THE WENGER THREAD

[DB10GOONER]

The gloryhunters haven't jumped on board, the club have gone out of their way to get rid, as best they can, of the average working class fan, who shouts and sings and swears sometimes, to be replaced by the type of fan who doesn't care how much a ticket costs as it is chicken feed, doesn't sing, doesn't swear, and will meekly applaud another half arsed display to get a draw with the might of Stoke, Norwich, QPR etc

Amen brother, finally a voice of reason on here, I'd almost given up all hope

Rodders. Superfan credentials. Now.

[rodders999]

Rodders. Superfan credentials. Now.

I errrr ahhhhh ehhhhh, the dog ate it?

[DB10GOONER]

Rodders. Superfan credentials. Now.

I errrr ahhhhh ehhhhh, the dog ate it?

Hmmmm....

Tell me it was a French dog that ate it whilst you were away on your 250th away trip of the year, and that the only thing you hate about away trips is that they take you out of your beloved Islington where you were born, have lived all your life and only ever leave to go on away trips with YOUR Arsenal - not anyone else's Arsenal mind, it's just yours because you are such a Superfan! Tell me that or leave the thread. Thank you.

[officepest]

"Faster than a speeding Theo Walcott, more powerful than the pull of N5, able to leap 20 feet into the air when a goal is scored. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's Superfan!"

[SteveO 35]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

"Needless to say I had the last laugh" - the mantra of HighburyJD

You lot need to stop picking on him a bit otherwise he won't share his Michael Palin style journeys around the world tales with you.

Remember if you don't like globetrotting, collecting passport stamps and playing Dungeons and Dragons with the other backseat bandits, it makes you "very sad indeed"

If only we were all as cool eh ?

[northbank123]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

"Needless to say I had the last laugh" - the mantra of HighburyJD

You lot need to stop picking on him a bit otherwise he won't share his Michael Palin style journeys around the world tales with you.

Remember if you don't like globetrotting, collecting passport stamps and playing Dungeons and Dragons with the other backseat bandits, it makes you "very sad indeed"

If only we were all as cool eh ?

Quick as a flash I said "Don't be blue, Peter". Needless to say I had the last laugh, now fuck off

[SteveO 35]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

"Needless to say I had the last laugh" - the mantra of HighburyJD

You lot need to stop picking on him a bit otherwise he won't share his Michael Palin style journeys around the world tales with you.

Remember if you don't like globetrotting, collecting passport stamps and playing Dungeons and Dragons with the other backseat bandits, it makes you "very sad indeed"

If only we were all as cool eh ?

Quick as a flash I said "Don't be blue, Peter". Needless to say I had the last laugh, now fuck off

"Needles to say......you take drugs"



I wonder what HighburyJD thinks about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre - he must have a view, having been there recently as part of his superfan tour of the country

[northbank123]

JD please dont ever over step the mark and get yourself banned from here or have another one of your hissy fits where you self impose a lifetime ban only to go back on it a week later .... Youre posts are almost partridge-esq in their humour and total lack of self awareness

"Needless to say I had the last laugh" - the mantra of HighburyJD

You lot need to stop picking on him a bit otherwise he won't share his Michael Palin style journeys around the world tales with you.

Remember if you don't like globetrotting, collecting passport stamps and playing Dungeons and Dragons with the other backseat bandits, it makes you "very sad indeed"

If only we were all as cool eh ?

Quick as a flash I said "Don't be blue, Peter". Needless to say I had the last laugh, now fuck off

"Needles to say......you take drugs"



I wonder what HighburyJD thinks about the pedestrianisation of Norwich city centre - he must have a view, having been there recently as part of his superfan tour of the country

Could very much imagine him employing an underpaid, underappreciated and overworked assistant to deal with the admin side of his ongoing Superfan Tour.

Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell you what, tell you what it's nine and a half thousand pounds!

[officepest]

"I’ve just been into B&Q for a bag of tungsten-tipped screws. Never gonna use ‘em. Never gonna use ‘em."

[N1Goon]

Controversial comments from Arseblog!

And what if he chooses not to spend it like the money he has now ?

There’s no excuse for him not to. If he doesn’t, then we should get someone in who will.

Finally getting off that fence, are we?

[g88ner]

and yes as far as I'm concerned gloryhunters is a fair tag for non-Islington fans who decide to follow a foriegn team

I'm actually a little disappointed in you JD for going down that route

I wasn't born in Islington, so by default I'm a glory hunter in your eyes, but my dad passed on the Arsenal bug, and I'll never lose it. I never really considered being so far away from the club I was programmed to love should mean I should pack them in; instead, it became a challenge to get to as many games as possible, even if that meant, as a teenager, I had to sit in the home end at Anfield, Goodison, Old Trafford, Maine Rd, Burnden Park, Ayresome Park, etc. to follow my team - and back then, we hardly won any of them! Hell, I went to Anfield 7 times as a teenager, and we lost SIX and drew one including watching Fowler score the fastest ever Premier League hat trick from my seat in the KOP end - being surrounded by scousers singing "shit on the cockney's tonight" and spitting out (literally ) the word "attack! attack!" every time they had the ball was pretty miserable

Personally, I think I've earned my spurs ( ), and shouldn't have to be looked down upon by someone just because they were born and raised in spitting distance of the ground. It's one thing to question some people's loyalty, but to go as far as to call ALL FANS born and raised outside of Islington glory supporters is a bit much, mate. You've really gone out of your way to shit on us (and 99% of the fanbase) with that comment.

[clockender1]

i've been going to Arsenal for 34 years. i know ONE Islington-ite.

i won't say the majority of our support are from outside Islington, but in my generation more are from middlesex, south london and Herts.

he does have a bit of a point though - pre Euro '96 and post '96 our crowds were very different.

anyone who followed us pre-96 is certainly not a glory hunter. or if they are, they weren't a very good one.....

[N1Goon]

JD, where do I fall under your classification. I am born and bred Islington and have lived next door to both stadiums but I have only been to one Arsenal match in my entire life! (Could never justify the price, still can't) I actively want Arsenal to lose matches now (Hasten Wenger's demise, except for NLD..)

I am a terrible fan, I don't think your classification makes any sense. It is even more baffling when you consider we have a manager from France and a squad without a single 'Islingtonian'.

[g88ner]

anyone who followed us pre-96 is certainly not a glory hunter. or if they are, they weren't a very good one.....

Yes, I was a dreadful glory supporter! My dad was a gooner who settled in the North West, so growing up in the 80s/90s, all my mates supported United and Liverpool .... if I was a glory supporter, I made the wrong choice!

Which reminds me - After winning the league in '98, my dad and I bought an Arsenal 'champions' flag outside Highbury and planted it in the garden of a United fan across the road from where we lived. I still smile at the thought of that knobhead waking up and opening the curtain to our flag planted outside his bedroom window - I miss my dad, but some great memories

[clockender1]

: My dad was a gooner who settled in the North West, so growing up in the 80s/90s,

if you were on the 9.35am inter-city from Picadilly every other saturday from 1988 to 1992, we probably were on the same train.....

i remember that there was always a couple of gooners that got on a stoke i think ?