Thursday, June 01, 2006

FIFA Gunning for Arsenal

I've always loathed Arsenal. It's totally irrational, but I hate them. Even more than Tottenham. Their reaction to losing the European Champions League Final was a lesson in how not to lose gracefully. If you support West Ham or Tottenham, watch Newsnight tonight. And then tell me you've tried desperately to wipe a smug smile off your face. Bet you won't succeed. And if you can't wait that long, click HERE.

UPDATE: 6.48. Just received this charming email from a Gooner. "You're a f****** ugly, boring c*** aren't you. I bet you have a miniscule penis." Feel free to email him back at gooner_strood@yahoo.co.uk with your views. He's just reminded me why I hate Arsenal.

UPDATE: 6.58 It gets better. Click HERE to read the Arsenal Message Board. Nice to know this blog is read so widely. It's amazing. I never thought gooners could read. Another choice excerpt... "Look at the c**t's forehead - you could show a film on it". Actually that's quite funny. Unlike this one... "I f**king hate c**ts like him, I'll stab the c**t".

UPDATE: 7.13 If you are brave enough to go to the Comments Section it contains some 'interesting' language from our Gooner friends.

UPDATE: 21.24 Glad to see Chelsea (aka West Ham Reserves) coming out in my support HERE.

76 comments:

Anonymous said...

That will wipe the smug grin off David Dein's face. Will enjoy that.

Anonymous said...

Why does this concern you so much?

Anonymous said...

Looks like you've gone and upset some people....

http://www.awimb.com/fudforum/index.php?t=msg&th=139349&start=0&rid=0&S=836cab245c0846409006a1a753f1a416

Anonymous said...

:boring: no real news so let's make some up, in a week's time this will all be forgotten.

Anonymous said...

Your blog should be Business and MP failure.

Remindme why you closed down your victoria shop ?

Because it was making fuck all money ?

I have bought from the shop and am on your email list, suffice to say you better remove me quickly once I request it otherwise I will complain to the Data protection people and report you for Spam.

By the way, you are a bit of a mug

Anonymous said...

You can see from Arsenal's response that absolutely no wrong has been done.

No other news source is bothering to carry the story - why is that, I wonder? FIFA gunning for Arsenal? Or the BBC making a mountain out of an ant's cock?

Still upset about Stevie Gerrard banging a couple in, maybe??

Anonymous said...

How stupid will you look when its all revealed to be rubbish?

Anonymous said...

Oh and I forgot to say, you are a slaphead cunt.

Now publish that in your comment section

Anonymous said...

We have some very elequent Arsenal fans on here tonight don't we. And they wonder why everyone hates them!

Anonymous said...

WANKSTAIN

Martin Curtis said...

Shame about the stupid gooners who have posted, most of us are OK really.

But in truth Iain, it is hard to see what the story is here.

Anonymous said...

And they wonder why no-one votes Tory...

Iain Dale said...

martin, well if Newsnight take it seriously and are covering it in their programme, then why shouldn't the rest of us? You sound like a LibDem poster saying about their £2.4 million donor being arrested "I can't see what the story is"!

Anonymous said...

I do not if that 'smug smile' you shall have, watching Newsnight tonight, will compare with that of mine, for the past three elections where the Tony Blair, an ultra cunt, has managed to gather more votes than the Torries...hilarious

Anonymous said...

Mate my projector screen is broken can you coem round so I can watch Eastenders on your forehead ?

Cheers

Anonymous said...

Miving Twonk

Anonymous said...

Iain - can you explain why no other news sources are bothered with this story?

Looking at Arsenal's response to the BBC you can see that they are pretty much clear, yet you act like a desperate Spurs fan hoping and praying something nasty happens to that horrid Arsenal.

"Yes, it was David Dein who poisoned all our food..... we had 10 players out!" Clutching at straws, and getting excited about a non-story. As a West Ham fan, you should be pretty ashamed - and grow up.

Anonymous said...

I really dont understand why a man of your self declared stature would post such a Load of crap.

You hate us more then tottenham?! Thats a little strong isnt it?

Just a question, not that i expect a response, what was your last game you went to? Season ticket holder or grubby corperate free rider?

I look forward to seeing you at one of your "book" signings where we can discuss this like football fans do.

Anonymous said...

i hope you get cancer of the forehead you smug looking ugly boring cunt

Iain Dale said...

anonymous, season ticket holder - and have been for 15 years.don't do corporate. Went to a box once and it was like watching it on TV. Never again.

Anonymous said...

Iain...ignore these cocksuckers from AWIMB. They have sad
little lives. All they do is sit on their pathetic little
message board and whine all day.

They are useless.

Gooner07 is one of the biggest twats, apart from RCEG (should be RSOLE), to grace the internet.

Pathetic bunch of twats.

Anonymous said...

How come all of you big men mouthing all this abuse are posting anonymously?

I would say you are a bunch of cowards sitting safe behind a computer screen.

Anonymous said...

Interesting.....

You criticise The Arsenal for, as yet unproven, corruption, yet offer a podcast of your meeting with the saintly Hamiltons........

Bob Piper said...

I don't think I have seen such a collection of inarticulate invective since the BNP dropped in on me. Shame really, because I think the gooners are terrific, despite Thierry's ungracious attitude at the end of the Champions League. Over the last 4 or 5 years they have taken football to a new level over here.. I only wish they wouldn't thrash Villa every time they play us. I mean, couldn't they score just one goal of the month per match, please.

Anonymous said...

hahahaha

Cunninghame South

Candidate Name
Party
Votes Cast

Andrew Brocklehurst
Conservative
2336

Rosemary Byrne
Scottish Socialists
2677

Iain Dale
Scottish Liberal Democrats
1505

Irene Oldfather
Labour
11165

Michael Russell
Scottish National Party
5089

Iain Dale said...

Anonymous at 7.46pm, wrong Iain Dale I'm afraid. I;d rather be a Gooner than a LibDem. Now if you looked up North Norfolk you could have an even bigger laugh at me!

Anonymous said...

So you sit with other football fans then but still declare as a hammer that arsenal are your most hated club?

15yrs of supporting that shower and looking up at us, despising us, admiring us, wanting to emulate us has made you feel the need to post such a strong worded comment?

So when this falls flat on its face, as it will do, will you retract this crap or still stand firm with what you have said.

Was it our manner after the champions league final that has bothered you or is it that arsenal earned the right after being in the top flight non stop and being the TOP side in london for many years that bit your arse tight?

All i can see is bitter grapes from a failed buissness man who wants to put his teeth out there in something he thought would be a laugh.

Anonymous said...

Try and (non)stick to the Tefal adverts you spam.

You're more boring than John Major.

Satsuma anyone?

Anonymous said...

Andrew, I'll post under my real name. Now what will you do now?

Come on you Gunners!

The Daily Pundit said...

And you wouldn't charge a subscription for this Iain! This is the best thread yet! It knocks spots off ConservativeHome's Heffer thread the other day. And while I'm at it, how come I get a dustbin icon and all these anonymong ones don't? I've never wanted you to get cancer of the forehead!

Tom Greeves said...

I love the phrase 'ultra cunt'.

Anonymous said...

andrew woodman is a cunt. Now what are you going to do? oh and please don't scare me Conservative boy.

Anonymous said...

Hmm

Nice to see that facists still exist.

Call themselves 'right of centre' now eh??

Right.....

Anonymous said...

In all seriousness, why do you think you have failed as a candidate ?

Too right wing ?

Anonymous said...

Im an Arsenal fan, and whilst im not the kind of fan that is gonna get wound up by this and start screaming abuse at people... I do wanna say that, as a Tory MP, shouldnt you have something better to do that write about a team you supposedly hate.. have you not got work to do?? When its all proved to be unfounded you will owe us an apology. Until then.. do some work.

Anonymous said...

COME ON YOU GUNNERS wooohooo.

Oh Bob Aston Villa are utter shite. I hope you get cancer for your comments on the greatest footballer to ever grace these shores.

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Anonymous said...

What a bizarre tale. What is it about? Why are Arsenal lending small (for them) sums to this club? Is this just as a favour for a senior official or director or is there some commercial or footballing justification for it?

By the way, is this a further sign of your turn away from capitalism, Iain? Opposing the monopolists yesterday, defending the regulators today.

Anonymous said...

Oh Scott, you really must have a personalty flaw or something eating you up inside to go around behaving like this. Shame.

BTW, I'm a Derby Supporter. Care to attack that. You never fail to amuse.

Anonymous said...

Yes Andrew, I have a personality flaw :rolleyes:

Now what about that threat from earlier?

Anonymous said...

Dale you’re an attention-seeking Essex cunt, you’ll never amount to anything. You’ll never get into parliament, you’ll just sit on your fat arse posting inane drivel on your crap blog. The only people who are remotely interested in you, are private school queer toffs from the west country.

Ross said...

Christ almighty, you can see why Osama Bin Laden chose Arsenal as the club to support can't you?

Anonymous said...

Iain

You seem to have failed at most things in your life.

Is this why you have taken to posting your irrelevant views on a blog.

Amazon putting you out of business is by far the best thing that could have happened.

Anonymous said...

So first prize for articulacy goes to goner07. A disgrace to all Arsenal fans.

If Arsenal have broken the rules, we deserve to be punished. The allegations look bad, but whether they will result in our expulsion from the Champions League is another matter. I just hope there is a reasonable explanation…and I mean beyond the normal Arsenal line that we “did not see it.”

Anonymous said...

What threat? Simply observations Scott. You're too sensitive.

You know, when you support a struggling club like me, you take all this sort of thing as water off a ducks back. Some dreadful journalist wrote something appaling about Brian Clough once but I simply pointed out where he was wrong and what I thought of his writing. Reducing the debate to the level of the toilet really does you gooners no good at all.

Learn to chill would be my advice.

Tim J said...

Blimey!

Feeding time is it?

Bob Piper said...

Mr Strood, thanks for the cancer, I'll keep it for later if you don't mind though. I don't know why you're throwing your rattle out of the pram though, I think Thierry is tremendous. .. and I agree with you, Villa are shite. Errr, won the European Cup once though!

When are these people going to get off here and let the politicians go back to slagging each other off?

Anonymous said...

Iain your little hand grenade into the football cesspit has brought some interesting species to the surface. A plague on you bloody football morons. A game as beautiful as some its supporters. T Henry is a choker by the way. He puts them away against Sunderland but on the big stage when the heat is on he is a girl's blouse. By the way Arsenal is my team.

Anonymous said...

Griswold,

Choker hey ?

Madrid away ?

Goals against Man U ?
Liverpool ?

Please please get to know your football before presenting yourself as a supporter of Arsenal.

Have you ever been or do you watch mainly from home ?

Anonymous said...

I am an Arsenal fan.

Arsenal have released a statement which has pretty much cleared up this inciedent. This is a rather pointless article. If Arsenal were relagated we would be robbed of the beauty of football.

I would also like to say this about the Barca game. Arsenal proved to be AS good as Barca and i accept Lehman should have been sent off, but so should have van bommel. Injustice such as that as the highest level is going to frustrate ones team, whom did exceptionally well on the night.

Anonymous said...

snobbish comments are arsenal are foolish from a west ham fan seeing as arsenal have a diamond club member ship and a raymound blanc resturant for emirates...west ham have...chavs?

Anonymous said...

Ugh! What scum you so called gooners are. No doubt you all wear football strips to the games and cry like girls when you lose - like the pathetic little men that you are. Talk about pencil dicks. And Gooner07 - you actually bought a book from Politico's? Did you return it because it hadn't any pictures?

Anonymous said...

Iain please stick to politics I had respect for Hammers fans identifying the clubs close links with it's local community to Arsenal's. Hate is a strong term but I always though as an east ender Chelsea and Millwall were more objectionable teams for the claret and blue part of London. We are one of the few clubs not to pick off your best players. It seems strange that such a patently intelligent man such as you should comment on such an obviously media spun story. Please return to commenting on Boris Johnson's latest affair or whether Prescott has installed a croquet lawn in his Hull home.

Martin Curtis said...

Iain,

I didn't word that as well as i should have. It was not begrudging you mentioning it, more that I read the Newsnight article and couldn't see any substance in the story. Something that Newsnight are good at.

Curly said...

Do we wait for the Miliblog to mention the story before it gains credibility?
(Ooops, so sorry, I forgot how anodine the Secretary of State's blog is - probably spent too many years supporting the gooners!)

Anonymous said...

Well Iain, what did you make of the report.

Mellor certainly didnt give it much value.

Iain Dale said...

Am watching Question Time so I'll have to watch it on the internet!

Anonymous said...

Iain

Good on ya mate.... David Dein is getting far to big for his boots.. he thinks he runs English football and he and the snidey club he represents should be punished if they have done wrong... Venger would not have seen anything by the way so dont ask him nothin... LOL
OH and dont worry about all the gooners posting threats on here... they are all cyber warriors... all of em, ALL MOUTH and never do anything about anything... so your quite safe my friend... I speak from experience.. LMFAO

Stay Lucky
Rooster

Anonymous said...

Spammer Forehead, Why don't you dig up some dirt on the dodgy loot paid to your club for your best players by the Chavskis? Like a respected journalist Donal McIntrye did?

Or are you like the rest of the Tory Freemason establishment in this country, corrupt to the core & on the take?

Purplepanda EIE!

Anonymous said...

You shouldn't have lifted that stone Iain. There are dangerous people out there and you need, metaphorically, to keep walking and avoid eye contact.
Slagging off rival fans can be fun, but it's best done anonymously, when no offence is taken, however vile the insult.
I hope these morons don't know where you live, but it may be prudent in the short term to hire a couple of bodyguards from the Inter City Firm Old Comrades Association.

Anonymous said...

You Slag arsenal off when lets be honest, your a know nothing miserable WHU following cunt. This brings you happiness? What a miserable facist lifestyle you must lead.

Anonymous said...

Anon(re message to Griswold) you are right about Henry. I made my Henry remark with tongue in cheek in response to to some remarks by Gooner07 - I was hoping to give him apoplexy.I went to Highbury early 80's then moved abroad. On my return to UK all seater etc, I had moved from area, football taken over by Sky and suits, prices throught the roof etc. I accept periodic hospitality but follow tv etc, The future looks bright.

Anonymous said...

It's WHU 'followers' like you that make me ashamed to be claret and blue. You have run for paliamentary office and you lower yourself to the level of a mindless hooligan.

What IS the point????????

Anonymous said...

Jesus Christ.

Who said politics was dull?

Anonymous said...

I don’t see how Arsenal releasing or making a statement absconds them from blame. The matter about why they made the loan remains unsolved. As for most of the arsenal messages, I won’t call them sick (they take some sort of a perverse pride in that), but the depravity of the content shows their authors to be ill-educated, primitive people. And yes, it is a news story; the whole point of a blog is that the blogger posts messages about the news he thinks is relevant, and only people who read the blog are subjected to it. And as for Iain Dale being a failure, well, its true he never made parliament, but having 114,000 read your words every month (and probably a great deal more now, thank you arsenal) is, in my book, a definite mark of success.

Anonymous said...

you utter utter maggots.
The loan was made in 2001, when this was entirely WITHIN the rules. Perhaps rather than spend time being jealous and bitter (by the way what sort of Hammer prefers spurs over the Arsenal?)you should spend time reading up rules and regulations and take your BBC blindfolds off. So many thick people.

Anonymous said...

Looks like Iain's been making some new friends :)

Actually, he should be given credit for approving alot of these comments. Some are personal and others misinformed yet you let them be posted. Good on you.

Anonymous said...

"The beautiful game"? Having read my way through this tirade of filthy abuse, I can only say it's a shame it doesn't seem to have beautiful supporters.

It is utterly incredible to me that one human being can write such disgusting things to another purely because of FOOTBALL.

Realise this is probably going to set the knuckle-draggers off again, but IT'S ONLY A GAME boys, get a life!

Anonymous said...

After reading this post I was amazed by the level of intelligence shown by arsenal fans. Iain Dale is expressing an opinion. You don't be fucking rude like little shits. You engage him in INTELLIGENT debate and then perhaps you can get somewhere. What does calling him a 'slaphead' cunt achieve? This post just shows what facist cunts there are in this country. I hope arsenal are forced into liqidation and the police arrest you for death threats!

Anonymous said...

For all you Slaphead apologists, your business failure MP started his post by saying:

" I've always loathed Arsenal. It's totally irrational, but I hate them."

and now you complain because he isn't being engaged in a rational manner by honest gooners.

How about identifying the weakness in his argument ?

Why not as Iain what else he hates at an irrational level ? I suspect this would include non whites.

The post lacked intellectual integrity and yet you compalin when you get alike forlike response.

Also 144,000 page impressions doesn't not equate to his reading public. Iain, whats the number for unique users ?

Iain Dale said...

Gooner 07. Don't know why I am evem bothering to reply to you following your earlier outbursts, but here goes.

1. I didn't swear in my original post and did nothing to provoke the torrent of abuse and you and your other sad little friends then heaped on me (started by your good self). I really wouldn't describe the response as a "like for like response", as you do.

2. I'll leave your comment about hating non whites - normally the preserve of mindless thugs who can only use the word c***, I would have thought. Funny how much that word has been used by your fellow "fans" on this thread

3. In may I got 114,000 unique visitors and 188,000 reloads.

4. Lookingforward to our first visit to your fantastic new stadium (that was a compliment by the way) and making it two in a row. Well, got to stay optimistic, eh?

Anonymous said...

News just in...West Ham are being investigated for making an interest free loan of 5 pounds to Gary the Hot Dog vendor who parks his van outside the Ground on matchdays. Officials want to know what West Ham were doing with such a vast some of money.

Apparently Gary has been smuggling small children into the West Ham academy via his Hot Dog van, some have to survive for months in his van eating only sausage goodness. Nutritionists say this explains the stunted growth of Joe Cole and Frank Lampards chubby frame.

Andrew Ian Dodge said...

If I were an Arsenal fan I would be pretty ticked as well after all the Ref in the final was so bent it was not even funny. Wonder if FIFA is investigating his currupt arse? Well either that or he is completely incompetent.

Croydonian said...

If the Arsenal fans get bored with this, they might want to try out the Hammers Connection forum - http://176873.aceboard.net/ where they can be assured of a quite an earful from the owner / 'moderator' Kronic.

Anonymous said...

Don't talk about football on the blog Iain. I am a fan as much as you are, but you have to admit that football talk attracts the lowest form of intelligence possible. Let them bitch at each other on 606 and let the rest of us get on with the grown up stuff.

Anonymous said...

Hear hear Michael Oakshott.What a bunch of fucking twats.