Ian Wright has blasted Arsenal’s fans for leaving the Emirates early during their 3-0 loss to Brighton at the weekend.
Thousands had filled the ground, hoping to spur their team to another important win in the Premier League title race, but that never happened.
Brighton was hungrier and made us pay with some really devastating football which destroyed Arsenal’s remaining Premier League title hopes.
Fans saw enough of the poor performance from their team early on and left the Emirates. This was not appreciated by Wright, who insists they had forgotten that making the top four was the team’s goal at the start of the term.
‘What I was a little bit disappointed about was the Arsenal fans that left when it went to 2-0, because they’ve forgotten what we were aiming for at the start of the season,’ he admitted on his podcast, Wrighty’s House.
Adding: ‘So when I saw the people leaving, I’d rather they stayed and gave that team…Roy Keane said they were physically and mentally done, that deserved some recognition that they f***ing went for it, they fought this season for it.’
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We wanted a return to the Champions League at the start of the campaign and got it, which should be enough to keep supporting the boys.
They made us dream about winning the league, which is one reason most people started coming to watch matches more often.
However, we cannot stop supporting them now as we bid to rebuild this club. They need the support to do well in the next campaign also.
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On one hand it may well be seen as being a faintheart fan to leave so much before the end, esp when it was en masse and not just af ew who needed to beat the traffic
On the other hand we are regarded as customers, not fans, by clubs in this day and age and we have the individual right to do as any customer of any business anywhere has , which is to terminate our support whenever rwe wish. If fan wish toleave they have a perfect legal right to do so.
Have they a moral right thouigh? It depends on how you view what being a fan IS, IN THIS SELF ENTITLED AGE.
As someone who started attending in1958 and stopped around five years ago,(the odd game apart),I HAVE NEVER ONCE chosen to leave before the end , even though I HAVE SEEN MANY FAR WORSE DEFEATS THAN the Brighton match in all those many decades of going.
But then I am old and old school too!
When the team had clearly shot its bolt, i imagine the fans that have been great all season, had shot theirs too and wanted to get home to watch countryfile. They pays their money and can do what they like as far as how long they stay.