So now we know. It’s official. The club doesn’t give a monkey’s about what the supporters think. “Let them eat cake” is the message from the Highbury House boardroom. Freshly encouraged with Stan Kroenke’s millions I don’t suppose they can comprehend what finding yet more money to follow Arsenal means.
Privately the board probably can’t understand how Gold general admission season ticket prises rises ranging from around £55 to £113 is creating such a fuss. After all that’s only the price of a decent bottle of claret over an agreeable lunch.
MEMO TO THE ARSENAL BOARD – I HAVEN’T GOT THE MONEY!
Let’s have this right. Chairman Peter Hill-Wood draws over three times a year what I do in salary as his director’s fee. He has never put one penny into the club I love so much, risked not a farthing. Being an Arsenal director has made him a very rich man. Not so long ago he said that all the directors were independently wealthy. Why would they sell the club? Well, Peter? What do you say now?
It appears there’s only one language the Arsenal board and our new majority owner Stan Kroenke understand – the language of the jungle. As long we keep on rolling up every match (including the increasing number who attend disguised as empty seats) they’ll keep on treating us a mugs, or so it appears to me.
I’m sick to my very core about this decision. Arsenal DOES NOT need the money. If the club was in financial trouble I’d be the first to go without to make sure it survived. Why should I fork out money I haven’t got when the directors have just enriched themselves beyond the dreams of most supporters at our expense however?
Trickle-down economics in Arsenal’s case means the board peeing on us and telling us it’s raining. Shame on them.
I’ve never been more disillusioned with Arsenal than I am today.
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