just so everyone will shut up about it already. Including Arsenal. there are a number of comms who feel the same way.
i do root for arsenal whenever it doesn't affect our league position, and sometimes even when it does. i can't pretend not to see past their faults though - and this is more to do with the gooner fanbase than the gunners themselves - since as we all know samir nasri is a flawless human being - and more to do with twitter than anybody here on LJ. so, the nature of twitter as a social media tool means that it's very conducive to in-the-moment squee; even more so than tumblr, because macros/gifs can easily go viral whereas your 140-character tweets are unlikely to be retweeted unless you are (a) very famous and/or (b) saying something spectacularly failtastic.
anyway i think that it's perfectly understandable to cuss like a fishwife when your team's trademark beautiful, flowing, open, attacking football is being frustrated by a million-dollar wall. i am a wreck whenever someone parks a double-decker in front of barça, i would know. the thing is, some gooners have this persecution complex that means they buy into this narrative wherein the FA and the english media are out to get them. the refs are under constant scrutiny, the odds are always tilted against arsenal, if only the footballing gods were on their side, etc. i would be a lot more sympathetic if blackpool or sunderland were making such claims tbh. it seems that these gooners want to have their cake and eat it too - they want the reputation and the financial cushion that comes with being a big club, but they also want the underdog mentality that comes with being a small club. and these aren't teenage fangirls on lj - these are respected bloggers, grown-ass adults with jobs and families and shit and it bugs me how they always paint arsenal as the martyr. whew not i've got that off my chest i feel mucho mejor.
ohai there was a point to this comment. right. i came in here to tell you that footballersareIRLtrolls true story.
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there are a number of comms who feel the same way.
i do root for arsenal whenever it doesn't affect our league position, and sometimes even when it does. i can't pretend not to see past their faults though - and this is more to do with the gooner fanbase than the gunners themselves - since as we all know samir nasri is a flawless human being - and more to do with twitter than anybody here on LJ. so, the nature of twitter as a social media tool means that it's very conducive to in-the-moment squee; even more so than tumblr, because macros/gifs can easily go viral whereas your 140-character tweets are unlikely to be retweeted unless you are (a) very famous and/or (b) saying something spectacularly failtastic.
anyway i think that it's perfectly understandable to cuss like a fishwife when your team's trademark beautiful, flowing, open, attacking football is being frustrated by a million-dollar wall. i am a wreck whenever someone parks a double-decker in front of barça, i would know. the thing is, some gooners have this persecution complex that means they buy into this narrative wherein the FA and the english media are out to get them. the refs are under constant scrutiny, the odds are always tilted against arsenal, if only the footballing gods were on their side, etc. i would be a lot more sympathetic if blackpool or sunderland were making such claims tbh. it seems that these gooners want to have their cake and eat it too - they want the reputation and the financial cushion that comes with being a big club, but they also want the underdog mentality that comes with being a small club. and these aren't teenage fangirls on lj - these are respected bloggers, grown-ass adults with jobs and families and shit and it bugs me how they always paint arsenal as the martyr. whew not i've got that off my chest i feel mucho mejor.
ohai there was a point to this comment. right. i came in here to tell you that footballers are IRL trolls true story.