Arsenal Fans Plan Protest Against Asene Wenger

Arsenal fans are planning to carryout a protest against Arsene Wenger and majority stakeholders Stan Kroenke on Saturday's match against Norwich City.

Arsenal fans planning a protest against the club for Saturday’s match against Norwich have told Goal why they will raise banners in the 12th and 78th minute at Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal have seen their title hunting crumbling over the past few weeks and can no longer win the Premier League after Leicester’s 4-0 win over Swansea last weekend.

“I think the problems at the club are multiple and there is a lot of discussion at the club about who is to blame," said King.

“There’s a large segment of fans who think it’s driven by the board and that the board has very little football experience on it and is only interested in doing what the owner wants - which is driving profitability and keeping a healthy cash balance.

“We feel that Kroenke uses that to benefit his US sports ‘franchises’ and particularly when he’s moving the St Louis Rams to Los Angeles. There’s a large segment of fans who feel the board are not driving the quest for success on the pitch and then there’s obviously another large section of fans who blame the manager and to a certain extent the players as because they’re obviously the ones on the pitch."

“We all know he’s got the nickname ‘Silent Stan’ for a reason," said King.

"People want to see an owner and board who have a commitment to maximizing our chances of competing at the top level. When you see nothing at all and that the owner two years running has taken £3m out of the club for spurious reasons which you can never get a proper answer from them at the AGM about, then you have to question his motives for owning Arsenal Football Club."

"We’ve seen lots of people say enough is enough and it’s time there were changes at the club; be that across the board and the manager as well," King continued.

"At Arsenal the fans who go to the games can be quite apathetic, hence the problems we have with the atmosphere. On social media you’ll see lots of people saying ‘time for change’, 'we’ve got a protest' – but a lot of those are people aren't going to the game.