Anyone who follows Arsenal via Social Media would of come across the brilliant ArsenalFansTV on YouTube. Recently they have come to the publics conscience with ‘The Ranting Arsenal Fan’ calling out the AST and journalists. However, on Tuesday, another fan came to prominence, announcing #NoPintsNoProgrammesNoPies. Today he exclusively writes for shewore.com
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Fifty years ago this week, a great man said:
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.”
This week, I, an average fan said:
“No Pints, No Programmes, No Pies.”
I do admit, mine lacks that profound quality that will see it being quoted in 50 years time.
The reason I open with Martin Luther King, is that there has probably never been a more iconic representation of the power an individual can have when his peers support him.
At times, I think, “I am just an average fan, what difference can I make?”
A different part of me however, looks at the achievements of Martin Luther King, who without Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, #hashtags or ArsenalFanTV, was able to make such a huge difference to the world we live in.
It is this ‘Martin Luther King inspired’ part of me, that leads me to believe that though I am just an average fan, I can at least try to make a difference to the fortunes of the club I love so much. After all, it was I that said on ArsenalFanTV on Tuesday night:
“Not trying, is even worse, than trying & failing”.
With inspiration from 50 years ago and self issued advice from 3 days ago I am going to try and make a difference.
NO PINTS. NO PROGRAMMES. NO PIES.
Some of you may have heard this slogan. If you have, I have overcome my first obstacle.
My second obstacle, is attempting to convince you to get on board this campaign and to implement it on Sunday.
This is what I will try and do below.
In the 6 months leading up to November 2012, Arsenal earned £37.8m in match day revenues over the course of 10 home games in this period.
It doesn’t take a mathematician to calculate that as £3.78m per game.
I have assumed an average ticket price of £46 and an average attendance of 60,000. Multiply these two assumptions and we get a total of £2.76m from ticket sales.
- Total Match Day Income – £3.78m
- Less Ticket Sales – £2.76m
- Equals Other Match Day Income – £1.02m
This £1.02m is within OUR control.
I realise this figure, based on assumptions, could be higher or lower, but the fact remains. We as fans, plough a sizeable chunk of cash, into the club every game. We need to realise, this cash has power attached to it. On Sunday, let’s retain our cash and our power until the club display to us that they deserve us to relinquish our cash and power.
Many of you may have heard the immediate rebuttal to this campaign.
“Catering is outsourced, so No Pints and No Pies wont hurt the club.”
That may be correct, but now I require you to read between the lines here and look at the ultimate objective of this campaign. This is not about pints, programmes or pies. This is about every single one of the products and services that generates an additional £1.02m for the club every single match day.
Us fans have the power to hit the club in the only area that it understands. Financially.
Whether it’s pints, programmes, pies, or whether it’s merchandise, sweets or a Bovril, it all contributes to the £1.02m that we plough into Mr Gazidis’s pockets.
Before you spend any money at the stadium on Sunday, just remember, that £4 pie you’re eating can be purchased every single minute of every single hour of every single day this year by Ivan Gazidis, based on the package he received from the club last year. (He would still be left with £38,600 by the way.)
In other words…that pie you are buying goes towards funding Ivan Gazidis…not towards funding Gonzalo Higuain, Luis Suarez, Karim Benzema, Marouane Fellaini, Julio Cesar, Mesut Ozil, Angel Di Maria, or any of our other failed transfer targets.
As I come to an end, I want to be clear about one thing.
This campaign is not designed to punish the club, it is designed to stimulate the club. I love this club far too much to want to punish it.
I am shamelessly seeking exposure for this No Pints, No Programmes, No Pies campaign, because I want this club to see this.
I want the club to react.
I want the club to reward the loyal fans with much needed world class players.
I want the club to start displaying some ambition.
Please get on Twitter and Facebook and spread #NoPintsNoProgrammesNoPies
This is a boycott of ALL additional match day expenditure.
If the club takes notice and completes a deal before the match, then by all means implement a new campaign.
#TwoPintsTwoProgrammesTwoPies
But until that happens, let’s keep our cash and let’s keep our power.
I have a dream…please help it become a reality.
Moh’s ArsenalFansTV interview can be viewed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq0aSa-WUjo
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon 
God I wish I could have that 10 minutes of my life back. Yes lets make our viewing experience even less enjoyable by sitting in the stadium hungry and thirsty. That will show them!!
Can not believe this was even published.
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Arsenal fans will continue to amaze you with the inane crap. Keep on reading.
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Funnily enough it does help pass the time, it just amuses me how worked up some people get! Could you imagine if they supported Aston Villa or Fulham!
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My God how old are you?? Like twelve or something? Do you really think that will have even the remotest effect on whether we sign players or not? Picture the scenario Sunday evening when they adding up the till receipts… Gazidis says to Wenger “receipts are down by 18% and we only sold 40,000 of those shit pizza things with potato croquettes on top… quick get on the phone to Real???” How long have you been working on this master plan exactly? Pathetic… get behind the boys, be positive for a change… very bored with everyone thinking they know better than Wenger… as if…. Only thing that is slightly amusing about this is that you and others would actually take this idea seriously…
KNOB HEAD
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A pint? at £4.30 for a bottle of Heineken I cant even afford a whole pint.
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Oh god spare me from yet another self righteous, self important sense of entitlement twat like the prick from the AST.
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Well said my friend! Now come on you gooners and lets show Gazidis what we the gooners are all about!!
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I’ve actually been doing this off my own back for 2 years now.
I’ve not spent a penny on Arsenal except for my ST money.
Should also not buy anything in the shops.
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How about we don’t even show up, or not clap when we score!! Fight the power my friend,
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does anybody know if there is any sort of protest planned for the next agm? if there is then i am willing to travel all the way from penzance in cornwall just to show how disgusted i am with the way the club is being run. i have supported the club for almost 40 years having been born and raised in the archway. i’ve not seen a home match for years because of travel and ticket costs. indeed, the last game i saw was a few years ago in seville which unbelievably only came out as slightly more expensive than watching a game at the emirates. as it is the club will not be having any of my money through shirts, official membership etc and i feel some kind of organised protest is the only way of getting the club to take the slightest bit of notice of the depth of feeling currently running through the club. aside from us fans, the ones i really feel sorry for are the players. they will fully appreciate the shortcomings of the squad and, despite bold claims being made around the time of season ticket renewal, nothing has changed. our threadbare squad will now be run into the ground over the next months during a run up to a world cup and will have nothing to show for it at the end. still, at least the few remaining good ones can be sold off next summer and not adequately, if at all, be replaced.
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I actually quite like the pies…..I’d rather eat another one than have to read that article again!
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The pies are super top top quality man!
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This in not designed to hurt the club? What a joke you pretend to be an arsenal supporter then help all the a a a with turncoat publicity
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whilst I don’t agree with not buying beer as I love a halftime pint the principle of not giving the club more money than you have to until they spend some of the £100million they have stockpiled out of match going fans money is something I firmly agree with. Until AFC fans get together as one and protest against the current regime there will be no change.
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Regime??? You pathetic melodramatic old queen. This isnt Syria, or 70s Argentina, FFS, you are talking about protesting because a football club hasnt spent the necessary multi millions you demand so you dont get too upset when the naughty men on the radio and TV say how shite Arsenal are because they havent thrown money around like the chavs, spuds etc…
I can understand frustrastion but this is pathetic and embarrassing.
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oh dear…someone else happy with paying the highest ticket prices in Europe whilst the club just pocket the money…no wonder the ground is so quiet and full of spineless morons.
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I go home and away with Arsenal, how about you? Nah, dont tell me, you have been supporting them for over 87 years now.
The prices aint the most expensive either (they aint cheap, should be) only media fed sheep spout such cliched rubbish. And suggesting the ground is quiet sounds the sort of shit a spud or chav fan would say, not a supposed Gooner.
Face it, you are a jonny come lately glory hunter, they are sooo easy to spot.
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first home game 1985 as a jnr gunner,cost 50p, 1st away game 86,been a member of some kind since then. 5th generation of my family to go an Arsenal game, 2 of which have played for the 1st team..
They are the most expensive in Europe, fact.
The ground is quieter then when there was 28,000 of us in Highbury, again a fact.
oh yeah I also run this blog and have been running the ‘she wore a yellow ribbon’ stuff for coming upto 6 yrs.
keep thinking everything is rosey…I will keep wondering where the fuck ‘fans’ like you came from
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who said anything is rosey??? Putting in words in the mouths of people who dont go along with this pathetic temper tantrum is not a sign you have a valid argument, just that you lack any sort of perspective.
Perspective…. Look that word up, it really helps when discussing football. You know football? That GAME? Sure the tickets are steep, but they aint the most expensive, not when you factor in the cup games etc. I aont talking about the corporates etc, mine certaninly aint one of them.
Oh and well donr, you beat me (if you are actually telling the truth), I am only a 4th gen gooner!
Believe me mate, I in no way think we have done anything other than balls up our transfers this window, but I dont think protests are the way to go, yet.
You never know, we might end up with Benzema, Mata, Di maria, Ozil and Casillas!!!! 🙂
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look up Fact as in when something is proved to be the truth, like I have stated..
oh ‘its only a game’ pleaseeee
why on earth would I lie on my own blog ?
you are deluded, we messed up the last 10 transfer windows, cant comment on this one apart from if something is done it should of been done weeks ago for the start of the season.
either way back to the subject, the only way the club will change is by stop giving them money…
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Well said Goonersx. That Sid prick is most probably a spud. Things won’t change at Arsenal until fans do something because clearly the board are doing nothing.
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