Why do Arsenal have the best bloggers?
As a paid-up Spurs fan, it pains me to say it, but in terms of blogging, Arsenal have been Premier League champions for a very long time. Since the dawn of football blogging, in fact.
The quality and depth of Arsenal blogs shames those of all other clubs, including the rest of the so-called ‘big four’. Indeed, if you added up all the decent Chelsea, Liverpool and Man Utd blogs, I doubt even then they could match the might of the Gunners’ online output.
Consider the evidence:
Arseblog (the undisputed gaffer), Le Grove, East Lower, A Cultured Left Foot, Good Playa, Gunnerblog, The Cannon, ClockEnders, Wrighty7, Goonerholic, The Goon, 3rd Gen, Up For Grabs Now…
That’s a mere highlights reel of Arsenal blogs (and sorry if I missed yours) – there are many, many more out there, some of them excellent, others frankly not worth the platform they’re written on.
So, how did this happen? Why do Arsenal have so many good, dedicated bloggers? Is it because they’re more self-righteous, more educated, more passionate, more contrary, more pompous, more intelligent?
I have no idea – maybe a combination of the above.
I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts on this topic, and especially the thoughts of Arsenal bloggers…
Ollie
If your a Spurs fan, I’m the Pope!
I totally agree with you.
I think the main reason to this, is because Arsenal are very often talked negative about in the media. Most of it is just bullsh*t, so the fans have to express themselves via bloggs. And they really have a lot of reason to do exactly that, since so much shit happens to Arsenal.
Arsenal fan here and a regular reader of most of these blogs.
Most of them are alright, but Wrighty7 is a total tit. Also, we have some excellent Youth + Reserves blogs as well such as Young Gun’s and Jeorge Bird’s.
Don’t forget Vital Arsenal and the mighty Little Dutch.
It`s because they have all the experience of working for all the ragbloids.
COYS!
Why go anywhere else but here?
@ ParkLane67: What, you find it impossible to believe that not all Spurs fans hate Arsenal? Sorry for being rational.
The average Arsenal fan is educated. We are the thinking man’s club, after all.
You’re spot on with Arseblog. Undisputed great. You might be right about the demographic too – no doubt at lot of bloggers are from London and aspiring journalists or have been in the media sometime. Though Young Guns’ J.Sanderson is definitely right up there and I don’t just mean in quality – a northern lad most definitely. And he has just been interviewed on Arsenal FC Blog Podcast from Australia. So you’re right in the fact that it is also far-reaching and diverse. Maybe it’s just because it’s a team which inspires comment, and the majority of it good comment – nice copy.
Yeah, Young Guns is excellent also, will add it to the list.
More bloggers because arsenal have achieved more over the last 15 years, hence they attract the glory seekers, especially londoners. It seems if your from London you support Arsenal or Chelsea nowadays thanks to sky.
Not sure why people choose arsenal as they have one F all.
Im proud to support Spurs and enjoy the rollercoaster ride, and when we win things im sure it feels twice as good for us Yids than it does for them lot up the road.
Us spurs are football supporters not ‘fans’ we support our team through thick and thin, and dont stamp our feet and boo after a few missed place passes, like the gooners did the first 40 mins of the game!!
YIDS
It’s simply because it’s the one avenue Arsenal fans have to hit back at a blatantly Liverpool & ManUre loving, Arsenal hating TV / Radio & Written media !
Ollie
The reason I don’t believe you is because:-
a) Why do you know so much about A***nal blogs? – You must spend a lot of time there. The only reason I got onto your article is that you managed to get it posted on the Spurs NewsNow page
b) No real Spurs fan would behave in such a toady, obsequious manner towards the scum.
Quit pretending Gooner, you’re fooling no-one!
Don’t have a go at Wrighty7 he’s good
Of course on the other end of the scale you have sites like ‘Arsenal Truth’ which is to Truth the same as Peter Mandelson is to mortgage applications.
The only site that can actually find fault for taking 16 points from the last 18…
every time I read that garbage it makes my teeth ache
I think the fact that Arseblog was one of the first football blogs to get really popular is a factor so others followed on. No other team has a blog like that.
@ ParkLane67: I know a lot about blogs, cause, er, I’m a blogger. Imagine a car mechanic who drives a Ferrari but knows nothing about Porsches, for example. You’re the sort of one-eyed fan I have little time for. I’ve been a Spurs fan since 1981, for the record.
Total bollocks when i learn to put my full stops and improve my grammer then Davspurs is the dogs bollocks. We must be better we have more to moan about while you Arsoles just moan at the end of the season when you look in the cupboard and there a big fat newt all that running passing breading hot kids just to win fuck all .We moan till we get to Wembley . already booked me ticket.Your goooooooner win newt .NO 1 RANTER DAVSPURS
That’s a cool one, especially from a Tottenham fan, and at this stage.
I believe the club represents a set of values to which people adhere. To adhere to this set, those people must themselves share those values. Since Arsenal is a very “learned” team in terms of players, manager, board, and ancillary services, the fans have to share the standard, hence the quality of the blogs.
Mind you there are some exceptions like Palmer though.
Arsenal Vision is also very good. Head honcho Mean Lean talks good waffle and even better sense.
Agreed with Maggie, ArsenalVision is excellent. Up their with the very best.
The fact that it’s not on your list proves what a strong set of bloggers The Arse has. Even the foreign ones like 7am Kickoff (American) and ArsenalFCBlog (Aussie) are top notch.
If you know your history, you don’t go toadying up to the enemy. For the record, I’ve been a Spurs fan since my Dad took me to the home of football in ‘61 and I’ve got both eyes fully working and I also know a Gooner when I smell one and Ollie ……. You’re a Gooner!
Because when blogging was created after the first world war, they bribed all the others. Or maybe when blogging was created at the turn of the 90s they bought out the top table for their own interests.
Nice effort with the links though, should push you up that wikio ranking.
The arsecast every Friday is simply quality and pure comedy
lol – only a spurs fan could smell with their eyes…
ParkLane67, I think it’s probably best if you pipe down – you’re not exactly giving a good impression on our behalf. In fact, you’re helping to prove my point.
Ollie
If you don’t want real Spurs fans reading your asinine rubbish, why do you set up your tags so that NewsNow picks it up as a Spurs post?
As an Arsenal fan I must say that I enjoy reading all the blogs from the US every morning in Google Reader. My two favorites are Arseblog and Untold Arsenal. My two worst blogs are LeGrove and Arsenal News Review.
1. Arseblog and Untold Arsenal
2. A culture left foot
3. GoodPlaya
4. Goonerholic
5. Wright7
6. Jeorge Birds’s Arsenal – Very imformative about the youth system
6. Young Guns – Very informative about the youth System
7. Goonerboy and Gunnerblog
Gunnerblog is better than Arseblog imo. I read both, but Gunnerblog actually attends the game and doesn’t chat rubbish about drinking to much to pad it out slightly.
Gunnerblog FTFW!
Please don’t feed the trolls.
Ollie you have listed the main Arsenal blogs but what are the principal spud blogs. I could only find ‘”Dear Mr Levy” ‘Supporting Tottenham, it’s like purgatory”‘ I thought it was a well written blog, good sense of humour with some interesting comments and no censorship, Christ, they even let me on after Saturday, ooops sorry to bring it up. Lol
Maybe that is the reason they are so quiet at the Emirates?
What a loda of garbage!
I’m sure that there are one or two decent Arsenal bloggers out there. But I haven’t come across any. Most of them are as smug, ignorant and inarticulate as you would expect of the kind of dim-witted johnny-come-latelies who follow the Sky 4.
You lot used to sing your heads off defiantly every time you came to our place but over the years you have become quieter and quieter, you were a shadow of your former selves on Saturday, a spent force, a beaten fan base, resigned to your inevitable defeat.
another site that promots arsenal is avenell Road
Funniest thing since Sickapedia.
Should this be billed as a Top Ten of dull reads?
Yes it should.
Gunnerblog is shit. That cunt GS takes an eternity to update it. ;-)
Tottenham fans act like animals and cant think rationally
Shut it fatty.
and all the people that post on Gunnerblog are right freaks. Ones got an orange willy, one has a huge nose like pinocchio, one is ginger and theres one who only ever eats lentils. Hes my favourite. Hes lovely.
Watch out for Stringy,. Hes a bit of a cunt.
ollie thanx so much for doing this list. Im a big arsenal fan but i never really knew which blog to go to because there are so many. Also everyone is right about the youth blogs. Some of them are fantastic
they’re the biggest bloggers because they’re the biggest complainers. ever since henry left with the trophies, its always been about when they were going to “find their touch again” ha! sad…
Myles Palmer is not an Arsenal blogger.
He’s a ridiculous, self-opinionated fucktard who doesn’t even allow comments on his blog because everyone would just diss him. He claims to have thorough, inside knowledge of the way the club works when he’s a clueless dimwit. I have half a mind to write to his web host claiming he supports child porn just to have him shut down.
As for you Ollie, its amazing how you vacillate from Anti-Arsenal to Pro-Arsenal rhetoric. You’re an enigma.
Jesus,
I am in total agreement with you. Myles Palmer is shit.
I quite like the Gooner Talk blog, as well as Young Guns.
that motherfucker never gives arsenal any credit.He even said “i just write about arsenal i am not a fan” so why the fuck do you keep writing about them.
Tsk tsk, jealousy makes people nasty eh…
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Haha, With Spuds now arguing amongst themselves it’s finally 100% official. NO ONE including you fucking spuds likes Tottenham fans!
Ollie just about gaved you bell ends a bit of respect for proving your not all arrogant pricks we all come to know you as,but how you turned on your own because he doesn’t share the same one eyed views as he put it, is shameful!
FOYS!
Up the Hammers!