In defence of football's coolness

I had some more thoughts after reading F365 http://www.football365.com/faves/7440104/What-s-More-Important-Fans-Or-Trophies the other day. Specifically it was the letter about halfway down in which some guy is whining that he doesn't think football is 'cool' anymore. Please.
Ok I'll cut him some slack on the fact that yes, some footballers these days are way too interested in themselves, money and cars. And yes a lot of them do seem to think that they can do anything they want without consequences. But to say that he finds it hard to support Arsenal  because he doesn't like any of the players? What?! Where is he looking? In defence of this ridiculous statement, he cites Theo Walcott, Alex Song and Emmanuel Frimpong. Alright Theo Walcott is crazily uncool for a boy of his age. But Frimpong? He's so cool he has his own word for cool. And he's hardcore. And in what universe is Alex Song not cool? He is quite possibly the coolest man on the whole team. He's related to Rigobert Song for God's sake. The Arsenal team is a plethora of cool people. The boy Chesney is super cool and he knows it, he totally seems like a guy you would want to hang with, Tomas Rosicky is a secret badass (see the hotel Praha scandal) and therefore very cool, Bacary Sagna possesses the coolest hair in the league, Thomas Vermaelen is not just cool he's ice cold like a robot in the Antarctic. And of course our captain is very cool. He's cool in a slightly awkward way but he has that awesome Dutch accent and fighty, feisty edge that add up to serious cool points. And there are still other footballers out there who aren't all selfish and badly behaved and headline grabby who still allow the beautiful game to remain cool. People like Francesco Totti who has played for Roma his whole career because loyalty and living the dream playing for your hometown team are cool, people like Thierry Henry showing us that comebacks are very very cool, people like Pep Guardiola and Iker Casillas who clearly really love football and really love having football as a job. And above all people like Tim Cahill who seems like an all around nice guy, Gennaro Gattuso who is so down to earth that he fulfilled his boyhood dream not through his successful footy career but in buying a fish shop in his hometown, Pavel Nedved who used to donate his wages from the Czech national team to charity and Dider Drogba who despite his dreadful falling on the floor antics outside of football does a lot of stuff for charities in the Ivory Coast. Because nothing is cooler than nice people who do stuff for others. So in my opinion football has plenty of stuff still going for it, its still cool enough that despite the fact that I'm 22 (ie a grown up) and female I still pretended that I was Robin van Persie scoring for Arsenal in the FA cup  final when I was playing playground football with some kids from my school (that I work in) the other day. That is why football is still cool because it still has the power to make us dream big like that.