Good morning.
A novelty item and so straight to our friends psychological case studies down the road in Woolwich.
Two brothers have been banned for eight years, yes eight years from the Emptycrates after an altercation over ‘standing up’ escalated into an incident where the pair were restrained by coppers HERE.
The charges ranged from abusive behaviour to causing fear of violence and in addition to the bans the dastardly duo picked up fines totalling a little over a grand.
Was this harsh? Well, I’m not privy to the specifics of just how they instilled a fear of violence. Making threats to kill can land you in jail, so presumably it was less nasty than that. Something between, ‘You’re bally well heading for a bunch of fives!’ and, ‘You’re gonna get striped right up the wrong un you slag!’
Now I get get being told to sit down. I like everyone sat down. I’d go to more games if there were comfy chairs or at least cushions provided. My will to live drains when the, ‘Stand up if you hate Arsenal’ gets an airing. I’ve heard the argument/excuse it’s a way of outfoxing the stewards – but to what purpose?
That song has all the wit and imagination of Jeremy Kyle’s haircut.
Standing up when the action reaches fever pitch is of course natural, good honest and right. But otherwise it’s completely selfish. I can just about and I mean just about cope with some idiot insisting travelling to a football ground and buying a seat next to me in order to noisely slug back a tuna bagel, but I draw the line at paying to watch a football match and only getting to see bits of it thanks to some pilchard with an attention deficit disorder.
I don’t believe that several thousand people all on their feet as Azza cuts into the penalty area and weaves past a defender is the nub of the matter.
It’s the thoughtlessness and arrogance of the few that believe that rules don’t apply to them ‘cos they’re at a football match. Like they’ve entered some magic kingdom where it’s somehow alright to do as they please.
Bless ’em.
Liking this from Adel!
http://www.arsenalinsider.com/5366/gloating-taarabt-dedicates-goal-to-spurs-in-twitter-taunt-at-arsenal/#axzz1r6fNwYuG
He was a selfish git who never looked up, why we never tried him as an out and out striker I’ll never know? Good striker of the ball, & would have won many pens with those dribbling skills…
He was held in high regard at The Lane. Got people excited. I still think he’s a decent chap. Buy him tomorrow. Arry would hate him of course :freu
Plays more like Adele these days….but that’s show business!
A superb naturally gifted footballer who came to this country far too soon and ended up being led astray by less than bright management rather than being slowly nurtured on the continent like Messi was (probably?) Arry would not have a fuckin clue what to do with him…..
Sorry, the ego a size of a planet got in his way…
I totally agree with Steveo,not even Shrallex would have been able to tame his ego
Annoys me seeing talent wasted, happens too often with Spurs!
Maybe Brian Clough could have.
I was going to make that point using Wenger, this is an area where great managers excel above the average ones.
Oh, please Harts, the guy’s scored a goal.one friggin’ goal, and suddenly we’re in the wrong for letting him go? He had chance after chance and blew it each and every time, same as GDS has, sometimes you’ve gotta say..bye bye, and he’s another, if but or maybe, but not worth keeping on if he wasn’t prepared to get his head right, still a headless chicken, always has been,always will be..move on mate
Not what I said brother, but how many of these young talented players have we bought for the future and then because of whatever reason they have moved on or faded into obscurity? Young players these days need to be handled very carefully, Slur Alex is very good at it, but even he lets a few through, Pique and Rossi spring to mind…you can’t always blame the player mate, they are young and need expert guidance…according to most on here GDS is a pisshead and Bostock and Taarabt have egos that are too big to handle, it’s never the Managers fault….They are a gamble which handled correctly could yield a massive return…how much do you reckon Kevin Prince Boateng is worth these days?
We’ve had in the past a piss poor return on our youth system. It’s only been in the past few seasons that any shoots of recovery have appeared under the current set-up. Would you in all honesty have thought KPB would end up in Milan?, I certainly didn’t, not in a million years, but there are always exceptions to the rule in any regime, even SAF gets it wrong. Bostock isn’t the finished article, but equally we’ve bought in Lennon, Dawson, O’Hara and Huddlestome under the same remit and yet no-one ever cites them as a balance to the argument?
I wouldn’t stand for it. the two men should take it further as the accusations don’t stand up, i was out of my seat as soon as i read this post and now two fucking hench gorilla neanderthals with bones through their bollocks are chasing me through the quayside. em
Hose-pipes, standing or coiled – ban ’em!