Mistake on Arsenal.com

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:00 pm

Remember this thread...?

http://www.onlinegooner.com/phpbb2/view ... c&start=15

Well, there was a mistake on the Arsenal.com page, in the history section, where they had put the coat of arms of the London Borough of Greenwich and labelled it as the coat of arms of the Borough of Woolwich.

Close-up.

Well, I Hate Hleb suggested I tell Arsenal.com, which I did.

Subject: Mistake on The Arsenal.com History Section.
Query:

Dear Arsenal, thought I'd send you this to report a mistake on the History Section of Arse.com.

On the page...
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... enal-crest

,,,the picture at the top...

http://www.arsenal.com/assets/_files/im ... st_top.jpg

...with this description...

The arms of the Borough of Woolwich and the current Club crest

...

is NOT the arms of the Borough of Woolwich. It is the new arms of the London Borough of Greenwich, which was formed in 1965 by the union of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich with part of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich.

The Coat of Arms that you are displaying has the hour glass and stars from the Met. Borough of Greenwich on it, which has no relation to The Arsenal FC.
The three cannons below it, with the Lion's heads, are the original Coat of Arms of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich, and have, of course, an association with the Royal Arsenal.

The original Coat of Arms of Woolwich is actually exactly the same as the Royal Arsenal's first crest, of1888, with the addition of the Laurels.

The 'proper' Coat of Arms picture is this one...

http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/w/images/woolwich.jpg

Hope it gets addressed, I am disappointed.

Yours,

Babu

So imagine my surprise when I got a reply back from Arsenal.com. WOW, the Club DO care, I thought. I opened the e-mail, and then this...

Dear Babu,

Thank you for your email and information. It has been passed on to the relevant department.

Regards

Elaine Sigrist
Correspondence Team
Arsenal Contact Centre
Arsenal Football Club plc
Arsenal Box Office
Highbury House
75 Drayton Park
London
N5 1BU

Tel: (+44 020 7619 5000)
Fax: (+44 020 7704 4161)

OK I thought, they've sent it to the 'relevant dept'...the bin.

But NO...

Now, the Arsenal.com website looks like this...

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archiv ... enal-crest

Close Up

Well done Arsenal.com. Most impressive.

Less impressive is that 'please' and 'thank you' seem to be foreign words to them.

No e-mail from the 'relevant dept' saying that they've changed it, or a thank you. I am very disappointed. Of course I should have realised that they really don't give a shit, but it still hurts. It's hard to believe that this is the same Club that so helped me to integrate into life in England; the same Club who I followed religiously for years up and down the country; the same Club who I have spilt blood, sweat and tears for; the Club that I thought was more precious than life itself.

It's a sad day for me.

Oh well, at least they did change it, but this is the essence of Arsenal PLC now - a company. Not a club, just a business. A nice, shiny corporate business though, and one that does look good from the outside, but no heart and no soul.

P.S. Sad *word censored* that I am I even checked my junk/spam folder to see if the 'thank you' had somehow found it's way in there. It had not!

P.P.S. My missus has just called me a tosser for caring.

P.P.P.S. Just went back to my hotmail account to just have one final check to see if a thank you was in the inbox before I send this and to my surprise there was ONE NEW MESSAGE in my inbox.

It wasn't from Arsenal.com.

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:02 pm

Well Babu, you get a very big Thank you from me....

Well done mate..

Edit... P.S. Arsenal.com = bunch of *word censored*...!!!

Cockerill's chin · Post by **Cockerill's chin** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:06 pm

Well done from me too.

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:06 pm

franksav63 wrote:Well Babu, you get a very big Thank you from me....

Well done mate..

Made my day mate. Cheers.

Dan_85 · Post by **Dan_85** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:12 pm

Well played mate

marcengels · Post by **marcengels** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:15 pm

babu, arsenal have emailed me and asked me to forward on a message to you, as they mysteriously lost your email address.

They said

:finger:

and

Nice, eh?

SpanishJoe · Post by **SpanishJoe** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:16 pm

Amazing attention to detail, but you really need to get out more!

Post by **QuartzGooner** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:20 pm

Trainspotter.

Seriously well done for noticing.

The email to you did say thank you.

Did you really expect a "thank you dinner for two" at Nandos with Jack Wilshere?

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:21 pm

franksav63 wrote:
Edit... P.S. Arsenal.com = bunch of c**ts...!!!

re the edit...

they certainly are, but I just can't understand it. I really can't. How is it possible that everyone at the Club are just *word censored* now, from the Board ( sssssshhh, I'll only mention it once ) to the manager, most of the players, then down through the stewards and everyone working for the club?

Why is it not possible in a City of millions of people, in a country with 60 million people in it, HOW is it not possible to find people to employ who are passionate about the Club, about our Club? Why is this so hard? How can you NOT advertise a job working for THE ARSENAL and get people who genuinely LOVE the Club to apply for it?

Is it the wages? Or the working atmosphere? Or what? I really cannot believe the soul-less, non-entity of a company my fucking club has become.

I need to take my medicine!

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:23 pm

marcengels wrote:babu, arsenal have emailed me and asked me to forward on a message to you, as they mysteriously lost your email address.

They said

:finger:

and

Nice, eh?

arsenalmorris · Post by **arsenalmorris** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:23 pm

Thanks baba

olgitgooner · Post by **olgitgooner** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:28 pm

Well played Babu.

Disgusting that you didn't even get a thank you from anyone at the club. Tossers.

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:29 pm

QuartzGooner wrote:Trainspotter.

Seriously well done for noticing.

The email to you did say thank you.

Did you really expect a "thank you dinner for two" at Nandos with Jack Wilshere?

Well, the original e-mail was just the standard

'thanks twat for writing to us'

e-mail, but I take your point, in a way.

Our REAL history started in 1996 though, so I guess no-one really gives a shit what's written about the history before that date.

The point though is that it's the 125 years anniversary now, and the new badge is loosely based on our 'so-called history', but...

Well, you know.

I am a sad twat.

Babu · Post by **Babu** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:32 pm

SpanishJoe wrote:Amazing attention to detail, but you really need to get out more!

I've been out all day.

We get 'day-release' here - when we've been good and taken all our medicines.

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 5:34 pm

Babu,

I can just imagine someone at the club taking the credit for your astute spot, perhaps that's why you haven't got the credit you deserve, it's a sad state of affairs thats happening at our once great club.