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The experience of living in, working and presenting shows in the world of the Arsenal fan base is an experience that can only be described as a unique one. The rollercoaster journey the club itself travels on in turn affects the feedback from week to week.
Yet passion runs as the overriding emotion and characteristic that can be attached to Arsenal's supporters. Evident in their overwhelmingly positive support away from home but also in the level of vitriolic response and meltdowns across social media in reaction to poor results.
Before social media existed, how supporters of different clubs would interact with one another was the main source of discrepancy from a fan perspective. You defended your club and debated into the late hours about how your team, in my case Arsenal, was greater than the Manchester Uniteds, Tottenhams and Chelseas of this world.
Now, things have changed. Arsenal fans are at each other’s throats on social media. A tribal division has been built up, born during the second half of Arsene Wenger’s tenure. There were ‘Wenger ins’ and ‘Wenger outs.’
You could hardly move without feeling pressured onto a side and once you were there, that was it. This dynamic has persisted