RockyRocastle
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drthorne1 said:but this is a kid who has always had Arsenal in his blood
drthorne1 said:but this is a kid who has always had Arsenal in his blood
drthorne1 said:Of course i dont agree with that, and like i said before he has made a huge mistake but i cannot HATE the player becuase of that, If he had only been at the club a couple of years then yeah *PISS OFF" but this is a kid who has always had Arsenal in his blood and something pretty ***** up must of happend for him to go to that meeting in the first place.
Until all the facts come out i cannot simply turn my back on a player who for years i have had on the back of my shirt.
drthorne1 said:Of course i dont agree with that, and like i said before he has made a huge mistake but i cannot HATE the player becuase of that, If he had only been at the club a couple of years then yeah *PISS OFF" but this is a kid who has always had Arsenal in his blood and something pretty ***** up must of happend for him to go to that meeting in the first place.
Until all the facts come out i cannot simply turn my back on a player who for years i have had on the back of my shirt.
drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
hellolo said:drthorne1 said:Of course i dont agree with that, and like i said before he has made a huge mistake but i cannot HATE the player becuase of that, If he had only been at the club a couple of years then yeah *PISS OFF" but this is a kid who has always had Arsenal in his blood and something pretty ***** up must of happend for him to go to that meeting in the first place.
Until all the facts come out i cannot simply turn my back on a player who for years i have had on the back of my shirt.
I can kind of understand where you are coming from, but the fact that he was supposed to be "one of us" is what makes it hurts so much more and what makes us much more angry
drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
drthorne1 said:Get used to the whole book issue mate beucase nearly every football player will have one out soon
otfgoon said:drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
yes they would, cole begging for forgiveness would sell far more papers than reprinting a story that has been done 893 times.
Big Poppa said:otfgoon said:drthorne1 said:We dont know 100% that i was just about the money and this is my point people have just jumped on the band wagon and said "ITS ALL THE ABOUT THE MONEY" when no one can honestly say that it is.
Look when the full story about this comes out I may well change my opinion on this but at the moment we are clutching at straws and scraps that the press are feeding to us.
For all we know there could be a section is his book begging for forgiveness from all the arsenal fans but there is no way the press would release that
yes they would, cole begging for forgiveness would sell far more papers than reprinting a story that has been done 893 times.
Not really. Controversy is what sells papers - especially tabloid ones. Printing an apology (assuming that one is there) would draw a line under the saga and there would be nothing else to write on the matter thereafter. Firstly it was about Cole not inviting Wenger to his wedding (but then there were only 2 or 3 footballers there) followed by recycled quotes about the club feeding him to the sharks.
I hope I was able to illustrate to you how easy it is to paint a false picture of someone's current state of thinking by using selective quoting, and the club has known about this book for some time - so what would now suddenly trigger his sale?
The only thing I can think of with certainty is the question of whether or not he is willing to extend the duration of his current contract which has only 2 years remaining. We lost Edu for nothing when we could have fetched a good £10m for him and I don't think the club will want that happening again.
I just hope for anyone wondering why myself or any others are not coming down on Cole, you realise that I'm taking his behaviour and commitment to the club over 10 years into account. He's a young, wealthy celebrity and needs to deal with the fact that there will be millions of people who he's never met that will have an opinion on him. Please distinguish this from defending him over the club, because all I want to do is maintain a neutral position until I hear the full story.
There may be more to the situation than meets the eye or there may not, but all I have to go on is my own gut feeling and intuition that there are other details to this whole affair that we have not yet been priviledged enough to know. Details that would probably be less important if this had been a player who had repeatedly let the club down in the past (e.g. Pennant).
burnsjed said:Wasn't his wedding on the same day we playerd Barnet?
Could be one explanation for lack of Wenger etc.
Sorry Big Poppa your 'creative journalistic' writing may have satisfied yourself, but did very little to me I'm afraid.
burnsjed said:Wasn't his wedding on the same day we playerd Barnet?
Could be one explanation for lack of Wenger etc.
Sorry Big Poppa your 'creative journalistic' writing may have satisfied yourself, but did very little to me I'm afraid.