2000 fans protesterade före matchen

Rörelsen kallas för Black Scarf och har hemsidan wherehasourarsenalgone.co.uk. Timmen före kick off idag samlades de utanför The Cannons på Blackstock Road och gick sedan en protestmarsch ner till Emirates Stadium.
Missnöjet riktas främst mot Arsenals ägare, Stan Kroenke, och klubbens ledning med Ivan Gazidids och Peter Hill-Wood.

Med en stor svart flagga i fronten, med texten Let´s kick greed out of football, tågade man genom Islington och här är de huvudpunkter som rörelsen står för:

- We want Stan Kroenke’s commitment not to take money from the club.

- We want Peter Hill-Wood off the Board. He has become an embarrassment to the club and its supporters.

- We want Red & White Holdings to be offered a seat on the Board. Ivan Gazidis called for us to all come together and work in the same direction but how does this work when a 30% shareholder in the club doesn’t get to have a say? In what other large business would this blocking of a major shareholder happen?

- We want action from the club to stop poor allocation of our money. From wasting money on players we have to write off a year later, to handing out huge contracts to players who we can’t then sell on because nobody will match what we pay. It’s mismanagement and it’s the fans who get hit in the pocket because the club fails in other revenue generating areas such as commercial deals.