GoonerAlexis wrote:UFGN wrote:My passion for it all is draining away. For looking forward to the future, for wanting better people to run the club, even for the club itself.
30 years a fan, but it's not the club I grew up supporting. Everyone at that club didn't need to be told that it was bigger than any man, any particular group of players, any era even.
The club's identity has been shape-shifted so that it now appears to many to be a cult of one manager, but It is so much more than that. Its a club which rose from its humble amateur roots to become an icon. A club which dominates the community it stands in.
When I was a kid we were very poor. No violins and sad stories, its just a matter of fact. In fact at one point we were homeless and lived in a cheap hotel near Highbury.
We had hardly any material possessions at all and pocket money was rare. There was another lad about my age who was in the same hotel, and we used to go together to the stadium on matchdays.
Not to go in and watch the match of cause, that would have been absurd. Even though it was cheaper back then it certainly wasn't free. We used to go just to be near it. To watch the crowd, the horses, the noise. And afterwards to find a ticket stub, or very occasionally a discarded programme.
To live near the great Arsenal Football Club was something to cling to, and something to be proud of.
That's the power that this club has.....that a kid would scrabble round on the floor to find a ticket stub just to feel like they're part of it. And where did that power come from? From it's history, its longevity, its wonderful successes.
How can anyone value one man above all that?
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But that is your main problem alexis....you value the man over the club....why don't you get that?
