By Tony Attwood
- Are Arsenal the biggest “bottlers” in the Premier League?
- Is the Premier League fixture computer biased?
We always know when Arsenal are travelling in the right direction; it is when the Sun launches attack after attack on the Arsenal manager, although even for the Sun three separate articles at once attacking the boss is a bit over the top. Are they in the pay of Tottenham Hots perhaps?
The main offensive piece is Arsenal player ratingswhich also includes the note that Noni Madueke hooked despite being star man, as Mikel Merino jeered with every touch I should point out that being man of the match in anyone’s estimation is nothing to do with whatever agenda PGMO men are following in any particular game.
And we may ask, jeered by who; jeered by how many? Actually, to jeer or boo an Arsenal player while proclaiming you are an Arsenal fan is surely a sign of lunacy or of a level of self-importance that is so high that it overtakes all other emotions, feelings and desires. It is a condition in which the expression of one’s own ego and the desire to be seen and noticed by others is supreme, rising above all other interests
Thus, the message vanishes and the promotion of the individual and the individual’s message, or more often simply the individual’s noise, becomes supreme. Of course, the Sun writers and editors know this, but they are perfectly happy to take the actions of people in the ground who have lost touch with the reality of what supporting a club actually means, and instead put their own egos above everything.
Somewhere within the empire of the Sun, there are people who know this, but so great is their desire to pander to the minority of nutters that they will run the story.
Arsenal player ratings: Noni Madueke hooked despite being star man
Even the turnips at the Sun who write their football column must know that football is what those of us in the human race actually call a team game, and in a team, you need all sorts of players – not just the number one performer.
Or at least I think the Sun’s reporters have actually realised that football is a team game, and that different members of the team have different roles. Although now I come to think of it, maybe not.
On the other hand, I do seriously wonder if the Sun actually pays some people to go into the stadium and act in bizarre ways so that they can write about it. Or maybe there was no one there at all behaving in this way and they just made it up. I’ve no evidence of that of course, but it is possible. And this is the Sun we are talking about.
Indeed, it is possible that everything in the Sun is made up. One never knows. And thats really the point. We don’t know. Maybe it is true. Maybe the whole thing is written by ducks.
But of course, when you have just made up a story, it is a huge effort to have to go out and make up another one straight after, so they run the same story twice. Even if they dont it must be a temptation.
Arsenal fans refuse to slam Gyokeres for shoddy performance against Man City and lay the blame with Arteta
Yes, there are fans who blame Arteta for everything and want to kicked out of the club for coming runners-up three times running. I rather think they are readers of the Sun although as in all of this, I have no evidence. I am simply doing what I accuse the Sun journos of doing… making it all up.
Here it is not a question of whether Gyokers was shoddy or not, but about whether an employer should rebuke an employee in public. I don’t read everything in the Sun by any means (that is possibly why I am still able to earn a living and be part of normal society), but if I found a member of my company doing something I didn’t feel was right, I most certainly would not rebuke him or her in public. I would talk to the employee in private.
But I guess the sun and its employers and owners are still in the sort of world we had 100 years ago, where it was normal to tell employees off in front of everyone else. In fact I rather think I was taught at school by a person who followed this sort of Sun-like procedure.
Some Arsenal players are jeered because fans are following what the newspapers like The Sun, say and think this activity will bring them notoriety or even fandom. What, of course, they gradually find out is that they lose the small number of friends they have, and basically, they are shunned by everyone. Such behaviour tends to stay with them and become part of their working life. From then on, they lose their jobs largely because they are quite unable to work in co-operation with others. A life on the dole follows.
Which makes me wonder, are Sun journalists enough to laugh at each other’s work?
