Arsenal Are No. 1 on Goal.com Through Live Debate

Goal.com, known as one of the most famous Football web sites on the plant, have a certain writer by the name of Sulmaan Ahmad, who writes articles which generally cause debates.

His latest was about Arsenal and how they failed to sign Felipe Melo and how Arsene Wenger has no chance of making Arsenal great again. The article was called "No Felipe Melo, No Ambition and No Chance Of Wenger Making Arsenal Great Again".

Naturally, all Arsenal fans commented on the article and it generated a massive amount of debate, Goal.com capitalized on the situation and made a live debate where Arsenal fans were allowed to question Sulmaan Ahmad and ask him questions regarding his article.

After the live debate ended, Goal.com announced on their site, and I quote, "Though our numbers show that CR9, whether for good or bad reasons, is indeed the most popular player in the Goal.com world, today's LIVE! debate backed up our very own stats.

Forget world champions Manchester United, European champions Barcelona and Real Madrid's Galacticos—the visitor numbers show that Arsenal are, by a distance, the most popular team on Goal.com!"

The results weren't surprising for me, considering that when Goal.com launched a poll asking who might win the Champions League in the remaining four teams, all the fans chose Arsenal, regardless of the fact that their squad was incomplete, or the fact that the squad was having one of it's worst seasons in almost a decade.

Even though Goal.com chose 50 questions from 400, I wasn't satisfied by the questions that were asked, they were simply too easy to answer and lacked any real flare to them.

They were fanboy questions at best, so I decided that I would write this article and hope that some day, it might reach Sulmaan Ahmad, and that he might read it.

Dear Sulmaan Ahmad,

I am someone who has loved Football since childhood, yet loved very few teams through out my life, this letter simply isn't from a fanboy who wants to attack you for your lack of respect towards Arsenal, but it is intended to make you look at things from more than a tight angle, from more than a single point of view.

I know that you are a critic, which means that you're job is to criticize people for their merits and faults, but in all honesty, the article you wrote was written too early.

You're article should've been written after the transfer season was over, or after Arsenal signing another player that is considered subpar in the world of Football, only then would you're article be accepted, and even agreed on by Arsenal fans including myself.

But to write it so soon, I couldn't help but feel that you were eagerly awaiting Arsenal to mess up another good transfer so that you would write your next "English Angle."

Also Mr Sulmaan, the thought of Arsenal having no ambitions and being unable to win any major trophy because they missed out on Felipe Melo is almost as childish as Milan fans thinking that they're finished because they lost Kaka, it's almost as funny as Real Madrid thinking that they're going to win the Champions League because they bought Kaka and Ronaldo.

It's too early to state anything at this point Mr.Ahmad, you described 10 million along with Vermaelen as nothing, but wasn't it you yourself who stated in the debate, and I quote, "But as has been made very clear throughout this debate, no one ever knows what that man is going to do!".

To accuse someone of something means that you know what they've done, or what they're planning to do, so far Wenger hasn't done anything yet, maybe that's the problem, that he hasn't done anything yet, but until the transfer window is closed, we can't really judge him of anything. For a verdict to be made, there has to be a crime to begin with.

Wasn't it you who wrote in your "Daily Fail" series, that Rafa Benitez was going to make a fatal mistake by selling Alonso and buying Barry instead.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Barry go to Manchester City, and didn't Rafa make it very clear that he intends to keep Alonso and Mascherano at all costs.

No one predicted any of this would happen, and no one predicted that Barca would win all three trophies after such a weak start.

You're no fortune teller Mr.Ahmad, you might be more experienced than most of us, but the World of Football has always taken us by surprise, we can't predict who Wenger will buy, let alone who will win anything in the future.

All I'm asking you is to be patient, and try to look at things from more than a single point of view.

If this article somehow reaches you Mr.Ahmad, I would be most delighted by your reply.

Thanks in advance,

Mohamed Eldin