March of The Idiots: Collymore, Parker & Macari
146 guns March 2nd, 2010
Yesterday’s date was the 1st of march. Sadly, it was neither the first nor the last march of football’s imbecilic pundits brigade. You’d think the injury to Aaron Ramsey would be the sort of incident to unite football fans: a young player with a burgeoning career all-too-literally cut down by over-zealous tackling. However, there are a fleet of individuals determined to stand out from the crowd.
Take Stan Collymore, the lady-hitting dogger and tip-top football pundit. He’s always stood apart from the crowd, largely by the crowd’s choice. In the aftermath of Saturday’s game, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger was understandably upset by Ryan Shawcross’s tackle. Understandable to most, but not to Collymore, a man who is pathologically contrary. He began:
“Wenger was completely out of order with his post-match comments about Shawcross. Despite the belief that Wenger is the professor, he has a real bitter and nasty streak.”
I like Collymore’s assertion that being a professor and having a nasty streak are somehow mutually exclusive. Perhaps he had a really bad experience at university.
…Oh.
Stan The Man (Who Has Sex In A Van) wasn’t finished. Where others saw a deeply upset but articulate man voicing his concern over the treatment Ramsey had received, Collymore saw a French conspiracy:
“It is blatantly obvious the Frenchman wants to buck the trend and traditions of English football. If Wenger wants to make football almost a non-contact that is up to him but it won’t happen in England.”
Collymore is right. That pesky Wenger is always trying to buck the trend and traditions of English football. Like in the mid-90s, when he almost single-handedly transformed our game from one consumed by drinking culture and ugly football in to the world’s leading league.
It’s odd that Collymore is so bitter. It’s almost as if he was one of those players whose lifestyle was so incompatible with the demands of top-level sport that Wenger’s revolution caused him to be left on the scrap-heap, shouting-down punters on talk radio in a desperate attempt to remain relevant.
When I was a young lad, I collected the sticker album to my right. Every time I popped in to the newsagent I’d pick up a packet of stickers, and tear them open, excitedly hoping I might catch sight of the Ian Wright shiny that I so craved.
It was never to be. I spent countless pennies chasing that simplest of dreams, and was disappointed. And at every turn, every time I opened one of the small packets, whose face was staring back at me, a malicious grin strapped across his inanimate face? Paul Parker.
I had more Paul Parkers than the rest of my stickers put together. I couldn’t shift them. I actually wrote to Merlin to ask if there was some sort of Paul Parker-laundering scheme going on. Imagine my horror, then, when I saw Parker’s aged but still recognisable features in the byline of an article on eurosport.yahoo.com.
If that shock alone was bad enough, the opening sentence floored me:
“Arsene Wenger was wrong to criticise Ryan Shawcross for the challenge which broke Aaron Ramsey’s leg and should apologise to him.”
Apologise for what? For criticizing what was an irresponsible and dangerous challenge? Nowhere has Arsene made any kind of remark on Shawcross’s character, other than to say that it’s no defence. Being a nice bloke doesn’t mean you didn’t do it.
Parker rambled on:
“When something like this happens, [Wenger] should count to 2,025 before he opens his mouth.”
At first glance, 2,025 seems like an arbitrary choice. Perhaps Parker can’t conceive of a higher number? In fact, no: it is the exact number of Paul Parker stickers that I had spare. The plot thickens.
In the end, I destroyed my countless Paul Parker swaps in a ritualistic ceremony involving some Fairy Liquid and a bucket. Sadly, the real Paul Parker would never fit in a bucket.
Finally, bringing up the rear, Lou Macari. The following really needs no introduction:
“What got my goat about events at Stoke on Saturday was not the tackle, but Arsene Wenger’s ridiculous reaction to it.”
Not the hideous challenge. Not the bone-crunching effect on young Aaron Ramsey. Not the fact that one of Britain’s brightest young talents has endured an injury he may never recover from. No, Macari’s not bothered about those. But Wenger’s reaction? Disgraceful. Wenger’s reaction has got Lou Macari’s goat and is holding it at gunpoint - and furthermore, he’s demanding the soul of English football as ransom.
He continues:
“I’ve got to say I felt sorry for Shawcross.”
“…as well as Ramsey”? Go on Lou, at least show a bit of balance. No? Ok, then, carry on.
“Not just because of all the hoo-ha over the challenge, but the fact it overshadowed one of the greatest moments in his life after being called up by England for the first time.
I suppose the furore over the Ramsey injury is a bit of a spanner in the works, but the call-up is still a feather in his cap and he should go there and enjoy the experience as much as possible.”
It is a bit of a spanner in the works, isn’t it, that Welsh fella’s leg falling off. Bit of a bummer for poor Ryan. Sort of remiss of Ramsey to let his leg break on Shawcross’s big day. Selfish, even.
Macari crosses the boundary from stupidity in to just plain scary. He doesn’t even show empathy for the player who has been hurt.
The problem with Idiots is that to compensate for the lack of weight behind their opinion, they often talk very loudly. Collymore & Co have struck up their marching band, and are on parade. Johnny Foreigner comes over to this country, takes our contracts, then complains when his leg comes off.
Fortunately, there are a few sensible folk out there who are making constructive and intelligent contributions to the “furore” that Macari deplores. Martin Samuel and Patrick Barclay, among others. Hopefully their voices will be distinguished above the rabble that so often dictate football conversation.
Till tomorrow.
88 Comments Add your own
1. wambam | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:36 pm
What got my goat! lol!
He’s not that sort pf player crap makes me laugh-(Jeffers,Ade,Ramsey).
Lets see how long he lasts in the world cup.
2. Carlos | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Brilliantly scathing.
3. Baldy | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
“…it is the exact number of Paul Parker stickers that I had spare…”
Classic mate & probably the funniest blog I have ever read!
I’m off now to smack my wife around the face with a shovel in the hope that I’ll get offered a place in the England Chess Team off the back of it.
Wish me luck.
4. top guinner | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:47 pm
lou macari is a shit head who needs to crawl back to the shit hole he came out of if that had been rooney them lot would be asking for showcross head, I guess it still hurts ramsey turned them scums down I hope someone breaks his son’s leg play see how he like’s it the fat ugly deformed little shit!
5. Robert Massa | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:48 pm
It is amazing reading these comments by players who risked their feet week in week out. I guess if Mr Macari had his foot broken the way Ramsey’s foot was he would struggle to get up and thank the guy and ask for his address to send him his Christmas Card. I was surprised and amazed by the hipocrasy of such people like Alex Fergusson who phoned the butcher, Shawcross, who accidentaly brke the legs of Jeffers and nearly Adebayor last season. I guess he did the same when Rooney broke his foot a couple of seasons ago, but then again, in the case of Man Utd players it’s a total different story with the FA.
6. Chris | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:50 pm
What’s weird is that Wenger didn’t even really criticise Shawcross - he described the challenge as “unacceptable” but that’s all really - veryy diplomatic when one of your youngsters has just had his leg smashed.
7. Mik | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Awesome entry. Enjoyed it a lot – keep them coming!
8. clockend | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:56 pm
These blokes are fucking idiots and are so far from seeing the point it’s not even funny. As long as they have their good old honest English clogger footballer’s they’ll be happy. They are why this mentality of long throw, long ball physical bullshit way of playing football is still rife in this country.
And if they actually did any research,they would see that Shawcross has plenty of previous in the kicking fuck out of people department, so painting him whiter than white in the press is just plain wrong.
9. gooner dave | March 2nd, 2010 at 12:57 pm
They are all c**t the lot of them,
Actually having sex in a van is not a bad thing
10. Ryan Smit | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Brilliant Article, it is like you took the words straight out of my head.
The blind Arsenal-hating that has gone on this season has been astonishing.
11. Gunner AL | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
what I dont understand is why so many arsenal fans listen and phone Talk Sport and sky .we never hear anything good about Arsenal dont waste your money and time.
12. islington gooner | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Cracking article and worth every second of that read.
I had the same problem,to many f***ing paul parker stickers,couldnt even swap the f***ers lol.
What more do you expect of them northern scum w***ers.
Someone break rooney’s leg and see if these c***s say the same.
13. Mark | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Yet another balanced, reasoned and well though out article on Gunnerblog, keep up the high standard! If only those idiots you mention in the article could think things through a bit more before spouting this kind of drivel!
14. rellends | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:07 pm
frankly it’s unbelievable some of the rubbish that has come out of some of the so called experts mouths. how collymore has the audacity to come up with this nonsense ill never know. but then we shouldn’t take any of his demented ramblings seriously given that he punches girlfriends in crowded paris bars, goes dogging and actually believes he could become a hollywood actor. paul parker looks like the mekon from dan dare and lou macari is just another of the many ex utd players who stick their tongues up ferguson’s arse on a daily basis.
aw has never said that shawcross did this on purpose. it was a reckless challenge symptomatic of the football mantra of the less gifted teams that the only way to compete with arsenal is “to get in their faces as they don’t like it up ‘em captain mainwairing” which we all know is a euphemism for give them a kick early doors and play to the very limit of laws and we will see what we can get away with. can you imagine if this had been rooney/gerrard/lampard and the perp had been a foreign player?
the panel on sky sports sunday supplement offered the best response to saturday evening’s events. patrick barclay in particular was most sagacious in his analysis of it all. apart from the obvious “i’m sure shawcross didn’t go out to do ramsey” comments, messrs custis and barclay mentioned that in the premiership there is a sense that rival managers gang up on wenger. martinez hinted at it about benitez earlier this season and i think it’s exactly the same with wenger because he is manager who does not seek the limelight, does not do the whole lma thing and does not go for a bottle of wine after the games with rival managers and for this, i think, he is resented. thus, when he defends his team and says things in the heat of the moment he gets pilloried. don’t get me wrong, some of the stuff that comes out of aw’s mouth gets me going as well but so does the crap that comes out of fergie’s mouth but he doesn’t come in for half the criticism. there is more than a touch of xenophobia here. the usual brigade have started trotting out wenger’s response after the taylor incident in 2008, ignoring the fact that just hours after he said taylr should be banned for life he was saying “i said things in the heat of the moment and for that i apologise”.
ultimately, what should be remembered in all of this is that ramsay got a bad injury and footballing dinosaurs should remember this first and foremost instead of jumping to st ryan’s defence and rounding on arsene wenger and arsenal.
15. Daryl Booth | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Great blog.
Sadly these thick cunts in the media must be minimum wage thus the content they spew is at best retarded RACISM..
Good work Fella
16. Soteris | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:15 pm
This unholy trio fall into the one of two categories:
1. Anti-Arsenal
2.Anti-Foreign
And it is quite conceivable that all three can occupy both at the same time.
Macari has never missed an opportunity to take a swipe at Wenger, he was similarly scathing towards him after we put out a weakened side that lost to Stoke in the FA Cup. paul Parker will seemingly say anything that keeps him in good favour with the Mancs while Collymore will simply say anything that will make a headline.
It has taken them less than 4 days change Ramsey from being the victim of the piece, into being the cause of Shawcross’ distress. It’s his fault that he was too quick, and its his own fault for winning the loose ball after Shawcross lost control of it and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
If only it would only take four days for Ramsey’s injuries to heal.
I don’t know if it has crossed anyone else’s mind, but is it a co-incidence that there is a complete lack of sympathy from two ex-United players for a player who very publically turned down United in favour of joining Arsenal. Is that the reason why Fergie so very warmly took time out to call Shawcross to sympathise with him, and further add to the idea that the Stoke player is the real victim here.
Would Macari and Parker and even Fergie have been quite so sympathetic about Shawcross’ plight had Ramsey been a United player?
17. shooy | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Well written well reasoned, cogent and witty; a very rare thing in a blog!
18. Danish Gooner | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:19 pm
Colllymore should stop talking rubbish and go back to bitch slapping innocent swedish women and taking it up the bum in parks.
19. chirag | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I wonder how the FA would react if it was the other way around? If Arsenal, the team of foreigners would have used the bullying tactics, the long throw, the ‘physical approach’ and stoke had a bunch of talented English players (role reversal).The club would probably be banned by now.
20. Bloomsbury Gooner | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Excellent article.
Anyone Gooner who had the misfortune to listen to TalkSport yesterday would have been raging, especially comments from Brazil and Collymore - 2 of the biggest Arsenal hating C***s out there. As for Macari, he’s got an illness.
Didn’t think it could be possible, but all this has made me love Arsenal even more. Already well up for Saturday.
p.s Get well soon, Aaron!
21. Thomas | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
Stan Collymore and Paul Parker?? Who the F*** are they? Who? Why are we even discussing the opinions of such non-entities? Would the British press like to hear my grandma’s take on the Shawcross tackle? No? Well, why not, when it takes such an interest in Collymore’s and Parker’s? I can guarantee you all that my grandma has more brains than those two unbelieveable morons!
22. Danish Gooner | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:24 pm
We all know what a hypocrite Fergie is but this just add a bit of nasty to his already long list of nastiness,remember when he defended that Hooligan Cantona when Cantona almost kicked a Palace supporter to death and Royston when he almost took Alf inge out of football forever,i dont seem to recall Wenger meddling even though it was very serious incidents,
23. pooner | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:26 pm
‘Johnny Foreigner comes over to this country, takes our contracts, then complains when his leg comes off.’ - haha, brilliant.
The reaction to this incident makes me hate football. Forum for psychotic morons is all.
24. Jimmy | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Great article… but you forgot fu*ckwit Jamie Redknapp. His article rivals any of those you mentioned for ignorance and stupidity. How these people’s work passes for journalism is beyond me.
25. GUNNERNIM | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Really really well done. A fantastically written article! What has occured to me is that the toothless ignoramouses above would have a completely different outlook if the receipient of the bone crunching challenge was a media darling like Wayne Rooney. If that was the case, Shawcross would be tarred and feathered and no doubt strung up from the nearest lamppost, with Collymore, Parker and macari sneering menacingly on the frontline with torches and pitchforks raised aloft! But i actually feel that it is a positive thing that these moronic cretins are against us, after all our great club inspires a higher calibre of individual! We are Arsenal! wifebeaters need not apply!
26. DJ | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Wow, insane comments by the media. Well, just proves the media is written by idiots like anyone else. I think when you see the reality of who writes these things you can take it with a pinch of salt. Anyone with a brain knows Ramsey is the victim.
This made me laugh: “I like Collymore’s assertion that being a professor and having a nasty streak are somehow mutually exclusive.”
27. Microraptor | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:35 pm
If you think they are bad, read what this cunt has to say. Yes, a CUNT is what he is. No asterisks needed. This is disgusting.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/columnists/mcgovern/2010/03/02/wenger-paranoia-is-shaw-embarrassing-115875-22079479/
28. Nick | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
So you were the cunt with all the Paul Parker stickers….
29. goonergerry | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
It seems a lot of ex English players are pro Shawcross-They seem to identify far more with Shawcross than Ramsey-which says a lot about the way they see the game. It also says a lot about their values. They are clearly unable to distinguish between commitment and reckless dangerous challenges which breaks legs-and they seem more concerned about the perpetrator than the victim-who they don’t care at all about. Maybe these guys are the wrong people to ask-perhaps people like Collymore are too inured to over physical tackiing to see any thing wrong with a challenge tha breaks both bones in a mans leg.
30. BLACKMANN69 | March 2nd, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Dude ,
don’t wast your time on morons like Collymore and Parker.. been following them for a while..They overdo things (kiss a**) for acceptance like they have probably being doing all their lives… They are not comfortable with themselves..
They usually feel the need to speak for those who would like to say what they say, but are too smart too.
I encounter their sort all the time..
My 2 cents.
31. CelluloidReality | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:03 pm
macari, collymore and parker are idiots of the highest order. these failures of the game have no right to comment on the ethics of the sport, end of story.
- a concerned Gunner, Singapore.
32. Raffi | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Ex players are the worst kind… The ‘Big and tough I was” attitude…
I am still amazed that SKY NEWS, SKY SPORTS NEWS abd BBC Sports have not highlighted nice guy Shawcross’s ‘record’ on tackles and history of limb damaging efforts… I wrote to them all and said “Get off the fence and give us the facts !!!”
Nothing yet… English , you see … Gof forbid if it was a Viera or a Gallas… he would have been crucified by now, I’m sure of it.
What do you all think ???
33. TonyS | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Whoa. Please chill out people. Please remember it was a 50/50 tackle. Its a high speed game and the slightest miscalculation can result in serious accidental injury.The player was also clearly very remorseful after the incident. Mind you, Shawcross’s mum is cunt. Shawcross is a cunt. And his kids will be cunts.
From The Sunday Times
January 24, 2010
Ricardo Fuller: we need to rough Arsenal up
34. PS7 | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
We seriously need to ignore these idiots, we also have to hope that Ramsey does not get to hear of them! Talking of which I have experience of this ingury- my 18 year old daughter was hit by a car at 40mph 15 months ago. One of her many njuries was a smashed lower right leg, but there are some great surgeons and physios out there and Ramsey will have the best of them. Although not completely fixed yet, from the crumpled heap at the start, if you saw her at the matches now you would never know how she was 15 months ago. I have every confidence in Ramsey being back, lets just hope there is no nerve damage, because that is so much slower than the bones to heall.
35. Paddy | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:24 pm
I’d like to break Macari’s legs off and stick them down Paul Parker’s throat while Collymore watches from his usual spot in the pub car park.
36. am | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:25 pm
If Ramsay broke Shawcross’s leg it would have been a big deal.
Collymore is a big idiot.
37. Ashburton_Grove | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:49 pm
These ex pros may have an insight to playing the game, but things are certainly different now to when they played.
All members of the current Arsenal first team squad are both exceptional athletes and intelligent people.
If they weren’t playing football, I imagine a few of them would be in high level business.
They aren’t the same as Collymore, Parker and Macari. These guys had something which allowed them to play the game at the highest level, but they wouldn’t be able to compete with the players who currently grace the top seven teams of the Premier League.
I remember Ray Parlour being asked about his media work in an interview. He said that you would go on to a show and have to make sure you said something interesting otherwise they wouldn’t want to book you again. Pass this on to Collymore and Parker…. they make their living now as pundits and if they say something controversial they are more likely to be booked again.
We know that Collymore is an idiot. Parker only got into the England side by default. It’s about time the shouty idiots were turned off and we could hear the more balanced view being wildly reporting.
38. charlie | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I am very pleased I don’t live in England any more as I would probably throw Macari off a tall building. However I am not really that kind of guy so the courts might let me off.
39. goonergav | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:50 pm
Great article!!
40. Omar | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Brilliantly…
41. Andrew | March 2nd, 2010 at 2:53 pm
Well said! These numpties don’t deserve the air time they get. But maybe we’ll shut them up by winning the league.
42. Mike Evans | March 2nd, 2010 at 3:08 pm
brilliantly written. sums up my thoughts better than i ever could!
43. rabbit punch | March 2nd, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Stan Collymore, Paul Parker & Lou Macari?? those Arsenal hating cunts opinions are about as welcome as collymore’s dry jizz staines on the backseat of some birds husbands beamer in a park..I also hant anti arsenal talk shite
44. keroppppi | March 2nd, 2010 at 4:24 pm
These 3 guys are worms in someone’s intestine!
45. Wayno Gooner64 | March 2nd, 2010 at 4:49 pm
Great blog, I’m still fuming from that challenge on our Aaron, the best thing we can do is turn the radio off and don’t listen to those imbeciles, so called pundits, don’t read their blogs don’t give them our time, come May, fingers crossed we will lift that premier league trophy and we can stick our fingers up to all those C**TS.
46. Wayno Gooner64 | March 2nd, 2010 at 4:52 pm
If I could I’d love to punch those 3 twats into next week !!!!!!!!
47. English Football Is Psych&hellip | March 2nd, 2010 at 4:55 pm
[...] defense of this indefensible person, in all likelihood because he is now an English international. Gunnerblog found articles by Stan Collymore, Paul Parker, and Lou Macari which are three of the worst examples [...]
48. GilbertoSilver | March 2nd, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Cheers for kind words everyone.
49. Vinay | March 2nd, 2010 at 6:05 pm
I’d love to publish this on a newspaper!
50. MikeSA | March 2nd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
For some inexplicable reason Arsenal Football club provides a place where all these morons can sit in comfort and spew their bile at our club.
I suggest we turn that to our advantage.
We all know where these scumbuckets are located at the ground.
The crowd should gather around the press area en mass, point at them and chant, saying “f&*K off you c^nts” or similar, over and over and over.
Make them sh!t themselves, make it unpleasant.
Make them fearful enough to leave.
A bit of initimidation of our own at these retards might start them tinking twice about this disgusting behaviour.
51. E4 Paul | March 2nd, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Reading the thoughts of the media, anyone who hadn’t seen the incident would think that Ramsey smashed his leg in several pieces as some kind of elaborate conspiracy to spoil Shawcross’s England call-up. I can’t believe the double standards of some of these imbeciles. Not that I would wish this on any player but I wonder if the reaction would have been the same had it been Rooney or Gerrard? Somehow, I very much doubt it.
52. GunnerX | March 2nd, 2010 at 9:33 pm
Brilliant piece mate, and the comments are excellent too!
53. GunnerJim | March 2nd, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Great piece…Stan Collymore is without doubt a cretin! I cant belive he gets so much air time, is he trying to be as indifferent as Adrian Durham, who for once was the only level headed man on talk sport all day.
Darren Gough said things like this are rare, well if over three years we have had 3 broken legs against the teams who like to “mix it” then lets break it down a bit.
say 25% of the teams in the prem like to play dirty, thats 10 games a season home and away included.
Thats 30 games over three seasons with 3 broken legs…not that rare is it really?
Teams that approach the game like this are a disgrace and the only conclusion i can come to is that managers of limited talent think that is the only way to play and that way is dangeropus therefore they should not be allowed in a league so full of talent…And before any stoke/bolton/blackburn fans start, dont tell me its about limited finances because Mr Zola doesnt have his team play in that way, and west ham were bankrupt earier in the season!
54. rickdangereux | March 2nd, 2010 at 11:36 pm
possibly the reason you never obtained that elusive ian wright shiny is that it didn’t actually exist - although he was arsenal’s ‘featured player’ and, as a result, was entitled to a two-sticker full body ‘action’ shot as well as the requisite team photo. the last player i needed to complete that goddam monstrosity was jan fjortoft of swindon - so rare was he that i had to actually pull him out of some other kid’s sticker album and glue him back into mine. ridicu-larse
55. RayGunner | March 3rd, 2010 at 1:11 am
This is my favourite blog, but why do we still Adebayor’s face on this page ?
56. RegPFJ | March 3rd, 2010 at 4:51 am
I see so few mainstream media outlets voicing reasonable opinions on this topic (Barclay and Samuel are the only two ever cited) I felt obliged to upload a clip from Canada’s Fox Soccer Report wherein the announcer (Bobby McMahon) lays into the pundits and Shawcross:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o67ftN-B6r8
57. Glenn Helder's Hair | March 3rd, 2010 at 5:26 am
Classic! I had a load of Paul Parkers too, and I seem to remember Gary Flitcrofts and Tony Dorigos always coming up. It was all about the shiny badge though. Ah memories..
58. Harry Barracuda | March 3rd, 2010 at 6:00 am
The media love shit stirring brain dead halfwits, even if they are drunks, wife beaters and idiots.
Just ignore the clueless cunts. And don’t ever but The Mirror!
59. The Goon Blog | Ramsey: T&hellip | March 3rd, 2010 at 6:54 am
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60. silent stan | March 3rd, 2010 at 7:22 am
collymore along with his talksport numpty dunham are the only 2 people i would seriously like to give a kicking, perhaps ulrika could help
61. GoonerGaz | March 3rd, 2010 at 8:29 am
Sad fuckers like these are trying to resurect their sad careers. I actually thought Wengers post match interview was tame. I can’t wait for the same thing to happen to Rooney.
62. hiro | March 3rd, 2010 at 9:14 am
lets break em legs, noses and their mothers arses..come on you gunners!! show no mercy!
63. hurley | March 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 am
Great article, great comments. Excellent! Thank you.
64. Ambrose van Persie | March 3rd, 2010 at 10:46 am
I completed that sticker book, still got a double of the Wrighty shiny if you still need it
65. john | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:18 am
The difference between gunnerblog and the three pundits the article is written about? The three pundits have all played the game and know what there talking about, gunnerblog is just a armchair fan who has never played the game.
66. john | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:20 am
Oh, I forgot to say patrick barclay and martin samuel both were professional footballers so they know what there talking about don’t they
67. johnisanidiot | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:39 am
john, you are an idiot and I can see you marching at the front of those idiots. Well done.
68. Hazza | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:41 am
Nice blog, ‘Playa! Oh just so you know…. completed 2 sticker albums of that 94 one. I may have to look for it somewhere!
69. Gooner79 | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Why is wenger obsessed with brasilians/south americans with no skill. First gilberto, then denilson and now melo! How many times did i hear wenger complain about gilberto flying off everywhere for internationals and then end up missing the next game by arriving home late, now hes says the same about vela. Scott parker and gareth barry can do what these guys do. Always defensive midfielders as well. Why not sign some brasilian attackers for a change wenger!
70. AFRICANGOONER | March 3rd, 2010 at 11:54 am
TO ALL U SENSIBLE FOLK OUT THERE; COLLYMORE AND HIS BAND OF FERGIE’S-ARSE-LICKING, SO-CALLED PUNDITS SHULD BE SEEN FOR WHAT THEY RILY ARE: SPOTLIGHT HUNTING HAVE-BEENS.
AS FOR FERGIE- HE IS HOPING TO RILE ARSENAL, HE IS THREATENED BY ARSENAL MORE THAN CHELSEA IN THE TITLE RACE. HE IS HOPING ARSENAL WILL DO A BIRMINGHAM/EDUARDO REACTION AND DROP OUTA THE RACE. HE WAS HOPING WE’D LOSE TO STOKE, BUT NOW HE KNOWS AFTER THIS WIN ITS GO GO GO GO BABE.
C’MON ARSENAL, LETS GO FOR IT!!
GREAT BLOG MAN!!!
71. Geo | March 3rd, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Awsome article!
LET’S WIN THE PREM AND CL FOR RAMBO!
72. Tom, Romford | March 3rd, 2010 at 12:40 pm
Very good article. Stan Collymore is an ignorant big mouth whose reaction to the Stoke incident merely provided an excuse to parade his small mindedness to the public. He has nothing worthwhile to say and shouts to get attention. Paul Parkers insight could be written on the back one of your surplus stickers with a large felt tip pen. Finally Macari; whatever happened to his career?
73. gus the gooner | March 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 pm
This is a great article, but you’re wrong about one thing. Fact is, Paul Parker would fit in a bucket. Ok you might need to shoehorn him in and stomp him down a bit, but he would, eventually, fit.
74. Gadget | March 3rd, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Isn’t it about time we made pundits’ names synonymous with bad things? For example, Collymore = cunt, but Stan Collymore = fucking cunt?
Imagine phone in talktalk and saying, “you know what, you’re a right stan collymore” to one of the host, and everybody knows what you meant. Glorious Imagine the day when the likes of Cascarino can’t really say their own surnames knowing it means pussy.
75. Eirik | March 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Paul Parker: “Sir Alex Ferguson was wrong to criticise El Hadji Diouf for the challenge which broke Wayne Rooney’s leg and should apologise to him.”
hmmm. Can you see this one coming anytime soon?
76. BostonGooner | March 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Superb!
Now where is Ulrika hiding these days?
77. Frank Thompson | March 3rd, 2010 at 4:51 pm
Hi
I think Macari should look no further than his own son who was so pissed off with his father he topped himself
78. Two Owls | March 3rd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Wonderful article on responses to Aaron Ramsey’s injury. We need more balance and critical analysis of the violence in the English game.
79. Mario Zagallo | March 3rd, 2010 at 7:08 pm
A few months back, when some headless cockroaches were complaining about Diaby, I raised the issue about the plague at the core of English football. This Shawcross incident, is just another chapter on a long list of career threatening injuries, and we are lucky in escaping hundreds of them. We all know what is the mentality of the media, referees and opposition teams when facing Arsenal. It’s programmed on the very fabric of english football; “when you can’t compete, kick them” and what makes me sick, it is universally accepted by everybody.They even laugh about it.
Another thing that makes me vomit, are some former Arsenal players, looking for a place as TV pundits, so they can pay the mortgage and afford a bitch as well, trying to defend all this bullshit, turning even against Arsene Wenger, and with the nerve to compare the Gallas incident v Bolton to this.
They are nothing but a bunch of whores, paid by their SKY pimp.
Yes, no one goes on a challenge with the intention of breaking a leg, even if you try, you might not be able to do it, but there’s an intention when you leave your foot, and that is intent to cause harm, which could be a broken leg.
Don’t give me this ” he’s got no malice in him” bullshit.
This is where I come back to my point, raised a few weeks back, when people were looking for scapegoats in the Arsenal team, and I said it then I will say it again: Look no further than the cancer of english football: REFEREES and FA!!
Remember is all about money!
Until Arsenal are given the respect we deserve by referees, we will struggle to win this League.
I have a dream that one day the final Premier League standings will reflect what really happen on the pitch, without end results being manipulated by referees!!
That’s why this Ramsey’s injury is another chapter: We could be seating here talking about how we won the League two seasons ago, if it was not for the Eduardo injury and subsequent moral trauma.
Or we could be talking as well about another leg breaker, after that Ridgewell tackle on Walcott in the Emirates. That dog even managed to send a linesmen to Hospital this weekend with a bad tackle; red card? no, of course not, the dog hasn’t got a bad bone in his body!!
When we watch and analyse Arsenal games and see how quick the referees are to show yellow and red cards to Arsenal players, like the Song yellow card in Stoke, that will make him miss 2 matches, we have to start wondering what is going on? They know the next Arsenal matches are crucial.
When I see Vidic bringing Agbonlahor down in the box when through on goal and not even a yellow is shown, referees come on TV on support saying it was not a red card, and surprise, surprise no one talks about it, now we are sure that something is going on.
Some of this referees could be pacing the pitch, wearing a Man U shirt.
It’s funny how the english media react when a foreign referee is involved in some “controversy”; they will use all kind of adjectives on him, but when it comes to domestic thieves they are all “honest lads”.
Clearly they are eating all from the same bowl!!
Last year, Arsene showed a statistical analysis about the number of fouls allowed to teams in the PL, until the referee produces a card; guess what? top of the list was Arsenal, every 6 fouls =1 yellow, while the PL average is 15 fouls per card.
Are you getting the bigger picture?
Until a crop of new referees come along with new mentality, leaving this xenophobic mentality in the dark ages of the British Empire, and without feeling any need to be subservient or scared of any club or manager, I feel we are going to keep paying the price by all this cowards referees, that are grazing the PL in this FA/Mafia controlled game.
Take care
Mario Zagallo
NB. Good lad Shawcross, doing what he does best on loan in Belgium from Man U.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImCLHKXTOs
80. Dayle | March 3rd, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Logical and intelligent case there GH. Your spot on, the ignorance, cowardice, and hypocrasy of the media is actually overwhelming, I simply cant get my head around it.
81. Paul N | March 3rd, 2010 at 9:59 pm
Great Great article!!!
J.Dow, are you serious with the racism. you are better than that.
Dayle, I feel you bro. I feel like I am the twilight zone or something!!
Common sense is so uncommon!
82. Supergunner07 | March 4th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Man Ure bias from ignorant Macari & Parker. The less said about Stan the better
83. Gonnawaygooner | March 4th, 2010 at 7:14 am
This is exactly the reason why I read blogs like this and have never listened to, or read any of the media that you quote. Let’s hope that the ad mans’ budgets follows suit.
I love the idea of Gooners never phoning in to these shows, you can’t beat a dignified silence..
Have you had fish and chips at the Lou Macari chip shop…..disgusting
ps can you take that J Dow down?
84. Thomasoo14 | March 4th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Brilliant article mate! Been thinking exactly the same thing myself. Collymore’s a fool and his radio really is a joke to listen to..
85. tom | March 4th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
i really believe we should not blame shawcross for the tackle motd showed he had already gone over on his ankle our team needs to stop being such sissys and man it up a bit like stoke, who dont moan and complain at everything and cheat all the time. then maybe we can call ourselves a proper football team playing 11aside and not with the ref. I just hope that the fans of the club realise except from the likes of theo walkcott but definetly fabregas should be sold as hes cheating scum. we were lucky to win at stoke tbf our first goal shouldnt have been aloud as theyre was a freekick in the build up and the second wasnt a penalty. im sure most of the true arsenal fans will agree with what im saying. arsenaltruefan!
86. adam | March 4th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
arsenal are a good footballing side why have we got an idiot manager like wenger claiming it was a horeendous challenge and some gorm above saying it was perfectly fine and more blame should have been put on shawcross and having a go at the pundits sticking up for him…. serioulsy its pathetic your so blind and arrogant that you only look at it from your point of view….havnt you heard of empathy??? have you not seen on motd that ramsey had already gone over on his ankle before it happened. seriously its a joke stop acting like every team should lie down for arsenal because theyre some amazing football team and shouldnt go in hard on them because theyre world class players and it might hurt them. maybe you havnt realised that footballs a contact sport?
87. armourist | March 5th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
This is honestly priceless. These are journalists proving that they actually know what they are talking about and are incredibly knee jerk jerks.
enjoy.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid29318049001?bctid=69081050001
88. armourist | March 5th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
*don’t know what they are talking about
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