Good evening. I’m sharing this with you as it relates to a miserable tale involving one of our very own and if doing so contributes anything remotely positive to matters then it was definitely worth sharing. Nine years ago this very day a young Jewish boy died in more than suspicious circumstances. Jerry Duggan left North London to go studying in Paris. Whilst there, he decided he’d pop over to Wiesbaden in Germany to attend a ‘peace conference’ on the Gulf War hosted by the LaRouche Organization. Who? Good question. You can read all about that mob here. However once at…
Author: Harry Hotspur
Good afternoon. The excellent news is that Fabrice Muamba’s health continues to improve. Let’s just pray that nobody is injured by the slip hazard of flowers, replica shirts and cards etc outside the Reebok. Which begs the question what do the people who laid out all this gear have up their sleeve if he doesn’t continue to pull through? Today I’ve launched a campaign against the death of Princess Diana (CADD). The People’s Princess was taken too soon. I had quite a lot on when she snuffed it, so see this as an ideal vehicle to combine my now freer…
Good morning. In my capacity as a punter this looked every inch like a game where Arry had joined in at long last. From absentee landlord/media mogul to attentive coach. We got a 433 and a bloke with his jacket off shouting at his players and generally looking like he gave a stuff. Football is a simple game and those of us that invest so much emotionally and otherwise are simple people. Much in life is about perception. When you phone in sick to your workplace, you must sound sick. Even if you’ve twisted your ankle and can’t walk, you sound…
Good afternoon. A gutsy well earned point against the usual vexations of Secondhand Fridge. Some crummy refereeing and a conveyor belt of petty cheating from a team so screwed up they believe they can manage themselves. The only criticism was the absence of one touch passing. Our average was three and that buys the other lot time. The midfield was massively congested and neither side seemed capable of challenging that. Bale was vastly improved. So was Walker and had Adebayor not spent the entire game fighting for every ball I doubt we’d have taken a point. He was less successful…
The word lavish is bandied about a lot in the book business. Usually it relates to a book that has lots of pictures. Or one that has production values superior to your average pizza menu. Harsh, but tell me I’m wrong. 61 The Double won the British Sports Book Award for Best Illustrated Title. This book is lavish to degree whereby you might need to bite a pretty unpleasant bullet and decide if your coffee table is cool enough to handle it. 1537 grammes, 216 pages, 290mm by 230mm of hardback loveliness encased in a cloth covered slipcase. The content…
Hello and welcome to the weekend. Losing at Secondhand Fridge won’t be the end of the world but it’s dispiriting enough to open a pre-match with those words, let alone have to ponder what that scenario might mean in real life. The thing is though, we can win this game. We absolutely 100% can. We have the assets, players who have all season laid on some of the most entertaining football in the country, on the continent, in the world. What’s screwed us over aren’t injuries, crap players or acts of God. What’s screwed us over is poor judgement.…
Good evening. Another Arry out blog, oh how terribly fascinating, Mr Harold. Or rather, let’s weigh matters up and see how we get on, shall we? The most recent charges against Citizen Redschnapps include a lack of squad rotation, an inability to provide a coherent tactical strategy to the players and the distraction of an offer to manage Engerland that has yet to be offered to him. In the previous blog we discussed the clusterfeck that was two points dropped against a dull, dull Stoke side. Bale appeared almost embarrassed into pursuing the obvious and using the left wing. Why…
Good morning ladies. After that load of old cockerels I could do with some good news. You know, like hearing Levy & Co. have agreed a compensation figure with the FA and the cheque is in the post. I wonder if old Arry actually knows what managing Engerland would actually be like? “They’ve got to be more patient. They get carried away with the crowd at times and started playing from back to front to quick. We’re a footballing team that plays and people have got to be patient. They can’t worry about the crowd being inpatient because we had…
Good evening and welcome the Half Tenner. No fun. A fun free experience. We’ve gone 4th. Admission to The Lane was probably worth about a fiver. I will be fascinated to hear the Arry Redschnapps apologistas bravado and bluster their way out of this one. Bottom line is the ‘in Arry We Trust’ mob called it wrong. The theme of the season and specifically since the Court case has been the absentee landlord approach adopted by our evidently clueless forward slash Yes Men forward slash coaches that infest our club’s payroll. I take no pleasure in repeating myself – although…