NickF wrote:Herd wrote:The protesters did well got a lot of media coverage and the board and the manager could no longer say they were unaware of the dissent !
But to blame the failure to remove him on those who didn't stand up isnt right !
The Owners don't give a shit about us they only care about money .
If the renewals uptake of the premium seats /boxes is low then he will be under pressure from the start,if not they wont care a single shit !~
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one, but I will blame those who didn't stand up!
The club can ignore 1000 people, but how about if it had been 10-20k people repeatedly protesting?
We will never know because it didn't happen.
Herd, I agree that the Club don't give a fuck about us, or what we think (especially we old chool Gooners), but I have to say that Nick and Augie are right imo. If enough people joined the protests, they'd have to take more notice.
Let's be honest, we caused quite a stir and in essence, there was no more than a handful involved. I said at the time, that this blaming of so-called jcl's and tourists for the apathy was bullshit. I know plenty of dyed in the wool, lifelong Gooners that still back Wenger, or at least wouldn't protest. There are about 40,000 season ticket holders and they certainly aren't all jcl's and by definition aren't tourists. If only 10% had joined the protests, that would have been 4,000 people marching on the stadium. They couldn't ignore that.
Despise Wenger as I do, it's hard to blame him for satisfying his ego and greed and it's hard to blame Kroenke for endorsing a formula that is working just fine for him. The blame for allowing these two unprincipled parasites to get away with it, lies with the witless, supine fanbase, that sit on their hands and do nothing.
As they say, the people get what they deserve and boy, do the Arsenal supporters deserve Wenger.
Here's more proof;
