A Letter to Gooners From the New Arsenal Communtiy Leaders.

I would like to start off by saying that the Arsenal community had one of its worst moments a few days ago; when Maire Ofeire and Shyam Parthasarathi announced that they were both stepping down from their Community Leader roles (for personal reasons) at the exact same time.

The Arsenal community lost the two most experienced writers it had—it was a double blow, really.

After Maire and Shyam decided to step down, Stefan Vasilev and myself have been assigned as the new Arsenal Community Leaders.

I believe that it's an honour for Steve and myself to be the leaders of a community that spans well over 700 Gooners, and we intend to run things like Shyam and Maire did before us.

I assure you, we're not gonna take this honour for granted. 

And just like Shy, Steve's experience, level-headedness, and fairness in all things sports related will be of great help to us all, while I intend to take the Maire Ofeire approach and try to add as much humour and honesty to my articles as possible.

Also, taking a page on the web and building it up from nothing to 700 users is an incredibly hard task. So I think any thanks from here on out should be dedicated to both Maire and Shyam.

If any Gooners out there need any help, contact me or Steve and we'll gladly help you out.

Also, if you are new and you want to write something but feel nervous about it, don't be.

You could contact experienced writers on the Arsenal page that would happily help you out.

Callum D'Souza, Benjamin Rogers, and Deepak Israni are a few to name—ask them for help and they will gladly help you out.

I would like to end this article by saying that we will all miss both Shyam and Maire, and that if it was up to any of us, they'd still be our leaders.

Maire Ofeire and Shyam Parthasarathi,

We all thank you.

One last thing: Chief, Shy, we know you'll be too busy to be on B/R, but whenever Arsenal plays a game, we'd love to have you join us after it, even for a few minutes, we'd really appreciate it.

Great quotes:

"ARSENAL FC ARE BY FAR THE GREATEST TEAM THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!"
Maire " The Chief" Ofiere after stepping down.

"This shop is now CLOSED."
Shyam "Shy" Parthasarathi after stepping down.

"Victoria Concordia Crescit."
The motto of The Red and White Army, created by Harry Homer.