Arsenal

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

I've got plenty of Arsenal supporting pals. Not the type of idiots you see all over social media but proper, working class, down to earth Arsenal lads who've supported them since the 80's.

I was chatting to a couple after the Bayern game and they were quite rightly distraught/embarrassed. One of them, a bloke in his 50's said "I'd swap places with you (Blades) in a heartbeat"...it got me thinking. He was gutted to leave Highbury, a proper ground with a decent atmosphere and he despises what the club have become. I've heard Citeh fans say similar.

Taking into account our lack of success, turbulent league form over the years/decades, Do you count yourself lucky you're a Blade?

 

[ucandomagic]

Yes

 

[Houston_Blade]

I've got plenty of Arsenal supporting pals. Not the type of idiots you see all over social media but proper, working class, down to earth Arsenal lads who've supported them since the 80's.

I was chatting to a couple after the Bayern game and they were quite rightly distraught/embarrassed. One of them, a bloke in his 50's said "I'd swap places with you (Blades) in a heartbeat"...it got me thinking. He was gutted to leave Highbury, a proper ground with a decent atmosphere and he despises what the club have become. I've heard Citeh fans say similar.

Taking into account our lack of success, turbulent league form over the years/decades, Do you count yourself lucky you're a Blade?

Yes because if my dad had been dropped on his head at birth he might have taken me to Hillsborough when I was young and I'd have grown up to be a massive wanker.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

I whisper a prayer of gratitude every morning!

 

[Alfreton14Blade]

Definitely.

Highbury was a superb ground too. (Although Maine Road was a shithole.)

 

[BigBed]

Yes, cos if I supported arsenhole then there's a chance of be a fuckin southerner, and that's on the same line as supporting south Barnsley Wendy isn't it!?

 

[unitedbhoy]

I've got plenty of Arsenal supporting pals. Not the type of idiots you see all over social media but proper, working class, down to earth Arsenal lads who've supported them since the 80's.

I was chatting to a couple after the Bayern game and they were quite rightly distraught/embarrassed. One of them, a bloke in his 50's said "I'd swap places with you (Blades) in a heartbeat"...it got me thinking. He was gutted to leave Highbury, a proper ground with a decent atmosphere and he despises what the club have become. I've heard Citeh fans say similar.

Taking into account our lack of success, turbulent league form over the years/decades, Do you count yourself lucky you're a Blade?

Absolutely. I dread the day an owner will want to sell BDTBL and move to a soulless stadium. We are a special club, even when we are doing crap!

 

[Rollerball]

Wouldn't swap being a blade for all the silverware arsenal, Liverpool, manure, chelski and citeh have won combined.
I am and always will be a blade.

 

[Muttley]

There is a lot about the Premiership that I just cant stand. Players who dont give a crap which team they play for as long as it's in the Prem and get paid accordingly. Mainly foreign players with no affinity to any club . Managers who need interpreters as they cant speak English. New soul less stadia and identities of clubs changing forever, away from tradition.

 

[Isar]

It is a privilege being a Blade

 

[Ricky]

The biggest thing for a football supporter is having hope, and United are a club with great potential to grow and to achieve things. We also have a good and traditional stadium, which we should be grateful for. So I think we are a good club to support.

 

[s4-blade]

This is the reason why, for all their faults, I want the McCabes to stay in charge for the foreseeable.

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

I've got plenty of Arsenal supporting pals. Not the type of idiots you see all over social media but proper, working class, down to earth Arsenal lads who've supported them since the 80's.

I was chatting to a couple after the Bayern game and they were quite rightly distraught/embarrassed. One of them, a bloke in his 50's said "I'd swap places with you (Blades) in a heartbeat"...it got me thinking. He was gutted to leave Highbury, a proper ground with a decent atmosphere and he despises what the club have become. I've heard Citeh fans say similar.

Taking into account our lack of success, turbulent league form over the years/decades, Do you count yourself lucky you're a Blade?

Funnily enough I've got s good mate who's a season ticket holder at Arsenal and he's said exactly the same.

He's even been to BDTBL a couple of times this season and commented that he's not watched a game with that level of noise and atmosphere since Arsenal left Highbury...

 

[IdLiketoRogerMoore]

There is a lot about the Premiership that I just cant stand. Players who dont give a crap which team they play for as long as it's in the Prem and get paid accordingly. Mainly foreign players with no affinity to any club . Managers who need interpreters as they cant speak English. New soul less stadia and identities of clubs changing forever, away from tradition.

So the complete antithesis of our current situation!!

I said a few months back, this could well be as good as it gets!!

 

[secretchief]

Ask him if he'd swap places with us after they have won the cup.

 

[Pedro Verde]

Most certainly
The Premiership is a load of bollox, spoilt by Skys money just hope it goes somewhere else cant see it though was talking in the pub last night about China paying mega bucks but the only players going are those for a last big pay day For all the money in the Premiership they havent even got the best players in the world they are in Spain

 

[Muttley]

So the complete antithesis of our current situation!!

I said a few months back, this could well be as good as it gets!![/QU

We now have something special, something that football in general seems to be going against. Maybe one day we will be looked on as a club which brought football back to the people it was intended for, with a certain loyalty and togetherness, and affinity to it's fans. This has to be good for the future of the game.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Lucky in the sense of following a club with a distinct identity and being in the company of friends and acquaintances for whom it is a way of life deeply ingrained into the DNA.

It's a community within a city, sometimes a very insular one but yet welcoming to anyone who proclaims themselves part of it.

It's not about the prospect of success, it's not always even about the football itself. It's a vibrant and volatile culture of its own.

That's what it is to me anyway.

 

[derryblade]

I'll will always support United but I would wager any Arsenal fan saying he would swap places with us must be in the minority or needs a reality check.

 

[Muttley]

There have been a few seasons where football wasn't the main point in going t't Lane. Meeting up with your mates with the bigger 'pull' of being part of a family, suffering together week after week overrides how we are actually playing.

 

[knowsnowt]

I support Arbroath, fuck knows what I'm doing here.

 

[ForgeBlade]

I've never liked ARSEnal to be honest. The incident with Overmars and Kanu (the despicable cheating twat), followed by the Graham "Arsenal" Poll show at old trafford only intensified my dislike of them. And then tonight, the icing on the cherry on the cake, that disgraceful dive to try and win a pen at 5-0 up at home against a non-league side. They are the least classy club in football. I wish nothing but (in football terms) misery on them and their "fans" (most of whom are plastic gloryhunters).

In a nutshell, FUCK arsenal and all they stand for. I consider myself very fortunate that I'm a Blade, and not a sad, plastic, gloryhunting wanker.

Edit: It was a lot of fun to watch them have a meltdown over their 10-2 aggregate defeat this week to Bayern. Couldn't happen to a nicer club. Ha. Ha. Ha.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Lucky in the sense of following a club with a distinct identity and being in the company of friends and acquaintances for whom it is a way of life deeply ingrained into the DNA.

It's a community within a city, sometimes a very insular one but yet welcoming to anyone who proclaims themselves part of it.

It's not about the prospect of success, it's not always even about the football itself. It's a vibrant and volatile culture of its own.

That's what it is to me anyway.

I would like to add that the lack of major success over the years has meant that we have been able to maintain this identity.

We have never been faced with the prospect of demolishing Bramall Lane and moving to an out-of-town mega-bowl stadium. We've never been infested with plasticism in the fan base. We've never had a crackpot owner try to fuck about with our name or our colours.

If we had to endure all that in order to win things, I'd simply walk away. My affinity to the club is something very particular, and that particular something is not worth trading off for silverware.

This probably makes me ultra-conservative as a fan but I don't care. If we have nothing else, we still have who we are, and I consider that to be our most precious commodity of all.

 

[Grizzly blade]

My Grandad used to go...my dad and his brother is a fan, his sons are fans...my kids and nieces/nephews are fans...it's the tradition.
Knowing I am in the same place my grandad used to go, and we have fallen into the club and brought up that way. I certainly didn't pick my team for glory, if I had I would be a Liverpool fan.

But I hate all the plastic fans of any club, switching allegiance at the drop of a hat or new signing....all these trips to the Far East to win fans and money....it's all a bit sick if you ask me.

Would love a proper cup win before I peg it mind.

 

[JohnDenver]

When I was at school in about '92 a new kid rolled up. He decided to follow the Blades and was even a ball boy for a while. I remember seeing him down by the touchline. Leeds won the title that year (at BDTBL of all places), and the next school year that same kid came in wearing a Leeds shirt.

How you play football and even how you support it is as good a indicator or character that I know of.

 

[BiggerBladeThanThou]

I would like to add that the lack of major success over the years has meant that we have been able to maintain this identity.

We have never been faced with the prospect of demolishing Bramall Lane and moving to an out-of-town mega-bowl stadium. We've never been infested with plasticism in the fan base. We've never had a crackpot owner try to fuck about with our name or our colours.

If we had to endure all that in order to win things, I'd simply walk away. My affinity to the club is something very particular, and that particular something is not worth trading off for silverware.

This probably makes me ultra-conservative as a fan but I don't care. If we have nothing else, we still have who we are, and I consider that to be our most precious commodity of all.

Spot on.

We have to remember that clubs have only been able to expand because of the PL/Sky money (last 20yrs). I count myself lucky we haven't been part of that to a major extent but when we are part of that I think our club will look at the hastiness of clubs like Arsenal and learn from it.

Tottenham's new ground looks mint.

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Lucky in the sense of following a club with a distinct identity and being in the company of friends and acquaintances for whom it is a way of life deeply ingrained into the DNA.

It's a community within a city, sometimes a very insular one but yet welcoming to anyone who proclaims themselves part of it.

It's not about the prospect of success, it's not always even about the football itself. It's a vibrant and volatile culture of its own.

That's what it is to me anyway.

With you on that as always, TD

 

[Tyler Durden]

When I was at school in about '92 a new kid rolled up. He decided to follow the Blades and was even a ball boy for a while. I remember seeing him down by the touchline. Leeds won the title that year (at BDTBL of all places), and the next school year that same kid came in wearing a Leeds shirt.

How you play football and even how you support it is as good a indicator or character that I know of.

I think it is too.

Whilst I can just about put rivalries aside and discuss football with Wednesday supporting mates I refuse point-blank to converse with Sheffield-born glory hunters who "follow" the big Premiership clubs when it comes to football because I struggle to hide my disdain. Thankfully there aren't too many of those in this city.

 

[Bath Blade]

I would like to add that the lack of major success over the years has meant that we have been able to maintain this identity.

We have never been faced with the prospect of demolishing Bramall Lane and moving to an out-of-town mega-bowl stadium. We've never been infested with plasticism in the fan base. We've never had a crackpot owner try to fuck about with our name or our colours.

If we had to endure all that in order to win things, I'd simply walk away. My affinity to the club is something very particular, and that particular something is not worth trading off for silverware.

This probably makes me ultra-conservative as a fan but I don't care. If we have nothing else, we still have who we are, and I consider that to be our most precious commodity of all.

Agree with every word of that.

 

[Tyler Durden]

Spot on.

We have to remember that clubs have only been able to expand because of the PL/Sky money (last 20yrs). I count myself lucky we haven't been part of that to a major extent but when we are part of that I think our club will look at the hastiness of clubs like Arsenal and learn from it.

Tottenham's new ground looks mint.

It really does.

It's also pretty much on the same site as White Hart Lane, so the transition won't be too hard for the traditionalists.