Greed in football

The title is a phrase which you hear thrown about a lot, I certainly agree with it. But are Arsenal fans the only ones that are suffering? Because certain factions amongst our support believe us to be the only ones who are being taken advantage of,  the other day I spoke to a Man City via twitter who was moaning about away tickets prices,  I then explained Arsenal fans have suffered this for years,  sadly that's the price of being a successful club but is it?

Arsenal played Fulham Saturday cheapest tickets was £35 still pretty expensive right?  If you compare the price to Leyton Orient who play Division 1 football 2 leagues below us,  how much was their cheapest ticket £25!! Wow that's a tenner cheaper than our game vs Fulham. Greed is amongst all clubs not just our own club, we need to look at the bigger picture here. Until football fans as a whole stand up to the people who rob us because our love dictates that we have to see a game and at any cost, we will continue being ripped off.

In Germany fans of teams boycotted the game for 2 week's to make a stand against the greed in their game. I have been to Germany and few times now, their tickets prices are ridiculously low they get free travel with a match day ticket, the German game has benefitted the fans have benefited from it.  I am not asking you to boycott games but I am asking you to make a stand,  myself I never buy a programme or food in the ground. Now imagine if say 45,000 of the fans at the Grove boycotted Programmes and food it would hit our greedy chairmen in the pocket.

Football is a sport first then a spectator sport second I'm not an idiot I believe we need TV coverage and sponsorship and businessmen involved in the game. But you take away the people who truly love the game the supporters,  the game would be nothing. It's time the fans where treated with respect and the importance we all deserve. It's time to make a stand but in the right way

Tony Briggs
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Arsenal I'm in love

Words by Will Graham
Tune of 'friday I'm in love' by the Cure
I don't care for Chelsea's blue,
Fulham's shit and West Ham too.
Tottenham I don't care about you,
It's Arsenal, I'm in love.

Our best players all depart,
Watching Cesc leave broke our hearts,
Andrey never got to start,
But you're Arsenal, I'm in love.

I don't care if we're bad at the back,
Pass and move, attack, attack
Don't let Wenger get the sack
It's Arsenal, I'm in love.

Saturday I rise from bed
Cafe, then pub, then Emirates
Sing for heroes playing in red
My Arsenal, I'm in love

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NLD Arsenal best team in my life time

Right to be honest this is not the basis of greatest Arsenal players, its players who performed heroics against the spuds, there will be some that will shock you, but as I said there is reasons to it.
Ok without further adue my first selection is

GK Manuel Almunia.. Yeah I said it! Shoot me, he is in merely due to the fact he save Robbie Keanes Penalty at the grove

RB Lauren anyone remember that penalty? Proper pisstake to win the game for us

LB Nigel Winterburn this is the hardest posistion no one,stands out for any reason so I go on the basis Its Nigel Winterburn

CB Tony Adams 'Donkey' won 2 derbies so slots in as El Caotain to

CB Sol Campbell Double Double Sol Campbell has won the double. Coming over to us is enough for him to slot in with Tone

RW Rocky Rocastle 87 winning goal in the littlewoods cup final gets him in there

LW Robert Pires love to score against the spuds, he used to run the gauntlet of hate after scoring by running behind the goal

CM Fabregas scored more than enough goals against spurs to be in here

Fw Henry from in his own half made spurs look silly

Fw Bergkamp scored a brilliant goal against them

Fw Adepayhore Whaaaat yeas Adebayor he score do many goals vs them he had to be in sadly

Racism rears its ugly head AGAIN!!!

Now I'm not saying all Liverpool fans are racist, but at least 2 where Vs Oldham. The thing what sicken me most was other Liverpool fans defending these 2 pieces of filth, many went with he was hit by a coin angle or they didn't call him a Black Bastard they called him a Manc Bastard angle.

Either way both where incorrect, the 'fans' where kicked out of the ground. Thats another problem I have, Why wasn't they arrested? I would go further and name and shame them. Liverpool have a chance here after the Suarez fiasco to almost make things right.
Both these 'fans' should be banned for life and given heavy fines.

You may notice I am putting 'fans' rather than fans. There is a reason no true Football fan could share these blinkered views on black players in the beautiful game of Football. Not having seen Pele, Thierry Henry, Samuel Etto, Ruud Gullitt, Patrick Vieira, Yaya Toure etc etc grace the beloved game. How can you be against black people but yet cheer when one scores for your team thats just hypocritical.

Several black football players where upset what happened to young 20 year old Tom Odeyemi and rightly so. A lot of twitters rallied behind them but some people where pushing the Sepp Blatter line 'Just get on with it' No why should they just get on with it, its 2012 now we shouldn't get on with anyone who offends us, we should stand up for what is right and what is wrong. We shouldn't have to 'just get on with it' if something offends us we should be able to say 'no thats wrong' and take the correct action

Sadly some people get a bit brave on twitter hiding behind a keyboard, thinking they can mouth of say what they want to whom they want. Trouble is if your a big mouth on twitter. You obviously a big mouth elsewhere people will find your number, your address and where you work. Pretty sure that ain't what you want is it?

In previous years we have made great progress at Kicking Racism out of football, but the last few weeks in both Football and in day to day life, we have gone back 20 yrs. We can beat Racism but we all need to work together to sort it

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