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You’re before welcome to write a comment to this blog, but before you do, please do take a note of these points:

1.  Untold Arsenal is a biased blog – its supports Arsenal without question, and particularly supports the work of Arsene Wenger.  You may disagree with this view of the world, which is fair enough – but there are plenty of other blogs around which criticize Arsenal, and which support other clubs, so it is probably best to express your views there.  We are not looking for this blog to be balanced within itself.

2.  Comments which are simply pure abuse against Arsenal, Wenger, or the writers of articles won’t be published.  If you think that the writer is a total tosser, who has personal problems, doesn’t understand football, thinks he’s a clever journalist when all he is, is a wanker, then fair enough.  That’s your view.   The problem is these views have been expressed so many times before it is getting tiring, and there really doesn’t seem any point publishing over and over again.  Your best bet (in our view) would be either to write to another blog, or maybe start your own blog.

3.  We are 100% against racism, homophobia and violence, both when exhibited by fans of other clubs, and by fans of Arsenal.   We’ve now stopped publishing letters calling us racist simply because we might comment on a black player.  We comment on players because of their footballing ability, and possibly their personal views, never on them because of their colour.

4.  The editor is 100% against international football in all its forms.   This includes the Euro Championship, the World Cup, the Africa Cup of Nations, the Copa America and any other  cups you can think of.  But if you want to argue against that, fair enough.

5.  A lot of stuff we write is meant to be funny.  Sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes it does.  But it is always catergorised as humour.

6.  Much of what we write is part of a continuous stream of commentary.  You don’t have to go back and read it all, but reading several of our pieces from the last week or two can help if you want to comment.  If you don’t there is always the risk that your comment will look a bit out of place.

This is all set out a little more formally in our manifesto.