“F*ck off back up north you w*nk*rs!”
‘Nuff respec’.
The quote is from the Daily Heil, who took time out from whingeing hatefully about foreigners in general to whinge hatefully about Cesc Fabregas, attacking him for wearing a hoodie and throwing “tantrums”. Presumably, if he’d stormed onto the pitch wearing a tweed suit and a deerstalker, spitting “I say, Zayatte! We’ve had about enough of your sort round here” they might have had less of an issue.
Let’s clear a couple of things up. Cesc was wearing a pretty nice outfit when he went on his post-match rampage – great jeans, nice jacket, good shoes. Sartorially, we can have no complaints.
Phil Brown said he had no right to appear on the pitch “dressed as he was”. Why not? I mean the game was over (Hull lost, you may remember) and Cesc is the captain of the club, so having an evening stroll on his pitch isn’t exactly taking liberties is it? And this from the man who spent the first half of the season looking like this.
So Cesc might not have been wearing a suit, but he looked like a Premiership footballer. With his matching tie-and-perma-tan combo and Tesco value suit, Phil looks like he works for Comet.
Cesc’s comment about “northern w*nk*rs” (if true) suggests he is extremely well settled at Arsenal and that he cares deeply enough about the club to have become personally committed to its many prejudices, the prejudices we all feel as fans. Not many foreign players settle well enough to trade such idiomatic insults – we’re lucky to have him.
Phil Brown said it didn’t matter whether Cesc spat at Horton’s head or at his feet, it was apparently all the same. Perhaps he also thinks metaphorical spitting (such as telling someone to “f*ck off you northern w*nker) is just as bad.
I expect the whole thing will blow over soon enough.
Until then, how’s about a spot of laurel-resting? We at UpForGrabsNow are pleased to smugly point out just how right we were. Check time of month: mid-March. Check league position: 4th. Still in Champions’ League, still in FA Cup. [Smugly] Aaaaaahh.
That’s some canny predicting right there, and easy to forget how gloomy the mood was when that piece was written. Still, it would be churlish to take all the credit, wouldn’t it? And equally churlish to gesture towards some of the other blogs who spent the first week of March brow beating and loudly making moan over our lost season, while we were scribbling away with nothing but a fixture list and a Positive Mental Attitude. Keep it up, boys.
Ooh, and don’t forget to enter our brand-new Phillosophy Football competition to win a Herbert Chapman t-shirt! Simply send the answer to the following question to admin@philosophyfootball.com, together with your name, address and t-shirt size: What was the formation that Herbert Chapman pioneered while he was at Arsenal? There’s five to be given away, and we’ll be announcing the winners at the end of the month.
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