Saturday, September 24th, 2011 « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade

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By Walter Broeckx,

With many thanks to Anne for writing and sending an important update in the fight.

I know I am not part of the Media Watch team that is doing a great job on this site. But Anne who is writing most of these articles has written to me a very important part of the press conference that Arsène Wenger gave after the Bolton game.

And this quote is completely in line with the findings of our Media Watch team and with what I noticed since this week. We have been saying that there is a major media campaign and run by almost every newspaper in the Uk to drive Wenger out at Arsenal. They have been trying to paint Wenger as a senile fool. In fact they have used words that if I translate them in my mother language are words that could be used to go to the court and ask for the one who writes those words to get convicted for slander and libel.

Because in my country writing on numerous occasions that a person is a fool is something that is considered not done. Certainly when the person who writes it has no medical background and hasn’t examined him as a patient. And when a doctor has examined him as a patient he cannot speak about what he found unless he is forced to do this in court. So I must say that I really felt sick about how Wenger has been described by some journalists. From now on I will call people who do this as “whorenalists”.  Just like a whore they sell themselves to those who pay them to do what they want. In fact come to think of it for any whore who feels offended by this comparison : my apologies.

But coming back to today and the press conference the following things were said by Wenger and a whorenalist:

Q: Arsene did you receive a call from Inter Milan over the past week?

A: I won’t say that to you now. Anyway, I think in one thing: you were consistent in wanting to get me out and I was consistent in wanting to stay in and to show my commitment to this club and so we have both been consistent.

Q (mumbles) I never wanted to get you out..unclear…

A: What?

Q: I never wanted to get you out, Arsene.

A: (with sarcastic smile) Oh, thank you.

I think this part of the press conference is showing a few things. And I will not go too deep in the fact that somehow I ask myself if it is any coincidence that since we have been starting this Untold Media Watch and have showed in a few articles how bad some reporters have been treating Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.  I really cannot but wonder if it is any coincidence that since a few days we have been noticing that Arsenal is finally fighting back against this.

Like Anne and her team have showed in their last article which you can read here it looks as if Arsenal and by the person of Ivan Gazidis have started the fight back.

But maybe they found themselves at Arsenal that enough is enough and that now was the time to kick back.

But what it certainly shows is that what we have been highlighting at Untold Arsenal is acknowledged by Arsenal and they feel the same about it. They don’t want to just sit there and get slaughtered by the media.

And most of all our manager Arsène Wenger has himself in an article on Arsenal. Com which you can read here where he has said that he can take the bullets himself and that he will not be affected by it. But he also warned in this article that he is old and wise enough to deal with such rubbish but that this could affect the younger players at Arsenal who are not used to being slaughtered by the media like him.

In fact this again shows that Wenger isn’t bothered by what those whorenalists write about him as long as he doesn’t feel that it could have an influence on the players.  And when he fears it could have an influence he will fight back against it. Not for his own person. No because for his love for this great club which we all love.  And he also loves this club. Maybe more than anyone else will ever realise.

I think it is great to see that Arsenal is fighting back against the whorenalists.

I think it is great to see that Arsene Wenger is fighting back to protect his young players from the abuse they suffer by some whorenalists in their attempt to drive Wenger out at Arsenal.

I think it is time for all and every Arsenal supporter to join the battle from Arsenal and Arsène Wenger.  Let us forget who that you wanted Arsenal to buy this summer. Let us forget that Arsenal let Cesc and Nasri go this summer.

But let us get behind our players. Because these players are Arsenal for now. Let us start a campaign and write mails to companies who sponsor this media campaign by advertising in those newspapers. Let us just say that we don’t like the fact that they advertise in newspaper X because of the way they have been writing about Arsenal, their players and their managers. Let us write in and say that the chance is very real that we will boycott their products if this continues.

Companies don’t like such letters or mails. And if they receive one letter then they will shrug their shoulders. But if they receive ten of such mails or letters then they will start noticing it. And if they should receive hundreds let alone thousands of such mails or letters they will act. And maybe they will let the media know that they don’t like losing money for advertising in newspapers that are doing such things.

And maybe this would help the media in backing off a bit and giving us what we deserve. I’m not saying that they can’t be critical about Arsenal when it is appropriate.  But the campaign we have seen is too much.  I don’t know if we can start such a campaign on our own. I don’t know if some people could write a letter and if we could identify companies who we can write to. But maybe if all the blogs would support this fight back we could send several thousands of letters to those companies and this could have a result.

But for now we could just back up our club, the player and the manager against this vicious attack from the media. And just like on Tuesday I heard my Russian (I guess) match commentator getting silent a few minutes before the end of the game and I could clearly hear the sound of the Emirates signing and supporting our club AND our manager: “One Arsène Wenger, there’s only one Arsène Wenger. One Arsène Wenger, there’s only one Arsène Wenger”.

Let us make sure that it is our board that decides what happens at our club, not the whorenalists. I could have had my club ran by many people but NEVER THOSE WHORENALISTS. NEVER THEM! NEVER!