[Albion] Ben White's Season......

[Weststander]

Arsenal ST I know don’t stop raving about him and think they got a bargain. Of course there are a lot of armchair fans on Twitter etc associated with top 6 clubs that turn toxic on all their players and arsenal have a few more obvious ones owing to the number of idiots who appear on AFTV.

He will do well there and I don’t imagine he has looked back he seems very ambitious and is probably looking to next season to up his performance again and get into the World Cup squad.

Accurate summary.

Social media/fora attract all the moaning TV fans of Arsenal, Spurs, Everton and Manure.

I was chatting with an Arsenal fan last night who works with Arsenal supporters. They’re still very positive about the Arteta project.

So many people get sucked into the media including 5live/TS hyperbole and narrative of not quite achieving all your goals NOW is a disaster.

We saw this with the national media for months on end exaggerating the spat between Potter and a few hundred boo-boys. Still very recently (May) describing it as “Surprisingly, a large section of Brighton supporters are unhappy with Potter’s tenure”.

Tosh.

 

[keaton]

I was thinking about this the other day. IMO he would have had a better season here than he’s had at Arsenal but a smaller bank balance

He was much more important in a Potter set up than he is at Arsenal. We have missed him this season imo

Really? He definitely gets in Arsenal's best team, I'm not sure he would get in ours'

 

[RandyWanger]

We were a launchpad / stepping stone for him, like we are for most of our team. It is the nature of the business.

 

[Icy Gull]

Accurate summary.

Social media/fora attract all the moaning TV fans of Arsenal, Spurs, Everton and Manure.

I was chatting with an Arsenal fan last night who works with Arsenal supporters. They’re still very positive about the Arteta project.

So many people get sucked into the media including 5live/TS hyperbole and narrative of not quite achieving all your goals NOW is a disaster.

We saw this with the national media for months on end exaggerating the spat between Potter and a few hundred boo-boys. Still very recently (May) describing it as “Surprisingly, a large section of Brighton supporters are unhappy with Potter’s tenure”.

Tosh.

The only reason you can call conclusively call it tosh is because of my polls on the matter

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

They did fine without him again last game. Was Ben(ched) White an unused sub again due to injury return?

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Happy to be playing Europa League, I would say. I don't get the slagging off of Arsenal. Anyone can see they are a young team in transition, who few thought would be bothering the top four. The fact that they got themselves together after an appalling start is pretty impressive, let alone run the more experienced Tottenham team close.

I stand by what I said when he moved there –*I thought it was a good opportunity and now he'll be playing European football, which is a step up from if he was still at Brighton. Good luck to him.

 

[Weststander]

The only reason you can call conclusively call it tosh is because of my polls on the matter

Fact. All the way through, even in a trough of bad results.



It boiled down to a few hundred people at the very most at a home game (or was it two) who booed. If GP hadn't have challenged it, it would've barely made a ripple amongst shite-stirring hacks/pundits.

 

[Icy Gull]

Fact. All the way through, even in a trough of bad results.



It boiled to a few hundred people at the very most at a home game (or was it two) who booed. If GP hadn't have challenged it, it would've barely made a ripple amongst shite-stirring hacks/pundits.

There were a few occasions where it was not that big a majority if I remember correctly, not this season but certainly last season.

The fuss made about a few boos in the Leeds game was blown out of proportion. I think GP was justified, if naive, in calling it though. We thrashed them 0-0, and it was pathetic for anyone to boo...imo

 

[Weststander]

There were a few occasions where it was not that big a majority if I remember correctly, not this season but certainly last season.

The fuss made about a few boos in the Leeds game was blown out of proportion. I think GP was justified, if naive, in calling it though. We thrashed them 0-0, and it was pathetic for anyone to boo...imo

Naive, yes, a bit of inexperience. I was surprised as he’s highly intelligent with expert psychological knowledge. I thought he’d see a few boo-boys as just noise. He is only human!

 

[Russconha]

£50m. Next subject.

 

[A1X]

Are we going to get this every season? He left to a big team and will play in Europe as he deserves, and become a regular in the England squad. We got a big whack of money for him. And Leeds just made fools of themselves.

Win - win - win

Time to move on.

 

[GT49er]

Arsenal ST I know don’t stop raving about him and think they got a bargain. Of course there are a lot of armchair fans on Twitter etc associated with top 6 clubs that turn toxic on all their players and arsenal have a few more obvious ones owing to the number of idiots who appear on AFTV.

He will do well there and I don’t imagine he has looked back he seems very ambitious and is probably looking to next season to up his performance again and get into the World Cup squad.

There are a lot of fans - both armchair and otherwise - on Facebook - and fans websites and AFTV - just as there are Brighton fans on NSC. A lunatic fringe, obviously. I admit I haven't met an Arsenal fan personally, but on various internet sites, and on TV, I can honestly say I haven't seen or heard a single Arsenal fan raving about him - or anything even approaching raving about him..He's done OK, for sure - both for the club and for himself.

If some people (his manager, and quite a bit of the press) think he's done better than that, fine - he probably has .................... but in spite of the one(s) you know, I've yet to see Arsenal fans positively raving about him.