※ 引述《audin (奧狄恩)》之銘言：
Choose Arsenal.
選擇阿森納
Choose overbearing arrogance.
選擇傲慢與自大
Choose systematic dirty play and calling it "competitiveness".
選擇肮髒的足球表演並稱之為富有競爭性
Choose the most staged, contrived, up-your-own-arses goal celebrations ever
witnessed.
選擇作秀般造作又令人噁心的愚蠢動作慶祝進球
Choose having the ugliest man on earth as your centre-back and the second
ugliest as your manager.
選擇地球上最醜陋的人做你的中後衛，第二醜陋的人做你的主教練
Choose winning two championships in eleven seasons and acting like you've won
seven in nine.
選擇十一個賽季裏只贏得兩項冠軍卻自以為好像九個賽季裏贏得七項冠軍
Choose drawing 99% of your fanbase from the ranks of the suburban English
middle classes.
選擇在英格蘭偏遠郊外的中產階級中培養你99%的球迷基礎
Choose Patrick Vieira whinging about having to play too much football even
though he gets six games' rest every season due to suspensions.
選擇帕特裏克-維埃拉不停地抱怨要踢太多比賽卻忽視他一個賽季至少要被禁賽六場的事實
Choose paying ￡9 million for Francis Jeffers.
選擇用900萬英鎊簽下弗朗西斯-傑弗斯
Choose being "the bank of England club".
選擇成為英格蘭俱樂部的球員提領庫
Choose Dennis Bergkamp and his carefully-timed elbows into the side of the head.
選擇丹尼斯-博格坎普和他精心設計的肘擊動作襲擊對手的頭部
Choose deliberately disrespecting and belittling the other team by playing keepy
-uppy in their half with a few minutes to go.
選擇在比賽還剩下幾分鐘的時間內在自家半場倒腳來表示對其他球隊的輕蔑和不尊重
Choose forcing merchandise vendors out of business because they might deprive
you of a couple of hundred quid on match days.
選擇勒令強迫小商販們離開海布裏因為他們可能剝奪了你每個比賽日幾百英鎊的收入
Choose fancying yourselves as better than Real Madrid, then having Auxerre
run rings around you at home.
選擇幻想自己甚至比皇家馬德里還要出色，卻在自家門口被歐塞爾圍攻
Choose Sol Campbell continually tripping over himself.
選擇頻繁在球場上自己滑倒的索爾-坎貝爾
Choose turning the sports section of the Observer into a gunners fanzine.
選擇把《Observer》的體育部分變成槍手愛好者雜誌
Choose getting away with light or delayed punishments at FA disciplinary
hearings because you've had every possible string pulled by David Dein.
選擇在英足總的聽證會上逃脫或推遲處罰，因為你們的David Dein會在此期間施加一連
串的影響（附註：David Dein是足總加阿森納的副主席）
Choose a persecution complex nonetheless and never shut up about it.
選擇自認為是遭受不公平待遇的受害者並為此喋喋不休、從不閉嘴
Choose embarrassing yourselves in a Renault "va-va-voom" ad and then disgracing
yourselves further at the world cup finals.
選擇讓自己在雷諾汽車的"va-va-voom"廣告中出窘然後繼續在世界盃決賽中出更多的醜
Choose David Seaman and his public mid-life crisis.
選擇大衛-西曼和他人所共知的中年危機
Choose watching an opponent miss a last-minute penalty against you, then running
after him and jeering him.
選擇看著你的場上對手在最後一分鐘丟失點球，然後跟在他的後面拼命地嘲笑他
Choose George Graham grinding his way to the dullest championship win of all
time.
選擇跟隨喬治-格拉漢姆在最乏味、最無聊的比賽勝利中消磨時光，並引以為豪
(George Graham 當任阿森那領隊期間，奉行"1-0"主義)
Choose stepping forward in a four-man line with your right hands all raised in
the air, then screaming abuse at the linesman when he has the audacity to keep
his flag down.
選擇四後衛平行站位造越位並將所有的右手同時舉起，然後尖叫著辱罵邊裁直到他"大膽"
地將邊旗揮下 (指四後衛造越位並且強迫邊裁舉旗吹對方越位)
Choose to see yourselves as one of the giants of continental football when
you've never even reached a European cup semi-final in your entire history.
選擇將自己視為歐洲足球的巨人卻在你的整個歷史中沒有一次進入歐洲杯的半決賽
Choose picking Ray Parlour for over a decade.
選擇用了Ray Parlour十年多
Choose having the quietest stadium in the world ("the library") as your home
ground, and then having the cheek to slag Man Utd about their fans.
選擇世界上最"安靜"的"露天大型運動場"（"the library"）作為你們的主場，
然後在那裏撅起屁股諷刺曼聯和他們的球迷 (指 Hibury球場)
Choose having Nick Hornby as the mouthpiece of your supporters.
選擇讓Nick Hornby作為球迷的代言人
Choose making umpteen lists of reasons why Arsenal are so great, and then
admitting you didn't bother following them for a few years in the 1980s when
they were getting shit results.
選擇事先列出無數的理由告訴人們阿森納為什麼如此"偉大"，然後自我安慰地小聲嘟噥
你不介意在八十年代那段阿森納戰績低劣的日子裡跟隨他們
Choose pretending that five or six years of playing in a watchable fashion makes
up for inflicting over a century of ultra-defensive dogshit on English football
watchers.
選擇假裝再踢五或六年的"漂亮"足球就能彌補一個世紀的狗屎防守所帶給英國球迷的傷害
Choose Igor Stepanovs, Nelson Vivas, Kanu, Pascal Cygan, Davor Suker, Gilles
Grimandi, David Grondin, Remi Garde, Kaba Diawara, Junichi Inamoto, Jeremie
Aliadiere, Oleg Luzhny, Luis Boa Morte, Richard Wright, Stefan Malz, Christoper
Wreh,and all the other turkeys that nobody ever mentions when creaming
themselves about how great Wanker is in the transfer market.
選擇在無恥地吹噓溫格在轉會市場中如何偉大的時候從來沒有人提起Igor Stepanovs,
Nelson Vivas, Kanu, Pascal Cygan, Davor Suker, Gilles Grimandi, David Grondin,
Remi Garde, Kaba Diawara, Junichi Inamoto, Jeremie Aliadiere, Oleg Luzhny, Luis
Boa Morte, Richard Wright, Stefan Malz, Christopher Wreh 以及其他所有無用的東西
Choose 58 red cards in seven years.
選擇七年裏的五十八張紅牌
Choose lying to the media that you didn't see a single one of the incidents that
caused all these red cards.
選擇對媒體撒謊說你沒有看到任何造成紅牌產生的事情發生過
Choose being a bunch of smug, self-regarding winners who are well on their way
to being even more unpopular than Man U in less than half the time.
選擇讓自己用了比曼聯更短（一半）的時間變成自大狂和利己主義的勝利者（這句話明顯
證明作者不是曼聯球迷）
Choose Arsenal.
選擇阿森納
以上是英國某非曼聯球迷(應該是寫的....不是我寫的...槍迷勿扁我....)
覺得有些蠻有道理的....
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