I'm all for it - as my club has gone :
historic ground - gone
historic crest - gone
cheap tickets - gone
guaranteed FAC final ticket for ST's - gone.
feeling it was our club - gone.
I have been thinking about it for a while and I feel personally we should go back to Woolwich Arsenal - which is closer to our roots as a community's team than the current soulless corporate bowl and its cartoon crest.
I would start a team in Woolwich, use our old Crest - which Arsenal PLC claims cannot be copyrighted, so it must be up for grabs....
If we start our own club now, are we any different to those chaps who borrowed 11 crimson shirts to form a workers team ?
and there's already a DLR station called Woolwich Arsenal.
i'd gladly join a finance campaign to start a new club - we could do it on Kickstarter or some similar crowdfunding site.
and as for competing with the PLC ? - don't care, let our kids worry about that - lets build a local club for ordinary blokes and fuck them tbh - and FC United are getting closer to the league each year and have already been in the FA cup 2nd round proper after just 9 years haven't they ?
i just checked - they need two promotions to get into division two.
where do you wanna be in 10-15 years time - your own 10,000 safe standing ground, or a half empty corporate bowl with the JCLs and tourists ?
I know where i'd rather be - "sarf Lahndahn Arsenal"....
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