Decent piece on the cancer that is AFTV

Printable View

11-28-2019, 03:10 PM
Burney

Decent piece on the cancer that is AFTV

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/s...al-fan-tv.html
11-28-2019, 03:18 PM
Sir C

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/s...al-fan-tv.html

It all started with Fanzines. People got a taste for maoning (although to be fair, in those days they had reason to moan). Then along came messageboards and the likes of RCEG moaning about every fÃºcking thing. If I recall correctly he moaned about the colour of the walls and the fizziness of the beer, and he wasn't even the worst culprit.

It was inevitable that the self-obsessed would find a louder outlet for their solipsistic shrieking.

Some of those kÃºnts are definitely mentally ill, though.
11-28-2019, 03:22 PM
Burney

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir C

It all started with Fanzines. People got a taste for maoning (although to be fair, in those days they had reason to moan). Then along came messageboards and the likes of RCEG moaning about every fÃºcking thing. If I recall correctly he moaned about the colour of the walls and the fizziness of the beer, and he wasn't even the worst culprit.

It was inevitable that the self-obsessed would find a louder outlet for their solipsistic shrieking.

Some of those kÃºnts are definitely mentally ill, though.

Claude. Remember Claude? I assume he's not allowed on there now due to being sectioned or having topped himself?

Football fans have always moaned, though. Thing was, you used to just be able to moan to one or two people and there used to be a sort of gallows humour to it. Now it's just petulance with a potentially global platform.
11-28-2019, 03:22 PM
Luis Anaconda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/28/s...al-fan-tv.html

:nod: Very good writer
11-28-2019, 03:27 PM
Sir C

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

Claude. Remember Claude? I assume he's not allowed on there now due to being sectioned or having topped himself?

Football fans have always moaned, though. Thing was, you used to just be able to moan to one or two people and there used to be a sort of gallows humour to it. Now it's just petulance with a potentially global platform.

Exactly. There used to be a self-deprecating, fatalistic, dry humour on the terraces.

Now everyone's knickers are pulled up their cracks.
11-28-2019, 03:32 PM
Burney

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir C

Exactly. There used to be a self-deprecating, fatalistic, dry humour on the terraces.

Now everyone's knickers are pulled up their cracks.

Like so many bad things in our society, it's been allowed to flourish with the decline in casual (non-fatal) violence.

Once upon a time, if some cvnt had started going off like that in public about the club, someone would have told him to shut up and - if he didn't - sparked him out. Now they get turned into YouTube personalities.

Speaking of which, do these morons even get a cut of the action or does the presenter keep it all to himself? I really hope he's raking it in and they're getting fÃºck all.
11-28-2019, 03:33 PM
IUFG

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir C

Exactly. There used to be a self-deprecating, fatalistic, dry humour on the terraces.

when you we're stood in half an inch of piss, you had to have a sense of humour, tbh
11-28-2019, 03:38 PM
Burney

Quote:

Originally Posted by IUFG

when you we're stood in half an inch of piss, you had to have a sense of humour, tbh

:nod: The nearest I've ever got to a relegation struggle was when I used to go regularly to West Ham in 88-89 (West Ham mate and I used to alternate West Ham games with Arsenal games). They actually got relegated, but nobody was having hysterics. In fact, many of the fans could be incredibly funny about the shÃ*tness of their situation. I distinctly remember laughing uncontrollably at times at some of the comments. Different and better times.
11-28-2019, 03:39 PM
7sisters

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda

:nod: Very good writer

Iâ€™m really not sure about his use of the word dolorously :rubchin:

As most of his fellow Arsenal fans trudged dolorously away from last Saturdayâ€™s 2-2 draw with lowly Southampton,
11-28-2019, 03:39 PM
Sir C

Quote:

Originally Posted by IUFG

when you we're stood in half an inch of piss, you had to have a sense of humour, tbh

Some hoofer slices a shot onto the roof of the North Bank an hour into a pitilessly dull 0-0 draw against some nobodies and the bloke standing next to me says, utterly deadpan, "I'll get it."

Just that. I'm still laughing now. :hehe:
11-28-2019, 03:56 PM
Viva Prat Vegas

Further unnecessary proof that they thrive on and actively encourage negativity is the following comment they've pinned to the latest Claude v TY video -

" Pinned by AFTV
AFTV
2 days ago
Get Your "It's Time To Go" T-Shirts & Hoodies : https: //aftvstore.com/product-tag/claude/ "
11-28-2019, 05:28 PM
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

:nod: The nearest I've ever got to a relegation struggle was when I used to go regularly to West Ham in 88-89 (West Ham mate and I used to alternate West Ham games with Arsenal games). They actually got relegated, but nobody was having hysterics. In fact, many of the fans could be incredibly funny about the shÃ*tness of their situation. I distinctly remember laughing uncontrollably at times at some of the comments. Different and better times.

Yeah, but they had Chippy Brady in MF.

I wouldn't mind Dick getting us relegated if I could watch a MF that included Chippy as opposed to the current bunch of donkeys.
11-28-2019, 05:48 PM
Arsenal Alcoholic Review

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

Like so many bad things in our society, it's been allowed to flourish with the decline in casual (non-fatal) violence.

Once upon a time, if some cvnt had started going off like that in public about the club, someone would have told him to shut up and - if he didn't - sparked him out. Now they get turned into YouTube personalities.

Speaking of which, do these morons even get a cut of the action or does the presenter keep it all to himself? I really hope he's raking it in and they're getting fÃºck all.

One of their 'stars' Bully refused to do interviews cause he wasn't getting a cut of making himself look a spastic. He was a master in this game long before AFCTV came about. Raking in several million for having a washing machine fall on his head.
11-28-2019, 07:46 PM
redgunamo

Yes. Thing is, I think most football fans are not actually football fans at all nowadays. So it's different.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Burney

Football fans have always moaned, though. Thing was, you used to just be able to moan to one or two people and there used to be a sort of gallows humour to it. Now it's just petulance with a potentially global platform.
11-28-2019, 08:12 PM
Sir C

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arsenal Alcoholic Review

One of their 'stars' Bully refused to do interviews cause he wasn't getting a cut of making himself look a spastic. He was a master in this game long before AFCTV came about. Raking in several million for having a washing machine fall on his head.

Is he the chap with the *gulp* nipple rings?
11-28-2019, 09:14 PM
Viva Prat Vegas

:nod:

Wore a bandana and had the FA Cup tattooed on his chest
(This game is eating into your 'reading' time btw)
11-28-2019, 09:30 PM
Sir C

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas

:nod:

Wore a bandana and had the FA Cup tattooed on his chest
(This game is eating into your 'reading' time btw)

I’m watching it through my fingers.
11-28-2019, 09:34 PM
barrybueno

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sir C

Iâ€™m watching it through my fingers.

He's a class act for sure...

Attachment 1132