starmandb wrote:Arsene Nose wrote:starmandb wrote:Arsene Nose wrote:To be honest our season ticket holders are a bunch of W****rs. Standing outside trying to sell their tickets to tourists, or the Barbour wearing type from Kent. I’ve always found the Emirates to be a bit disappointing.
I have been a season ticket holder both at Highbury and the Emirates
I have also had family and friends who have been season ticket holders
My now 87 year old uncle used to holiday in August so always missed the first couple of games of the season so he used to give his ticket to another friend or family member to go
He is born and bred in Islington and still lives there and up until recently was still a match going fan( I may even be able to coax him over there again next season. With the new found enthusiasm after getting rid of something that was not working for so long)
He has never worn a Barbour but funny enough I do have one which a brother in law brought but was too big for him so he gave it to me
I wear it sometimes to walk the dogs but it is a bit rubbish because despite keeping you dry round the bod it doesn't have a hood.
I used to find Highbury dissapointing sometimes
Sometimes it was great
Sometimes it was ok
It was all the days in the lives of a football fan
I respect you. But my friend you are in the minority. Look around the Emirates nowadays and you’ll see a different crowd. Posh bankers from the city out to impress clients, visitors to London who consider it a must do event along with visiting Piccadilly Circus and Madam Tussauds etc. Yes every now and then the crowd rises to the occasion but on most days it’s just going through the motions. The average fan has no chance of affording a season ticket anyways so what is one to do.
That's more the world today than an arsenal thing
Go to a concert and rather than living in the moment people are filming so they can post about it somewhere
Who really gives a f**k?
If you are there
You care
Nobody else really does
Go to the cinema
People can't even commit to a 2 hour film without checking the phone
Trying to lose yourself in that world is spoilt by the light of a phone
Go to
The theatre
I have seen actors stop in mid performance because of somebody's phone ringing
People so caught up in their own importance they can't even cross the road nod a head or raise a hand to thank somebody who has stopped to let them cross
That phone is just to important
Fella,s that would banter about nights out they may have had now spend time together finding clips of people they will never know nor care about doing things on a tiny phone screen.
This ain't an arsenal thing
It's a where we are now thing
Brilliant