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Arsenal fans hypocrisy
My God, what is it with Arsenal fans? They are top of the league but seem more obsessed with what Chelsea are doing than with their own success.
For them to constantly moan about Chelsea’s spending while being the third biggest net spenders in the last 5 years is a little rich – they’re not exactly paupers, are they?
But then they like to claim like Vish that Chelsea and City ruined the game since Abramovich came and ‘cheated’ in the words of Tim Sutton. Well, to be clear, FFP was only created to stop owners such as Abramovich coming in and leveling the playing fields by spending huge amounts of money. Before that, was there really any issue with rich owners using their own money to fund clubs spending? No. It was just Roman turbo-charged this to such an extent that forced FFP to come in. Before that, there was no need to see loans forgiven as ‘cheating’.
There was a really interesting documentary on the BBC last year about the start of the Premier League, and in it, David Dein of Arsenal, said that they wanted to create the Premier League to ensure that the big clubs made more money than the others clubs. Well, sorry Arsenal fans, but this is what that led too.
It also makes me laugh that a club known as the ‘Bank of England’ in the 30s because of their huge spending, moan about other clubs spending (given their recent net spend), and then accuse Chelsea of cheating – err, George Graham bungs anyone? Their hyprocrisy is astounding.
I speak to Liverpool, Man U, Spurs fans who moan about Chelsea spending, query it, but never do they do it with quite the same moral outrage of Arsenal fans. But I guess this is to be expected from supporters of a club who conveniently forget they moved across a city for financial reasons – maybe the moral outrage stems for the deep trauma of the fact that they are in reality a south London club. The MK Dons of London.
As to Chelsea, yes, Abramovich spending was huge, but it did help break the duopoly that had been going on in the Premier League for years. I’m not one of these Chelsea supporters looking back in rose-tinted spectacles at the Roman days, and yes, it would be nice if Chelsea, City’s, PSG money came from…
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