nice blog i liked the old one better though but seems this 1 is proving very popular

Let me take a day to get used to the new blog look (I liked the old one!) and then I’ll comment. However straight off let me say content counts more than the look anyway so you win there mate.

This is the first football write up of any kind that I’ve read this week so I’m glad it’s sober and sane. I would rather watch us play Arsene’s way and never ever win a trophy again than watch us play one match like Chelsea play. When it works our way cannot be matched, Arsene’s teams will be up there with Brazil ’70 and Holland ’74, we just need to remember that winning and losing are often divided by a fine line. The way we carved Manu apart home and away this season was breathtaking. We will never know why we didn’t convert our chances. Only AA can know why he failed to look up and pass each time – those split second decisions make or break you.

…and so it is done – thanks for the feedback and hope it helps you embrace the new design.

Whilst I’ve been disappointed by our last two league results, I’ve not given up hope and still believe, bigtime. My message to Arsenal and Arsene is: keep on keeping on, whilst improving the quality of our defending, both individually & collectively.

I think what has disappointed me even more than our last two league results was the hysterical, vicious and very personal attack that Martin O’Neil recently made on Arsene Wenger. It was highly disrespectful, and deeply unimpressive.

I’m not referring to MON’s comments made on the night of our away game at Villa Park, but, rather, those he made two days later, at various media conferences.

It’s bad enough witnessing the “full treatment” that Fleet Street dishes out to Arsene Wenger at will, but to have one of the supposedly more intelligent & articulate premier league managers’ join in as well was just too much.

Arsene did not deserve that (let alone the consistent crap he gets from Fleet Street) and I’m not happy that Martin O’Neil has got away with murder.

But tommorrow is another day. Let’s hope the team is effectively re-booted in good time for the game against Liverpool. The fightback starts then.

Ps: not sure what I make yet of your site redesign…but…putting a date somewhere near the main Headline of each post would be useful.

If we set aside the said arrogance that I think we both agree on – we can only but admire that never say die spirit that the Liverpool fans show for most part.

There’s a level of pride they have about the team that seems to elude some of our fan base when times are hard.

What I wonder sometimes is where such fans were in the 70s and 80s when we could see neither hyde nor hair of any European football, let alone a league title.

Let me confess something. When I started the blog, I just picked up the first football theme out there. Perhaps it was my naivity, but I guess I had to do something to match the growing popularity of this blog.

Glad you liked how well the blog has scrubbed up.

As for our customers, I’ve already alluded to the fact that I think the major problem is that most of the Arsenal followers who find it difficult to persevere through these hard times are selfish glory hunters and fair weather ‘Johnny come latelys’ who we don’t need.

Their primary concern is to avoid the embarrassment of being humiliated by their friends and colleagues. They call themselves true fans – yet they don’t understand the true essense of being a fanatic or supporter. One of the elements of being an ardent fan or supporter is the ability to get behind your team when times are hard. It’s not just for us to celebrate when we do wel – we have to fight when we’re not doing well.

With a lot of these customers, it’s easier to take the option of saying since I paid my money, I therefore want results.

It’s short sighted for example to suggest that not buying a striker is our problem. Arshavin hasn’t had any problem getting clear cut chances to score for example – he just hasn’t put them in. His inability to convert the last few guilt edged chances all of which could have won or drawn the game for us has nothing to do with a new striker.

A new striker couldn’t stop our defense going missing when defending corners or during counter attacks. They’ve just swallowed the lazy cheer leading of the media with the simplistic arguments about what ails Arsenal.

At the rate we’re going, there’s going to be a hell of a lot more folks committing suicide I tell you.

By the way, make sure you tell your friend about Stone Cold Arsenal. I would love the opportunity to debate is grievances with him and talk about the humiliation he says that he faces from his friends and colleagues.