VIDEO: ArsenalFanTV Reaction

Really? I was very happy for the championship season and for the league one season, once Nigel found his feet.

I think maybe you wrote this while looking in the mirror.

 

Will they be as bad as Spurs fans if they slip to that 5th/6th position year after year? Probably but they will still have more right to. Spurs fans are the worst at the 'deluded' part.

 

The positive guy is really cringe worthy referring to all arsenal players by their first names and all others by their second names.

 

The thing is with many of the fans from the so called "Big Boys" is that they see themselves a cut above the likes of Saints so that when they loose to us or are behind us in the league they get so angry that a small provincial, family club has the audacity to challenge them that their reactions become so extreme.
Listen to the second interview with the bald fella with the ultra Cockney accent...he says something about loosing to a sh1t club like this. He forgets we are above them in the league for a reason and have the best defence in the EPL so loosing should not have been such an amazing surprise

 

Agreed. It really shouldn't be a surprise to them that they lost. They had most of their first choice attackers out and were against the best defence.

And in holding midfield they had a kid signed from us who had never played there before and a player who earlier in the season was only deemed good enough for a loan at a mid table championship side.

There anger and bile would be more justified if they had their full team out and still played like that.

Although there points on the lack of fight were valid. No top premier league side should give up like they did after going a goal down. They should look closer to home and watch how Spurs (or probably more accurately Harry Kane) react to falling behind.
It is not new either. It explains the hammerings they got from the real top sides last season

 

I'm sure you realize there was more than one championship and league one season. On the way down, the fans were extremely unhappy and arguing like crazy. Surely you haven't forgotten?

 

I want in here then

 

I am often perplexed by Arsenal fans. Man Utd supporters are frequently berated for not coming from Manchester and tending to hail from places like Guildford yet my experience has been that Arsenal are almost as worse. When you support a team like Southampton there is always the temptation to be sniffy about supporters like this and to rate Southampton as being a more "genuine" club because their core support comes from the vicinity.

The thing that has been interesting for me is that I am frequently in France and during discussions on football with locals when quizzed what team they support, the response will invariably be Arsenal. This is often at the expense of French clubs. Last spring I went to Troyes for five days and managed to get to watch their team play a derby match against Dijon. (Troyes are unromantically billed as ESTAC and probably most familiar to Saints fan as being the club we bought Michael Svensson from.) In trying to ascertain where to buy tickets and establish where the fans gathered for the match, I could find no one who supported the team in the town. One afternoon I got talking to some thirty-some-things whilst drinking a beer and the subject got around to football and they all transpired to be Arsenal fans. They saved their vilification for PSG who were seen as a "plastic club" (which I think is true - they were founded around 1974 and really never achieved much until recently being acquired by the Saudis) yet couldn't see the irony of following Arsenal even though their only connection was sharing the nationality of the manager. What they said was that they consider Arsenal to be almost a French team - a remark that I had heard previously. Ask any Frenchman who they support and Arsenal will feature high in their estimation despite the fact that they have probably never been to the Emirates / Highbury or probably knew little about them pre-Wenger. It is also quite interesting that the French media is pretty well informed about English football and I usually buy "L'equipe" over there as the articles about football are informed enough to force me to want to struggle with the French. That said, you rarely hear of Saints fans in France even if , on two occasions someone has recognised the club crest on clothing including a Viennoise whose brother in law was a Saints supporter who lived on the Isle of Wight.

The two characters on the video really remind me of the idiots who ring 606 to complain about Wenger but at least the French supporters I've hung out with a more informed and able to offer a serious debate.