Thank You For Tierney

I'm here in, hopefully, peace. There's been a lot of wumming with his transfer to Arsenal and it's easy to see why. Arsenal and Celtic don't have the best history together, between Rangers previously owning Arsenal shares and the Eduardo thing, but it's been rankling me to see the triumphalism on display about actually getting him.

I became an Arsenal fan due to three main factors coming together all at once. I started a paper round at 13, my dad was into Arsenal, and it was 2007 where we had Fabregas, Rosicky, Hleb and Flamini in midfield. Fabregas was my favourite player in the world. He taught me about how intelligent the game could be. He felt like one of our own. You should have seen the celebrations against Tottenham, the goal at the San Siro. The way he fought for the badge and for the man who, if we didn't know better, one would assume was his father (Arsene). Losing him to Barcelona felt like having my heart torn out. My relationship with football was never the same after that.

And we Arsenal fans have had to endure losing players we'd invested in again and again. All the way back to Liam Brady. We lost David Bleeding Rocastle to Leeds for crying out loud. It's more than a bit rich to act like we're the big boellocks, even if a section of your lot were acting as if we were a small club like Tottenham.

I just want to say that, all banter to one side, losing a local lad who, for you, practically WAS the club, isn't fun and I wish the idiots were not quite loud. For what it's worth, he seems a genuinely nice lad who I hope we are able to naturalise. He's got it in his nature to invest in the identity of a club and he could easily captain us in a way many of our previous captains have not. Talent and ability seem to be a given, and at this level and money it should be. The kind of man, however, isn't. I feel Arsenal will be a better place for having him in it.