Premier League side Arsenal were beaten 3-0 by Crystal Palace on Monday evening, and fans were very quick to react to the loss on Twitter.
Some Arsenal fans have been calling for current boss Arsene Wenger to be sacked for most of the season, and this week’s loss to Premier League strugglers Crystal Palace has only added fuel to the fire. The general feeling seemed to be that fans want ‘#WengerOut’, but some fans claim that their club is being ‘destroyed’.
https://twitter.com/nick_poole/status/851532145692725249
People say Wenger built Arsenal. looks like he's now destroying it #WengerOut
— Liam (@itsAFCLiam) April 10, 2017
Go then because you are destroying the club
— Simon (@SimonPrindy) April 11, 2017
However, fans on EFL clubs like Blackburn Rovers, Charlton Atheltic, Coventry City, Blackpool and Leyton Orient were quick to disagree.
First up, the Blackburn Rovers fans (with a warning about some of the language used):
Dear Arsenal fans, I'd love it if someone was "killing my club" and we finished in 5th in the Premier League.
Kind Regards, Blackburn fan.
— Mike Delap (@MikeyDelap) April 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/JackAnthony32/status/851797911860105216
https://twitter.com/simondawkins23/status/851756521692254208
https://twitter.com/Darren_CRoberts/status/851539860427083780
https://twitter.com/CoachWilly1875/status/851540191202471938
Charlton Athletic fans also got in on the act:
Hang your heads in shame Arsenal – you really are shockingly bad and I know what that is like being a Charlton supporter. #WengerOut
— John Taylor (@JDT147) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/joeoregan3/status/851577774313787392
Fans also compared Arsenal’s disaster of a potential sixth place Premier League finish to the situation of Coventry City, at the bottom of League One:
"Arsene Wenger, you're killing our club"???
Seriously go to Coventry, Blackburn, Orient etc if you want to know what a clubkiller looks like— Oliver Kay (@OliverKay) March 7, 2017
Arsenal fans seem to have confused their situation with that of Coventry, or Leyton Orient.
Having Piers Morgan on side doesn't help.
— Jimbo (@JimboUnchained) April 11, 2017
Arsenal fans calling it a crisis and misery, 6th in the premier league isn't the end of the world look at Portsmouth or Coventry
— liam tomlinson (@liamtommooo) April 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/LiamBuckley16/status/851566643285282816
Some serious problems going on at Arsenal, glad I'm a Coventry fan and don't have any of this sort of trouble, absolute shambles 😂🙈 https://t.co/FFHiRksYA6
— Matty Harrington (@MattyHarrington) April 10, 2017
'darkest days' – fucking hell, look at Coventry and Orient… and Arsenal think they have it bad😂https://t.co/fnTNCkDt42
— clarkey (@clarkey1937) April 10, 2017
Arsenal in crisis? Crisis to me is a Coventry or Leyton Orient dropping through the leagues. Well done Palace though. #MNF
— Cosser (@SaintCosser) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/sineadthfc_/status/851540096226652160
Twitter didn’t stop there, with Blackpool also mentioned:
Blackpool. Charlton. Coventry. Orient. And more. Arsenal fans are becoming the most despicable of modern times.
— John McInnes 🏴 (@JohnMacQPR) April 11, 2017
Poor, poor Arsenal fans. It must be awful to lose the basic human right of beating Crystal Palace. Orient, #cafc Blackpool fans pray for you
— Marco (@MarcoCasualty) April 10, 2017
#Arsenal fans are so dilusional.. Your not in a crisis. Crisis is like what #Leytonorient , #Blackpool and #Coventry are going through.
— Matt (@MWJS82) April 11, 2017
Leyton Orient, perhaps the worst off of all the clubs mentioned, sit at the foot of League Two and are having problems paying their staff:
Arsenal fans making out been 6th in the prem is a disaster. Christ they haven't got a clue what orient and Blackpool are going through
— Kirky (@kirky0110) April 10, 2017
Love to see an Arsenal fan live the life of a Leeds, Coventry, Leyton Orient, Blackpool, Portsmouth fan. They have had it easy compared
— Dan Farrar (@farrar_90) April 10, 2017
Arsenal fans melting down because they might not finish top 4, could be worse…you could support Leyton Orient or Coventry City
— Chris (@Kristov086) April 10, 2017
Arsenal fans may view sixth place and having Arsene Wenger as manager as bad, but surely what is currently happening at clubs like Blackburn, Charlton, Coventry, Blackpool, Leyton Orient and many others is the real disaster.
