message board and reporting anything remotely unorthodox to his superiors. Even a suggestion that Mr Wenger's team selection might have been suspect had him bristling with righteous indignation.
I wonder if even he's had enough of the old french tit's sophistry and spin. I presume he still has his season ticket?
He performs a similar function on Twitter these days, but the fire's gone from his belly, really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbette Chapman - aged 15
And you think you know better, my friend? :driving: :hehe: :kebab:Quote:
Originally Posted by Herbette Chapman - aged 15
He was the master of passive aggression.
That's fair enough, I think. He fought the good fight and won.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Balls !!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
He was a nice old bloke to be fair but he took the whole Arsenal thing very, very seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Some may say a little too seriously, it being a game and all that.
He was very much a fan of thon Rachel Riley.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Filthy old búgger.
A decent mathematician and now football presenter. All short skirts and long-ish legs. What's not to like eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Why? Does she play for Spurs :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It is a game, my friend. But then, so is life. How are we to discern a difference between the two?Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Yes. Although sometimes it wasn't all that passive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
He was also spectacularly over-sensitive and would take offence even on the rare occasions when absolutely none was intended.
Well he was chased away by the man you chased away so in boxing parlance that makes you the man who beat the man who beat the man.
He's a victim of changing times, I guess. In the days when most of those of a mind to criticise Wenger were supporters of rival clubs, his responses made perfect sense. But since nowadays, much of that opprobrium towards the manager comes from fellow Arsenal fans, that approach has become inappropriate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Amongst ourselves, we ought to be able to discuss these matters in an honest, manly fashion.
Nicosia clashed with DT on twitter
DT told him to go for a walk
Nicosia asked him if he has a problem with walkers
DT gave up
Once he went down my comments were edited route he couldn't really get out of that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
DT? Donald Trump? :yikes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
A loud and gobby cund who I guess is called Don Turpin
DT " go for one of them long walks mate , off you go now "
Nic " Do you have a problem with walkers ? "
:hehe:
Yes, he lost his shït because he was proven to have criticised an Arsenal player, the cognitive dissonance was too much and his head exploded. I'd forgotten that. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pat Vegas
The fact that Sanchez didn't even bloody play for us at the time didn't seem to change anything.
Oh my days :clap:Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
The phantom editor was at large
:hehe:
He could teach today's modern generation snowflake a few things about taking unwarranted offence, could Nic. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
It was this absolute refusal to even countenance a criticism of a player or Wenger that I found staggering.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
A negative remark aimed at a club employee during a game I can understand would anger some, personally not a jot, but when one may write something at a random moment and still be sometimes aggressively challenged was bizarre. And then the oft used response of “so you think you know better than Wenger”. Of course I/we bloody well don’t but it does not restrict one from having an opinion.
We do of course have another contributor who will very often steer his debate down this silly route but will word his responses in a more structured and perhaps articulate manner, he being one of the Turks more frequent enemies. I expect the similarity between the two to be quite galling for him.
Thing is I have met the old man and even bought him a beverage (not sure the tight wee bubble reciprocated mind you) and he was a nice, genial old bloke. Harmless if I can say that in a completely non-condescending way.
Yes. I often suspected that he was one of these guys who's probably had the pïss taken out of him or been wound up so much over a lifetime that he often suspected people were having a go at him even when they weren't. I think this made him unpleasantly prickly and almost totally unable to take a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
I thought it was because he didn't speak-a the English so good. Anyway, so good as he needed to to make his points in writing, and that heightened his sensitivity and paranoia to acute status.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Well I think that was part of it, as well. He didn't know when people were taking the pïss or how seriously because he wasn't as innately sensitive to the rhythms and cadences of English/Irish pïss taking. This would mean that a playful or friendly jibe would be manufactured by his paranoia into a deadly insult.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Actually reminds me - I didn't pay him for the ticket the Boro match he got for me. (This could see him scurry out of the woodwork)Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
That's why I never called him out on any of it. Not cricket.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Wrong, of course, but there it is.
No, probably sensible. The problem was that his inability often to get or take a joke made him hard work conversationally-speaking and that led to exasperation with him and thence to unpleasantness. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Perhaps we can simply close the door gently on the whole sordid episode and mark his name down as the very first victim of The Emirates Stadium Warchest?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
After all, calling a Barcelona player rubbish in the belief that there's no chance whatsoever of Wenger going on to actually sign him was a pretty safe bet back then, wasn't it.
If I've got the timing right, that is.
He was a genial old bloke, although he didn't take kindly, amongst other things, to Rafa Nadal being called a drugs cheat. I must defend him though against the "tight wee bubble" allegations. He often used to get a decent-sized round in that he would not recieve back, as he was driving.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
That was a throwaway comment as opposed to an out and out accusation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Man you are like two peas in a pod.
Do you have a problem with peas, my friend? :driving: :gromit:Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Fvck you with your jokes! Nicosia was a better man than all of us. And we dragged him down, as we do anything beautiful. :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
He was hardly alone though, was he? AWIMB back in the day became incredibly polarised by the Wenger/new stadium debate and hence there was endless conflict. I would argue that this was AWIMB at its finest, though. The conflict was fun, it was interesting, it brought the punters out and in the end the board was much better for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
In fact, I would also argue that where AWIMB went wrong was the interference from 'the man' that allowed one of the sides to 'win'. It's never been the same since.
So basically when you were banned?Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
People can get their conflict at the drop of a hat on twitter these days, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
He might mean Greg Mitchell.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Funnily enough, 10 years almost to the day, I had such a vicious row with greg mitchell I ended up phoning him to arrange to meet up and discuss it mano a mano :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I believe we refer to him as 'He Who Must Not Be Named', a.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
You big ****ing spanner.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C