StefanB
Well-Known Member
Yeah exactly. At most things we're quite the model club that most clubs aspire to be (except for not winning anything big since 2004), and even then we're a better club than 99% others. Well driven, promoting within, making the close community better with youth programs, tourism etc etc.It's so weird, because the culture of the club itself is lovely and promotes good, inclusive values. Our players know to never say a single controversial word to the media. Teams like Newcastle are literal thugs, City players can act like little b1tches and they get an easy pass
Even with how we play we are criticized and can't win. Play beautiful football? The other teams then preceded to kick our players off the pitch. Well, then we weren't tough enough when they hacked our players down and broke them. Once we got a bit stronger physically again they suddenly started giving us super cheap red cards and again we got critized for "being cynical, ugly, thugs" etc.
We were hated when we played beautiful football, ugly football and effective football and we will be hated for anything. When people envy what the club stands for once they realize they were gaslit by their dad or uncle to support some backyards club like S*u*rs that envy just multiples, and of course they don't want someone they then perceive to be "better" or in this case just doing better at the moment (and historically) doing good. They can't handle it.
I don't mind it from supporters, because that's something normal longing for something good. But the way the media (mainstream media well in mind) and the different treatment Arsenal has had from FA, PGMOL and UEFA at times has been weird. We've gotten some decisions against us which have been insanely questionable and yet we're perceived as a "cheating team" and "masters of the dark arts" while doing what both Chelsea, City, Liverpool, Manchester United etc. etc. have been doing, and keep on doing.
As a modern football club with a significant portion of world wide supporters online we're bound to be annoying online, that's just a given. I think at this point it's basically just getting mentioned in the same breath as Arsenal (just as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munchen) as a way to drive up interest.
I love most of what the club stands for, and our motto is a beautiful way to look at both football and general life. Victoria Concordia Crescit. That's what it's all about.
I just wish we lived in a era where everything wasn't blown up this big and local people are prized out of attending games and others are prized/-locked out of watching them online.
