Mantis Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 (edited) Ironically I had a chat with a guy that happened to be a Spurs fan on the tube on the way back and he was pretty friendly - contrasted with all the knobhead plastic Arsenal fans giving it large. Edited May 31, 2015 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 spurs fans seem like proper footballing fans to me where as arsenal have just gone really plastic and prawn sandwich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 In comparison to all the other "big clubs" fans I've witnessed at Wembley, in the last 4 visits (Man Ure, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal), I'd say they were the best of a bad bunch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 last season arsenal announced that they averaged 60k but according to the met police the average was only 53k. obviously arsenal go on tickets sold,season tickets etc but like at most grounds people dont turn up for whatever reason. also read that man united once announced an attendance of 75k but the true figure was 55k, which i find very surprising. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I think it's done like that for Tax/VAT reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 31, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted May 31, 2015 I think a lot of Arsenal season tickets are held by people who don't actually go to the game. They just re-sell the tickets to every game (and probably make a shit load by doing it, the words removed) A guy I used to work with went to see Arsenal vs Man United one year and that's how he got tickets. Bought them from some guy who re-sells his seaosn ticket. Cost him £250 per ticket for that one game. So there are probably games where those tickets don't get re-sold, so the attendance gets those season tickets included in the figure, even though there's nobody sat in the seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 even the fans can make a shit load of money out of football these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post VillaAndLoyal Posted May 31, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 31, 2015 Arsenal have always been a club I'd never really had any feelings for either way. In fact, with their attractive brand of football, I always tended to like to see them do well against your United's and Chelsea's of this world. That all changed yesterday. I cannot stand them. I've never encountered such a bunch of cocky, obnoxious, ***** in all my years following the football. They really do think they're Real Madrid like in stature. 1. On the tube from Baker Street to Kilburn before the game there were a group of 10 of them goading Villa fans, singing "SOTV", "We hate Villa, and we hate Villa..." etc. You could be forgiven for thinking they were noses. A few choice words were exchanged. 2. On the tube after the game, a tube packed with Villa, a lone Arsenal fan started goading Villa fans again by chanting. When he got told he was absolutely embarrassing considering his team hadn't yet lifted the cup (and here he was on a tube full of Villa), his response was "I saw us lift it last year mate!". Talk about living up perfectly to the modern day football fan stereotype... 3. Minding our own business walking along a quiet street well away from Wembley after the game, three Arsenal fans came walking past the opposite way and kissed their badges and screamed in our faces. Choice words exchanged again. 4. And this last one was the icing on the cake. Walking along a street alongside a Joey Essex lookalike Arsenal fan and his (I presume) girlfriend. Again minding my own business. I glance left in his direction and spot him filming me presumably to be uploaded to snapchat/twitter or the like. "Ha ha ha look at that depressed Villa fan" I'm guessing the caption would have been. Put it this way, he won't be doing it again in a hurry. The contrast between these cretins and the largely classy, magnanimous Liverpool fans was stark. They really are a horrible, horrible club and I hope they never have the pleasure of winning the Champions League. I have no problems losing to a better team but losing to these arrogant, gloating arseholes really hurt. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrinityRoadSteps Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Nick Hornby has a lot to answer for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 (edited) Just another thing to highlight how plastic Arsenal fans are: I was searching on eBay to see how much the Villa scarves from the final were going for (I have a couple of extra ones that I found at the end of the game) and there are literally dozens of scarves from the Arsenal end being sold. You'd think they were the ones who had lost by looking at that. Funnily enough there are hardly any Villa scarves on there despite the fact that we lost and that there were so many lying around that other people would've picked up at the end. Edited June 1, 2015 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 yeah saw a couple of scarves being thrown on the floor on the concourse, would probably have picked myself up a blue one but they all seemed to be claret (typical) werent overly impressed, i took my bloody flag home too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 words removed thats all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Lions_Roar Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Personally I don't understand why people moan about other fan expecting them to sing all game. They expected to beat us, when we play a game we're expected to win, not many, then the atmosphere isn't as good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 arsenal fans have been embarrassing for a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 My mate went to the game, on his way out of the stadium (80mins in) he had two Arsenal fans dancing around him, waving their scarves in his face. Took another few Villa fans to stop them. He was with his son who was petrified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted June 2, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 2, 2015 yeah saw a couple of scarves being thrown on the floor on the concourse, would probably have picked myself up a blue one but they all seemed to be claret (typical) werent overly impressed, i took my bloody flag home too That's annoying. I'd have loved one of those scarves, didn't get one where we were. And we got shitty half and half flags! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelc Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Half and half flags are nearly as bad as match scarves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 (edited) My mate went to the game, on his way out of the stadium (80mins in) he had two Arsenal fans dancing around him, waving their scarves in his face. Took another few Villa fans to stop them. He was with his son who was petrified. Plastic scummy words removed. Even most Villa fans were still in the stadium then. What is the **** point in leaving so early if you're an Arsenal fan? Edited June 2, 2015 by Mantis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 My mate went to the game, on his way out of the stadium (80mins in) he had two Arsenal fans dancing around him, waving their scarves in his face. Took another few Villa fans to stop them. He was with his son who was petrified. Plastic scummy words removed. Even most Villa fans were still in the stadium then. What is the **** point in leaving so early if you're an Arsenal fan? Yep I don't get it. My mate left as his son was in tears over the result () and those rocket polishers made it worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raver50032 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I had a similar experience fifteen years ago after the defeat by Chelsea. My mates and I were on the tube back to Stanmore and there were Chelsea (words removed upon words removed and words removed again) 'fans' goading us at a couple of stations en route... We had left that game at the start of injury time. I got 'shushed' by Damon Albarn at the 2010 semi-final too - he was sat in our end, in the Wembley Club seats looking down on us... Word removed shitarse. Wembley is horseshit when you lose... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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