By Boris Mellor
February 23 2007
Many Arsenal fans will remember the long campaign Mihir Bose ran against Arsenal when the new stadium was under construction. Of course he would call it objective journalism, but to those of us in the know it was just another Spurs fan full of jealousy.
He was always writing about how the funding would go wrong, spinning the figures to make failure look imminent. In those days he worked for the Telegraph, and Gunners didn’t have to pay for the rag. But now we are having to subsidise his shite, and vitriol, as he is Sports Editor for the BBC. Here is his latest helping of bile under the pretext of analysis. "Their match-day revenue in the six months to November more than doubled to £38m, compared to £16m the previous half year (helped by two more matches at the Emirates). Not surprising, given the Highbury Library had 38,000 seats and the Emirates has 60,000. " Full article here He just can’t help himself. So I have forwarded the following feedback to the BBC "On Mihir Bose I thought the BBC was supposed to be neutral, yet here we have a Spurs fan abusing the Arsenal when it has nothing to with the article (His comment on the so called Highbury Library). I don’t see what it has to do with his news article. It is also inaccurate as I can assure him that the last game at Highbury was no Library as fans celebrated beating Wigan, and the fact that Spurs finished 5th by losing at Upton Park. Its also strange that this man never writes about Spurs, true there must be little that can be written, but how about how they tried to increase the charges for the 2nd leg at the Emirates - and how quiet it was when Arsenal went ahead for the second time, and how their fans just rushed out of the ground." Arsenal fans should give their feedback here.
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