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21_GOONER_SALUTE
Though the blame for today's shitstorm is all down to Arteta with his medicore abilities, we're not going to solve the fundamental problems with Arsenal when we can't be objective and look at how/who laid the foundation for this lack of shame and the generally uncompetitive nature we have.
AW's biggest sin was trying to redefine the wheel, or more plainly, selling to goonerdom a new definition of what "success" is for our football club.
After the invincibles, the only thing that mattered to him was Europe, he was the first manager in the EPL to stop taking the league seriously and look at it as only a vehicle to qualifying for the CL.... his first major redefinition of "success" in AFC lexicon.
Then with the rise of Chelsea and other moneybags in football, he started coming up with the crap that any success they had was tainted because they bought it while teams like us had always achieved ours by "doing things the right way", a blatant factual lie.
He then doubled down on his CL lunacy, by then selling to us that winning domestic trophies were not important and that finishing top 2 (which later became top 4 ) every year was like winning a trophy. If there is a single statement I can blame for killing Aresnal FC, it was this one.
Then other rubbish like project youth would be the only way to secure our future, over-30 players have little value (go tell Messi and Ronaldo that) and so much other self serving crap.
In fact for so long all of us kept believing that the only success that would make sense was for us to win the CL with team youth playing a poor man's version of Barcalike football that AW had gotten a craze over....anything else, even a domestic treble would mean nothing to us.
I remember being so ashamed of our 2005 FA cup victory, mainly because we were second best to Man U for the whole game and literally just defended the whole thing out. Anytime I remember some of the crap I said that day and for months later, I feel so ashamed that I as a grown man was also one of the gullible gooners AW had infected with his narcisim.
The fact remains, that to be successful in sport, you need to compete and the true definition of competing is giving it ALL YOU HAVE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE and never imposing pseudo morals on yourself or tying your hands behind your back with any silly restrictions.
We were NEVER a poor club so we should have never acted as one... NEVER.
Spending money and achieving success in sport have always been intertwined.
Have you asked yourself why a country like the USA dominates competitive athletics. Lets take sprinting for the sake of this discussion and call it a black sport.
USA has only 40M black people, while Africa has over a billion, yet USA has dominated something as basic as sprinting for almost 80 years now. Or do we really think the fastest black people were all shipped to the USA?
We were NEVER Barcelona, we should have never tried to play like them. I mean English football has its own strengths and we were the poster boy for it at a particular time.
Tippy tappy never even dominated the CL, as Barca still got beaten more than enough times, especially by a Chelsea who became the true heirs of the early AW style.
I could go on and on, but I'm getting tired.
Our psyche as a sporting competitive club is broken and we all know who broke it.
I mean how can we, as proud gooners, be discussing if sacking a manager who has ZERO goals in 3 games and a -9 goal difference is worth it ?
A Rookie who has no documented history of success? Come on guys, what top club would stand for this kind of crap
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