Can you say, pure class?

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  1. Guy Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes Member

    Nov 22, 2006
    St. Louis
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  2. Bronaldo

    Bronaldo Red Card

    Apr 8, 2007
    Canada
    This is silly.
     
  3. sdotsom

    sdotsom Member+

    Manchester United
    Mar 27, 2005
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Fawkes, do you watch matches in the St. Louis area with STLUFC?
     
  4. Guy Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes Member

    Nov 22, 2006
    St. Louis
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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?
     
  5. sdotsom

    sdotsom Member+

    Manchester United
    Mar 27, 2005
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    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.
     
  6. Vermont Red

    Vermont Red Member

    Jun 10, 2003
    Brooklyn
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What's to defend? United hates soldiers.
     
  7. Guy Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes Member

    Nov 22, 2006
    St. Louis
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  8. Republic of Mancunia

    Aug 24, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    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:

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    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. :mad:

    How many Arsenal players know what it's for anyway? They're just given a shirt to wear and they'll put it on.
     
  9. sdotsom

    sdotsom Member+

    Manchester United
    Mar 27, 2005
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    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?
     
  10. Guy Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes Member

    Nov 22, 2006
    St. Louis
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The fact that 18 other clubs are doing it and you think you're above it shows your lack of class.
     
  11. Guy Fawkes

    Guy Fawkes Member

    Nov 22, 2006
    St. Louis
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's a show of respect.
     
  12. Bronaldo

    Bronaldo Red Card

    Apr 8, 2007
    Canada
    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.
     
  13. sdotsom

    sdotsom Member+

    Manchester United
    Mar 27, 2005
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Respect is shown by United year round for this cause, not for 90 minutes on 1 Saturday.
     
  14. Republic of Mancunia

    Aug 24, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    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! :eek:
     
  15. Republic of Mancunia

    Aug 24, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Looks like he's had his fun, time to close this down.

    Watch us wear them now and make me look daft. :D
     

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