Yusuf
14 years ago
I think there has to be a distinction beewten fans' and neutrals who have Arsenal as their second team. In the second instance it makes sense that they might wach more of teams that play nice football and are involved in game where there are more goals (both for and against) as if you are not actively supporting a team then you will be trying to extract as much enjoyment as you can from the football you watch. Arsenal games give that. See Calums piece () if you would like an excellent summation of why. I think a lot of the people who will say that Arsenal are their second team will have picked it up during the earlier years when Arsene was tranforming the football played in England. That was a time when Henry and Bergkamp were just magical and it became trendy to be an Arsenal fan. A lot of people converted to be closet Arsenal fans during that period and I would imagine the habit has stuck for many people.