Heckles, Loud Boos And Slow Hand-Claps: Arsenal’s Annual Shareholders Meeting Once Again Lives Up To Expectations…

Chris Wright

26th, October 2017

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As if it wasn’t already eagerly marked in your diary, today saw the Arsenal annual general meeting take place at the Emirates, giving around 200 fans and shareholders the opportunity to voice their concerns and grievances directly to the club’s board.

Things got off to a suitably rocky start when Sir Chips Keswick and Stan Kroenke Jr were both re-elected to the board despite the majority of fans loathing the pair of them.

Basically, the farcical meeting went south from that point onward, with the live-tweet coverage from inside the room offering a succession of gems in the process.

It began with a solid period of general unrest, as the shareholders became increasingly exasperated by owner Stan Kroenke Snr’s reluctance to break his now-trademark silence…

The sniggering then set in, as the Arsenal board adopted a “see no ships” approach to the issues on hand…

Chuck in a splash of preempted hostility…

More sniggering…

Heckling…

Gravity-defying feats of mental gynamstics…

All hail Arsenal, champions of the balance sheet metric!

There was also a splash of poetic soul-searching from Arsene Wenger…

Which quickly gave way to frustration rising through dissension and into low-level fury…

And a huffy little retort from Sir Chips to close the whole thing out…

For context, Kroenke told The Telegraph on the morning of the AGM that he remains fully committed to Arsenal for the long haul.

All in all, a roaring success. See you all again next year.

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