http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...rade--unlike-Manchester-United-Liverpool.html The two only clubs not wearing poppies? United and Liverpool. Now, you'd think after all the minute's silences that Liverpool would care about somebody other than their own who have died. But that doesn't let your lot off the hook. Defend your boys
Yes I do, I'm actually in Columbia right now but I'm friends with Tom and the boys. I love going to Barrister's, used to go to OB's before they turned into jerks. You?
Yup, Tom is a good friend of mine as well. I was big over the last couple years, did Barrister's almost weekly, this season not so much, though I do plan on checking out Llewellyns for the Chelsea match this Sunday.
Yeah, I'll come to Llywellyn's when I'm in town over Thanksgiving and Winter Break. I'm sure you've seen me around as I'm one of the few Arsenal that go to Barrister's regularly. I'll be around in Winter, as usual.
Exceptionally. Trolling too, one might say. Nevertheless I'll humour him for now. Here's a few images of Fergie taken between Oct 31st and today: I'd argue that being brow-beaten into supporting something for fear of looking bad if one didn't join in shows less genuine support for the cause than, I don't know, Alex Ferguson, who chooses to wear a poppy off his own bat. I'd like to know why the fuss all of a sudden, too? Have your club had a poppy embroidered onto their shirt every season since 1918? No? It's disgraceful if they haven't. How many Arsenal players know what it's for anyway? They're just given a shirt to wear and they'll put it on.
I just think the idea of shaming people into something is tasteless. What's more useful, the club doing activities year round including selling poppies by the ground, or wearing a poppy for 90 minutes and forgetting about it for the rest of the year?
Can you please provide irrefutable evidence that proves that we think we;re "above it"? Thanks. And what if someone doesn't want to respect it? What if people wearing the poppies don't even understand the occasion or the reason? This is like that thing with the Liverpool #3 last season or the season before. No one should shamed/forced into showing respect to something. Is Arsenal teaching their players the importance and history behind it? If not, I don't think you're in any position to talk.
Nah, we love them. They died so that we could have certain rights, including freedom of choice. That freedom extends to deciding how best to honour their memory. The other clubs are secret Nazi's, bowing down to the jackboot of pressure and would happily live under repression. Manchester United - football's new freedom fighters!