Comments on: Being Related To Gooners: My Pain

By: don

don — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:21:58 +0000

As you know Paul…..we’re honest businessmen. Make the payment high enough and I’m sure we’ll give it some thought.

At which point I’d best make my excuses….

By: Paul Green

Paul Green — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:47:06 +0000

No mate – I’m loving the response from N1 – as a life-long Spurs fan/sufferer, I can’t quite get my head around the calls for Wenger to go. I say keep him. Here’s to another 5 trophy-free years for the Gooners!

By: Paul Green

Paul Green — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:44:26 +0000

Don,

Nothing to be ashamed of coming from Sarf London…after all that’s where your team belong…

By: Tony Attwood

Tony Attwood — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:12:41 +0000

Well, if it makes it any better (but I doubt it) I was brought up in Devonshire Hill Lane, very much a Tottenham person, but in an Arsenal supporting family. The earliest memories were of Tottenham winning the double with Arsenal trotting around for 17 years in mid-table and winning absolutely nothing. My dad took me to Highbury, so that is where my feelings lie.

Of course we have been having a wonderful time since Wenger turned up – but it won’t have escaped your notice that there are loads of Arsenal “fans” calling for him to go, and demanding that the club spend £60m this summer, getting rid of the rubbish and bringing in proper players.

If they get their way, the good times at Arsenal will end, (although many will argue that this happened at the end of the unbeaten season). For me, as a season ticket holder who runs one of the blogs, it is great – because I remember the 17 years of nothingness.

I am just waiting for Ferguson to retire, and for Manchester IOU (as we tend to call them – not very funny, but well, you know) to go bust. Such an event wouldn’t do Tottenham any harm either.

Tony
(I know some sites don’t welcome supporters from the other side on – if so my apologies. Just a genuine bit of debate intended).

By: don

don — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:09:25 +0000

Paul.

Fantastic piece once again. I think it was Mel Brooks who once said “[Gallows] Humor is just another defense against the universe.” You have my sympathies…..well, sort of….I think!

NB. I suspect this is probably not the right setting to admit to being a Gooner from the south of the river but I will still rejoice in my decision to follow Arsenal over 40 years ago.

Keep smiling

By: Paul Green

Paul Green — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:29:25 +0000

No, neither of us were bullied, we just had good taste…

By: Paul Green

Paul Green — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:11:52 +0000

Thanks for all the positive i.e.patronising feedback from our nasty neighbours I’ve never been so popular among Arsenal fans! Oh and by the way, the chap that posted the comment about all teams having ups and downs, let’s hope so ay?

By: Holloway Harry

Holloway Harry — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:12:44 +0000

To be fair chaps you may be the mugs of North London (and you are) but anything better then that shit hole in the East and those cunts in Fulham.

Up the Arse!

By: koko 61

koko 61 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:44:03 +0000

I was born in Islington, and my dad is Le Arse, but we moved to near spurs ground when I was 8. Me mum and all my siblings and cousins on my mums side are spurs ,and the majority of my dads family are with Le Arse.I hate it when we loose against them, the bloody phone goes red hot.

By: shooy

shooy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:33:41 +0000

You are clearly blessed with such
a family around you. Rejoice!