The Daily Heil newspaper has launched a stinging attack on UK immigration authorities after they agreed to grant strigiformic winger Andrei Arshavin a work permit for his job on Arsenal’s right wing. An official statement by Immigration UK said they had licensed Mr Arshavin’s arrival on the basis of “owlish good looks and a rare eye for goal”.
Deputy Editor Adolf Powell, who took time out from savaging the Human Rights Act 1998 to join the protest, told UpForGrabsNow he was “appalled” at the decision, and that he felt sure it had been motivated by “political correctness gone mad, yet again”.
He added that he believed Arsenal’s midfield was being overrun by migrant workers, and offered the example of Emmanuel Eboue, a 25 year-old man from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who Powell claims has been spotted acting suspiciously in and around Arsenal’s midfield for some months. Powell described Eboue as “a hopeless layabout“.
He suggested that at a time of rising unemployment Arsenal would have been better to sign a home-grown talent such as Pascal Chimbonda instead.
When he was informed that Arshavin, like Powell, intends to work on the right wing, Powell replied: “I’m not sure about that to be honest. Us right-wingers don’t usually involve ourselves with his sort.”
Asked whether he was a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur, alleged ”FC”, Powell declined to comment.
Tags: Adolf Powell, Andrei Arshavin, Daily Heil, Emmanuel Eboue, Pascal Chimbonda
January 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Hahaha! A great read!
Keep it up Gooner
January 30th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
YU Punks made me believe arshav has come already, stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 30th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Quality post, you must be as bored of this Arshavin drama as I am, its like a never ending epsiode of eastenders or something. Despite his political orientation, it would be good to have that extremely competative ruski pushing for a place in the team. I love that ivorian migrant worker, but i’d rather see him warming the bench for sag-aloo at right back. Jah bless
January 30th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
sorry guys just got confirmation from goonblog.com
January 30th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
My right-wing-ribs are hurting. Lol
January 30th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Hahaha
Quality mate, and like you I wonder what it is that AW sees in Eboue? There was at one time a hint of real potential but it hasnt come, and when you look at other options, Vela, Marida, (Ashavin?) and Wiltshire in mid and wide midfield, I wonder what sort of dirt Eboue has on him. The Boss does not like to ‘give up’ on players when they are having a tough time, but a tough time shouldnt last 2 years.
Great blog chap and very funny.
GTID
January 30th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hey look we have a permit for a player we haven’t signed yet…….I think that’s amusing.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Arshavin try not to be a dick and reject the offer after Arsenal did so much for u
January 30th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
btw it says here Arsenal has not applied a permit for the russian
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_4874138,00.html
January 30th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
adrei arshavin is having his medical today or tomorrow, then he will be announced an arsenal player once zenith get the2,5 million euros andrei ows them for terminating his contract earlly
January 30th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
haha
“He suggested that at a time of rising unemployment Arsenal would have been better to sign a home-grown talent such as Pascal Chimbonda instead.”
simply love it! keep goin mate;)
January 30th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I hate these foreign players. I wish we had 11 Ashley Coles.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:09 am
an inspired blog. arsenal’s (not to mention English football’s) progression is dependent on the premier league melting pot, pioneered by the one and only AW (along with fergie the red nosed wino, to a lesser extent)
Right wing militance (racism/xenophobia) has no justified place in the psyche of any EPL supporter, due to the unbridled joy that migrant workers bring them, whatever team they support.
Sol Cambell is a homo nigger whereas Jermaine Defoe is a class professional?
Please……