As an Arsenal fan, I've been reading this board for awhile - but I signed up specifically to say - 'Owch!'.
It's true, we have our fair share of pretentious ego-bags, drooling muppets and flat out morons, but a quick tour around any fan-forum will demonstrate that all clubs have these in abundance. I would even propose that Arsenal fans have a lot more class than Manchester City fans, by and large. I am not sure what they put into the water up there, but City fans have quickly become a prize winning bunch of cock-wallets...and I know my cock-wallets.
It's true, our manager can be an exceptionally poor loser, and perhaps even at times ungracious, and I wouldn't doubt that an attitude like that will inevitably rub off on some of the more impressionable fans. Yet at the same time, he is an intelligent man, and an erudite one, and what some perceive as 'whinging' often contains nuggets of truth which are more often than not proved correct in time.
If you look, for example, at the post-match comments made after our 0-3 thrashing by John Terry and the Fuckin' Ugly Rumblers and take a quick glance at the league table (quick, or you'll miss it) I think you can say that he may have been correct on one or two points. Not to mention the hilarious bleating from Bolton after they suddenly realised what it was like to have a bad tackle made against them, and the hypocrisy that entailed.
You may agree or disgaree with Wengers comments regarding that, but surely all clubs feel unfairly treated by the media? Surely all managers defend themselves? Surely all fans feel a sense of 'us against the cunts'? Something at the moment, that I would have been sure 'pool fans understood. You cannot hold against us (too much), what all fans do.
I for one, have always enjoyed watching Liverpool, a club steeped in history and proud in tradition. That is not to say, that I have not enjoyed immensely your current travails, I am after all, an Arsenal fan - however in my defense I am sure more than a few Liverpool fans would more than enjoy seeing another of the 'big 4' struggle in a season.
Also, despite what I may think of Benetiz's choices in players and tactics over the past year, I believe he has always handled himself with an excellent sense of decorum. That is not to say that I think that he is always right, or that I even think he's not on occasion been completely bat-shit crazy - but rather an appreciation of the fact that if it was me in his situation, I would have long ago put my foot through a journalists face, or that journalists face, through a camera.
My point is this; us Arsenal fans, the ones that can spell, and have an interest in football, and other teams, and other teams fans - we're not a bad lot, and I honestly think that all fans from all clubs which meet those conditions, are also a-ok. Except of course, for Tottenham. Who are quite possibly, the saddest bunch of mutually mastabatory sad-eyed pandas, the world has ever seen.
Finally; can't we agree that (discounting the above parapgraph) neither Arsenal nor Liverpool get anywhere near to the monstrous cuntosity of Chelsea, Bolton, Manchester City, Kevin Davies, or Phil Brown?
Thank you, for not being RAWK.