that it provided.
There was a reason that Arsenal struggled to pay a wage of more that £60,000 a week while others were offering £100,000, and it's largely due to the stadium.
So basically, even if Arsenal got a combined bid of £200m for the worlds best players accepted, most of them probably wouldn't join because of the wages on offer.
So you could say... No Arsene = No Emirates = No big wages = No world class signings anyway!!
So all of the people who think that Arsene doesn't know what he's doing clearly don't know what they're talking about.
These are probably the same people who said that Henry was a waste of money who couldn't finish and that we needed a proven striker like Dion Dublin.
If they want big money signings every summer, they should go and support Liverpool.
Liverpool have Torres and Mascherano (two players Arsenal 'fans' moan about missing out on), and where are they?
Battling it out for 4th place with Everton, thats where.
Where are Arsenal?
Still on the heels of Man Utd and in with a chance of being champions, that's where.
Don't believe the media conspiracy.
This time next week, Arsenal could be 3 points behind Man Utd in second place and awaiting a Champions League Semi Final against Fenerbahce.
Not bad for a team on such a 'terrible' run.
If Arsenal win the a trophy this season, it will probably be the best trophy that the club has won since 1989, because almost everyone is against the team.
on April 7, 2008, 9:38 am
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