Good convo, AC, keep your head up Arsenal are a great side and deserve fans like you. Sorry if I came across as saying you should go somewhere else.

BTW why aren’t you looking at Clint Dempsey’s wife’s boobs??? There’s a whole other thread on that at the top!

As for Wenger’s words and what not, I think it’s okay for someone to question the sincerity or the strength of belief of those words. As you said the other day, sometimes “what is he supposed to say”? Just like the CEO of a company or the mayor of a town has to assure people that everything’s okay, when he or she might not feel precisely that way.

Those who say he’s lost the plot, I disagree with. As you said, if Wenger’s telling the truth, they went after 1 or more players at the deadline, which to me suggests that even he could see the potential value in bolstering the club at this pivotal juncture. So he sees the plot in my view. He just wasn’t successful in that transfer window for whatever reason and some of the players he’s had belief in have frankly not lived up to that belief at this critical time.

90% of the time I will ignore people who just say knee-jerk and/or press-driven sound bite opinions. Especially when they are of the doom and gloom variety.

It’s one thing to say Arsenal could use some re-enforcements and quite another to say that Wenger has lost the plot because he didn’t buy your favorite player. Even Wenger’s actions show that he tried to get someone in on deadline day. Exactly why and who and why it failed we will never know. So, see, there are facts and there are opinions.

As for the last thing, it’s not just a right-wing phenomena. Try throwing a recyclable in the garbage in front of a liberal. I’ve been called “not liberal enough” many times, in fact, on here by that English chick who used to constantly complain about Arsenal. It’s something people do.

I try to avoid calling people anti-Arsenal, but I do wonder why certain Arsenal fans have nothing but negativity toward Arsenal? If you hate America 98% of the time, are you an American? How so?

If someone constantly went on an meat oriented blog and talked about how much they hate meat would it be unfair to ask if they aren’t a vegetarian?

WC came in to the liveblog and called everyone who agreed with Wenger’s transfer policy “fucktards.” He then went on to admit that he actual enjoys when Arsenal lose “because it might make Wenger change” and then basically called for the club to fire Arsene Wenger.

Is that really the same as someone questioning whether America should torture people being called un-American?

But back to your point about weight, are we now going to engage in the exercise of telling posters here their opinions don’t carry as much weight as other posters or even this blog’s author?

It’s almost as depressing as our results lately, but still.

I noticed that is a distinctly American thing to think that all opinions have the same weight and thus an easy rebuttal to all arguments is “well, that’s your opinion” or in this case “that’s Arsene’s opinion.”

http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/england/2010/02/09/1783372/exclusive-arsene-wenger-rescued-me-from-a-life-of-drugs-and