Would anyone object if I expressed my desire for Myles Palmer to get cancer?

[Monty91]

Sorry, just read his outrageous "Wenger has changed" article and need to vent...

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

[Ashberto]

He now wants Wenger to sign a new contract :hehe:

[Alexism - Atheoist]

More likely Wenger has done what he feels was best given the resources he had available at any given time.

[zimgunner]

His content is annoying sometimes but i admire his writing style. you can tell he was a newspaperman -- short simple sentences sprinkled with the odd well-crafted phrase. so much flowery writing nowadays, nice to see old skool.

[Monty91]

I'd heard that blog talked about and assumed it was decent. Is he seriously the main guy behind it?

[redgunamo]

hadn't changed.

What are his workings?

[Monty91]

won more games, and did all of the necessary things to make this happen such as making the defence play better, making the strikers play better, and signing better players.

Basically, he listened to the fans.

[Ashberto]

Myles Palmer himself gives him a run for his money in that regard imo.

But yes, Pedro is the man at Le Grove, who gets a slot on Sky next to Tim Payton and Stuart Robson when it's time to slag off Arsene. He gets a huge number of responses to his blog, which may be why he is considered 'influential. Amusingly, he used to defend the right of a poster called 'Dial Square' (one of his comments contributers) to voice his 'opinion' which always involved slagging of Wenger, the club and all the players for years. Until the other month, when he banned 'Dial Square' after he was outed as a Spurs WUM.

So yes, Pedro, the man who supported anti-Arsenal bile from Spurs fans. :hehe:

[Ashberto]

[Supermac1976]

http://le-grove.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/german-beer.jpg
Pity about the writing though.

[halfsharkalligatorhalfman]

I can't name names, but Barney Ronay eulogises about the cricket and football writers of yesteryear on a regular basis

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

by this forum; to save time.

[Monty91]

[redgunamo]

[Curly]

The 30's and 40's boxing writers in the states for example
Did you know Ronald Reagan was a sports writer back in the day,hsahf?

[Berni]

If these people had anything genuinely interesting to say or were any good at saying it, they'd be getting paid for it.

Writing is a craft like any other. It irritates me that people think that they can all do it just because they have a computer and access to the internet. I don't think I can knock up a sideboard just because I've got a few tools and some planks of wood, do I? F*cking amateurs.

[Ashberto]

[Monty91]

[CrossGun]

soccer,eh = John Cross
Freelancer = ?

[redgunamo]

I can't imagine professional footballers object to fat, middle aged men rolling out of pubs on a Sunday morning and having a kickabout?

[Luis Anaconda]

[Curly]

[Ashberto]

http://myarsenalopinion.blogspot.co.uk/

Utter, utter, *******s.

Mind you, getting paid for writing doesn't necessarily mean that it's any good. See Tony Cascarino, for example. Tim Stillman is one amateur who is definitely worth reading OTOH.

[Berni]

Are we thinking AJ 'Sweet Science' Liebling, here?

[Berni]

because they agree with them.

And Tony Cascarino is both ghost-written and a total cretin. Celebrity columns are a disaster in all walks of publishing.

[Classic Jorge]

If not, have you sussed out who has the keys to your bimmer?

[The JBear]

[Curly]

[Monty91]

shouldn't suck his cock too profusely.

[Classic Jorge]

[The JBear]

3, in particular, could probably **** on my face and I'd still fancy her.

[Ashberto]

[Berni]

If that's what he's like when we win away and are top of the league, I shudder to think what he might say if we were doing badly. Jesus cocking well wept! :-(

[Classic Jorge]

[Monty91]

The Fight :bow:

[Classic Jorge]

...more of an insult to the written word, hieroglyphics, cave painting and the human race to this point.

[Berni]

his reportage stands up.

[Monty91]

for selling an article I had promised them (and that they'd paid me for) to another publication.

[Monty91]

He died with the contract on his hospital bedside.

[Nicosia Gooner]

[Classic Jorge]

Given the litany of awful writing out there are you prepared to give dear old arseblog a bit of a break now?

[Luis Anaconda]

knows - ie being a footballer and being in a footballing environment. For example read his piece on the "pressures" of football after Robert Enke's suicide - it was actually very good. He just doesn't really know that much about football

[Berni]

anachronism (even in his own day); stubborn; a corner-cutter; militarily incompetent; impetuous and often bloodthirstily unscrupulous.

It just so happened that, from 1940-45, many of his faults became virtues in the context of standing up to and - ultimately - defeating Hitler. He was also prescient in seeing what Stalin was actually like.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[PSRB]

[Berni]

Europe was utterly wrecked, so 'the open sea' was the only viable option.

[Berni]

[Luis Anaconda]

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

...hasty to enter into what ended up being a financially ruinous ceding of sovereign power.

It still amazes me that, to this day, he gets beatified for essentially making us a chattel of the US. We could have been a very major part of a new europe and we ended up being a very minor part of the US, like a cross between a theme park and an aircraft carrier.

[barrybueno]

[Chief Arrowhead]

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

The only people who don't seem to realise that are the Europeans.

[Berni]

have gone through Western Europe like Stalin through a poetry club.

[The Tony]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Classic Jorge]

It was almost as if winston wanted to sell us out

[Chief Arrowhead]

including 5000+ at Cambridge.

In your monetary calculations, what price are you putting on them?

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Literally

[Berni]

economically dependent on them that we couldn't have done anything else but do their bidding. That was the price we paid for not making a shabby deal with Hitler, I'm afraid. Cowardice and bravery didn't come into it - there was no choice. :shrug:

[Berni]

dominance of the globe for decades as a consequence, so please spare me your misty-eyed, 'greatest generation' nonsense. The US government was quite capable of putting a price on those graves - and did.

[Classic Jorge]

It might have been for expediency's sake but it was an opportunity, for whatever reason, churchill failed to take.

[Chief Arrowhead]

We'll just put your value of their sacrifice at zero.

[Chief Arrowhead]

why the hostility?

[Classic Jorge]

[David Pleat AHADF (Royal Welsher and monkey lover)]

[Chief Arrowhead]