Arsenal FC

Ahead of Arsenal's home game against Brentford the Clock End at the Emirates Stadium unfurled a black banner with white writing. 'Arsenal FC.

But Tebas, like the Arsenal fans, was othering. “You are talking the ethnicity, it's not true. Genuinely I am fascinated to know. “I think there’s something deeply wrong in bringing ethnicity into the conversation. “I think the way he is combining teams because of ethnicity. "I am not at all racist. I have no issues about ethnicity. That’s both ownership and sponsorship.” “This is a behavior that football fans commonly engage in, the latest episode of which was evident during a recent Arsenal game when fans unfurled a banner mocking Manchester City, its owners, and its fans.” “Most of us have been complicit in changes that have taken place in the game over the last thirty years, and no amount of othering can change this fact,” he continued. A lesser discussed aspect of the statement is the combination of the ‘oil money’ slur alongside the words “class and tradition.” Adding in a second Tweet: “For the avoidance of doubt, you can’t be against ‘oil money’ - whatever that’s meant to mean - in some contexts and not the other.