We all know the phrase “credit where credit is due”, but perhaps the time has come to take a look at Magic Hat’s theory “blame where blame is due”.
Everything started when two friends became enemies. Not an unusual story, I hear you saying and you are naturally right, but the rift between these two has helped to bring about a disastrous course of events.
I am of course speaking about David Dein and Danny Fiszman. Dein was forced out, Fiszman died and we are where we are.
How can a man who truly loves Arsenal side with Usmanov, who supposedly doesn’t give a hoot about Arsenal?
How can his son “put the boot in” with the footballers he represents and encourage them to leave?
Is it a case of getting sweet revenge?
Why was SK welcomed with open arms? He knows nothing about our team either, but it was a good way of keeping a true Gooner out, once and for all.
Does AW really care about anything other than realising his vision and proving everyone else wrong? As long as we reach the CL, the board is happy, Wenger gets to carry on with his plan and we sit here with “egg on our faces”, unable to do anything.
So, when it comes to apportioning the blame, the only innocents are you and me – the true Arsenal fans.
Written by Jeanette Kliger
Arsenal News 24/7
arsenalarsenal.net 
Interesting Jeanette.
Not sure I blame anyone because I am proud of how our club bass ridden a financial crisis and come out with a new stadium, money to buy players and a strong squad underpinned by good young prospects (Ox, Eisfeld, Gnabry, Myachi etc).
I agree that the conflict between Dein and the Old School Arsenal board was costly. Though the 70m+ that Dein pocketed and the huge wad received by Lady Nina must be a decent recompense!
Jeanette
Welcome to the ranks of AA authors 🙂
I think the “full inside story” of the boardroom shenanigans has yet to be written. Hopefully one of the main parties will reveal all at some point.
However, I agree with BR regarding Arsene’s role in all this: he has done an extraordinary job of keeping us even remotely competitive during very difficult financial years.
Keep the faith, because I feel we are now about to reap the benefits of all that hard and difficult work.
Kelsey
Well done!
I like the idea that we never miss a day.
When Gn5 (with help from GiE) has worked so hard to provide so many Posts for this summer, it behoves the rest of us to put finger to keyboard once in a while to fill in the gaps.
Come on everyone!
Not sure what you mean by “true” Arsenal fans exactly.
Either you support or don’t. Simple really.
Btw you’re negative comments don’t speak for me.
Jeanette. They ain’t like you & me Regretfully, the name of the game isn’t Arsenal……it’s money !
I think some of us old uns find it hard sometimes to see how football has evolved and as Martin says it’s all about money or in most cases lack of it.
There is no question in my mind that fan and club are distancing themselves as the years roll on. We used to have idols regardless how the team were doing, a player used to get a testimonial, but money has changed all that.
I know I can’t live in the past but it often just doesn’t sit well with me.
I can only assume that SS is SK, who appears to be a steady influence in the Arsenal boardroom.
For all the good things DD achieved in his time at Arsenal he screwed up really badly by going to bed with a Russian with very questionable credentials, and realizing too late that he had chosen a dead end path back into the Arsenal fold. Yes, DD, may be a great supporter but he, like his son, is only concerned with his personal gain.
Fortunately the vast majority of Arsenal supporters do not share in your negative opinion of Arsene Wenger.
Our AA shows that 85.2% of those who responded to our poll voted for Arsene. In point of fact he got nearly 6 times as many votes as the combined total of all of the other managers put together..
I find that claiming we supporters have egg on our faces is nothing more than a big yoke!
Gn5
A typically hard-boiled point of view 🙂
Shell I leave it at that?
We have been coddled by AW. Let’s hope he has poached a player or two from under the radar of the big boys.
I think we can scotch that rumour BR.
It won’t be over easy to find the right players.
Jeanette, I’m not sure I get the point of your post. Just what are we finding someone to blame for?
Is it to blame them for creating a modern, (almost) self supporting football club that plays it’s home games in a (mostly) full sate of the art 60,000 capacity stadium?
Is it to blame them for serving up the most entertaining, technically brilliant football that I can remember seeing in over 60 years of watching Arsenal?
Is it to blame them for not serving up the instant gratification demanded by today’s generation of spoilt supporters?
I seem to recall that Kroenke was not welcomed with open arms, rather the Chairman publicly questioned “whether we need his sort here”.
How can we be expected to disaprove of a properly registered agent doing the job he is paid for by looking after the best interests of his clients. Don’t forget that this same agent brought the players concerned to Arsenal in the first place.
Do you really think that Wenger cares only about “realising his vision and proving everyone else wrong”?
I’ve fried and fried but you really can’t make an omelette without cracking eggs.
Now an oeufs an ouef!
🙂
Jeanette. Thanks for contributing, but i feel you will find yourself a bit of a voice in the wilderness among the majority of Arsenal fans.
The end of this transfer window will hopefully vindicate the course that the board and the Boss have taken whilst care taking our wonderful club.
Kelsey saw your post yesterday, give me a ring when you can.
Holy Frittata, this is getting difficult . I am getting in a right pickle(d) 🙂
Sorry, the line got scrambled
That’s a fowl excuse Kelsey 😀
Oeuf off 🙂
Well that’s me plucked, stuffed and stuck in the oven to roost. 😀
I hope Peaches Mum has not got her reading glasses on – here goes.
…………..
If you think life is bad. How would you like to be an egg?
You only get laid once.
You only get eaten once.
It takes 4 minutes to get hard. Only 2 minutes to get soft.
You share your box with 11 other guys.
But worst of all. The only chick that ever sat on your face was your mother.
…………………………………………………………………………….
From the lists below arshavin 6 assists!! Wow
Everyone moans about our attack but the facts are overwhelming between the attacking quadrant of cazorla walcott podolski giroud 66 goals and 56 assists.
I would love to know another 4 players at any of the other clubs with those sort of stats
BR – Iain Banks died today, aged 59 😦
“Why was SS welcomed with open arms? He knows nothing about our team either, but it was a good way of keeping a true Gooner out, once and for all.”
Now the irony here is that initially Dein brought in Kroenke by selling a fair few shares to him in the first place.
For reasons best known to Dein he then sold the rest to Usmanov’s Red and White Holdings. Stan in the meantime grew friendly with the board and the rest is history.
Dein is so often held up as some saviour of Arsenal but lets not forget he wanted us to sever all ties with N5 and move us to Wembley, for the fans or for money? It’s not hard to see which really.
Dein’s objective was always about making money, the Board led by Fiszman wanted to do the same but not at the same cost to the history of the club, moving from Highbury was enough of a wrench without moving us to Wembley too.
The effects on the community in N5 would have been massive, business lost, local fans who I often hear being priced out etc would have been forced to pay extortionate prices in another borough.
Is the question one of who is more an Arsenal man Fiszman or Dein…..I think the answer lies in the above.
I would just like to explain that I wrote this a couple of months ago and that I was definitely not blaming AW, just trying to play agent provocateur.
Moving to Wembley would have been a footballing disaster and probably the end of Arsenal as a major club. Thank goodness we’ll never know for certain.
Thank you Jeanette for stepping in with the post.
Interesting set of questions and I have one more to add – blame for what exactly? Has there been some wrongdoing that I missed?
And the innocent fans, hm…..I am not blameless. Instead of going to games and supporting the team that I love, I watch games on a cheap stream or a foreign TV. And I bet you I am not the only one that loves taking how much I love the Club, but not enough to go to games.
Well done, Jeanette.
I think your agent provocateur worked very well.
Thank goodness you came good Jeanette.
I was pushing hard earlier to get the green light to do a brief run down on our three targets. Thing is, they’re all off according to one unreliable source, but happily there are three brand new ones!
Please share, MickyDidIt89!
One of the worst articles i have ever read on this blog.
Who should take the blame? Maybe “fans” like you should for not really supporting the team. Ever semi-educated fan sees what a fantasic work has been done and what is not crying for trophies because one could understand the project and what it means. But instead you want the Arsenal to be a Sugar Daddy Club. Nice. Okay. When Usmanov takes over, are you still a fan if we are playing League One? I don’t think so!
Love Arsenal, Hate Sugar Daddies!
Austrian Gooner
Thanks for the post Jeanette
Were i agree with you is that divison at the top can lead to unwanted outcomes. For Arsenal, dis harmony is anathema. We are a club which prides itself on unity.
Yes, the former Directors saw a cash cow. Arsenal made the move and the selling of ones shares at such high vaules became impossible for these people to refuse.
I am relaxed about it and blame no one. People want to make money, its always been that way, but what comforts me is that despite the board room wrangles the whole thing is about to be vindicated
Arsenal are a club that is asset rich, cash rich, and just as importantly, still rich in its vaules.
In the next few years we will rise to the top again, and with good leadership userp our rivals and become the best side in England and Europe . We should celebrate this. There is every chance that our policies could create a side to rival the thirties era.
Only one thing concerns me. The legacy of the last ten years means we have a minority shareholder who is frozen out. I speak of the “Fat Man in the Room”. Nothing against the fat man personaly, but as anyone who has shared a room with a fat man knows, you have to sleep with one eye open in case he decides to sit on you.
But apart from that, i am very happy. hahaha
Very well indeed.
Austrian
At least she came up with a post, which is more than I did. Or you.
Transplant
Glad I caught you. Your comment the other day about your trial was brilliantly funny 🙂
Jeanette
I can’t, as I’ve never heard of any of them.
Tune in tomorrow, and I’ll see if I can unearth three horribly expensive players I have heard of 🙂
Back to work. Nite all.
Nite Micky, next time your around i will tell you how i smuggled my way into another trial, aged 41. That didnt go well either. hahaha
It’s my doing. A post was needed and as Jeanette had one in drafts from two months ago I thought I did the honourable thing as there was no alternative.
Kelsey
You definitely did the right thing.
Jeanette – you did too!
I knew as soon as I read it that you had written this some time ago, but it has nevertheless served as a good ‘agent provocateur’ piece.
As I said earlier, congratulations on joining that elite company of the sick, the damned and the wayward who comprise the AA author list 🙂
Terry
Please comment more often.
You truly are a comic genius and you make me laugh out loud with every comment 😀
Just read the BBC Gossip pages, you do have to laugh
Lets face it Jeanette, every true Gooner at one time or another has questioned what AW and the BOD are doing and why Dein and Fitzman did what they did….but it seems all has turned out more or less well:
1) The egg that missed our faces is all over the Man Shitty and Chelsea management and team’ s collective kissers…what a joke they are….invested 4 times what we have and both still had a similar season to us and horrible attitudes.
2) Football is never a blame game, it is all about doing better next time…that is why they play home and away and 38 games.
3) Usmanov is definitely NOT a true Gooner…his favourite sport is NOT Football and if you’re a nice girl I’ll tell you what it is…..here’s a hint: He is the president of their Musketeer Federation….get the point?
4) I am definitely NOT innocent with respect to anything, I don’t know about you but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for now…
Anyway, thanks for the post and keep it up….
BRITISH HUMOUR IS DIFFERENT
FREE YORKSHIRE TERRIER.
8 years old, Hateful little bastard. Bites!
___________________________________________
FREE PUPPIES
1/2 Cocker Spaniel, 1/2 sneaky neighbor’s dog.
________________________________________________
FREE PUPPIES. Mother is a Kennel Club registered German Shepherd.
Father is a Super Dog, able to leap tall fences in a single bound..
_______________________________________________________
COWS, CALVES: NEVER BRED. Also 1 gay bull for sale.
________________________________________________________
JOINING NUDIST COLONY!
Must sell washer and dryer £100.
_____________________________________________________________
WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE .
Worn once by mistake.
Call Stephanie.
___________________________________________________________
And the WINNER is…
FOR SALE BY OWNER. Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes.
Excellent condition, £200 or best offer.
No longer needed, got married, wife knows everything.
___________________________________________________________
“If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking,
How come they can’t have a headache and sex at the same time?”
____________________________________________________________
TEACHER: Why are you late?
STUDENT: Class started before I got here.
____________________________________
TEACHER: John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN: You told me to do it without using tables.
__________________________________________
TEACHER: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile?’ GLENN: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L’
TEACHER: No, that’s wrong
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.
___________________________________________
TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD: H I J K L M N O.
TEACHER: What are you talking about?
DONALD: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.
__________________________________
TEACHER: Winnie, name one important thing we have today that we didn’t have ten years ago.
WINNIE: Me!
__________________________________________
TEACHER: Glen, why do you always get so dirty?
GLEN: Well, I’m a lot closer to the ground than you are.
_______________________________________
TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting with ‘ I. ‘
MILLIE: I is..
TEACHER: No, Millie….. Always say, ‘I am.’
MILLIE: All right… ‘I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.’
________________________________
TEACHER: George Washington not only chopped down his father’s cherry tree, but also admitted it. Now, Louie, do you know why his father didn’t punish him?
LOUIS: Because George still had the axe in his hand……
______________________________________
TEACHER: Now, Simon , tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?
SIMON: No sir, I don’t have to, my Mom is a good cook.
______________________________
TEACHER: Clyde , your composition on ‘My Dog’ is exactly the same as your brother’s.. Did you copy his?
CLYDE : No, sir. It’s the same dog.
___________________________________
TEACHER: Harold, what do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?
HAROLD: A teacher
__________________________________
Due to current economic conditions the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.
Quick morning all,
Seriously tied up with work, but a quick look at Sky Betting, and how the odds have shifted. Higuain now nailed on to Juve , and we’re still clear odds on to land Wayne and Fellaini.
I can’t believe the Wayne one at all.
Back to the grind.
Micky that would definitely be a shift in policy. And a huge statement of intent to the rest of the PL.
Morning All,
Shame about Higuiain – I had started to write a post about him . 😦
Raddy 🙂 you’d better find a few positives about Wayne!! you are going to love him!!!
GN5 – I like the jokes about dogs, very good!
but your appointed winner is truly moving:
FOR SALE BY OWNER. Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica, 45 volumes.
Excellent condition, £200 or best offer.
No longer needed, got married, wife knows everything.
Nice things to say about Wayne……the most naturally gifted English footballer of his generation.
I have read people questioning his teamwork I find that incredulous as I think he has often sacrificed his own glory for the sake of the team. I think given the freedom to roam across a front three and unshackled from tracking back duties he could be exceptional. When I see people write him off as a spent force you come to realise these were the same people criticising the club for buying cheap and you have to scratch your head and wonder.
Obviously this all speculation as I don’t really think he will come, but you really begin to question elements of the Arsenal support when they can’t be happy at the prospect of signing a big name for big money, but would be equally disappointed by the arrival of more teenagers.
GiE – I am teasing Raddy, he is not very fond of Shrek. I love Wayne, he is the proper English bulldog with fire in his belly. And I believe the rumours about him, no smoke without fire and all that….WR is coming to THOF
Johnny O’Neill in fine form today:
Evonne/FT hope you are right.
Raddy will forget all indiscretions once he is in red and white….it’s what us football fans do, Ian Wright was an annoying git until GG signed him 🙂
I have never questioned Rooney’s ability – I am afraid I have disliked him ever since that goal he scored against us for Everton in his first game
I know Raddy, as soon as he signs for us you will be his No1 fan 🙂
He needs to make amends for that goal and score a few against the Toffees
Ian Wright an annoying git……ugggghhh that is blasphemous
Good morning all,
BR I have hated Rooney since the day he was born ….and I’d never even heard of him until he scored THAT goal against us.
FT, Wrighty was an annoying git before he joined Arsenal and recommenced being one as soon as he left.
Morning all
There’s a New Post ……………..
A Personal Elevator Goes Up And Down All Three Floors:.
Tap Tap Revenge 2 can be acquired for both i – Pod Touch i – Phone.
Within the bingo for the children, your girls need to can recall the correct places wherever
every one of the publications, speaker, pots, and the like are kept within the library.
It may use some Psychic-type moves for example Psychic and Zen Headbutt.
adsense_ad_unit += ‘
Hurrah, that’s what I was searching for, what a information! existing here at this website, thanks admin of this web page.