{"id":714655,"date":"2026-06-04T11:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714655\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:21:11","slug":"why-arsenals-time-wasting-tactics-make-a-30-year-season-ticket-wait-look-absurd-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714655\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Arsenal\u2019s time-wasting tactics make a 30-year season ticket wait look absurd \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Ken Early has done us all a service by calculating the universal waste of time which resulted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/arsenal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/arsenal\/\">Arsenal<\/a>\u2019s delay in taking just one of their throw-ins in the Champions League final (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/06\/01\/if-arsenal-are-unpopular-with-neutrals-its-because-they-waste-everyones-time\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/06\/01\/if-arsenal-are-unpopular-with-neutrals-its-because-they-waste-everyones-time\/\">If Arsenal are unpopular with neutrals, it\u2019s because they waste everyone\u2019s time<\/a>\u201d, Sport, June 1st). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the same edition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/06\/01\/letters-to-the-editor-june-1st-on-road-incidents-and-traumatic-injuries-war-electricity-prices-and-annoying-expressions\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/letters\/2026\/06\/01\/letters-to-the-editor-june-1st-on-road-incidents-and-traumatic-injuries-war-electricity-prices-and-annoying-expressions\/\">Oliver Sears informs us that there is a 30-year waiting list for an Arsenal season ticket<\/a> (Letters, June 1st). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">By Ken Early\u2019s calculation, the worldwide viewing population lost a combined 190 years of precious human life waiting for Cristhian Mosquera to take his throw-in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Why on earth would you want to wait 30 years to watch time-wasting? \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">KEVIN O\u2019SULLIVAN , <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Letterkenny,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Co Donegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/06\/01\/if-arsenal-are-unpopular-with-neutrals-its-because-they-waste-everyones-time\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Early: Football fans everywhere are suffering Arsenal\u2019s consequencesOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Ken Early has done us all a service by calculating the universal waste of time which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[3361,64,63,157971,575,85],"class_list":["post-714655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-arsenal","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-donegal","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}