Ken Barkway absolutely nails the reasons for Arsenal fans bitter envy of Chelsea…
So the dust settles on another Chelsea versus Arsenal game. Yet again Chelsea walk away with the desired result and yet again Jose has the Indian sign over the hapless “professeur”, who really only deviated from script by not falling on his arse, wrestling with his anorak or barging into Jose in the Chelsea technical area.
Job done, the Chelsea cheers at the final whistle were momentarily subdued by a spirited “Boring, boring Chelsea” from those brave enough to defy the annual fire drill.
Furthermore some 24 hours later there remains an avalanche of opprobrium directed at Chelsea’s unsporting style of play.
A game plan that prevented the double champions of 2015 from waltzing though a wide open prairie and rolling the ball past a prostrate Thibault and into the onion bag. Well that was never going to happen, Wenger can’t beat Jose, hell since the Special One’s return he can’t even muster a goal. Not one. None. In seven and a half hours of unilaterally exciting Arsenal football. To count functional, efficient, boring, Chelsea’s goals in those games you’d need to take your socks off, that’s all I’m saying. As a footnote, even ‘Dave Azpi’ has scored against Arsenal.
Irrelevant Spurs
Contemporary Arsenal supporters hate Chelsea more than anyone, even the keystone cops from N17. 
How so?
Well in short Spurs haven’t contended for anything seriously in most people’s living memory, they used to win a cup once a decade, usually at the very beginning, and release a god awful Cup Final song with Chas and Dave.
In Chelsea’s case, it’s simple, Jose broke Arsenal and their foolish Frenchman, in much the same way as Taggart lookalike and knight of the realm Sir Alex Fergie similarly neutered Liverpool and reduced their fans to weeping over sepia tinted dreams of beating Scandinavian pub teams in European Cups past.
Prior to Jose kicking the saloon doors open and announcing the arrival of the new sheriff in town, Arsenal and Manchester United had enjoyed a duopoly tussling for the title for the first decade since the invention of football (or the Premier League anyway). Neither clubs fans have really enjoyed our nouveau riche interloping, but Arsenal bore the brunt of Chelsea’s rise, and also have the ignominy of residing in the same city.
Gratuitous trophy count.
Over the past decade Man Utd and Chelsea have harvested broadly similar hauls of silverware. In Chelsea’s case 3 (soon to be 4) Premier League crowns, 4 FA cups. 3 League cups, a Europa League and a Champions League.
By comparison Arsenal have won an FA cup.
Financial shenanigans
Arsenal mortgaged their future on their glass and concrete mini-Wembley, they were going to rule when FFP came into force. At the time this did look the smart move, but the finances of the game have changed in their composition, TV and commercial revenues now overshadowing match revenue a little more with each passing TV deal. Chelsea tarted up their one and only home, built a bigger stand than the previous big stand that damn near broke the club.
To illustrate the changed complexion of football finances Chelsea head Arsenal in the Deloittes money league whilst conspicuously having the smallest stadium in the top 10.
The fact that the stadium hasn’t propelled Arsenal into financial domination sticks in the Arsenal craw.
To further rub salt in the wounds every deal where Chelsea command a mind boggling fee for moving unwanted players spawns a slew of risibly potty conspiracy theories.
Whilst on the subject of filthy lucre Arsenal fans like to point at our owners “ill gotten gains”, conveniently forgetting the murky purchase of their place in the top league by top shyster Henry Norris a little under a century ago. A place they have never relinquished. Even in the modern day they seem to forget that they too have an oligarch as their major shareholder, one prevented from spending, one with a similarly shadily harvested fortune.
And finally……………….
Jose has metaphorically tweaked Wenger’s nose, pulled his ears and hilariously given him any number of press conference soubriquets, most memorably “voyeur” or more recently “specialist in failure”. He has 
broken him psychologically. Wenger has stopped even trying to strike back, being reduced to a mumbling wreck.
The fans have enjoyed a similarly lop sided domination of the fixture in recent years, out stickering, out singing and making a sufficient nuisance of themselves ensuring that we’ll never get an allocation of 9,000 at the Emirates again.
That is why the pristine scarved, hipster, latte sippers hate us more than any other.
Long May it continue!
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*Chuckle* Coming from a fan of a club that has spent the last decade or so trying hard to play “catch-up” to Arsenal FC… SMH.
Well summarised ……just like that other red ” holly than thou” delusional red half of Merseyside are jealous, both for differant reasons and hate in equal amounts our beloved chelsea fc. Must be something about glories past and “nearly but not quite” syndrome that AFC & LFC carry around like access baggage on a ryannair flight queue for check-in.
Both live in the past, “the invincibles” and “5 times” LFC’s is even more distant but they are of course steeped in history and always will be! Chelsea fc we have none,none whatsoever, nada, nothing at all to add to the archives of English football. Our cup wins in the early 70’s of course are forgotten or even not even known by the “sky sports” generation of football fans! So they even choose or do not even know about the 6 cup finals Chelsea FC were involved in between 1994 and 2002 (long before Roman helped change the English Premier League)
So in essence Goners fans and bin dippers fans, learn you history before it really gets turned on you………
Chelsea FC champions 2015 ( 5 and counting! )
winning trophies with negative football is not a great deal..chelsea with a scum manager like mourniho can always win..madrid got rid of mourinho just bcos he was playing anti football..worst playing club in world – chelsea even stoke better..
Worst manager – mourinho cant play beautiful football…chelsea and mourinho ghosts of football and match made in heaven
@ CHANDAN
Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo OFF
Speak English, sense, or hopefully both or urine off to your native speaking football chat rooms.
Chelsea and Mourinho are the best. PERIOD. As our friends over the water would say.
arsenal are the club football lovers..neutrals would love to watch..only part of some fulham road people love to watch negative football played by chelsea ( over rated club and ofcourse arrogant manager )..we will never forget how mourniho would park chelsea bus to defend in fear of conceding goal against teams like barcelona..man utd.recently..atlst now a days stoke..even burnley is better..they play to score goal…cheer for gunners always play beautiful football not parking bus football
Before this weekend Burnley didn’t score in 6 straight matches. CFC total goals score this season = 70, AFC total goals scored this season = 66. So wtf are you taking about?
@ victor, you know , its so pathetic when what someone can point to his past glory alone.
Is their pride in saying ” when I was successful you dare not talk to me like that?”.
I believed personally, you won’t pray for that in your life.
so just take it as it is and swallow your pains with dignity.
cheers!
come on Chelsea!
@ victor, you know , its so pathetic when what someone can point to is past glory alone.
Is their pride in saying ” when I was successful you dare not talk to me like that?”.
I believed personally, you won’t pray for that in your life.
so just take it as it is and swallow your pains with dignity.
cheers!
come on Chelsea!
@CHANDAN.
still in pain?
check stat. before written.
This season, we are better than you in entertaining.
we scored goals more than your so called gooners and conceed less.
Watch out, in few days we will be champions and it will pain you the more.
The more you hate us the more we succeed ….hahahaha…..
frankly speaking chelsea bus park fc will never attract people to watch boring football..we all know why mourinho was sacked by real madrid..winning 1-0 all times will win trophies any given time..atleast we gooners take pride in playing attractive football..chelse bus park fc…pathetic fans..over rated club..over rated manager.
…better than you in entertainment? Deluded.
so you should also assume than Harry Khane is more “entertaining” than Hazard by scoring more goals then? hahaha…
Arsenal conceded less goals then Chelsea last season…without parking the bus.Duh.
@CHANDAN.
still in pain?
check stat. before writting.
This season, we are better than you in entertaining.
we scored goals more than your so called gooners and conceed less.
Watch out, in few days we will be champions and it will pain you the more.
The more you hate us the more we succeed ….hahahaha…..