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Victory Through Harmony
By Walter Broeckx
When I wrote my article Arsenal against the rest: Everton, the refs, the epl, the fa….
I didn’t realised that the …would be filled in that soon.
Oh yes we have to play the rest of the teams on the field. And oh yes we will have to see a lot of refs out there who will do all they can to stop us from winning our games. And yes we will get more talk from managers who have lost their games against us.
Could you imagine for one moment that if we would have lost the game against Everton and Wenger would have come out and complained about an Everton player who would have said something? Could you imagine how the press would react? Do you really think they would come out with a list on that player X and drag all kind of non proven nonsense together just to show what a bad person he is?
No, you all know that the media would make a list of statements from Wenger and say to you that Wenger is a sore loser and that he is always complaining and always telling nonsense. That is what most of the press would do. I know it, you know it, they know it.
A lot of the people who work in the media don’t like Wenger and thus don’t like Arsenal. Since the first day at Arsenal he was attacked by some of them. And the way he taught them a lesson is a thing they have never forgiven him. Having the media against you is very difficult. As the media are a powerful part of our society. They can make life for a person impossible. I think we have seen it happen before where people were killed by the media through a media campaign. Be the campaign based on truth or not is not important for the media. If they are after your skin they will try to get it.
Not all of the media do this. No we have to give credit for those who don’t jump on the daily or weekly bandwagon. But it would be nice if those people would point out those who start such campaigns and demand that their fellow journalists stick to their actual and first task: bringing news and not making news.
But what is wrong the Cesc and the media? First of all Cesc is a player of Arsenal. And he is not just a player of Arsenal. No he is the best player Arsenal has had in the last few years and if everything goes right for the next years also. He is a Wenger buy and so anything Wenger thinks is good should be put in a bad daylight for some of those media hyenas. So that is the first reason to have a go at Cesc.
Another reason is the fact that Cesc is of the highest importance for Arsenal the team. If you see the messages on twitter from the players there is a very good atmosphere between the players. Now, this all could be fake and be part of “a lets pretend we are a big and happy family” but I don’t think you can get 25 individuals with big egos working on such a thing. So for those who want to see it, it is clear that every attempt to bring a player in disrepute is countered by messages on twitter from teammates or the players themselves who wipe it from the table.
So a part of the media will try everything to discredit Fabregas and hope that it will backfire on the squad in total. In the hope that the players will no longer fight like a team but become more the individuals and this could cost us in the long run. So they will use every trick in the book to put him in a bad daylight.
And they will also try to do this in an attempt to split Fabregas and the fans. We all know what happened last summer when they media predicted every day that Cesc was going to Barcelona and wouldn’t come back. But when the season started Cesc was still in London and was our captain. So it did make the media look a bit stupid didn’t it? And if there is one thing the media don’t like it is looking foolish. Even though some of them are just that.
So here’s another reason for the media to dislike Cesc and have a go at him. In their mind they will think something in the style: “He made us look like fools so now we will pick on him on every occasion.” So instead of treating the comments from Moyes for what they are: “a losing manager trying to cover up his own teams failure to win a game even with the blatant help of the ref”. So they make it look as if this is the first time a club captain has said something about a ref.
Yes, in over 150 years of football in England for the first time ever a captain would have said something bad about a ref. Yes, you all believe it do you…..
But now they come up with silly lists of incidents in which our captain would have let us or the team down. Lists full of allegations which are not proved and full of comments taken out of their context. This is just another attempt to have a part of the fans turning against our captain. Another attempt to drive Cesc out of Arsenal and out of England so that they can say: “see it we told you he would leaeve.”
Well my dear bandwagon journalists I got news for you. Cesc is our captain. And even the fans who were moaning at the start of the season that Cesc wasn’t playing with his heart any more will have seen that he still is El Capitan.
Anyone will have seen how he is running and working for the team and playing his heart out. Whenever he is on the pitch he is fighting and doing all he can to win. Like a real leader, like a real captain should do. His arguing with refs speaks louder than your silly ramblings for the fans. Yes he argues with the refs when he sees injustice done to his team. Like a real captain does. And he is furious when he sees that refs and assistants don’t know their job and that he knows more about the rules than them. And if the refs stick to their mistakes then the captain does what he can do best. He turns the game with a brilliant pass and make us win the game. We fans see this and admire him for his spirit of not wanting to lose.
I have supported Cesc from the first time I saw him play. I have defended him during last summer and said he would be here this season and I have said that he would be playing with his heart for our team. Whenever he goes he will go and I will be grateful for what he has given us. He is playing with passion this season and he is giving it all for Arsenal just like he promised us at the start of the season he would do. I believed him and he has done nothing to prove him and me wrong.
So Cesc, if you ever should read this (not that I have any illusions on this) : ignore those stupid morons who are trying to make live difficult for you. We Gooners are right behind you. We believe you will be fighting your heart out for the Arsenal and wish that in a few weeks time you can have a big smile on your face when you can show them who you really are when you present the trophy(ies) to us gooners: The captain of Arsenal! And to the other Gooners I just hope that you see what is really going on: an attempt to bring us down by the dots I left open in my previous article: the gutter part of the press.
Cesc: We will support you. We will follow El Capitan!
“UEFA’s rules don’t come into force for 3 years yet, so other clubs can do what the hell they want in the meantime.”
Rhys,
Are you familiar with amortisation?
Terry,
no disprespect but you don’t realise the power a ref has untill you do it for a few years. Now some 10 years experienceas a ref. With the things I know I could make United lose any game. Even against Blackburn or Birmingham at Old Trafford.
In the next days I will try to make this a bit clear in a new series. The problems but also the things an experienced ref knows and what he can do.
Interesting and scaring if in the wrong hands or mind.
Walter, thanks for the piece – as always.
However, despite the glaring refereeing problems, I see some positves from the events of the last 2 EPL matches:
1. We didn’t lose. Bad referring spurred us to our first come-from-behind win this season in the game against Everton. It took 2 dubious penalty calls, 1 dubious free-kick that led to Tiote’s sizzler and 1 dubious disallowed Van Persie goal for Dowd to draw the game for Newcastle.
2. Nonetheless, we ended up gaining 1 point against ManU and Chelsea lost ground to us by 1point too.
3. Our boys now clearly understand the deal: they don’t expect any favours from EPL refs. Indeed, they now know that the refs will not hesitate to mug them infront of over 200million pairs of eyes worldwide watching the game “live”.
4. Unlike in the past, our boys seem not to be wilting under this daunting handicap. Rather they seem determined to respond with more unity, more maturity and more focus on the club’s success. I think they will be looking to make it less easy for the refs to win games for our opponents.
5. More team members who are old enough in their national team to get away with it are putting club interests above their nations’ interests for them. Thereby reducing their exposure to freak accidents and tiredness at the crucial phase of the club’s trophy campaigns. The examples will spur everyone to put in more 100%.
The Arsenal players seem determined to triumph this season despite the tremendous odds and extranous pressures on the to cave in.
It seems this is the best time to encourage ALL ARSENAL FANS to match the players’ determination with the most unalloyed and vociferous support we can muster.
In some respects, motther luck is batting for us: less injuries than in previous years and timely losses and draws by our opponents. Let us as fans show more belief and more unity in supporting the Arsernal cause this year. Two trophies out of four are possible this year. This will strengthen us for next season when, – strongly believe, we shall be stronger in all departments of the game than we have been this year.
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@Walter, fans: I love this website and its work and want its example to spread by leaps and bounds.
Perhaps we can all list and focus on a handful of Arch Enablers, week after week, so that they will eventually come to know that there are zillions of eyes on their specific performances. They must know that they are under public suspicion. So, the list of watchees would include Dowd, and the usual suspects, who, alas, we have seen in full slimey regalia this season. If there are reports of such regular malfeasance by them against other sides, I suspect that their fans might contribute their commentary and replies as well. Let’s call it “Ref Watch,” a consolidated clearinghouse for fans reports, a site that gradually gets to be known around the league and that can’t be . By shining its light will get the roaches to retreat into the toxic sewers which they otherwise inhabit when not on the pitch. I propose this in the spirit of reaching out to all fair-minded fans who wish to remove this Blight (euphemism) from our beautiful game (and btw help improve the quality of English football in the process!)
As a follow on: My point is to put our energies together to figure out how to spread the word and analysis here beyond the widespread, ever-handy evasion that “oh, it’s just an Arsenal thing”, “more whinging”, “conspiracy theory”, etc. etc. Perhaps the question I raise is: how can we all help further spread the work and model of Untold Arsenal’s efforts so that its truths become immune to that widespread knee-jerk denialism that trashes our truth-seeking by calling it “Arsenal propaganda” and turning a blind eye to the widespread criminality we are coming to recognize. How, then, to further publicize what is being done here and invite honest fans of other clubs to do this for their own and, perhaps, to ally our efforts to save this game from the barbarians.
Walter, thanks for the piece – as always.
However, despite the glaring refereeing problems, I see some positves from the events of the last 2 EPL matches:
1. We didn’t lose. Bad referring spurred us to our first come-from-behind win this season in the game against Everton. It took 2 dubious penalty calls, 1 dubious free-kick that led to Tiote’s sizzler and 1 dubious disallowed Van Persie goal for Dowd to draw the game for Newcastle.
2. Nonetheless, we ended up gaining 1 point against ManU and Chelsea lost ground to us by 1 point too.
3. Our boys now clearly understand the deal: they don’t expect any favours from EPL refs. Indeed, they now know that the refs will not hesitate to mug them infront of over 200million pairs of eyes worldwide watching the game “live”.
4. Unlike in the past, our boys seem not to be wilting under this daunting handicap. Rather they seem determined to respond with more unity, more maturity and more focus on the club’s success. I think they will be looking to make it less easy for the refs to win games for our opponents.
5. More team members who are old enough in their national team to get away with it are putting club interests above their nations’ interests for them. Thereby reducing their exposure to freak accidents and tiredness at the crucial phase of the club’s trophy campaigns. The examples will spur everyone to put in more 100%.
The Arsenal players seem determined to triumph this season despite the tremendous odds and extranous pressures on the to cave in.
It seems this is the best time to encourage ALL ARSENAL FANS to match the players’ determination with the most unalloyed and vociferous support we can muster.
In some respects, mother luck is batting for us: less injuries than in previous years and timely losses and draws by our opponents. Let us as fans show more belief and more unity in supporting the Arsernal cause this year. Two trophies out of four are possible this year. This will strengthen us for next season when, – strongly believe, we shall be stronger in all departments of the game than we have been this year.
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The scariest thing about the decisions against us is if they cause an injury to one or more of our best players, I know the players expect nothing from the EPL referees but its still not good enough we need everyone in one piece for Barcelona which is increasingly unlikely.
On the upside some gambler the other day on twitter that world authorities hate said arsenal would beat Barca on away goals that its already been fixed lol
Makes your head spin really when you think about it,
Haha Walter that ref match fixing thing sounds like a great idea. Is it already in the works?